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by ry454 6y ago
We're missing the desire of Apple & Google to make this happen. Apple won't let Safari compete with its app store and Google won't let Chrome compete with its app store.
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by ry454 6y ago
Investors lose only a small portion of their assets and most importantly they don't have to lose time. Whether 2% of my liquid assets is more valuable than 4 years of someone's life is debatable, but I can certainly say the loss o
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by ry454 6y ago
My takeaways from the article: (1) VC is a casino for the rich and just like gamblers in casinos they have no idea what they are doing; (2) VCs have discovered that standard deviation shrinks like the square root of the sample size, however
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by ry454 6y ago
Zuckeberg, I guess. But when he gets older, he'll pick a CEO and vanish from the public scene, just like Brin, Page and Gates.
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by ry454 6y ago
Not only felonies have degrees here, they have classes and graduate eventually.
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by ry454 6y ago
This is why people who really own these companies appoint nominal CEOs.
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by ry454 6y ago
Perhaps they don't want to say in the court that Snowden was right. This might matter if things turn around in the future and the key people involved in the surveillance will be tried in a court for "crimes against humanity".
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by ry454 6y ago
On paper, I'd be a felon for serious offences on at least 4 episodes. If the law was followed to the letter, and if somebody nosy had enough access and time to inspect the past 15 years of my life, I'd be serving at least two life
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by ry454 6y ago
You guys are so boring. I was referring to a joke which tells that when science discovers a way to extract energy out of irregularities in spacetime manifold, the reactor would still boil water to make electricity.
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by ry454 6y ago
But we don't exist to be "efficient".
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by ry454 6y ago
Perhaps there's a way to use this difference in time velocity at different altitudes to boil water to rotate a turbine and make electricity?
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by ry454 6y ago
About zero, really. Unless some of those 80+ year olds are prominent scientists, etc. The numeric value $1 billion means $1 billion worth of human labor or energy. The amount of this energy is finite, and it's around $80 trillions curr
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by ry454 6y ago
Comments on HN is an example of how this cooling effect works. It takes only a few upset readers to take your comment down, so if what you say deviates even slightly, by 0.01 sigma, from the boring mainstream viewpoint, you'll upset at
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by ry454 6y ago
CCP's influence doesn't end at China's borders.
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by ry454 6y ago
That's probably because the 3 paths are orthogonal: becoming a better IC would make one a worse manager; and becoming a better manager wouldn't make one a better exec. Just like an exec wouldn't turn into the business owner n
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by ry454 6y ago
The thing is US has its own TikToks: if US bans TikTok, CCP will use its influence to undermine FB, WhatsApp, IG, Snapchat, etc. CCP is pretty much saying: "we know you're spying on the entire world and we want to do the same; if
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by ry454 6y ago
This matters for senior management only, i.e. those who make decisions. This doesn't matter for middle management (even though they act as if they are senior managers) and that's completely irrelevant for line workers who don&#x27
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by ry454 6y ago
I think all those investors and the tech activity in the SV area is a side effect of one big DoD's initiative: to build a world-class surveillance network with all the infra around it. They expressed this desire to spend trillions on t
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by ry454 6y ago
T is indeed independent from R, but how do we know that F and R are also independent? Would theory fall apart if we try to model F as microscopic modulations of R? I'm trying to look at R and F from the signal processing point of view:
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by ry454 6y ago
We'd use regular photons or electrons to produce the interference image (assuming they would "fit" in those micro-slits), while the gravitational waves would modulate the distance between the two slits. Your crystal lattice w
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by ry454 6y ago
Without leverage these negotiating techniques are empty bluff. I mean, they could help to get a 5k/year pay bump, but they won't get you from 150k to 750k. The really important ingredient is stakes, insider knowledge, network of h
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by ry454 6y ago
If R is the shape of space, is it fair to say that gravity waves from a black holes merger are large waves in R, like large waves in a lake we could surf on; while there are also tiny ripples that we describe with F? In other words, F is re
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by ry454 6y ago
Sure, but what would actually happen in the experiment I've described? I admit that perhaps those gravity waves are so tiny that even a nanometer-scale double-slit device would be too large, but if we had some hypothetical material (no
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by ry454 6y ago
A lame question from someone who barely remembers college-level physics: isn't that "electromagnetic field" just waves in the spacetime metric-tensor?
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by ry454 6y ago
Can we just use a variation of the double-slit experiment? Gravity waves modulate distance between two quantum-scale slits and that in turn changes the interference image, that can be captured at a relatively large distance to magnify the o
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by ry454 6y ago
I believe GoL is easily solvable by ML if the task was to find parameters of the update rules with the constraint that the rules are simple. For example, if we were presented a highly sophisticated repetitive pattern and were tasked to figu
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by ry454 7y ago
That's a valid point, but if we think about it, what does the founder do with that instant $1M grant? Most likely the founder spreads this $1M over the next few years on employees and other expenses according to his plan, hoping to get
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by ry454 7y ago
The funny thing that all this might be funded by the big corps who don't really need any startups and competitors around: it's easier to invest 20-30 billions into destroying the reputation of the startup concept, than to continue
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by ry454 7y ago
I think time is quite liquid. Let's say I get 500k/year on my current job and someone asks me to join his company for peanuts, but with a good chunk of stock. We could calculate the difference between 500k and peanuts and say that
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by ry454 7y ago
Yup, that's the reason I've turned down all startup offers so far and some of them offered 2-3%. They like to hand wave about how much these 50,000 shares are going to cost or how rich I'm surely going to be even after diluti

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