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by shrimpx 5y ago
Yes, I agree it's quite possible to retrospectively mistake the effects of psilocybin for the psychological evolution that happens naturally.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
To some extent it paradoxically sounds like you guys want applicants to not have studied basic algorithm problems, since the problems you find if you try to study are the same problems you guys ask in interviews.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I didn’t mean to discredit him. The point is he’s not an unbiased observer.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
It could be due to random perturbations in the small data size. Like if 10 people died last year, and 14 people died this year, deaths are up 40%, but the 4 extra deaths could be random. You'd have to look at a long trend to infer mean
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I chuckled and was convinced you left out the "/s" but looking at your profile you probably do find it strange.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The problem with "web3" is it implies/its proponents claim that it's a successor to web 2.0. How does it make sense for this crypto "assettech" stuff to replace/supersede the current www stack? Naming it &
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The problem with that superpower being the key thing is that only a small number of people care about it -- and actually run their own nodes, etc. The vast majority of the millions of users holding coins and NFTs hold them with middle men.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I've used docopt a ton for core CLI tooling at my last company. IMO its shortcomings outweigh the benefits by a long margin, compared to tools like argparse which make it super hard to understand what the full UI of a tool is. That sai
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Ok, good point. I think their analytics.js was just tracking website usage, but you're probably right that they were planning on deep-inspecting that data in the way you suggest.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Segment is similarly weird. They were building EdTech and then decided that this boilerplate file called analytics.js was the coolest thing they had built and they pivoted the company around that.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
> Isn't anything that people want to spend money (resources) on by definition a real and worthy cause to at least those people? No, not if they’re being misled or scammed, or simply making financial decisions under wrong assumptions
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted because this is a legit question. Even if web3 is build on a large number of blockchains, you still need whole blockchains downloaded in order to be trustless. Currently probably only a tiny percentage of crypt
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Even if we had a law like that, you could still get "prosecuted", i.e. sued by the govt for whatever reason. Depending on the DA, they may even bring prosecutions to "make a point," knowing it won't go anywhere. Tha
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by shrimpx 5y ago
My perception is that everyone knows job hopping is normal and companies will be happy to have you for that 1-2 years if you’re good. It’s not a black mark on your resume. For me a questionable resume is someone who spent the past 20 years
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by shrimpx 5y ago
> It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses rig
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I'm not assuming anything. I know firsthand.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
“For impatient programmers” … 46 chapters.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
This map and the light pollution map are virtually identical to the population density map. It’s a cool map but the data isn’t surprising at all.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
You’re unfairly revising the communist history behind the iron curtain in order to make a biased anti American point. People went to jail for reading certain books or attempting to listen to foreign radio stations. Poets would be under watc
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I agree with your comment but I would add that whatever the Russians and Chinese have done is not "communism" in any meaningful sense.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
You probably have a decent point to make, if only you bothered to hone in on it. Sure you can say some people won't work for Google because their conscience prevents them, but you can't reasonably compare getting rich by working f
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by shrimpx 5y ago
The obvious alternative advice is if you want it to last, keep working at it, keep maintaining it, keep upgrading it. Don't spend a bunch of time on work that is meant to be abandoned, which to me implies that it's not that meanin
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Solving retrieval was Evernote's original idea, and then they became enterprise spaghetti instead.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Doesn't look good for a16z.com to be hosting trash like this.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
I think that’s ok. Even people who really know what they want to do can easily reach a point where they don’t know anymore. They may even pursue something else, their “dream career”, only to reach a point where they’re bored with that, too.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Devops is having an identity crisis, but what you describe is what I call devops. It's the subset of engineering that supports engineering by defining/inferring workflows and building systems and tools to codify them. But I'v
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by shrimpx 5y ago
What did it say?
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Thanks, I read the Wikipedia article. I get the impression that the US politics and intelligence of that era were just such nasty and morally corrupt environments. The affairs, the drugs, the secret service and CIA henchmen acting like crim
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Thanks that makes sense.
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by shrimpx 5y ago
Sure. But notice that in the case of American black people’s plight, that’s the voice of the oppressor: “just be optimistic, work harder”. Meanwhile the oppressor cynically tightens the screws of oppression, e.g. by codifying racism into la

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