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by seiji 11y ago
> your average published rates is worth roughly $90k What? Sure, saying "I made $30k/week under one engagement" is cute, but that doesn't mean your rate is $30k/week. When the stars align, you take the nice g
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by seiji 11y ago
> In a democracy, the people are the sovereign. The US isn't a democracy, it's a representative republic. Big difference. Your only power is voting for elected officials (modulo jury nullification, rioting, and overthrowing th
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by seiji 11y ago
> a lot of corruption in the taxi industry That's a great point. Start a new exploiting service under the guise of freeing people from an already exploiting service. That tactic provides cover, plausible deniability, and an automa
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by seiji 11y ago
> it was one of my favourite companies. But, why? They've always been boisterous and exploitative. Just because someone provides a "do what I want" button doesn't absolve them of all their koala-fueled tyranny in t
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by seiji 11y ago
> Storing zeroes and ones deterministically Turing-complete platforms are universal simulators. There's nothing they can't represent. > like how information is flowing from short-term memory to long-term Sure, we know that.
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by seiji 11y ago
> saying this for decades? A handful of years ago I put together a computer fully loaded that gave me 1 teraflop of commuting power. Today I can put together a computer the same size that will give me 32 to 50 teraflops of programmable c
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by seiji 11y ago
> feed forward networks do not have immediate state. Not in any relevant sense. Feed-forward networks do have state, but all the useful parts all obtained through explicit training (ye olde backprop, ye older hebbian). The typical scena
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by seiji 11y ago
> Linux code etc People are always worried about "computers taking factory jobs" resulting in mass unemployment, but the truth is, a rudimentary AI with acceptance tests on output will obsolete every programmer alive. Hell, hal
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by seiji 11y ago
> A machine will never get the meaning of a word, unlike a very small child. Why not? Your brain isn't magic, just highly associative. We can do the same thing with computers real soon now.
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by seiji 11y ago
Google is not a person. Google is a transhuman organization with over 60,000 individual consciousnesses taking part in it. Google can do more than one thing at a time (if their management infrastructure doesn't require a single perso
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by seiji 11y ago
> I don't really know how "senior" normal senior job is. At startups, "senior" can mean you've worked at one other company before. At big companies, "senior" means you have 20 years of experience
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by seiji 11y ago
Licensing is the reason all the Apple GNU tools are forever stuck on old versions now. Once the tools moved to GPLv3, Apple stopped updating them. Check out how old your version of /bin/bash is on a completely up-to-date OS X ma
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by seiji 11y ago
> You don't need authorization to write a client to someone else's API, do you? If the owner says "don't do that" and you do it anyway, even if there are no technical limitations, you are committing a crime in
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by seiji 11y ago
> they use your password to log in to your gmail account and that is a federal crime. Why do they go unpunished? There sure are a lot of products and services I'd like to create if I knew laws were just suggestions. Every massive-
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by seiji 11y ago
Everything is back room deals. Didn't Instagram have a months-long deal to be a "featured app" as long as they didn't make an Android version?
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by seiji 11y ago
> For many users and applications, low-quality code will work. Oh, don't pretend "quality" is just a proxy for "has pretty animations and makes the user feel warm and fuzzy." The failure to ensure "quality&q
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by seiji 11y ago
The kids have no cost of switching to something new because they probably don't know much already. As you get older, re-learning everything 6 months feels weird since any random 14 year old can know as much (or more) than you do about
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by seiji 11y ago
Related: why doesn't anybody take down LinkedIn? They run consistently obviously illegal spam/marketing practices. Why do they get a free pass? Is the "mafia" part of PayPal mafia too strong? Too many cross-bred inv
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by seiji 11y ago
Well, native client isn't chrome itself. Chrome has to deal with dumb OS issues and platform interop. Native Client is more of a complete data/instruction sandbox: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/
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by seiji 11y ago
> What sort of programmer I know we like to think all programmers are the best and brightest and most talented citizens of the entire world, but the truth is: most programmers have the dedication of fast food workers and as long as &quot
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by seiji 11y ago
The end result has been years of (practical) research going into an actually safe, actually sandboxed, actually secure cross-platform platform: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client
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by seiji 11y ago
We thought Internet 2 would be amazing and fast and open and free. Turns out Internet 2 will be curated, closed, monitored, metered, and pay-to-play.
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by seiji 11y ago
White males are [X percent of the world population], but like 99% of the world's billionaires. Success and punishment aren't evenly distributed due to innate corruption/advantages built into The System. How do we fix inequal
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by seiji 11y ago
This is the same problem as the housing crisis. What happens when you have limited resources (housing, dorms, teachers) and a group of people who are superior in some way end up wanting to use all your resources (buy all housing, be smartes
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by seiji 11y ago
> taking the PC from a geeky hobby item That was Apple. Microsoft mostly copied things after they got proven elsewhere first. How many hundreds of billions of dollars have been lost to security issues in Windows? The design is fundamen
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by seiji 11y ago
But, he set back all of computing 10 to 20 years (1995-2010 "dark ages" approximately) just for the sake of greed, dominance, and profit. Was it worth it?
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by seiji 11y ago
Lots of people were doing these same things ("I don't need school—I know HTML!") in 2000/2001. Then all the funding dried up over night and all the acquiring companies went away. Then the people who decided to go to sch
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by seiji 11y ago
> You should follow some of these guys on Periscope. What does that even mean? Watch them work? Watch their wacky bro antics after work? Watch them work while bro'ing down?
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by seiji 11y ago
> It's not a thing The fact you've become so offended at an online message board comment word joke supports the entire point of your environment being ridiculous, out of touch, and, dare we say, silly. > "silly" is
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by seiji 11y ago
> These days car ownership is so common Yup, that's why Uber can't find investors anymore. > that you have to be young and crazy, desperately poor, or criminal to hitch hike, and drivers know that. Obviously it just needs an

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