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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Do you also like the idea of ad-free net that is controlled by megacorps, because only large entities will be able to monetize their content in ways that are not ad supported?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Do you also consider HN voting and flagging system to be nothing more than instruments of persuasion and control?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Yes, these people are trying to sell you their version of knowledge about neuroscience (nothing negative about that). There are too many online courses now and course creators have to compete for student's time and attention. And this
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
There is no such thing as "investor class". Also there is no collective "they" who comment on the economy, planned or not. It is not possible to generalize all or majority of investors into one box.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
This phrase should be put down with a shot in a back of its metaphorical head. Whisper Systems, TOR, tox are free. Should we apply the same principle to those products? (I am not defending this shady VPN service)
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>Society as a majority, at some point, wanted these drugs illegal. Can it be said that a heterogenous network of entities "wants" something if some particular clusters of entities inside the network are able to influence its co
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Facebook engineers are elite. Earning six figure salary, FB perks, CA public infrastructure, weather and other factors combined create a very high quality of life. While I think that engineer wages should increase at the expense of corporat
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Good. Intelligent and educated people should be actively intolerant of religion, superstition and ignorance. No respect should be offered to irrational, unfounded, faith-based beliefs.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Come on, really? Trying to portrait this as something sex related and partisan, really? I am from nowhere near the U.S. and consider D/R pretty much the same and I immediatly switched from Dropbox and stopped recommending it to anyone.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Wealth hoarding is mostly a hyperprophied survival instinct. The rational person would optimize for happiness, not wealth. The connection between those is not linear, see: http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/0
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I agree with you in general, but you are not winning any loyalties to your idea with this attitude. Shaming a person and accusing of snobbery is a bad way to drive your point across. When I debate the social good aspect of entrepreneurship
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Humans are prone to generalisation, reducing complex objects or states to several numeric parameters is extremely useful. Full of errors and generalization errors, but nevertheless usefull. Humanity will just have to build more complex mode
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Look, you should dance with Google, not fight it. If your domain(sic!) was pessimized, you just upgrade your site, rewrite content, add more data and images and create a new domain. Then you concentrate on promoting your new website.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Startup founders surely do have the luxury to choose who to take money from. Really. Startup is a high-risk project, most people who take high risks have some sort of acquired resources and/or social support. Also most of startup found
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
"Marketing people" is one of the most egregious generalization errors on HN. It's certainly in vogue to hate on marketers but it is not an identity, marketer is a hat that people wear. Just stop.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
That's an interesting thought for sure. But consider that with an advent of golang, node.js and other faster (compared to python and ruby) languages/frameworks coupled with microservices architecture most (maybe 80%) startups will
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Heroku PaaS itself is proprietary. Their dashboard, monitoring and other tools are proprietary. PaaS services based on open source PaaS solutions (Deis + Docker, Flynn + Docker) and proprietary PaaS solutions ( Tutum + Docker, for example)
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Okay, but what is the Heroku's endgame here? Their dynos are way overpriced and migrating from Heroku to Docker infrastructure(or other PaaS/IaaS combination) on the scaling stage of startup lifecycle could save $x0 000 and $x00 0
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Yes, your arguments are convincing. However, Orchardup was acquihired by Docker itself and I am sure they are planning to provide container hosting. Tutum has just raised about $2M and are in the process of going gold with their service. Ye
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Though I used Heroku in the past and enjoyed the seamless(mostly) experience, I am in the process of moving my infrastructure to docker containers. I dislike the proprietary nature of Heroku platform and I am betting on Docker + Flynn/
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
No, I meant what I've written. If 6 months was an "amazing" deal, then 9 months or a year would be good a good deal and I absolutely disagree with that.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Wow, I am extremely surprised to see such attitude from a friend of Aaron. Amazing deal? Really? Do you think that serving 6 months or more for his "crimes" is justice?
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Uber doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. I don't care if you or anyone are a socialist, a capitalist or a subscriber of other garden variety ideology. Either you act on strategy that sustainably benefits the poor and the
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
>And they better start soon. Unless there is a path to obtaining material comfort outside of a free-market economy, the only people with comfortable lives will be those who start their lives with capital, those who win the genetic lotter
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
And that changes exactly what? Yes, most people whose jobs will be automated think they are safe. However, it is very likely that automation of jobs is a Nash equilibrium outcome and fighting against it without global consensus is useless.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
In cases like this, unions would be creating negative externalities for the society, while supporting outdated technology. It is not sustainable, the cause is lost. The best way forward would be reeducation and training of professional driv
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I have an intuitive understanding that these "socialist" publications about the danger and perils of sharing economy are absolutely useless. Either developed countries implement some variation of basic income or the social order w
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I would recommend you to stop making such sweeping generalizations about "CS crowd" and educate yourself on deontological vs consequentialist ethics debate. Yes, religions are firmly in the deontological camp and it showed during
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
Not really :( I've heard some good things about Metro 2033 by Gluhovskiy, a post-apocalyptic novel about survivors living in Moscow underground train system after the nuclear war in 2013, but haven't read it myself.
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by vdaniuk 12y ago
I am from xUSSR and happy to recommend Strugatsky brothers. Their sci-fi books are deep, thoughtful and authentic.

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