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by strgcmc 6y ago
It's not like, 100% adopted at literally every single meeting, but it's pretty common across Amazon. Some orgs will do it more religiously than others, but no org will look at you funny if you request for a 5-10 min doc read befor
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Yeah, SV is really just the bubbliest-of-bubbles. It attracts so much talent, and is funneled so aggressively in so localized a market, that your anecdotal observation of "everyone and their mother went to an Ivy League or similar&quo
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by strgcmc 6y ago
A small suggestion then: why not re-apply the same fundamental technologies and techniques, but to targeting public figures who are perhaps deserving of a little more scrutiny and contact than they're getting? Rather than facilitating
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Sounds like a form of (job?) security-through-obscurity, no? The data was always there, but not all managers were savvy enough to process it and weaponize it. In the end, obscurity is just not a durable defense. Better to earn trust with g
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Fair enough (though executive summaries are by nature, lossy contextually). I don't disagree that InfoSec was a driving force behind the project, and may have given it an unhelpful level of urgency (i.e. pushing for the team to make ea
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by strgcmc 6y ago
There's a roughly ~12,000-word postmortem document that took an additional 2+ months to produce after the fact, which the OP has lightly quoted or summarized from in his post (including what you quoted). It really is an impressively ma
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Your comment inspired me to do a little reading, since this is an interesting idea (and maybe represents an opportunity in the supply chain... maybe what we need is better/newer technology for long-term storage of grains/flour&#x2
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Oh, the vast majority of students definitely are well aware. His classes are in high demand and regularly fill up quickly and spill into wait-lists, come registration time. It's been about a decade since I attended, but IME I felt ther
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by strgcmc 6y ago
You're in for quite a treat then. It sounds like you might have more of an interest in his technical work and scientific contributions and teaching materials (of which there is plenty, and of high quality), but personally I quite enjo
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by strgcmc 6y ago
You're in luck my friend, the Wikipedia article does a rather nice job of describing just this "paradox": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox > In physics, the twin paradox is a thought experim
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by strgcmc 6y ago
More likely this is a version of the "Eternal September" problem. Early adopters of Airbnb were more likely to be "true believers" of the idealized vision of a kind/generous host matched with adventurous/courte
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by strgcmc 6y ago
If we can make 2 billion people 10x richer than they are today, market/economic growth is not necessarily capped at 10x. Systems don't have to be linear. As a contrived example, I would imagine that folks living on $2/day pr
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by strgcmc 6y ago
Surely folks on HN understand that, if it was economically feasible to compete on this, then locally sourced flower start-ups would've already become a thing? Yes shipping and storage seem wasteful, but there are economies of scale inv
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by strgcmc 7y ago
As a slightly different kind of counter-example, see this recent post about "hard problems": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425745 IMO, UBI can actually encourage innovation and productive work, on "h
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by strgcmc 7y ago
I think to most reasonable readers of your text, the "it" that you reference multiple times isn't particularly clear (do you mean: it = the trend, it = the project, it = the maintainers?), and also you literally said it &quot
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by strgcmc 7y ago
I swear I'm not just meme-ing for the sake of it, but this has always seemed like fundamentally a decentralized trust problem, and one that can potentially be solved by some form of social blockchain. Basically, instead of an economic
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by strgcmc 7y ago
A potential poker analogy is probably just getting lost in leveling games. Level 0: My opponent made a large bet because he has a strong hand. I should fold. Level 1: My opponent made a large bet because he knows that I will think it looks
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by strgcmc 7y ago
Here is an NPR article [1] summarizing US-Russia relations during the GWB era, and describing GWB's attacks during his first campaign, on Bill Clinton for being too chummy with Russia... I think it would be fair to say this represented
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by strgcmc 7y ago
You may or may not be aware, the parent comment you're replying to, is a reference to a certain President's (idiotic, unhelpful, and uninformed) tweet at the time. Thanks for providing a real explanation though.
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by strgcmc 8y ago
Sergey Aleynikov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
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by strgcmc 8y ago
The existing Social Security program costs nearly $1 trillion dollars per year already (okay $900 billion ish) [1]. Sure, Social Security is not like a perfect, shining example, but it can be fixed/improved, and scaling it up by 10x (w
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by strgcmc 8y ago
I agree with your main points, but I think it's worth pointing out that even things like 2 + 2 = 4 and X + Y cows in fields A and B, all rest on certain definitions and sets of deductions, many of which go back down to basic axioms whi
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by strgcmc 8y ago
Just curious, if you're dissatisfied with NYC and the ~5 established funds you've experienced, have you expanded your search parameters a bit? Meaning, looking around in a bit wider regional area, or looking at little-less-establ
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by strgcmc 9y ago
This is actually a really great analogy for not the reason you're thinking, because of the fairly common incidence of car accidents. Sure, the surface of the earth is not crowded due to the volume of cars. But that doesn't mean th
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by strgcmc 9y ago
Because that existing "online market place for funds" is gibberish to most retail customers. You go to Amazon, you type in "best AA batteries", and what you get back is not a raw list of battery serial numbers or technic
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by strgcmc 9y ago
This makes very little sense. If you are willing to work 90 hrs/wk for $10k salary, why not take a regular 40 hr/wk job for $10k salary (or more even, why limit yourself?), and spend the other 50 hours doing whatever you were goin
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by strgcmc 9y ago
Where's the logic in this? - I don't understand thing ABC, therefore I won't form an opinion on it (true fact, by his own admission... conservative and reasonable). - Thing XYZ is generally acknowledged to be more complex and
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by strgcmc 9y ago
> Of course it's not for everyone but that's not a reason to vilify it. Knitting is not for everyone, but by choosing not to be a knitter, I'm generally not missing out on social/career advancement opportunities (e.g.
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by strgcmc 9y ago
Chiming in with some 2011-2012 perspective for you, which is kinda-but-not-really-all-that-early. IMO you are wildly overblowing the "success" and apparent foreknowledge of early miners (i.e. you're displaying classic result
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by strgcmc 9y ago
As a HYP alum (don't want to be more specific than that), this jives with my own experiences, both at college and in high school (where some students kept their heads down and worked for their grades, and others worked but also had the

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