tw1010

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by tw1010 9y ago
Please don't make HN into Reddit.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Just like there is a social system in place to sift fact from rumors (via watercooler chatter, snopes, networks of trust), at least to a degree where society doesn't collapse into chaos, in the same way will we be able dampen any damag
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by tw1010 9y ago
On an individual level, of course. But wishing that people would "just get it", or letting it affect you emotionally in any way, is a losing battle since the bigger picture social behaviour won't change unless the incentives
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by tw1010 9y ago
People won't change unless the incentive structure (monetary or in the shape of social pressure) is in place to make them want to do it.
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by tw1010 9y ago
"on average" could be added to the headline. There will always be outliers.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I think bias is making you more unfair than you need to be.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Amazing what innovations naturally spring out from nothing once the incentives are in place.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Think about extreme points of the tradeoff curve between these variables, and you've got yourself an insight!
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by tw1010 9y ago
There aught to be a name to the tendency that as tools get better and better, the more your time goes from having your mind in technical-space to social and news-space. It's like the authority to create goes from the individual first-p
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by tw1010 9y ago
I wish this didn't force us to use pre-existing lego pieces by abstracting away the math. So so so many cool things could be built in the computer vision sphere if engineers weren't afraid to go a level deeper, ignoring all the op
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by tw1010 9y ago
And the incentive/risk tradeoff is too much in favour of the former for optimistic entrepreneurs to ever think they'll be affected by something like this.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Why is it that we get so affected by symbolism like that? Is it just because telling stories is such a big part of our culture, or is it something deeper, more physiological than that? Does anyone know of a good book that can shine more lig
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by tw1010 9y ago
A more neutral candidate could be just: "Is It Legal to Swap Someone’s Face into Porn?" (It delivers the same information since it wouldn't be a legal question if all participants agreed to the act.)
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by tw1010 9y ago
It is definitely not a grammatically incorrect use of the word. I have nothing against it per se. But the word is almost exclusively associated to negative emotional content, and that fact primes the reader to feel a certain way about the i
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by tw1010 9y ago
"Consent" is starting to become a really loaded word. It doesn't seem journalistically honest to start a conversation and use non-neutral language in the headline to frame the tone of the discussion.
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is the reason introducing mandatory programming in high school will likely cause more harm than good to the reputation of the field. (Don't judge a field of study by how it is taught.)
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by tw1010 9y ago
How to measure this is itself a philosophical question.
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by tw1010 9y ago
That's not how economics works.
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by tw1010 9y ago
So there is a way to figure out who is downloading what on IPFS? (At least assuming that you have assets comparable to national governments.)
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by tw1010 9y ago
A positive addition, sure. But when accounting for opportunity cost (not getting a degree in something more valuable) then I think the balance shifts in favour of graduating in something else.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Naive question: if data on IPFS is permanent, meaning it's hard or impossible to remove things from it, what mechanisms, if any, exists to prevent unlawful content from being uploaded to it?
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by tw1010 9y ago
Grandiose visions and inspiring words doesn't change the fact that users don't care how the backend is implemented.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Like, did we ever get this much math on a regular basis back a few years ago on HN? It's exciting to see how math is seeping into engineering culture.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I was trying to be cute and incorporate real universal statements into my sentence by suggesting that even "All Universal Statements Are Exaggerated Statements" itself is exaggerated ;)
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by tw1010 9y ago
I have a hard time imagining any other conclusion than that a person who genuinely, confidently, takes the whole "post-fact" idea seriously is someone who doesn't think enough about the things that are coming out of their mou
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by tw1010 9y ago
All Universal Statements Are Exaggerated Statements
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by tw1010 9y ago
I'm neutral on the particulars of this venture (it's probably positive). But how can anyone argue that the market is efficient when it is possible for companies that "is free from profit-making incentives" to exist? Just
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by tw1010 9y ago
Awesome, I'd love it if you could help Coinbase resolve poor OPs problem swiftly and economically with the warm friendly response of a robotic rejection.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I agree. I was mostly addressing your argument that the output of each field (engineering vs math) is a good marker of ability to innovate (which needn't be true because of their relative population size).
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by tw1010 9y ago
I suspect you're being sarcastic. As a species, engineers are currently way more successful than pure mathematicians because of their higher "frequency dependent fitness" (to use terminology from biology), meaning that becaus

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