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by ves 8y ago
Oooh that’s real nice. I use a lot of those themes in fiction I write / blueprint (probing the limits of understanding, the interpretation of legacy by the inadequate living, etc)
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by ves 8y ago
You should read the short story “Glacial” in “Galactic North” by Alastair Reynolds.
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by ves 8y ago
Providing enough liquidity at scale is hard without the public market.
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by ves 8y ago
“normal” might be a strong word when the society in question is the largest single one on the planet. That’s not to say I agree with, or want to normalize, the Chinese government’s actions, though.
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by ves 8y ago
this is the last place I expected a viper plug.
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by ves 8y ago
Wait that’s why you use the median
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by ves 8y ago
> All I remember now is that it was perfect for it. Always hate it when that happens. The bad part isn’t forgetting — it’s remembering that you’ve forgotten.
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by ves 8y ago
I write them down. Now for the bit nobody will care about: If the thought’s really worth it, I will get up, find a notebook, and spend quite a lot of time transcribing it. I’ve actually gotten pretty good at writing blind because a particul
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by ves 8y ago
mind linking your website? I’d like to see it, and there’s nothing suggestive in your bio.
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by ves 8y ago
The first post on /biz was “I remember when this board wasn’t shit”
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by ves 8y ago
We can just cut straight to “why is function composition backwards?”
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by ves 8y ago
You cannot develop perfect pitch as an adult (really some time around six - eight years of age seems to be the cutoff). You can develop really good relative pitch at any point though, which is still tremendously valuable.
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by ves 8y ago
What do you think of cigarettes and other tobacco products?
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by ves 9y ago
I’m going to guess that it starts with an “m” and ends with an “oney laundering”
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by ves 9y ago
We have a library called `mtl` that addresses both abstracting over specific monads in order to achieve polymorphism and do all the `lift`ing ahead of time. You should find some reading material on it, it’s really quite a nice solution! I’m
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by ves 9y ago
It’s like a customer-acquisition cost shouldered by the company, and presumably an option available to all companies. Zero-metering or other things being discussed privilege a fixed, arbitrary list of companies/websites, which is why t
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by ves 9y ago
You’re right; I phrased that poorly. What I intended was “the value derives from a proof that an amount of work was done, independent of the hard problem that necessitated the work or the resources expended to solve the problem.” The value
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by ves 9y ago
It’s just proof that you didn’t forge a scarce commodity. The value isn’t related to the wasted electricity, but the hard problem the electricity was used to solve. Love it or hate it, it makes sense.
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by ves 9y ago
I assume OP means atomic in the “indivisible” sense, and so it doesn’t make sense to search for or listen to specific songs, etc, not in the “compositional” sense.
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by ves 9y ago
You should disclose that you work for Airbnb. (No accusation here)
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by ves 9y ago
That state is a local minimum; “zero sales” is a sufficient but not necessary condition, taken with “zero inventory,” which is necessary but not sufficient.
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by ves 9y ago
I mean presumably if you’re “tricking the arb bots” you’ve just found some additional arb of your own, which should make the market more efficient, and apparently in this case (I don’t know if this is correct, but this is the claim made by
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by ves 9y ago
“Good” startups are definitely much harder to recruit for than big4 — there’s a lot of variance in startup engineering quality.
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by ves 9y ago
MBB meaning McKinsey, Bain, and BCG, the Big Three of consulting.
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by ves 9y ago
I assume you mean "really short" and "really long," respectively.
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by ves 9y ago
The typical way to do multiple instances for a given type is with trivial newtype wrappers for each instance. See the "Sum" and "Product" monoid instances (although these wrappers are also necessary for instance decidabi
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by ves 9y ago
+1000 this is what I use and it's amazing.
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by ves 9y ago
serious people map caps lock to escape! Seriously though, using the corner esc key to get into normal mode sucked anyway.
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by ves 9y ago
We use pandas as a last-mile library for offline exploration. Typically, datasets have been sampled or aggregated enough that they can fit inside 10gb so you can work with them comfortably using pandas. I don't like using pandas in pro
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by ves 9y ago
Yeah there are no acks. It sucks.

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