rpearl

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by rpearl 9y ago
Well, it's believed to be cheaper to house the homeless than to leave them on the streets. [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/housing-first-homel... ] And there's plenty of housing, just not
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by rpearl 9y ago
It really does seem like you sorta froze your opinions on these matters a decade ago, because in 2017 Firefox usually uses less memory than Chrome.
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by rpearl 10y ago
Dropbox and AirBnB have already been private for almost 10 years! (Palantir - 13!, Uber - 8) I was at Dropbox for a while and left in no small part because of the frustrating lack of potential liquidity on my equity.
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by rpearl 10y ago
I've definitely had mixed experiences with AirBnB. When it's genuinely someone renting a spare room on the side, it tends to be a neat experience; I had several of those traveling in Australia solo and it was a good way to get to
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by rpearl 10y ago
I'd love for you to address the other points in my response: Thiel is hired for his ideas. You say that he can not be fired for his ideas. This is a problem.
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by rpearl 10y ago
All actions are political, to at least some extent. So that's not a very clear line to draw. Furthermore, you talk about "challenging someone's ideas" without apparently any reference to the the rest of their life, whi
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by rpearl 10y ago
> He supported a guy publicly! ...You can't just talk about the abstract notion of "supporting" "a guy". A specific thing happened, not the generalized notion of "publicly supporting a candidate". Is
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by rpearl 10y ago
I think you mean: A very vocal minority used their geographic advantage (which exists because it perpetuates power for the people who got it through that advantage) and related bugs in the voting system to force a highly problematic and inc
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by rpearl 10y ago
> people from here might consider it perfectly normal to blame feminity when woman does something stupid or just makes them angry [...] That does not necessary means the person who said it is sexist I am going to be descriptive here. Non
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by rpearl 10y ago
You're being super vague so I cannot give a good response. If you treat people as people, assume good faith, and ask genuine questions you'll be treated just fine. I rarely find people on the conservative side of the political spe
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by rpearl 10y ago
Give an example.
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by rpearl 10y ago
Your comment is transphobic in the following ways: 1) your direct language ("a man who identifies as") is problematic in the way it frames the argument. It is both dismissive in that it implies the rights being stepped on are triv
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by rpearl 10y ago
Eh, I'm gonna pick on it. "A man who identifies as a woman" is a disingenuous statement--it is leading with some sort of made up notion of what their gender should be ("a man who..."), which is a false framing in th
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by rpearl 10y ago
This has been around for a while? I'm not sure why this is surfacing on HN now. Here's an article from 2015: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/15/dropbox-announces-paper-a-...
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by rpearl 10y ago
The processes needed to fabricate silicon are more subtractive than additive.
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by rpearl 10y ago
We associate our cat's food with a phone alarm instead of any sort of bothering us. We vary the alarm somewhat over time (three different repeating alarms) so the time of day isn't quite predictable. This seems to have worked so f
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by rpearl 10y ago
I find it more interesting that the original comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13231557 ) found computers "generally very restrictive" and therefore uninteresting for experimentation... And their reply
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by rpearl 10y ago
No, there is lots of experimentation in electronic music. "Dubstep" and "Eurodance" are not the only instantiations of electronically composed music. I'd link you to some but I don't really care about convincin
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by rpearl 10y ago
vote manipulation by a foreign government is solved by having a verifiable id/token in the first place. vote manipulation by the government the election is happening for isn't really something you can solve because in that case th
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by rpearl 10y ago
Potentially, a canary id, "show this one and it'll claim you voted for ____ and also alert the state election board that it was accessed"
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by rpearl 10y ago
The election was decided in its totality by 107k votes in WI, MI, and PA (the sum total margin of victory in those three states). You don't have to manipulate many votes to have an election-deciding effect.
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by rpearl 10y ago
Ken Liu actually wrote a response to one of Ted Chiang's stories. http://kenliu.name/stories/single-bit-error/ is a response/exploration of the same world and ideas as Chiang's "Hell is the Abs
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by rpearl 10y ago
That's not the part of the system that's under attack
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by rpearl 10y ago
You appear to be under the impression that people just sorta do heroin for no reason. That's not how it works. It's a coping mechanism. If you give people the support they need to be happy without using it, and then slowly taper o
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by rpearl 10y ago
Dropbox is also $9.99/mo for 1TB as per https://www.dropbox.com/plans So either a typo or maybe they're saying they have 100GB of stuff in a 1TB plan
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by rpearl 10y ago
In which case the considerations in the featured article apply entirely to any attacker with access to the wire/transit. Your original comment makes no sense.
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by rpearl 10y ago
If you're encrypting it, it is to hide information from some sort of attacker, not the trusted recipient of the document. If there is literally no possibility at all of someone else intercepting the document, then why are you bothering
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by rpearl 11y ago
I can't tell if you're joking, but if not... No, JS isn't more efficient than Python.
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by rpearl 11y ago
What's an "actual connection"? What is the "real" experience?
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by rpearl 11y ago
Why do you need a reason to love yourself?

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