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by smoll 8y ago
Maybe the page itself is the research experiment and they’re polling people/running sentiment analysis on whether or not people are buying it. So meta...
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by smoll 8y ago
> Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy? Sorry for the author's loss, but crying alone in an H Mart out of bitter anguish and deep longing is probably the mo
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by smoll 8y ago
Like the poster above, that was my understanding of the term strawman. But upon rereading your post I realize I misread it, and that you're more saying to be careful so you don't fall into that trap (rather than saying "all c
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by smoll 8y ago
"ran by sales that need a checkbox for their presentation" is a total strawman. I think we both agree that being entirely sales- and short-term profit-driven is a terrible strategy, but it is possible to have an appropriately long
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by smoll 8y ago
I really enjoyed this article, but calling "being sales driven, not product driven" a mistake doesn't make any sense to me -- had they not made the call to be unit-economics-focused, they might have gotten into some product-p
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by smoll 8y ago
Wow, I always thought the Byzantine Generals Problem was just a metaphor.
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by smoll 8y ago
What Infrastructure as Code (IaC) options exist for Cloudflare Workers? AFAICT neither Serverless nor Terraform support it. IaC is table stakes for any new part of my tech stack, and I would prefer not to code it from scratch - unless deplo
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by smoll 8y ago
I just visited Bali and encountered the Bali Street Dog for the first time, which is apparently a semi-feral breed that basically doesn’t care about humans at all http://bawabali.com/bali-heritage-dog/2585-2/ I wo
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by smoll 8y ago
Great idea. I noticed that the right arrow key works great for quickly skipping a book I don't like, but if I accidentally push it there's no way to go back (back button and left arrow key don't work at all)
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by smoll 9y ago
I think the point is that the label of “terrorist” is often forced upon those using justified force against a violent oppressor. To use an example from American history, the American revolutionaries (AKA “patriots”) were almost certainly se
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by smoll 9y ago
Hmm... I wonder if this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
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by smoll 9y ago
I'm not sure this is just IBM lacking the vision to see their older employees for the value that they truly hold, rather, they're just following the path of least resistance. I see this same sort of scenario playing out in other c
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by smoll 9y ago
He opened our eyes to the mysteries of black holes; a black bar is only fitting.
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by smoll 9y ago
I started casually researching cryonics after reading the WaitButWhy article on it https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html and I'm recently leaning towards more towards a "why not?" mindset but
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by smoll 9y ago
Agreed. Even the very early results in UBI have shown it to be extremely promising for those hit hardest by poverty, and shows a novel rethinking of the problem. Using AI to attack the fundamental problem of human QoL vs. automation/ef
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by smoll 9y ago
Go to its center?
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by smoll 9y ago
Why is a wheel even useful? Sounds like a solution in search of a problem. I remember the good old days when we didn't even think about needing wheels for all the made up problems we've created for ourselves. Honestly though, just
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by smoll 9y ago
I believe the pink plane comment is a reference to Alan Kay’s idea that there is an entire “blue plane” of ideas that lie orthogonal to the “pink plane” that people live/think in, that only becomes unlocked with a change in perspective
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by smoll 9y ago
This was incredibly fascinating and made me recall why I loved studying genetics in school so much. Really good speaker/storyteller and absolutely hilarious (especially his answer to the one woman who kept trying to shit on gene therap
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by smoll 9y ago
I've been using Zappa https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa for a few side projects and even at work, and you can definitely set up a robust version-controlled, CI + UAT + CD pipeline if you have the discipline. * Dev
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by smoll 9y ago
> People can insist that Tesla is effecting some positive changes in the world, but it seems to me that mostly they have been good at repackaging and reselling the tech of other companies in creative ways. I've seen this critique le
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by smoll 9y ago
Really cool! Looks like it stopped working at some point today though.
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by smoll 9y ago
Excuse my ignorance on FDWs but how does this work with respect to DB constraints? For example, if a postgres column is supposed to be a date, but it's not a properly formatted date, does it throw an error at query time? Or is everythi
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by smoll 9y ago
>They remove all the real details, even the context, and just present you a well crafted narrative that has no basis in reality. I don't normally comment on political topics, but who are you talking about here? Is the "they&quo
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by smoll 9y ago
But a game like Pac-Man is intuitively understood by the average human because it’s fundamentally a “human” game - designed by humans, gives humans dopamine and other chemical hits in a way that we might even perceive as “fun”. Imagine a ga
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by smoll 9y ago
So, more like https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/ ?
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by smoll 9y ago
I enjoyed reading this. Question for patio11 or others more knowledgeable about this - could a chatbot similar to the one being used to fight traffic tickets be useful in keeping a paper trail and putting the fear of god into banks/CRA
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by smoll 9y ago
This paragraph makes no sense to me: > First, some context. Before 1928, countries had the legal right to wage war. If one state claimed to be victimized by another, international law permitted it to use force to right the wrong. Interna
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by smoll 9y ago
The idea that you can group everyone into 2k+ cohorts of differing tastes sounds like a good way of attacking the problem (though it feels a bit like spaghetti sauce taken to the extreme https://ed.ted.com/lessons/malco
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by smoll 9y ago
I've definitely felt this sort of emotion before, but it doesn't seem all that difficult to explain to me. Consider how easily von Neumann was able to solve problems that even his genius-level peers considered extremely difficult.

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