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by wskinner 6y ago
> At the end of the day health officials, like the UCSF prof quoted here, just want people to be safe and healthy. If only it were so simple. Publicizing private data is a one-way operation that has longer term effects on safety and heal
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Ask HN: Where would the original bitcoin discussion take place in 2020?
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by wskinner 6y ago
It's easy to accidentally waste a lot of money on AWS. My company cut our costs from ~20k/month to ~6.5k/month with no degradation of UX or dev velocity. It was all due to unnecessary redundant builds and integration tests an
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The Paradox of Libertarianism (2007)(cato-unbound.org)
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by wskinner 7y ago
The article you shared directly contradicts your claim. > N95 masks fulfill the filtering efficiency criteria of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and are approved for protection against droplet and airbor
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Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash(alexdanco.com)
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The Tale of the Slave(fee.org)
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by wskinner 7y ago
The difference is that the natural state of the corporation is to go extinct. Governments have so much inertia that it often takes a literal revolution to replace them. Bad externalities are the downside to dictatorships. The externalities
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by wskinner 7y ago
> “The census’ annual American Communities Survey defines a home as vacant if there is either no occupant or a temporary occupant—temporary meaning “people who will be there for two months or less.” I wonder why they didn’t mention one s
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by wskinner 7y ago
Which could be considered a reason to use Kotlin instead. Scala is a more powerful footgun. You pay for the power in overengineered code, slow compile times, and worse compatibility with other JVM languages.
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by wskinner 7y ago
The confusion is probably coming from your idea of “risk”. When people say stocks are risky they mean their prices have higher variance. But they also have higher long term growth rates. If you’re young, you have more years left until you w
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by wskinner 7y ago
This argument applies to any messenger app that claims e2e encryption. You could build signal from source. But how much do you trust your compiler?
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by wskinner 7y ago
What are your two favorite examples that illustrate this pattern?
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by wskinner 7y ago
This argument resembles Pascal’s Wager in the contradictory assumptions it makes about the beings running the simulation. Perhaps the forthcoming paper will resolve the issue. For those interested in exploring what it would mean to live a s
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by wskinner 7y ago
The people in power today aren’t the people in power tomorrow. Even if you trust those in power today, do you trust the next 10 administrations to have sufficient restraint not to abuse their power?
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by wskinner 7y ago
In your opinion, what would have been the positive effects of breaking up Microsoft? Other browsers would have beaten explorer more quickly than they did? Something else?
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by wskinner 7y ago
This seems somewhat unfair. According to a summary of the relevant research [1], the actual effects of phytoestrogens in humans are not fully understood, and may be different for Asians and non-Asians. Calling it right-wing pseudoscience is
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by wskinner 7y ago
That line is standard in S-1s. [1] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-standard-to-say-you-may-never-ac...
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by wskinner 7y ago
The article is behind a paywall. By reloading the page and hitting escape before it fully reloads, you can still access the full text.
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The wave of unicorn IPOs(economist.com)
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by wskinner 8y ago
I think most readers will correctly interpret your comment. But it should be "80th percentile", "98th percentile". 98th percentile means 98% of observations are below that level.
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by wskinner 8y ago
Here's a thought experiment: how hard is it for a billion dollar company to roll out a simple crud app? Easy, right? Now name a single major bank with an app that is better than "barely usable". Which is easier? A crud app or
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by wskinner 8y ago
Universities are nonprofits and pay little / no taxes.
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by wskinner 8y ago
My understanding is that Google has recently deviated from this strategy. The result of the strategy you mention is that the industry standardized on other companies' implementation of ideas that came from Google: Hadoop (MapReduce), H
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by wskinner 8y ago
And what about the creditors? And what about the future people who want to borrow to finance something, but are unable to because everyone is afraid to lend money?
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by wskinner 8y ago
They seem roughly comprable. If you can get 85% scale out efficiency, based on the numbers in this post, 256 V100s would be at parity with 256 TPUs. In practice, you can get 90% scale out on Resnet with last year’s GPU and networking hardwa
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Tether Reopens Fiat Withdrawals(tether.to)
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The Economic Perspective on Moral Standards(slatestarcodex.com)
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Leveled Compaction in Apache Cassandra (2011)(web.archive.org)
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by wskinner 8y ago
I admire your enthusiasm, but most users don’t want to think about or manage these things. Convenience and consistency of experience is the reason for giant corporations to own these services, and unless there is a compelling shift in consu

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