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by rboyd 10y ago
This was a nice stroll through fantasy land. The reality though is that H-1B has been so completely abused over the past decade to the point that wages for skilled Americans have suffered a serious pushdown effect. It's not the fault o
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by rboyd 10y ago
Hey Justin, used to listen to you on techzing years ago. Congrats on the sale, was it pluggio? Nugget looks like it's off to a great start. Subbed. Good luck with it. Don't mind these guys, the corporate 10-8 breeds stress + suspi
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by rboyd 10y ago
Yes, let us shed our puppet democracy for a corporatocracy.
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by rboyd 10y ago
you can get retransmits from 'sar' on linux
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by rboyd 10y ago
Ha! Laugh at fools. Take stock. Pizza box and half a bottle of ketchup in the fridge. Close tab. Trust that Silicon Valley will come together and science its way out of disaster scenario.
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by rboyd 10y ago
With so many legitimate attacks to launch against Trump, generalizing his threats of holding Hillary accountable for the emails and equating this with imprisonment of political opponents seems so awkward to me.
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by rboyd 10y ago
Advocating firing and industry shunning over political opinion seems way more dangerous to me than offensive speech. What are we becoming?
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by rboyd 10y ago
That sounds pretty interesting. Where could I learn more on this?
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by rboyd 10y ago
5 and 6 years old, my brother and I played Zork on a neighbor's computer. NES, Atari. One day he comes home from the library with a book about BASIC. Not owning a computer, we spent all summer with pen-to-paper writing our own text adv
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by rboyd 10y ago
Are there not feeds that already collect this data? I was just listening to a podcast that described something similar from Nanex called NxCore.
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by rboyd 10y ago
This post makes me want to meet the ops team at his company and find a better programmer than the author.
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by rboyd 10y ago
Was it signed? I was following pretty closely and my version of history also had that as being fake. This is one instance where I would love to be wrong though.
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by rboyd 10y ago
Has anyone ever published a study of the results after one of these offers? Seems like a good way to invite a lot of talented folks with healthy alternatives to leave.
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by rboyd 10y ago
see also Terrence McKenna "Culture Is Not Your Friend" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-tY6hmKcms Still, there's seeing a culture for what it is and then there's running from invisible monsters. I think
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by rboyd 10y ago
We're glad it's working for you. Sincerely, NSA
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by rboyd 10y ago
You bring up a few interesting points. In my example there wouldn't be any room for a CC chargeback because we can assume all of the transactions are denoted in ETH itself. This is one of the qualities that enable the smart contracts t
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by rboyd 10y ago
As a hard example consider the typical crowdfunding protocol. The contract (in english) is roughly: if this campaign hits goal before a deadline passes, all the backers pledge their money; or if the deadline comes before hitting the goal th
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by rboyd 10y ago
Smart contracts are enforced programmatically, that's kind of the point. The future is always hard to believe until it's here. You can say you disagree and state why. But please don't call me a gullible idiot and then try to
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by rboyd 10y ago
>But if you and I enter a contract whether it is a written agreement or a smart contract on Ethereum network, that has no more or less bearing on the legal enforcement in the event of a breach. These contracts are enforced by math. Break
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by rboyd 10y ago
We really dodged a bullet.
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by rboyd 10y ago
We saw the potential when Oculus Rift DK1 shipped and the improvements made in such a short span betweek DK2 and the consumer version. You don't have to be very creative to extrapolate that forward. Form factor shrinks, resolution incr
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by rboyd 10y ago
I'd like to add Roger Labbe's free book "Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python" to the mix. Along with Thrun (which he cited to point me at), this is the resource that finally drove it home for me. https://git
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by rboyd 10y ago
That's basically exactly what happened with Allie Conti in his Vice interview ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCb9mnrU1g ). Only it was red wine and not tea.
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by rboyd 10y ago
What's best as a society is to fight. What's best as an individual is to conform.
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by rboyd 10y ago
My experience has been that the advanced degree would have helped a bit with VC interest and probably attracting cofounders. If there's not a specific time-sensitive market opportunity that you're going after, then I think you are
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by rboyd 11y ago
This whole case is really surprising. I would expect intellectual property assignment agreements and a vesting cliff, particularly after cofounding Twitch. On the other hand, I know how normal it can feel to trust each other, procrastinate
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by rboyd 11y ago
Who are some of the lesser-known founders that you do like, out of curiosity?
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by rboyd 11y ago
Well, firstly I don't know that we would have considered the late 90s to be the early days. I was pretty active during a time where the scene was transitioning from underground bulletin boards to the internet/irc, circa ~1991 and
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by rboyd 11y ago
I was hoping to use a robotic arm for a project I'm working on, and wondering if you guys could answer a question about motors. In my very limited research it looked like one of the factors that make the industrial (kuka, etc) robots s
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by rboyd 11y ago
If indeed this is a bubble and we do pop, about the only enjoyable thing to watch will be all these junior associates that autodial on fishing expeditions scrambling around for new work. Never actually started a company but they've ana

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