sooheon

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by sooheon 9y ago
This is one part of the truth, but not all of it. The remaining minutes of the the hour long podcast evidently provide enough value to the listeners for them to keep tuning in, despite the annoyance of ads. As long as his output has value a
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by sooheon 9y ago
Step 1. Be super rich Step 2. Still be likable :)
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by sooheon 9y ago
Evolution is just persisted coincidence.
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by sooheon 9y ago
Heh, I like the image of a nascent programmer coding up a little mudball of a program. Thanks for that. I agree with the mentality, way of thinking and approaching problems being one of the best things to learn from mentors. It's not s
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by sooheon 9y ago
Whenever you can make a point by stretching an analogy to an extreme, I think it's possible to imagine stretching the analogy the other direction. In this case, the distinction seems to be a matter of degrees, rather than a fundamental
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by sooheon 9y ago
> elected by the people Elections lie on a spectrum from fair to sham, and the greater the influence of the powerful, the more it resembles a sham.
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by sooheon 9y ago
Giving yourself a fade isn't as hard as it seems. Short answer: use different sizes of the plastic guards, and do a bit of a flicking outward motion with your wrist where you want to blend.
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by sooheon 9y ago
> I really think this is an important distinction to make [...] they require two different solutions. Agreed. The problem, and the source of the frustration, is that your average poster on hacker news (or average human being on earth) ha
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by sooheon 9y ago
The politicians will never bite the hand that feeds. The mega rich both write the laws and benefit from them, this does not excuse the behavior morally, only makes it legal on paper (which, apparently is enough for some of you).
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by sooheon 9y ago
Companies own the governments that create those opportunities.
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by sooheon 9y ago
Agreed. Putting out fires sadly takes precedence over future fireproofing.
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by sooheon 9y ago
Curious, what are your top 2 favorite languages (or CS thinkers)?
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by sooheon 9y ago
He has successfully signaled his virtue to your eyes, has he not?
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by sooheon 9y ago
Yes. In fact, it's quite the opposite of vaporizing--it's precipitating cold hard cash into the hands of the few.
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by sooheon 9y ago
Yes, but being explicit and acknowledging the concentration of power is better than saying pithily "war is illegal", as if it were shoplifting or loitering.
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by sooheon 9y ago
It is getting better for some people by some measures, and worse for others by other measures. What Pinker and Gates are attempting to impose is a tyranny of faux rationality--"an 800 pg book with sources up the wazoo say that the worl
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by sooheon 9y ago
> An activist who thinks another system would be better has to convince people that their alternative will achieve more. Not necessarily according to Pinker's cherry picked statistics. Plantation owners were not going to achieve mo
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by sooheon 9y ago
Gates and Pinker are rich, ivory tower dwelling opiate peddlers.
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by sooheon 9y ago
It's telling that one of the richest, most well off men on Earth is helping to peddle this narrative. It behooves those in positions of power and wealth to hoodwink the masses into being satisfied with their given stations. Research an
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by sooheon 9y ago
iCloud users in China must agree to this: “understand and agree that Apple and G.C.B.D. will have access to all data that you store on this service, including the right to share, exchange and disclose all user data, including content, to an
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by sooheon 9y ago
Bacteria are pretty selectively bred by humans too :P
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by sooheon 9y ago
Wow, I just learned that I despise the prefix "ur-" far more than is reasonable. Seriously though, why not call it "tribalist"?
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by sooheon 9y ago
To help the child and end it means to deprive many others of happiness as well. It is also likely to be wasted, as she writes in the story, the kid may be so far gone beyond consolation.
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by sooheon 9y ago
IOW, good, clean function composition.
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by sooheon 9y ago
It's a shame BTT won the mindshare, and Jitouch devs abandoned it. BTT still doesn't have the ergonomics Jitouch had ~2 or 3 OS versions ago, but it has the userbase.
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by sooheon 9y ago
Every other laptop manufacturer on earth had the opportunity to put together a computer with the not-weakest-cpu and more than USB ports without a touchbar.
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by sooheon 9y ago
For competitive markets to remain competitive, actors must receive the right disincentives. Intel reaped decades of competitive advantage by forgoing security for performance. As you said, they decided that the cost of mitigating these know
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by sooheon 9y ago
Unless the advance scheduling is completely binding, I don't see why that should sidestep insider trading. What's to stop these guys from always having a cascading series of sells and buys 6 mo. in advance, and just cancelling the
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by sooheon 9y ago
Yours is a better argument, only because it claims less, and it is actually about science, not technology. Rather than proposing technology as a whole (including its artifacts) is morally neutral, you have limited the scope to the subset of
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by sooheon 9y ago
> Tech isn't inherently evil, neither is a hammer or a gun but both can be used for good or bad. I see this meme everywhere, and I just can't fathom it. Not all tech is perfectly neutral, just because it's "technology

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