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by psadri 9y ago
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.
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Ask HN: Will countries matter more or less in the future?
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“If something looks interesting enough, one of the telescopes is switched to laser mode, and a laser flash is used to illuminate the target. Even black objects reflect some light.” I was referring to this part.
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Unless they were painted with VentaBlack? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack
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Toy analogy mostly makes sense for online media where attention is valuable. If a “toy” is loved/used by tons of people, then it has their attention, and this attention can be monetized. Most likely through the usual advertising surf
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Another possible cause could be drop in average price of clothing. Fast fashion chains like h&m, uniqlo, Zara, etc have high quality, very affordable clothing. So people are buying same or more clothing but for smaller absolute $ amou
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Wondering if these funds may be obligated to work in the interest of their investors vs just maximize dollar value. For example, should a factory worker retirement fund invest in robotic companies that automate workers out of a job? I supp
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How/where do you get access to bio seed investment opportunities?
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Doing things in your head is like accessing L1 cache and not hitting RAM or disk.
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Just curious what happens to the benchmarks when the phones are plugged in to a charger?
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Money represents value created. If you simply hand out money, say in the form of BI, without it being in exchange for value created, you are simply deflating the value of money. This will cause inflation. And you'll end up back wher
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Browsers can learn this on their own and start prefetching likely resources before the server responds. Like a cpu's branch prediction. I wouldn't be surprised if chrome already did this.
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I think google did a good job of this in the early days. They got the word out on the street that their interviews were notoriously difficult. That probably dissuaded a lot of the random applicants. I also read somewhere that some big bank
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From what I have heard from restaurateur friends - it's very difficult to have high quality food that was not prepared immediately before serving. So it is not as simple as plating it.
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Happiness is relative. Humans (and animals) value "fairness" even if they are objectively better off. There is a famous experiment where two monkeys are given a cucumber every day. They are both happy. Then one of them starts ge
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Everyone keeps talking about the constitution as if it is set in stone. The constitution was made by people, 50 years ago. It can and should be changed to reflect new realities.
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Only ~9% of commerce is online [1]. Amazon will continue to grow like crazy for a while. 1 - https://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/ec_current.p...
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It would be cool to pick a few stocks and generate the filtering criteria that's common amongst them.
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Perhaps I was too terse in my comment and earned myself down votes. Realistically, if you are shipping software in the real world where it could run on older browsers, you do need to use something like bluebird just to get uniform support.
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Just use bluebird
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Series C investors hope to multiply their investment. So the goal is much higher.
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Same with tuning a server for best performance given its actual work load, e.g. Tweaking all the tcp_* configs.
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Do we consider simpler brains to exhibit general intelligence (e.g. A crow's). Is it a more tractable problem to replicate crow level AI first before tackling humans?
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Antifragile - way to think about situations in terms of upside/downside exposure
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Nonetheless, I'd expect a far more agile battleship to be able to move itself out of harm's way.
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Probably around the same time they realize they don't have unlimited time and become aware that their life clock is ticking away.
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This kind of stuff plays out at much smaller scale too. You just don't hear about it in the national news. So some due diligence on your investors is worthwhile if you are going to pour the next 5 years of your life into something.
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I tend to agree with this approach specially given how much ram/cores you can get on a single box today. You can run what took a cluster of servers 10 years ago on a single box. Just make sure your code doesn't assume that every
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You should really give "Three Body Problem" another chance. There are a lot of diversions and off shoots but the main story really comes together 1/3 of the way through the first book and really picks up in "Dark Forest
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Sounds like an opportunity.

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