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by sp527 9y ago
The NRA/Republican Party's interpretation of the 2nd amendment is a total fabrication. The amendment was meant to apply to a standing militia organized by a state (potentially in opposition to the federal government). The Founders
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In my mind, a startup is a not a 'business' by any reasonable definition of that word. Steve Blank has the best and probably final take on this: "a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable bus
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by sp527 9y ago
I once had the ‘privilege’ of talking to one of the admissions directors at my alma mater (an Ivy fwiw). An eminently qualified Asian candidate I had interviewed was rejected (while an inferior Jewish-Cuban candidate from the same school wa
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by sp527 9y ago
I've found the opposite approach to be more useful: elimination, selectivity, and focus. For example: Read only the best books, take notes on them, and absorb them fully. Book lists are good, but they tend to grow unbounded and promote
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by sp527 9y ago
Spending time on HN has allowed me to keep in touch with the pulse of the tech industry and the cutting edge in software. Honestly, many individual sessions of delving into HN end up feeling like a waste of time. However, there are enough i
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by sp527 9y ago
If you read it closely, it seems like fluency in advanced mathematics and significantly above-average IQ were implicit criteria. At least that was my takeaway.
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by sp527 9y ago
Many of the deficiencies he noted are easily mitigated by tightly integrating the Go toolchain (and in particular the metalinter) with your development environment and CD workflow. I highly recommend vim-go for Vim users. The flat namespaci
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by sp527 9y ago
The point is to illegally skirt regulations and obfuscate transactions. Many crypto believers are quite forthright about their anarchist bent. Even a cursory attempt at second-order thinking might be enough to disabuse a reasonably intellig
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by sp527 9y ago
It’s getting downvotes because crypto enthusiasts have strawman’ed their way out of the argument. The tulip bubble was above all a cautionary tale about the behavioral dynamics of speculative assets.
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It's shockingly ignorant and quite offensive to assert that fundamental tenets of morality and ethics originated in or necessarily had to be promulgated by religious doctrine.
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by sp527 9y ago
I believe what the politicians really wanted to ask was: “how do we account for the tendency for human operators to make mistakes?” If you stop to think about it, what seems at first like a dumb question in fact presages difficulties that w
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by sp527 9y ago
That is a very impressive anecdote in how powerfully it expresses the dichotomy in thinking styles between two different types of people. Babbage the engineer presumed the most literal interpretation of the query and came to the most logica
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by sp527 9y ago
Isn't delusional overconfidence practically a prerequisite to get through the VC filter? Chris Sacca for instance once praised Systrom for talking in radical future-spect when raising seed funding (paraphrasing, 'once we reach 50
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by sp527 9y ago
This whole place has lost its collective mind on the subject of crypto.
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I’d argue most of the run up in the last year is driven almost purely by price, with people embracing and then purveying the ‘Bitcoin story’ because it helps rationalize their decision and not because they necessarily understand or believe
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by sp527 9y ago
Expecting a generalist software engineer to know data mining and machine learning (well) is about equivalent to expecting your primary doctor to be able to do cardiology and heart surgery.
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by sp527 9y ago
Why do you think it’ll make it as far as governments banning it? I suppose it depends on whether it’s a reaction to laundering or tax losses, with the former meriting attention a lot sooner than the latter.
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by sp527 9y ago
Everything from simple stuff like drink more water, observe and correct posture, etc all the way up to reading more often, reducing time wasted, correcting automatic negative thoughts, etc.
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by sp527 9y ago
I’d add that the relationships where you’re willing to go the extra distance are the only ones that matter. Quality not quantity.
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Ask HN: Reliable Strategy for Behavior Change?
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by sp527 9y ago
The reason for this has to do with ‘variable reward’. Specifically, the brain quickly acclimates to a constant stream of rewards and gets bored. By contrast, spacing out rewards at unpredictable intervals is much likelier to keep the brain
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by sp527 9y ago
I find it amazing that there’s any reasonably intelligent person left in the world who can so dramatically underestimate the wanton interventionism of the Chinese government. Every packet in and out of that country is monitored. The state c
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by sp527 9y ago
You could argue that ending net neutrality enables more precise pricing models that would reflect the underlying cost of provision, so that people who aren’t consuming substantial bandwidth with services like Netflix, Spotify, BitTorrent, e
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by sp527 9y ago
This is not true. Back when JPM was being fined billions of dollars when the Southern District of NY was after them, they were quaking in their boots internally while at the same time redlining PR efforts to project external calmness. Huge
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by sp527 9y ago
The only objective ‘purpose’ seems to be the evolutionary imperative to successfully reproduce, but I’m not convinced that even that one matters. Other than that, life is basically a choose-your-own-adventure game with rules/constraint
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You’re basically describing derivatives, which represent a multi-trillion dollar market...
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If people in Zimbabwe were buying consumer technology as a store of value, that suggests a very poor financial sense to desperation ratio.
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This has become almost cartoonish. The people being accused of sexual harassment did overtly and obviously abusive things. That doesn’t call for a referendum on the entire scope of male-female interactions. If you have to wonder whether you
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What? My point is that the incentive structure driving that expectation is even stronger than any legally-binding requirement could hope to be. Your framing of this issue implied that short-termism is somehow a perversion of capitalism and
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If all you have is an idea, why is scaling even on your radar? Just do it. Postgres and a Flask app can theoretically scale to millions of users. By the time you have millions of users, you would also probably have millions in funding.

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