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by visakanv 13y ago
This is going to be interesting to watch. I wish him well.
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I once built a community on Facebook titled "\(n_n)/". The idea was to have thoughtful, philosophical discussions, but I didn't want to name it "Philosophy Group" or whatever because that sounded pretentious. W
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Are you alright? I ask this because- in my personal experience, I've found that people who use the phrase "no one really cares" tend to be deeply frustrated or bothered about something. Are you feeling powerless about somethi
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Summary: Premature optimization bad, iterative development good
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Yup. You're selling profits/revenue/cost - savings at a discount. In this case, a 90% discount.
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The thing is, just because you or I don't see how something is offensive doesn't mean that it isn't. A phrase like "real injustice" is our way of subtly saying "we get to define what injustice is, you don'
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"has made us all a despicable group of hedonistic thrill seekers." This has been a problem since the Roman times if not earlier- people focused on the games raher than the politics. Humans have been hedonistic thrill seekers prett
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This was the quote that really resonated with me: "You know, it's funny. For all Feynman's independence, he was surprisingly diligent. I remember once he was preparing some fairly minor conference talk. He was quite concerned
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Cool. Congratulations to the team!
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"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee
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I think the last individual who might've been in a somewhat similar position was Daniel Ellsberg, for releasing the Pentagon Papers. "For his disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was initially charged with conspiracy, espio
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This implies a very straightforward "either the NYT is the POTUS's bitch, or it is independent" situation. I think there's a win-win outcome to be had, from the NYT's perspective, where the NYT prides itself on bein
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As a general rule, I think the press doesn't push itself very hard- it largely does whatever it has to do to sell papers (or equivalent). Here's what I think: Intelligent commentary on difficult issues emerges into popular conscio
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Hm. So you're saying that the distinction betwen "intellectual arguments" and "psuedo-intellectual arguments" is the experience and/or training of the arguer? Isn't it possible for an experienced, trained
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I hope to write at least 300,000 words. Everything else kinda stems from that, or is contingent on that. (I'll need to sleep better, etc.)
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I have a problem with the term "pseudo-intellectual". What's an intellectual, and what's a psuedo-intellectual? Please define your terms.
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This is consistent with my anecdotal experience. I sleep a lot more when I'm angry, frustrated and overwhelmed. It's a vicious cycle. It's pretty cruel. The inverse is also true: I'm alert and chirpy when I'm "
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Boz: A defense of iterative development [2009](facebook.com)
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I would posit that nature is incredibly violent, and humans as a subset of nature are incredibly violent too, yet "technology" (in the loosest sense- rule of law, trade, etc) has allowed us to be remarkably less violent than our a
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And consider how even Tesla started with the Roadster, and then the Model S- targeted at small demographics. Consider how SpaceX is working on reusability of rockets. They might be "thinking big", but they're also "worki
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I'll speak using my experience as a musician and a writer. "Songs about life" have a huge audience. "Hillbilly flamenco" has a relatively smaller audience. Yet it's much, much harder to be successful as "t
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"I'm pretty sure that, given those instructions, young Boz would build a social network and make it immediately available to everyone. It would obviously seem like a mistake to him to limit membership to a small subset of the popu
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Sleep earlier. Started yesterday, midnight instead of 3am. Plan to at least hit 11pm every pre-workday of January.
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[–]DaCrazyKoala 2 points 7 hours ago Could you talk about the data gathering practices of private companies? [–]navaseminternetu[S] 3 points 7 hours ago One company in the valley had a cluster with multiple petabytes of raw live user data t
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"IamA Hacker for the Government(s) AMAA" [verified](reddit.com)
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> Americans you are lost. It's been nice knowing you. I think this sentiment has been expressed since the 1800s. Same criticism applied to Rome... and all human civilization, really. We are a lost species, it would seem.
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I don't see it as "whining" as much as a reminder of the "what we see is all there is" bias. We may never know what's being hidden from us, but it's worth remembering that we can be near-certain of the exi
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I think you misinterpreted the comment. It's arguing that now would be the optimal time for terrorists to strike, validating the NSA.
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True. Which might suggest that "the terrorists" aren't nearly the perfect, rational villains we paint them out to be.
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by visakanv 13y ago
That really sounds like a lot to ask of one person!

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