thraway2016

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by thraway2016 10y ago
In the US, the meal ticket typically only lasts 18 years, not a lifetime.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
> Knowledge of algorithms and data structure is attainable by anyone willing to put in the time to read a book Cognitive limits do exist. Hardwired g-factor correlates like working memory will ultimately limit any one individual's
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by thraway2016 10y ago
> But what excuse does the tech community have... You may be confused due to the name of this site. "Hacker News" is not, nor has it been for a very long time, by and for hackers. The success of YC has turned this site, and t
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by thraway2016 10y ago
They're not even remotely comparable. Tangential speed x where r=several thousand light years results in SUBSTANTIALLY less centripetal acceleration than the same tangential speed where r=a few AU.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
This sounds like a great solution for the 99% of mobile phone users who don't even know what NVRAM means.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Any guesses on why CNN and MSNBC are completely avoiding reporting this news?
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by thraway2016 10y ago
tptacek != moxie
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Thanks for this. It has suddenly shot up to position #1, possibly due to resolution of reasons you cite.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
The infosec community has this insane conspiracy theory that Assange is owned by Putin.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
This is a blank white page in Chromium. No JS errors in the console. When switching from this tab to another tab and back again, the contents of the prior tab are partially clipped into a top-centered rectangle. No functionality or other be
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by thraway2016 10y ago
EDIT: This post is no longer relevant. Meta: 351 points in < 2 hours and it's bouncing between #10 and #16. Conclusion: HN is flagging this fairly aggressively. Question: Why? This is not overtly political, and it is definitely in t
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Because as much as HN praises the notion of passive income streams, widespread parasitism by monopolistic and unproductive sectors of the economy are an anchor on the broader, actually-productive economy. The payment card industry is a para
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Cash isn't really anonymous either. Serial numbers make it traceable, albeit with large time granularity. All banks and many large retailers track deposits and payments by serial number. That plus CCTV and cell tower data will usually
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Something doesn't pass the smell test. Over two hours to reboot the index hosts?
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by thraway2016 10y ago
The only appropriate comment is that this issue is affecting all of our buckets, both in us-west and us-east. Replicating to another region would yield no useful benefits in this specific failure scenario.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
There are many answers to this question, that have been rehashed elsewhere. Everything from citizens having more vested interest (skin in the game) in the future of their lands than noncitizens, to the protection of shared cultural heritage
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by thraway2016 10y ago
> Immigrants are self selecting people who want to have a better life. Being a developer/scientist/entrepreneur whose primary exposure to immigrants is of high-IQ, high-agency, personable people similar to ourselves, it's
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by thraway2016 10y ago
No, because "detrimental" is also a subjective judgement depending on whether one is a utilitarian, consequentialist, etc. One man's heaven is another man's hell. There is no objectively correct political position, so es
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by thraway2016 10y ago
> Hopefully this will get more Americans politically active at the very least FWIW, many of us became politically active for the first time in our lives specifically because of the candidacy of DJT and the promises he made to deal with
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Why should people be marginalized for their political opinions?
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by thraway2016 10y ago
It has nothing to do with "better". It has to do with policy. Predicating policy (e.g. education, criminal justice, employment) on fundamentally wrong and unscientific assumptions about people's capabilities inevitably leads
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Interesting. On the Right, we see the same thing with your side. Total blind faith in blank slate theories of human equality, and uninterested in the piles of twin studies and metastudies that clearly demonstrate innate differences between
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Twitter has been good in the past. After the election, it was still mostly ok. But since the inauguration, it's a completely different story. One example close to the heart of HN: following tptacek/tqbf for crypto/business&#x
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by thraway2016 10y ago
I am consistently baffled how a political party can make so many decisions that are objectively wrong and still garner support of roughly 50% of the population. Same way that "the other side" went from a staunch antiwar position
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by thraway2016 10y ago
He has never claimed any such thing. He is a bit of a civic nationalist, at the absolute most.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
Milo is not a white supremacist.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
The HuffPo staff is not 95% white, by any stretch of imagination or categorization. Only if Ashkenazi are a subset of "white".
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by thraway2016 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from as it assumes the exponential function will stop working in the near future. I'm coming from the perspective that there is neither a short term nor long term plan to address
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by thraway2016 10y ago
...the SSTF holds exclusively US Treasury notes and bonds as assets. You're describing a distinction without a difference, as other parts of the USG have already spent the surplus.
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by thraway2016 10y ago
I'm not sure if "crash" is the problem. Crashes happen in markets, it's part of the business cycle. OP is discussing a 30+ year time horizon, though. I can think of a few potential things that would precipitate not just

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