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by shrimpx 7y ago
There’s basically no reason to ever answer a call from an unknown phone number, let alone engage and divulge private data. If it’s important they’ll leave a voicemail. Going further, I’d say it’s basically safe to always block missed calls
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Set time aside where you won’t do anything except your task. Even 15 minutes helps. No big deal spending 15 minutes on something, right? Get a stack of sheets of paper and a pencil. Start laying thoughts down, some bullet points and a basic
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Just curious, is it harder to read white space indentation code like python versus curly bracket code like JavaScript?
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I think we’re burnt out by too much thrash. Too much disingenuous work, too much greed, too much friction, too much wasted effort, too many stairs to nowhere. We see the soullessness and greed in our bosses, in founders, in the VCs that fun
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I for one believe the quality of generally accessible k12 eduction is America’s biggest problem, by far. Who’s to build if there’s no good system for creating builders? Public k12 education in America is abysmal and few people are talking a
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by shrimpx 7y ago
This is awesome. Shouldn't this be every engineer's dream? Why do someone else's bidding in a boring corporate megastructure, or in a startup bullied by sharky venture capitalists into making a compromised product, and making
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Imagine the lazy Fibonacci series. As long as you keep taking a number, the next one in the series is generated. It’s not incorrect to say it’s “potentially infinite”. And it exists, as the live algorithm that keeps cranking as long as you
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by shrimpx 7y ago
This is true if you assume that the simulating world is what’s being simulated in the simulated world. That is, if bacteria exist only in the simulated world, then if you’re a bacterium there’s 100% probability that you’re simulated.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
That’s bleak. We’re at the whim of our corporate overlords.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Tangent but it seems to me that this Covid situation is ripe ground for the next crypto bubble. The envisioned endgame on which the 2017 bubble was based was “hyperbitcoinization,” the prospect that national currencies would give way to bit
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Bandcamp unresponsive on touted “no fee day”(twitter.com)
1 points by shrimpx 7y ago|1 comments
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I agree with your sentiment if “wasting life” is taken to mean long lasting negative impact and loss of momentum in people’s lives. This is happening already, to my friends.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Finally, scientific evidence of the vast healing power of God. /s
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by shrimpx 7y ago
What you’re saying also applies to a meaningful extent to procrastinators, myself included.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
You might find this interesting: https://math.mit.edu/projects/traffic It’s basically a normal occurrence in dense traffic.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
We need some meta tech innovation that precludes these slippery slope scenarios. Otherwise we’ll be in innovation paralysis because all roads lead to big brother.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
This article takes “tech bro” to a whole new level of entitlement.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
In my experience, a master of one is most of the time better described as a jack of one trade, anyway.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
In my opinion, a successful startup proves a market exists, it doesn’t have to fit a product to it. But it’s important to create IP relevant to exploiting the market. A very successful startup demonstrates multiple angles on one or more mar
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by shrimpx 7y ago
You didn’t add the two sigma link.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Would domain names like deletefacebook.com and facebookruinsyourlife.com count as being in this class of infringements? Where do you draw the line?
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by shrimpx 7y ago
Wow this is Coinbase in 2017. Trading mass hysteria takes down unprepared Silicon Valley trading service.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
“The market being in the red is a hoax perpetrated by the Democrats...”
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by shrimpx 7y ago
The idea of “real money” is highly suspect in the stock market. It’s better to give up the ghost and see the whole thing as a speculation game. When you buy stock you’re betting it goes higher. That’s it. Everything else, like whether the c
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by shrimpx 7y ago
It’s disjointed but the bot-like commenter is basically saying that the economy is completely fucked and prices are basically manufactured from thin air. But computer nerds offer a glimmer of hope because they’re the most tuned into the iss
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I never understand this line of reasoning. It amounts to lamenting that the market is not predictable (accurately reflecting “real value”). If market positions were merely a function of “how the business is doing” then who needs a market? M
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by shrimpx 7y ago
My first thought was “hotel lobby”
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I think that postmodern view on art has fallen out of popularity. It’s silly to abstract away the artist and kinda pretend there may as well not be one, and that the full meaning may be purely in the sensory matter... because this leads to
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by shrimpx 7y ago
I don’t know why open source would make much of a difference in this case. It’s not like open source means guaranteed correctness.
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by shrimpx 7y ago
In the movie “Airplane” the autopilot is an inflatable humanlike doll full on manning the plane. :-)

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