samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. My mind immediately went to this, given the relative obviousness of the exploits (compared to the massive supercomputer fuzzing runs done by Project Zero &c), and given their refusal to
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by samhw 5y ago
The answer is clearly to believe in all of them! With a bit of possible-worlds logic it should be doable.
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm fairly sure he's making an ironic joke about the comment he was replying to.
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by samhw 5y ago
This blog post has some really interesting thoughts on that point: https://applieddivinitystudies.com/2020/10/15/bus-factor/
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by samhw 5y ago
I think Jeff + Sanjay is arguably a better example of 100x developers. Goes way beyond just MapReduce. Edit: I just noticed that you said the same yourself. Great minds...
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by samhw 5y ago
> What positions are taboo for this sort of thing? I'm not sure what this question means exactly? Are you asking what kind of targeted foreign aggression is informally permissible?
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by samhw 5y ago
That's fine, but it's still going to be very hard to explain to people (or hell, even remember ) how it's spelled, so they can search or download it.
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by samhw 5y ago
What do you mean by 'deep tech'? And what role do you actually want to move into?
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, this is not much different from other emergent phenomena like election results. The outcome of the 2020 election was not under any one person's control, but that's a shoddy argument for claiming it's outside of every
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by samhw 5y ago
> Your entire point is that the narrative that industrial-scale carbon producers are chiefly responsible for carbon production is itself faulty, because it obviates personal responsibility. Because those businesses are doing it behest of
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm not making a recondite point here. I think maybe you're thinking I'm saying something more complex than I am. My point is that companies exist because they provide goods and services which people want to buy. The S&P
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by samhw 5y ago
Any links for what?
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by samhw 5y ago
Well, the obvious question is "why do you think those corporations exist, and for what reason are they emitting that carbon?"
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by samhw 5y ago
> some of the uses of the internet are actively trying to get you addicted No offence intended, but I find this trope really exhausting. Web products - like any other product in the world - are designed to be enjoyable, and a side effect
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. You have a good point. I hate these vague accusations of "that's environmentally unsound" which get bandied around, without any evidence at all and in the full knowledge that
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by samhw 5y ago
> third, they like to fly at 5 or 6 in the morning where most of the car drivers sleep (side note: according to city's rule, they can't fly at that time but they just pay the fine to do so...) "If a fine costs less than th
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by samhw 5y ago
Yup, a friend of mine gets his morning coffee delivered every morning. I felt like Marie Antoinette when I stayed at his house and he ordered me one ('you have a coffee machine right here! are you mad?').
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't suppose you'd be so kind as to just imitate my beliefs? It would really save me some time here!
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by samhw 5y ago
Like the comment said to which you are replying, there isn't a fast enough supply chain for deliveries which 'go stale' far more quickly than Coca-Cola does. Therefore, no, they can't piggyback on that existing supply ch
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by samhw 5y ago
I applaud your adroitness at self-deprecation, but I think it's pretty implicit in your comments that you hold yourself above other people, or else you logically should be simply imitating their views: > I think you're giving t
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by samhw 5y ago
They aren't joking, based on their later comments. This "humans are stupid" trope is quite common. It usually becomes clear that it originates from thinly-concealed classism: " People like me can solve differential equa
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by samhw 5y ago
What's the environmental effect? It seems like a clear improvement over current delivery mechanisms, since it's lighter and can be powered with electricity. Is your argument based on some assumption of induced demand, i.e. that it
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by samhw 5y ago
Just to elaborate on the downvotes: it's really not 'industry standard' to connect to your database over GraphQL. I'm not saying nobody is doing it, or that it doesn't work well (for all I know, it might), but it&#x
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by samhw 5y ago
The response to this is normally the same as the response to trophy hunting subsidising conservation: namely, "yeah, that's true, but reality shouldn't be that way". I don't find that a very compelling argument, but
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by samhw 5y ago
Annoyingness is not the same thing as volume. Nails on a chalkboard is also quieter than a car, or an orchestra playing Mahler's Fifth.
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by samhw 5y ago
The answer is that people don't ever think for themselves. If you say to them that something is occultist, or a cult, or a conspiracy theory, then that's what they think, and they won't consider it. In reality, 'occult&#
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by samhw 5y ago
I still think the kernel of the idea is a really interesting one. Could you make it work, by, say, ranked-choice voting to allow trading off conflicting priorities? (You wouldn't even need to get people to explicitly rank them, come to
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by samhw 5y ago
Haha, it ran in the family. His brother ran Rio Tinto's operations, I think it was in Africa, and he would constantly be receiving gold watches and other gifts in the post, which he diligently sent back. I think in that day and age, yo
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by samhw 5y ago
> Heck, there are plenty of buildings built to get kids into US institutions. My grandfather used to be an admissions tutor at Cambridge (in the UK), and he always fondly remembered telling various people "thank you very much for do
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by samhw 5y ago
Haha, I was wondering why your comment was hidden. That kind of behaviour feels like yet another episode of 'Reddit comes to HN'.

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