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by rfrey 6y ago
I believe you are entirely correct: it is testing an idea rather than testing and iterating on features. That's the point: people who love programming might skip directly to testing features without testing the idea. Testing the idea
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by rfrey 6y ago
I accept that criticism, I'll be more careful with labels. I've been using "exploitation" for so long in the ML sense of "exploitation vs exploration" that I forgot it can have negative overtones. Or maybe I ig
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by rfrey 6y ago
That's true. There does seem to be some difference though - stories like Elvis Found Alive in Anchorage and Batboy Graduates with MBA were pretty much regarded as entertainment, whereas Clinton Eats Babies and Trump Videotaped Getting
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by rfrey 6y ago
The article isn't even close to being about building a linux distribution. It's about embedded electronics engineers moving from microcontrollers with custom embedded firmware to SBCs using minimal linux for embedded systems. So a
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by rfrey 6y ago
I think "fake news" at least started as something a bit different - propaganda sure, but of a particular form, i.e. in the form of a fabricated news event propagated through media channels as if it were true.
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by rfrey 6y ago
This comment doesn't make any sense to me - it's like responding to an article titled "So, you want to build a transistor radio from scratch?" with "No, I want the latest iPod Touch".
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by rfrey 6y ago
Much of the discussion in this thread has highlighted the difference between those who regard open source as a community and public good, and those who regard it as a resource to be exploited. The latter sees anything beyond legalistic comp
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by rfrey 6y ago
There's a pretty bright line between "code they use" and "project they fork".
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by rfrey 6y ago
Certainly, but blanket, reflexive dismissal of other experiences is just exceptionalism. I’m not saying every foreign approach would work without modification, or even at all, but sheesh... at least have a look at them.
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by rfrey 6y ago
It seems like every attempt to learn from other systems when discussing American issues, from education to public transit to healthcare to gun control, is met with a wave of “yeah that could never work here because we’re too [big, diverse,
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by rfrey 6y ago
If you want nice furniture, listen to all the other comments here. If you want the joys and sorrows of woodworking, look into making boxes. We're not talking about apple crates here. Some people make some very nice boxes. You can sta
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by rfrey 6y ago
The cost of the power plant can easily dominate the cost of the fuel. I build power plants fuelled by waste industrial heat (10-20 MW scale) and even though the fuel is all but free it can be tough to identify economically viable projects.
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by rfrey 6y ago
That would provide a tremendous incentive for newspapers to Find Something, and Find Something Big.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Isn’t learning about bad actions in our history (and no need to go back 400 years) an important part of not repeating them?
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by rfrey 6y ago
Gotta go back and find that “favourite hn comment ever” thread.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Your point is sound, but don’t ignore the supply side. Manufacturers will produce more electric cars to satisfy the California market, driving down prices which will increase adoption elsewhere.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I’m a gen-xer and when I was in my undergrad the lecture theatres had ashtrays beside all the seats. You couldn’t use them at that time, but I knew PhD students who said they were able to in their undergrad.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Please have mercy on those of us whose CEOs set up the email and Office365 accounts.
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by rfrey 6y ago
It's not "making" driving suck, it's allowing driving to suck as a result of market forces. We could stop forcing restrictions on property owners that prevent the natural, market-driven move to mass transit as density in
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by rfrey 6y ago
There was a time, not very long ago, when people "chose" to send their 12 year old children into dangerous factories for 12 hours a day. Government rightly restricted corporations from offering that option to desperate people.
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by rfrey 6y ago
No wonder that’s why 9/10 of the weekly terrorist takedowns of aircraft I read about are near airports.
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by rfrey 6y ago
You equate locking my door at night with killing subsistence fishermen who are breaking fishing laws to survive?
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by rfrey 6y ago
> Today, Germany is our friend. That may have been true a few years ago. The way the US is treating its allies, I'm not sure what the state of the "friendships" are anymore.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Do you mean literally an ad hominem argument? /pedant
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by rfrey 6y ago
Then employees would need to immediately pay tax on the stock based on the last valuation.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Construction is the one place where imperial measurements are superior, because they're base 12. Easy division of any measurement into thirds, quarters, half.
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by rfrey 6y ago
I often identify a screw or bolt with a scale. I guess if you know that 16 TPI = "D", then you're ok... but in the same place as now.
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by rfrey 6y ago
"But over the last couple of years, there's been an increase in individuals investing not just at the earliest stages of companies, but at the Series A and beyond. These individuals aren't just investing their own capital. Th
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by rfrey 6y ago
It's pretty easy to figure out 'why we shouldn't focus on revenge', if you try. edit: I may be guilty of not listening to what you're actually saying. If you're saying there is something in the core of people t
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by rfrey 6y ago
I think it's probably not a deterrent to some crimes, but a deterrent to others. Probably there are lots of people who don't shoplift, e.g., out of fear of the consequences of getting caught. (Obviously there are plenty who would

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