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by terryf 10y ago
Governments indeed have the requirement to use the least costly bid. I wonder if that's actually part of the problem. Although, I really don't know how to make the rules better. Anyway, from personal, anecdotal experience, I have
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by terryf 10y ago
I like the freedom that monetary success gives. I've seen it briefly and it was freaking awesome. The only reason it gives that freedom though is derived from inequality. The world is an extremely complex system and complex systems hav
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by terryf 10y ago
Sorry for the long time to reply, this is one of the best conversations I've had on HN yet. It's always fascinating to talk to someone with a radically different opinion on things! Thank you for that! Your argument seems to be tha
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by terryf 10y ago
I can vote, just as everyone else :) So, the problem here is that I don't understand why you think Jeff Bezos is a "leech" exactly. The guy built a business and became very successful. What the heck is wrong with that? I&#x27
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by terryf 10y ago
Good luck trying, you're not getting it :)
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by terryf 10y ago
ok, so what exactly has Jeff done wrong or what he should do differently?
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by terryf 10y ago
What difference is there between 1000x and 1,000,000x ? Should there be a cap somewhere? I just completely fail to see how this is anything other than being jealous of someone elses's success. Please do explain.
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by terryf 10y ago
I beg to differ. Here are a few examples that you might have heard of: ESRI Oracle
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by terryf 10y ago
Part of being effective is leveraging your abilities via managing other people. An effective manager can make 10 people each perform 10x more effectively when working towards a goal. You could argue then that one person's effectiveness
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by terryf 10y ago
So where's the line? I was born and grew up under an actual communist rule. It was terrible. Also, it didn't really work due to fundamental human nature. What human nature you ask? Well, mine for example. I'm working my ass o
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by terryf 10y ago
Yes, 100% yes - I now only shop at the supermarket that gives you scanners. The system is genius, works like this: - swipe loyalty card, get a hand-held scanner - walk around the shop, scan items as you put them in your bag - when w
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by terryf 10y ago
> Whatever goals the AI has, it will certainly be better at achieving them if it can stay alive. And it will be more likely to stay alive if there are no humans around to interfere. This is a sequence of deductive reasoning that you brou
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by terryf 10y ago
> tell me which people you know, in which industries, have outright 'lost their jobs' due to some AI or machine? I have literally seen a room full of people that lost their jobs because of software I wrote (admittedly, not alon
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by terryf 10y ago
Well, I'm 38 now and can say with confidence, that during most of my 20s I was a naive idiot that could not see the forest for the trees. So, in my case, yes, I do have superior judgement in my 30s.
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by terryf 10y ago
How are they not accurate? I'm watching a movie (a fairly common thing to do, I'd say) - the movie has 45 minutes left. I check the battery indicator if I can finish it or do I need to go get the charger. If it's telling me I
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by terryf 10y ago
I've quite often used it to check if I can finish the movie I'm watching for example or if I have enough battery to finish writing something during the flight and so on. I'd say especially for the movie case, it's surpri
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by terryf 10y ago
The first part of your comment sounds really odd to me. I definitely write tests to check if my code works, among other things. Why do you think that is the wrong approach?
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by terryf 10y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with latency really. It's about predictability. Given the system you described, there are so many edge cases that can potentially compound, that it is impossible to make any predictability guarante
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by terryf 10y ago
I wonder if the speculatively executed instructions that are not used are still counted as a part of the instructions/cycle number? Definitely interesting results though.
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by terryf 10y ago
I've been doing software development professionally for the last 20 years now. I used to build my own pc's and installed linux and had fun compiling the kernel and so on. After about 10 years of that I started to find it annoying.
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by terryf 10y ago
See, these are exactly the kind of questions that will not get you ay enterprise sales ;) /sarcasm
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by terryf 10y ago
As also an IT person, I agree! :) Frankly what you describe is exactly why I started building real things as a hobby.
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by terryf 10y ago
'tis a fair point, thanks.
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by terryf 10y ago
Yeah, I know that feeling - it is hard to get past it when it happens and it certainly takes a while for me every time it happens. This is certainly not a universal cure, but for me the ideas presented in this ted talk have helped: https:&
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by terryf 10y ago
- finite: Infinity is weird. It's very hard to make arguments that hold when infinite resources are in the picture. Finite also includes the time dimension. If you have infinite time and/or space, intrinsic meaning may be possib
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by terryf 10y ago
In a finite physical universe, nothing has intrinsic meaning. The only meaning anything has, is the meaning that you attribute to that thing. Thus, anything that is meaningful to you, is the most meaningful thing in the universe. No goal is
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by terryf 10y ago
TL;DR: Finding the correct path to take in life, is the correct path to take. Cleverly self-referential, yet not impossible. Succint.
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by terryf 10y ago
Sooo, the title says that The world can transition and then the web page presents a map of the US to click on. Nice. This reminds me of being on a tour in an old salt mill in Italy and at one point the guide asking some people where they
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by terryf 10y ago
You are being very rational and there is little to flaw without argument in that context. Unfortunately (or maybe not), the world (and the organic chemistry that you are made of) is not a collection of rational entities. It is extremely har
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by terryf 10y ago
I specifically excluded defending your own country and/or home. Everyone certainly should be allowed to that. My point is - we as a society should be actively distilling in everyone the reverse of the results of the stanford prison stu

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