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by sp527 9y ago
> Whatever we call it, we still need a use case for full trustless crypto. The reason you find many cryptographers skeptical of Blockchain as a major new technological framework (Internet 3.0!) is that many of us have tried to pitch and
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by sp527 9y ago
Fewer ignorant citizens* If you keep the ignorance distribution stable, then nothing changes.
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by sp527 9y ago
Haha it's definitely not apparently useful. But what I've found is that some of the information I'm vacuuming up occasionally becomes relevant. HN is more about triggered than active recollection.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of edutainment (like Cosmos)?
2 points by sp527 9y ago|2 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
Martinez is so articulate, you're almost inclined to believe he's infallible. And in this case I think he's wrong. What likely really happened is Zuck et al were drinking the Koolaid about a more data-driven world and competi
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by sp527 9y ago
I don’t buy that that is any longer a significant contributing factor. Unadulterated societies should graduate from barbarism as they move up Maslow's hierarchy. That the most secure civilization (economically and otherwise) in human h
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by sp527 9y ago
There are lots of comparably astute thinkers in the modern age. We ignore them because they don't command the same gravitas as the founders and because in some sense intellectualism is no longer valued in the West. But it's not ha
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by sp527 9y ago
Your analogy is so atrocious it's almost as if you do PR for Facebook. Furniture is passive and doesn't detract from wellbeing by absorbing a significant proportion of active attention.
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by sp527 9y ago
And the actual algo part is mostly just making some API calls.
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by sp527 9y ago
Has Sam talked about depression? The mysterious periods of fog and lack of motivation he mentioned as well as a previous post that had a somewhat overly wistful tone about getting older (he's only in his early 30s!) seem like they coul
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by sp527 9y ago
Novel experiences slow down time while habitual behaviors speed it up. However, we are almost by definition creatures of habit. They're necessary in order to function efficiently. So you could argue there's a tension between livin
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by sp527 9y ago
Don't spoil their fun. They've been riding that false analogy to the bank for over a year now.
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by sp527 9y ago
That's easy to say if you have nothing to lose. Most people investing (time and/or money) in crypto have a lot to lose. What you're saying is also just plainly logically unsound. If we tried to explore every possibility, irre
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by sp527 9y ago
Thanks! I appreciate that.
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Ask HN: What should you do if you think you might have a rare medical disorder?
3 points by sp527 9y ago|4 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
It seems like the easiest way to relieve the pressure would be to hire someone to take over as CEO. Finding the right person may be hard, but you'd probably feel a lot better once you've been swapped out. You would likely want to
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by sp527 9y ago
This doesn't just apply to Asians. Almost anyone getting into a top college (who isn't a legacy, under-represented minority, or recruited athlete) is adopting a very intentional strategy to design their application, starting well
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by sp527 9y ago
When people in the US say "Asian" conversationally, they usually mean "East Asian". The admissions process uses the more formal definition, which means an American who can trace his/her ethnicity to any country in A
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by sp527 9y ago
Yea "devious" if you're not Asian. Affirmative action is a garbage policy. It should be predicated directly on financial means instead of race.
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by sp527 9y ago
> We will continue to vigorously defend the right of Harvard, and other universities, to seek the educational benefits that come from a class that is diverse on multiple dimensions Speaking as an Asian, the insinuation that my race might
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by sp527 9y ago
In a completely free competitive system, cheating becomes necessary to survive. This applies to almost any industry. In a weird way, you can't blame companies for cheating so much as the government for being too poorly structured/
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by sp527 9y ago
Much as I'd like to believe otherwise, I don't think this genie is going back in the bottle. Ever. There's too much money involved and our systems of governance are too fundamentally corrupt and unreliable to permit that.
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by sp527 9y ago
The part you omitted is how the long-term outlook currently priced into a lot of tech stocks (including AMZN) is far too optimistic and not accurately discounted relative to likelihood. Current prices aren't a function of rigorous anal
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Ask HN: What's the most cost-effective TURN solution?
2 points by sp527 9y ago|3 comments
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by sp527 9y ago
One fascinating outcome of all this fallout is that there's now a readymade excuse to stop using Facebook. My personal observations are that a good number of people have felt 'fatigued' by Facebook for a very long time, but w
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by sp527 9y ago
I've heard the logistics value prop from a number of people, and not a single person has ever been able to fully articulate an answer to "okay walk me through how it works". I once literally went through 5+ iterations of this
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by sp527 9y ago
I don't know if this is the market reacting to user engagement so much as the perception of potentially increased regulatory scrutiny. If USG was doing it's job properly, Facebook's ability to monetize would be dramatically l
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by sp527 9y ago
I wanted to include this in the original post as well. My cynical/ironic phrasing of this phenomenon is “not wealthy enough to have principles”. Which I totally get. I’ve been a victim myself. And the truth is it’s hard to find success
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by sp527 9y ago
No they’re not. They’re in denial. I used to work there as an intern, so I get a front row seat to how a lot of employees are reacting. The word I would use is: indignation. I’ve seen this us-against-them mentality play out elsewhere in var
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by sp527 9y ago
Legitimate question: how is Dropbox not effectively dead in the water? Between GDrive use driven by close integration with Gmail/GSuite and iCloud having major user capture, I don't understand where Dropbox is necessary or wanted

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