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by randomsearch 4y ago
Seems the most obvious reason for a simulation would be to check the outcome from a series of different conditions. Eg what would have happened if humanity had done X? Was that pivot important? So we could just be someone’s history homework
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by randomsearch 4y ago
I am skeptical of all the crypto schemes, and this is the only use case I find convincing. The small producer in China is paid by the American company via a digital currency. Faster, easier, cheaper. Continued use of such a medium could ove
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by randomsearch 4y ago
I think on remote it’s worth reframing the argument a little. If you’re totally pro-remote, I’d like to hear your thoughts on this formulation. Consider an early stage startup of six employees. Working full remote - everyone at home, commun
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Just bumping this up from comment below: >> This was about FTX International. FTX US, the US based exchange that accepts Americans, was not financially impacted by this shitshow. > https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/s
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Relatedly, have you ever thought about how undo works with text? Open your mail client, compose a message, type a few words. What do you expect cmd-z to do? How much of the words will it undo? All the line? Try it. Then after undo, type a b
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by randomsearch 4y ago
> so they outsourced production to the poor countries. You can't outsource domestic transport and, for the moment, most electricity generation.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Do you know how much the ppm measure varies by location or altitude?
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Was it really stupid or was he outsmarted by his opponents? Seems to me the White House have outplayed him.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Super early, or... such systems tend to centralisation. There are very few successfully distributed systems I can think of. Bittorrent is on. I guess we could argue some markets in the economic sense are distributed. But in reality even bot
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by randomsearch 4y ago
> had some legal obligation That's the problem, though. Crypto has wild gains because it's an unregulated wild west. And for the same reason it's full of pyramid schemes etc. As soon as you regulate, you fix the problems b
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by randomsearch 4y ago
> FTX succeeded solely based on the reputation and personal credibility of its founder This is why so many people compare crypto to the pre-regulation banks, and why they predict a similar fate for the exchanges.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
One example: advancing quantum computing.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
I think there are better places to work that allow you (or cofounder) to pay your bills - even if your bills have to shrink a bit to fit. Best of luck with the side project, hope it entices you/your cofounder to leave Facebook.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
To call Google an “advertising company” is disingenuous and I suspect you know that. Whilst Facebook has been obsessed with chasing eyeballs and advertising, Google has built Google maps, Gmail, Android, Translate, all kinds of search, GCP,
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by randomsearch 4y ago
The UI is inconsistent and unintuitive.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
hmm, maybe, but it seems like a golden age for tech where it was hard to fail from a strong starting position. MS, Google, Amazon, Apple, have all done much better than Facebook.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
100%. I do think there is room for another company though... but definitely not Facebook.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
> That's an interesting idea. That's a crazy idea, if original. What do Facebook know about building and selling general cloud services?
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Scapegoating. Replace "signal loss" with "TikTok" and "Most of our products suck" and you're a lot closer to the truth.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Do you think that great, world-changing, folks go to Facebook to sit on a big salary? if they were going to do something awesome they probably wouldn't have been working there. now, if google lay off a lot of people... that would be di
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Related: https://eraseallkittens.com/
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Having had a lot of experience of academia, I’m probably one its harshest critics. But - I don’t regret the PhD. I learnt a lot of skills, learnt from other PhD students and postdocs. I will say, make sure your supervisor is a nice person w
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Nowhere near universal. It’s common to go from undergrad to PhD in the U.K. Tbh most Master’s, esp MSc, don’t add anything.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Hmm this is excellent analysis and the comparison is not incidental.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
That's a fair criticism of me using a lazy shorthand, but it really is quite difficult to capture the level of vitriol against Musk. It's at a level I've never seen against anyone in my lifetime. People certain express strong
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by randomsearch 4y ago
> , I consider Musk and Trump both to have the same approach to media: I think you've hit on more here. I think Musk has become associated with Trump. I think that might be because Trump is the champion of the losers of globalisatio
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Thanks for posting links, that's the kind of answer I'm interested in. (Thanks also to whoever un-downed me, as it is from genuinely wanting to understand). The last link is paywalled, but I doubt that is really his motive. It sou
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Are you saying musk’s role in SpaceX and Tesla is as an investor? That seems so disingenuous that it’s impossible not to conclude this post is purely emotional. If you hate Musk, fine, but please just stick to the facts and articulate why y
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Never assume you know how easy or hard someone’s life has been. You know nothing about an individual a priori.
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by randomsearch 4y ago
Yes and it was great. I hope you enjoy your extra ports so I can lug around my heavier more cumbersome devices with me, all day every day. I think they've made a huge mistake in catering to the nerds rather than pushing the envelope fo

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