rebelos

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by rebelos 4y ago
Imagine watching the seeds of AI that will terraform society and rapidly displace human labor over the coming decades be planted, and then still splitting hairs over whether or not it'll achieve sentience. Our world is changing before
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by rebelos 4y ago
Yup. I should have noted this in my comment. That is an excellent way to conceptualize it.
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by rebelos 4y ago
People and corporate entities do not truly own land. That is a convenient illusion and a rhetorical trick we endure for perhaps no other reason than the momentum of precedent. People and corporate entities rent land from governments and we
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by rebelos 4y ago
> It certainly can be channeled into inefficient or unproductive economic activity (and often is), but the system ultimately keeps moving.
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by rebelos 4y ago
Yes it could but that still wouldn't have some sort of deleterious effect on the broader system. Money is economic kinetic energy. Assets are economic potential energy. And, by and large, any institution attempting to store and grow we
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by rebelos 4y ago
It's not really a concern so long as they are engaged in nonzero economic activity, in which case no money is permanently trapped within the vehicle. Money flows continuously in an economy and is only at rest in certain places such as
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by rebelos 4y ago
Why wouldn’t it be both the (considerable) expansion in money supply and shortages? At a 30000 foot view, price level is determined by money supply divided across the finite set of goods and services.
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by rebelos 4y ago
> People will complain all day long about the total incompetence or even criminal nature of every human government in recorded history, but when it comes to the prospect of an entity with hypothetically superior intelligence taking over,
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by rebelos 4y ago
The core game code is remarkably compact. I'm not familiar with game development, but is this usually the case? Very impressive.
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by rebelos 4y ago
Carmack sounds like someone who lives his job, so I don't think age/life stage is a factor here.
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by rebelos 4y ago
Many people are unaware that there's usually an automatic anti-dilution clause in the event of a down round. These types of maneuvers are usually 'heads I win tails you lose' in favor of the investors.
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by rebelos 4y ago
Yes and by that point both Braintree and Square were in competition iirc. Probably others too.
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by rebelos 4y ago
It’s now a commodity business with a range of competitors. Do people at Stripe really become this bamboozled? You’re not changing the world anymore, you’re just making money. You’re mercenaries who've been fooled into believing you’re
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by rebelos 4y ago
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by rebelos 4y ago
Isn’t SSR only really relevant when you need to optimize for SEO (which only applies to a subset of apps)? Seems like it doesn’t confer any other significant benefit.
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by rebelos 4y ago
Sounds like you got very lucky. To clarify: the (reasonably well regarded) university I attended most certainly didn’t teach me how to learn properly. It taught me how to cram to answer a contrived set of questions and then promptly forget
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by rebelos 4y ago
> An old man who is also a deputy dean and associate professor told us: "The university does not give you knowledge. It teaches you how to get knowledge on your own." This is laughably untrue and, oddly enough, the part of this
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by rebelos 4y ago
> to appease those with conservative views on construction More like "enlightened views on wealth preservation." You can follow the incentives on this one. It's not that complicated.
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by rebelos 4y ago
I guess that's not always realistic? And, more importantly, I'm not sure I like the idea of taking a 'fear-based approach' to solving this ("if I lapse for even a week during a vacation, I'll never be able to g
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by rebelos 4y ago
This strategy makes perfect sense, but how do you handle vacations?
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by rebelos 4y ago
Please have a seat and let me tell you a story about a little something called 'Kubernetes'.
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by rebelos 4y ago
You are certainly dealing with burnout. Most people going through it don't realize it, but the increased negativity is in fact a part of that package. The inability to concentrate and brain fog are the more obvious symptoms. Type &#x27
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by rebelos 4y ago
Wow this is cool. How long did it take to build it?
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by rebelos 4y ago
Certainly the latter. I know of several examples of patent infringement problems ruining a company or product, so I believe there's enough evidence to at least treat it as a real concern.
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Ask HN: Is patent infringement insurance a good idea?
4 points by rebelos 4y ago|3 comments
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by rebelos 4y ago
Have you ever worked in data engineering? They're using these systems for event data, data generated through transformations (multiplicative effect on base size), data used for ML, etc.
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by rebelos 4y ago
A lot of those people in India and China commit suicide, have mental breakdowns, or end up living generally unsatisfying lives. Their system is entirely unenviable.
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by rebelos 4y ago
The first thing you need to do is accept that you can't have everything you're looking for and that you have to explicitly decide on the tradeoffs you're comfortable with. The best writing on this subject comes from Tim Urban
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Ask HN: How do you keep tabs on the ideal tech stack?
8 points by rebelos 4y ago|11 comments
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by rebelos 4y ago
Thanks for the info! Definitely going to look more into this. Hopefully I can embark on something similar minus the noted downsides.

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