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by seiji 11y ago
Madison judged her social life as inferior to what she saw in the online posts of her high school friends. I'm 32 and still feel shitty about life compared against everybody else posting their amazingly perfect success-success-succes
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I don't get why you continue to declare this like it is settled. It's good to be the king.
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(as of right now, this post is 2 hours old and has 102 comments on a Sunday evening. What's wrong with us?)
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Because this super-AI is actually a computer. People are just computers. Slow, fragile computers stuck in meat bodies. If you could think and act 1000x faster than yourself now, you could get a lot more done. You could hold 1000 creativ
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by seiji 11y ago
There was a joke going around recently: Twitter finally allows more than 140 characters in direct messages! Meanwhile, Facebook releases AI powered personal assistant and 12 new open source projects powering their entire company. Is Twitte
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by seiji 11y ago
all to maintain Etsy, Etsy is a strange thing. Founded by a literally borderline insane person, taken away from him, given back to him, taken away from him, run as a complete engineering organization for what would seem almost like a tri
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by seiji 11y ago
many many moons ago, reddit had a special agreement with NYTimes to un-paywall any links from reddit (that neighborly deal expired a long time ago), but HN could potentially do the same magic with WSJ, NYT, Economist if someone did the deal
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They seem to spin up (reuse?) an entire instance for each request There are some clever platforms running on bare Xen (no direct OS) that can spin up an entire instance and destroy it on every request pretty quickly. http://er
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But legislation and implementation was largely backed by the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Carnegies, and the other shadowy economic 0.001% people of their day. (citations left as an exercise for the reader)
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by seiji 11y ago
"Microservices without the Servers: the Uberization of IaaS as PaaS for SaaS" Like when you say you have no carbon footprint because you don't own a car, even though you call a taxi every time you want to go somewhere? Are mi
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by seiji 11y ago
Industrialists in the US advocated for (and implemented!) forced society-level eugenics as a way of creating a more "desirable" pool of employees for them to exploit. Germany just copied the US, then the robber barons had to dist
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by seiji 11y ago
ledger-cli is great, but I'd strongly encourage using an older 2.6 release. The 3.x releases don't forecast accurately for me and the 3.x code is (a complex and disturbingly unreadable) complete rewrite of 2.x.
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by seiji 11y ago
my silicon valley co-workers are much more diverse Twitter had a neat turn of phrase in their recent diversity document: "these new goals focus on increasing the overall representation of women and underrepresented minorities"
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All good points, but my delusions rely on one piece of magic: determined people from disadvantaged backgrounds can become successful anyway. This won't all be fixed in 15 years, but it will start to be fixed just by numbers. Yes, th
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, it's a huge culture issue, but not a technical problem companies can engineer solutions towards. Tech companies don't exist as government regulators of natural philosophy. On the other hand, tech companies do suffer from m
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by seiji 11y ago
95% could be accurate. I'd consider every "acqi-hire" an overt failure. Your business failed, but you personally got to fail upwards. acqui-hires are generally VC-engineere soft landings (everybody has friends they can ask
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by seiji 11y ago
What's so special about those people? It's not all luck, a lot of it is who they are. They are mostly aspie nerds. They all went to private montessori "we just do whatever we want" schools. Those schools teach them
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by seiji 11y ago
Doesn't that depend on browser vendors supporting and properly implementing CSP? What about every embedded device browser that will never receive an update? Does your toaster, fridge, microwave, and toilet get security updates?
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but "esteem" and "self-actualization" are really important as well. Many people fill those needs with banal things like drinking contests or sports.
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If you go deep enough, sometimes you can find the models on one author's university website. Then you'll scream. Often you'll find the source program, but then discover it's a 12,000 line matlab file with no comments, n
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by seiji 11y ago
It's great breaking the math down like that. A billion dollar company (~$100 million per year in revenue with 10x valuation multiplier) requires $274,000 per day in revenue (which is $8.33 million per month, or $3.20 per second, every
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by seiji 11y ago
I'll give you a billion dollars if you stop saying "unicorn" like it actually means something.
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We found the mark zuckerberg account everybody! He was born with his star in ascendence, destined to rule over the unruly private lives of every human alive, destined to surround himself with empty mansions so no others may peek upon his di
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by seiji 11y ago
I may be out of the loop here, but wasn't the big benefit of JavaScript everywhere that it's the same JavaScript everywhere? Does it matter if server-side is JavaScript Next Gen and browsers lag by a few years of features? Too m
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by seiji 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-inflated_model or in Q&A format http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/13509/zero-inflated...
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Imagine how extravagant they would get if founded by pretentious designers combined with unlimited bubble cash: http://curbed.com/archives/2013/12/04/find-the-war-room-from...
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I wonder to what extent neuroscience could be cited to argue the opposite. That's a great point. Often, in brains and bodies in general, the same mechanism causes more than one result. Sometimes even the absence of the mechanism ca
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by seiji 11y ago
Anybody else think GitHub was more responsive to users and used to create more useful new features before they had $350 million in fun money? I'm so happy they have a full replica of the oval office to play around inside, but some days
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Starting at 1 is always amusing when talking to computer people. Computer people seem happy to dismiss most of the brain because "neural network—all we need is data!" But, the brain isn't just a bowl of neurons freely conne
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by seiji 11y ago
You are technically right on all counts. But we live in a new world. A world of BYOD and now, in 2015, Bring-Your-Own-SaaS. Employees put content up on company platforms, on third party platforms, on high heel platforms. The problem of so

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