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by spiffage 15y ago
I'm saying that a person taking the same risk to save just 2 people is more heroic, even though peoples' intuition is the opposite. Risking yourself to save 2 people takes guts and a serious commitment to the greater good. Doing the same fo
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by spiffage 15y ago
People often think of the less extreme act that more people can get behind as being more extreme. It's the same reason that the person who risks death to save 100 people is more heroic than the person who risks death to save 2 people.
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by spiffage 16y ago
Hired in 2006. I was really serious about it. I was a year out of school (C+ GPA) working at a place I knew I didn't want to be. I had just started to grasp the seriousness of my situation as I stared into the abyss of an Office Space-style
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by spiffage 16y ago
No. As a person of relative privilege, it's your duty to generate value for the world with as much aggression as you can muster. The world is a crazy place full of pleasure and suffering. The world doesn't care what you deserve; what matter
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by spiffage 16y ago
I've been out of school for five years, and it's amazing the degree to which my first full-time salary didn't matter at all in retrospect. In fact, it still doesn't, but now I have the perspective to know that. Absolutely go for what will m
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by spiffage 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of the motorized standing desk. I probably only actually stand up about 25% of the time, but it's an important 25%.
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by spiffage 16y ago
Palantir software is almost completely Java.
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by spiffage 16y ago
Their play wasn't "we're pulling out." It was "we're not censoring anymore." As far as I know, they're still not censoring anymore. Seems to me like a win for all involved.
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by spiffage 16y ago
It was still news to me.
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by spiffage 16y ago
Palantir Tech in Palo Alto: http://www.palantirtech.com/careers/positions
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by spiffage 16y ago
I do sometimes buy streaming services for a one-time cost, but I make sure to think of it as a subscription for ~a year.
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by spiffage 17y ago
Then you'll probably like Eduardo Gouveia's "Monkey Island Rocks". http://imuse.mixnmojo.com/fan.shtml#eduardo
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by spiffage 17y ago
This is a good call. My buddy had me put together a system like this for his wedding a few months ago. I was shocked that it didn't already exist.
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by spiffage 17y ago
As you pointed out, the other Halos had an easy mode. Your argument seems tangential to the author's. You just think they made hard mode too easy (perhaps another level of difficulty would have been in order, since they presumably shifted a
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by spiffage 17y ago
Oh man. I regret missing it :(
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by spiffage 17y ago
Go you guys! My company uses Balsamiq for mockups, and I was impressed enough that I started using it for personal projects too. I'm happy to see you do well.
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by spiffage 17y ago
data.gov isn't intended to be any more than a data layer. If you want stuff that a human can consume, turn to one of the data.gov challenge contestants ( http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/apps/ ) or http://analyzethe.us .
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by spiffage 17y ago
I've been using a Macbook with a SSD for about a year (mainly for coding in Eclipse), and it's noticeably snappier than my desktop machine with a magnetic drive. It was definitely worth the cost for the productivity boost.
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by spiffage 17y ago
In general, yes. Stealing is the way to go. http://lesswrong.com/lw/tn/the_true_prisoners_dilemma/
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by spiffage 17y ago
Though it probably would be if the project were started today.