selmnoo

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by selmnoo 12y ago
Yes that was probably not a very good analogy. I was trying to highlight the fact that we're really good at getting users to do what we want (things, specifically, that hurt them and make us more money). So far, we (the tech industry)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Half our industry is built on fooling users. Exploiting their cognitive biases. Seriously, we understand where they fall, and if we really wanted to, we absolutely could look out for them -- at least, certainly better than we're doing
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Of course, just as America likes to spy on everyone as well. But let's not completely pardon Apple, they can always do something more to strengthen their systems to be more and more resilient to these attacks. It might well be a cat
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Hm, okay. Though, it's not clear to me why porn sites en masse would be classified as "High Risk"? Are you sure this is always the case? How are current popular porn sites doing this? And, now that Stripe is quite big, don&#x
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by selmnoo 12y ago
You haven't really refuted any part of GP poster's points. There's no technical info on the site, there's no telling what kind of user data they may be taking and doing who-knows-what with it. This is solid grounds to st
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by selmnoo 12y ago
In the end Stripe could not work with her or other startups that feature "a naked person" on the product they're selling (the article seems to claim), is that correct? I'm assuming then pay-for-porn sties are not permitt
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I say this as a person who has worked as a front end engineer for a fair bit of time that a handsome-looking salary (like, say, ~200k) is more than good enough for great work on the laundry list of non-tech tasks of a startup in the beginni
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Alright, I'll start "following" him. Still, very curious -- what specifically has he said of YC? Doing a ctrl-f on yc|ycombinator on his twitter page didn't reveal much, so still in the dark I am a little bit.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Maciej Ceglowski, you either can't tolerate the thing (Maciej) What critical things did he say about YC?
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Not yet, but I think I probably will be in 3'ish months (because of startup's needs). Why do you ask?
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I don't understand either why many are suggesting you get a cofounder . You just need another person who can work on UI, branding, PR, etc. Don't give them any equity, don't give them any control over the innards of tarsnap,
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by selmnoo 12y ago
But that's the YC business. Startups wouldn't apply to YC if they could get the Office Hours for free (instead of in exchange for significant equity). Not knocking on YC, just pointing out that that's not happening, doesn&#x2
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I fully agree that we don’t want to live in an aristocratic society in which already-wealthy families get richer simply by sitting on their laurels and collecting what Piketty calls “rentier income”—that is, the returns peo
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Absolutely awesome. Makes me want to look into real sailing. Sadly season for sailing has pretty much ended -- will look into it next year then. Thanks for sharing, would love to see any improvements toward making it more realistic (as a te
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> We now lose more people to suicides in the U.S. than to car accidents. Holy shit, that's unbelievable. I basically don't drive because I have long believed that driving is an unnecessarily risky thing to do -- indeed, because
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I am really asking (as I've said elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8382692 I find these truths very difficult to live with). If you can write an extended answer to this, I would enjoy reading it. > To
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by selmnoo 12y ago
If absolute truthfulness matters greatly to you, I would like advice from you about how to live life happily in face of the fact that we live in a deterministic universe that gives us no free will ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Yes, but is it true? As I said, it's probably not 100% true, but that doesn't matter . I care deeply about greater happiness and well-being of a society, I want people to be hopeful and diligent in acquiring skills, and as i
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by selmnoo 12y ago
10,000 hour rule is a rule of thumb, a saying, and a wonderfully fantastic one at that. It's stunningly simple, I think that's what makes it so compelling. It's basically the phrase "practice makes perfect" moderniz
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Oh my goodness this is the worst kind of bikeshedding imaginable. Mostly people who know of the 10,000 hours rule don't embody it as being the cold, hard, dry truth, everything is very complicated when you get really down and dirty. Bu
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I'm asserting that progress will be them becoming more like us, You know, having been thinking about this very extensively over the past few months, I disagree. The American populace, with its great freedoms, is now becoming a pri
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by selmnoo 12y ago
As I commented last night, I personally know someone who got his phone bent as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8385941 It's extremely frustrating that when I and my friend told this to others, we get accused
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by selmnoo 12y ago
We've had our share of problems, and continue to have them (genocide of Native Indians, slavery, persisting racism, rampant classism at many stages, corrupt for-profit prisons, the list goes on). HK, Singapore and others are developing
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Have you held one? I have. I admit it actually felt sturdy and rigid, but I don't think we should put so much weight on it merely feeling sturdy and rigid. How it feels is just how it feels, feels can be very deceiving, they don
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Using a level of pressure no more than what I'd be willing to use for my own Nexus 5, I couldn't even get it to flex. Of course, using a level of pressure you wouldn't apply to any phone... no-one in their right mind goe
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by selmnoo 12y ago
As an aside, the video that really demonstrates how easily iPhone 6+ can bend is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg Seems to have been bent with considerably small effort, and very quickly.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
It kind of is, yes. I wish I'd never been introduced to the concept of determinism -- it's pretty much made my life seem meaningless and joyless. And then there's evolutionary biology, which tells us we're innately wired
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Thank you very much for the suggestion! I will go ahead and buy the book.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
That is the truth that I unfortunately learned too late, at least, way after I spent way too much time ruminating about concepts of free will and determinism. Now, I have a very dispiriting view of humanity (the fact that we evolved from pr
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Woah, that's pretty amazing. And I think, (strange as it might seem) ultimately more informational than the consumerreports tests. Don't know why you're getting downvoted.

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