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   by sealeck 3y ago

   Unfortunately some of the experiments require a whole team to carry out and take a huge amount of time to set up as well as having to be carried out under very specific conditions.
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   We got spacecraft and nuclear bombs through government investment, not private capital!
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   Sorry I should have qualified that, for extreme cases of ADHD.
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   Notes on Randomized Algorithms [pdf](cs.yale.edu)

   2 points by sealeck 3y ago|0 comments
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   I really wouldn't want someone with ADHD flying a plane – it's just not safe.
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   I actually find that Spotify is super buggy. If I switch devices it doesn't work (I have to select the new device at least five times), when I go underground with my phone it's super slow to realise that I've lost connection,
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   Note: the author of this comment is author of "V lang".
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   Depends on the Swiss company – some speak French!
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   by sealeck 3y ago

   And then you get countries like France where they refuse to extradite probable child sex offenders.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    If this is true, then why do more people use EBay, etc? Is it only their marketing power, or perhaps something about the platform better? Not trying to be confrontational, just interested in finding out why.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    I suspect that they could write code, but I don't think this is so outrageous.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    Having worked at some startups I think there are a lot of problems too - too many startups are founded by non-technical people. This almost inevitably ends in disaster, unless they have a technical co-founder with equal levels of decision a
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    I'm not sure conservatives are exactly the social butterflies you make them out to be.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    Depends really on how high the salary is. I think you have to work out what is important to you, and what in one's life is just gratuitious consumption and can thus be eliminated.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    A cynical person might argue that whether your startup has the serious potential to become "venture-scale" is unimportant in attracting funding - it's all about psychology and perception. See for example https://ww
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    I think his perspective is a bit more nuanced than this; the complaint is with "real-time" news (somewhere on his blog, Aaron wrote about how he preferred to read post-event summaries in the New Yorker rather than being up-to-date
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    I Hate the News (2006)(aaronsw.com)

    115 points by sealeck 3y ago|93 comments
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    Tech mandated via Online Safety Bill ‘could turn phones into surveillance tools’(imperial.ac.uk)

    1 points by sealeck 3y ago|0 comments
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    The reliability is really not good.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    Perhaps but I would guess a much higher percentage of the Reddit userbase uses ad blockers than other social media platforms (e.g. Instagram, Snapchat where most - all? - users are using phones and thus it's much harder to install an a
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    The fact that you think a "Stalin moment" would be a good thing says a lot.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    I would 100% want to move out of India and I think a lot of Indians do.
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    > My wife, while relatively smart and working at a FAANG - is not that smart (I'm trying to use my words respectfully). Hopefully she doesn't read Hacker News!
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    Bloomberg had a good feature on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel .
25. 415.▲
    by sealeck 3y ago

    But he attained none of his goals?
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    I think part of it might be that the only use case for which crypto really works is for drug dealers to safely conduct transactions. I believe in the right to privacy, but I believe in it as an extension of a personal right to self-expressi
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    Is it really surprising that the chair of the SEC cannot just dispense SEC positions without consulting with lawyers?
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    That would defeat the purpose of "clear chat history" or "delete".
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    by sealeck 3y ago

    Except that the models have been trained on publicly available data sources.
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    by sealeck 4y ago

    I don't know – I'm not the one who doesn't think we should reduce CO2 emissions.