rthomas6

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by rthomas6 12y ago
Never said I was. That's why I buy the index funds. :)
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Because if all shares of the company is valued at X, and the tangible assets of the company are valued at Y, and X < Y, then isn't Yahoo's stock objectively undervalued? I'm not some sophisticated investor, I just buy inde
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by rthomas6 12y ago
So should I buy some Yahoo stock?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
http://blakemasters.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-...
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by rthomas6 12y ago
>The main issue the Emacs developers seem to have with Guile is that it will give developers choices as to whether to write Emacs extensions in Scheme, Elisp, or Javascript/Python/Whatever else Guile supports I don't under
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by rthomas6 12y ago
It's worth noting that Peter Thiel himself uses these two companies as examples of what he's talking about.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
THAT is what stops you?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Has anyone read his CS183 class notes? Are they worth reading?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Putting money on the card barely makes sense at all if you use the subway frequently. My honeymoon was in Manhattan for a week, and we were out and about every day. For a $30/person flat rate, you can use the subway unlimited times for
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I consider this a dark pattern. That's pretty underhanded of them.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
To be fair, so does lifelong religious devotion.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
This makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to make an emacs clone with another language, say, Scheme or Lua? Or Haskell? Edit: ah, it looks like it's been done for Scheme: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileE
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Sounds like your friend is an acolyte of the LessWrong cult. That doesn't mean your friend is wrong. If you go on Lesswrong's website they have all sorts of articles on why Bayesian statistics is better. I haven't looked into
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I think you're on the right track when you ask people to prove you wrong. If you offer a bug bounty, someone will pentest your product and you'll be quickly debunked. People are so negative because 1. This is HN, they're alwa
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by rthomas6 12y ago
>Currently, the biggest threat to our approach is likely some kind of rapidly switching FPGA. Finally, a project for my area of focus. Man that would be fun.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
In that case, wouldn't programming to minimize or remove state help a lot? That's a main goal of functional programming, right?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
This sort of thing often doesn't work for me because, well, hmmm. Because I have to pause in the middle of a sentence sometimes to, ah, um . . . gather my thoughts. I'm looking forward to when the AI is smart enough to know that I
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Yes but people spending more time in traffic equals decreased economic efficiency, which in turn decreases tax dollars from corporations.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
You might want to check out autohotkey. You could maybe create a keyboard macro that alt-tabs, pauses the video, then alt-tabs again. http://www.autohotkey.com/
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I am stealing from William B. Irvine's book here... There are 3 categories of things: 1. Those over which we have control. 2. Those over which we have no control. 3. Those over which we have partial but not complete control. It is fool
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by rthomas6 12y ago
What was done to those patients seemed incredibly cruel. It's one thing to have the patients confront each others' delusions. It's quite another to cause them distress just to see what happens.
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by rthomas6 12y ago
We give him "tummy time", as they called it at the hospital classes. He can and does hold his head up quite frequently, but he is not yet able to push off the ground with his arms. This probably isn't of any interest, I am ju
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by rthomas6 12y ago
In that case, try The Enchiridion [1] by Epictetus. Epictetus was also a Stoic philosopher who was born a slave. He was eventually freed, and then he was banished from Rome (along with all philosophers). He was lame for most of his life. Y
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by rthomas6 12y ago
I have a six week old son. He is actually quite strong already, but he doesn't have much control over his own body. He will scratch himself in the face to the point of bleeding if he's upset and he's not wearing mittens/
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by rthomas6 12y ago
What editor?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Semantics aside, does BadBIOS exist or not?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
What if it has something to do with the adjectives that are most important/specific? Suppose I were categorizing my big barns by color, but not my little barns (Nobody cares about the little barns). My red big barn is pretty standard,
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Ask HN: What happened with the supposed “BadBIOS” that jumps airgaps?
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by rthomas6 12y ago
Oh, I see what you're saying. You mean that wealthy individuals will someday be able to use technology to completely automate out the need for goods and services from others. That seems farfetched, even in a mostly automated economy. S
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by rthomas6 12y ago
But this assumes finite human greed, and people to be perfectly content with their current standard of living.

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