tedks

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by tedks 11y ago
Probably entrail reading, which is more applicable to the games industry than divination. That, and the 30 years of console sales patterns to draw on.
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by tedks 11y ago
And yet the USA is the richest country in the world, with a culture steadily dominating and extinguishing all other cultures. There is a McDonald's in Red Square right now. You don't make an omelet without enslaving some chickens
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by tedks 11y ago
>John Oliver's team interviewed numerous passers by in Times Square in New York Emphasis mine.
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by tedks 11y ago
If you can't provide enough value to society that you can spare a few tens of thousands of dollars to cure yourself, are you really worth the cost of developing these drugs, testing them, training doctors, etc.? All of this over-regula
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by tedks 11y ago
It used to be that extreme groups kept to themselves and were pretty quickly ostracized because of their extremism. Most people in San Diego wouldn't join Heaven's Gate, and the group wouldn't be able to spread very far becau
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by tedks 11y ago
Don't conflate NLP with pop psychology. Willpower or The Marshmallow Effect or even Thinking, Fast and Slow are pop psychology. NLP is overt psuedoscience that has never had any basis in fact.
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by tedks 11y ago
Reading Moxie's early stories it is indeed no mystery where his politics lie, and it's certainly not "old-school communist."
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by tedks 11y ago
He's schizophrenic. Sometimes he has something useful to add, because he's a talented hacker who's one of the few people in the world to have written an entire OS stack from scratch. Sometimes his disease writes the comments.
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by tedks 11y ago
Why do you think chewing is healthy at all? It allows organic matter to get into your teeth and physically wears them down. This is a hard question to google, because you get chewing tobacco and gum chewing results, but can you provide any
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by tedks 11y ago
Likewise, in aggregate, being raised with a single-minded focus on chess is probably not necessary or sufficient for being successful on the scale of the article. Certainly most attempts to breed prodigies fail. Using a financial metric as
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by tedks 11y ago
I have never found frozen vegetables to have any taste other than the faint suggestion of their natural taste in a sea of mushy blandness. When I was on a DIY blend and mixed batches of powder weekly, it took 20-30 minutes (depending how mu
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by tedks 11y ago
>Its interesting that Polgar felt Chess was the ultimate expression of intelligence, why not mathematics? Or language? Says so in the article. Chess has a unified global ranking scheme so you can objectively measure your success in chess
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by tedks 11y ago
Why not just soylent, at that point? Eating tasteless frozen vegetables and starchy beans and rice, again and again day after day, sounds like hell to me. Eating is so effortful compared to soylent -- it's revolting to me how much chew
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by tedks 11y ago
Do you support banning alcohol?
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by tedks 11y ago
> That's not my job, nor did I remove anything. Potato potato, as they say. >that was not only both of those things but cartoonishly so, probably takes the cake for this thread. I think you're misreading the comment parent,
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by tedks 11y ago
In my experience these are usually just for the author to spam you. Remember that RSS is dead. In its place, we have spam.
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by tedks 11y ago
>It's misogynist to assume that her relationship with PG somehow makes her achievement lesser. One does not assume that of PG, hence it's a double standard. You're assuming (despite having just read an essay by PG to the c
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by tedks 11y ago
That's the narrative. This is the real misogyny: >And she does it all behind the scenes while being kind and compassionate. So: 1. Women should fuck men. 2. Women should stay behind the scenes. 3. Women should be "kind and comp
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by tedks 11y ago
This assumes there is some incentive for terrorists to attack big cities. It could be strategically valuable for terrorists to just randomly attack tiny villages, where the response time for emergency services equipped to deal with heavily-
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by tedks 11y ago
Doing a rewrite seems to me to always result in a cleaner codebase faster than the incremental refactoring. That said, GCC today is a lot easier to interop with than the GCC of pre-LLVM times. But, no amount of technical merit can save you
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by tedks 11y ago
Well, I suppose it's your job to defend YC and remove anything that reflects badly on them on this particular social media platform, but I'll just have to say that I found pg's essay very patronizing and misogynistic. It did
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GCC has had an open-source Fortran compiler front-end since always. The only possible reason for Nvidia to do this is because they want to have proprietary compiler addons someday. Remember that this was a predictable outcome when you'
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by tedks 11y ago
Yes, I think the comment-parents point is that it doesn't really speak well of YC, and so doesn't really address any injustice.`
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by tedks 11y ago
1. You are factually wrong in saying that Stallman demonizes software released under permissive free licenses, and factually wrong in saying that Stallman proselytizes against their use. I will not link you to any of the numerous examples o
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by tedks 11y ago
Stallman in fact is quite a centrist and a pragmatist. The problem is that the software freedom landscape is so incredibly shifted towards the non-free end of the spectrum that he appears to be a radical. We can easily conceive of a radical
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by tedks 11y ago
I remember that summer. Such a beautiful and simple time for bitcoin. I frantically unloaded the bitcoins I bought at $8 when the price crashed from $30 at around $15/coin, withdrawing my entire initial investment and feeling bummed ab
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by tedks 11y ago
As mentioned by nickff upthread: > If you read the commission's charter broadly enough, and without regard to either the original understanding or the original intent, you come to all kinds of absurd conclusions. From the text you p
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>But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument. It should give no weight at all to this argument. Arguing from metaphor is flawed to begin with, because the correctness metric is not
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>So that excuses it, right? Did I say that, `zer0defex`? >When a bunch of people that don't matter do it, you're right, I don't give a shit. Why not? Do you think that local government and other public servants should b
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This should be required reading for aspiring cyberpunks. Assange is an archetypical agent of 5th-generation warfare, and Wikileaks is a perfect example of a Robbian superempowered group: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/g

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