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by zenkat 5y ago
Wait, it's not a parody meant to mock the whole crypto/web3 space as a bunch of shameless pseudo-libertarian get-rich-quick hucksters? Poe's law strikes again!
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by zenkat 5y ago
Seems like a perfect opportunity for a brilliant, successful, and slightly eccentric SV multi-millionaire to create the perfect retreat / resort / hideaway in the shell of an architectural marvel. Just sayin'.
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by zenkat 5y ago
Which is exactly what is happening in Ukraine now. Their attempts to align with NATO have Putin freaking out, with much saber-rattling & troop movement.
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by zenkat 5y ago
Not Mark, but I'm one of the original leads on Google's Knowledge Graph. KGs are great for data integration because they are naturally composable. If you have two data sources represented as graphs, and their node identifiers are
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by zenkat 7y ago
LeGuin's _The Lathe Of Heaven_ and _The Left Hand Of Darkness_. Both taught me there are more ways of knowing (and being) than my scientific brain had realized.
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by zenkat 7y ago
I like your optimism. I wish I shared it.
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by zenkat 7y ago
Try using the model with a very high down payment. At 50% of property value, your gains are equivalent to the 7% baseline. Beyond that, the property makes significantly less than the stock market. If you pay 100% up front, you end up mak
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by zenkat 8y ago
Prop 13 isn't really in the control of SF city residents. But damn, California ... time to put that wealth-transfer tax for the old, rich, landed elite to bed already.
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by zenkat 8y ago
"You can die from exposure, you know."
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by zenkat 8y ago
This article is "just so" storytelling if the worst kind. Little or no evidence is produced for any of its conclusions -- just assertions that the historical Pueblan people "obviously" must have had a technological elit
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by zenkat 8y ago
I am going for a hike along the coast on a beautiful spring day with my wife.
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by zenkat 8y ago
Netflix's documentary on the Fyre Festival makes this case well. The Instagram influencers were all that mattered -- the physical festival was hardly an afterthought.
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by zenkat 8y ago
Yeah, those Tom & Jerry cartoons are HORRIBLE.
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by zenkat 8y ago
Which brings up the interesting idea that qi may be phenomenologically "real", insomuch as it's something our brains percieve, even if it has no basis in physical "reality".
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by zenkat 8y ago
Natural selection will do that far more efficiently than we ever could artificially. Insects have a rapid reproductive cycle, and create huge numbers of spawn each cycle.
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by zenkat 8y ago
This will encourage centralization to the few big services that can afford to build a Content ID system for recognizing copyrighted content. It will cement the position of big players like Facebook and YouTube, and squash any small startup
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by zenkat 8y ago
The article points out that race has a lot to do with how these two epidemics of addiction were portrayed.
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by zenkat 9y ago
What part of the computer is emitting the radiation? And how is this program manipulating it to generate a song?
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by zenkat 9y ago
Website repeatedly crashes on iOS, both Chrome and Safari. Hope the QA on their world-changing AR is better the website.
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by zenkat 9y ago
Why flagged? Read the submission guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talking points. Videos of p
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by zenkat 9y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battle or talkin
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by zenkat 9y ago
That's a valid critique of identity politics. The original article is not. And again, I didn't think HN was a forum for debating these sorts of political / cultural issues in the first place. What does this have to do with
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by zenkat 9y ago
Why is this article considered suitable for Hacker News? It's political fodder, not sci/tech. In any case, there appears to be many overheated claims around this event, with precious little context. This was a voluntary event, w
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by zenkat 9y ago
I'm having trouble deciding if this whole post is a sly commentary on how easy it is to get machine learning wrong. Beat the market by 10% with k-means clustering and a feature set derived from companies and chemical elements! Hahahah
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by zenkat 9y ago
Despite the clickbait headline, the rest of the article is balanced and well-reasoned, documenting both positive and negative changes. And the graphs at the end (rates of seeing friends, loneliness, having sex) are compelling. Clearly a h
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by zenkat 9y ago
And it's creepy harassment when a nerd holds power over you.
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by zenkat 9y ago
I heard it in Rick (Morty's grandpa) voice.
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by zenkat 9y ago
Why haven't PLoS and Science One eaten Elsivier's cake? Their model makes perfect sense in a web-based world. Why are scientists still playing Elsivier's game?
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by zenkat 9y ago
Etherium's fundamental premise -- "code is law" -- presupposes a general solution to the formal verification of program correctness. This is an unsolved problem (and is likely unsolvable in the complete case). Put simply, al
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by zenkat 9y ago
I asked for the other side of the story. RationalWiki appears to fit that bill. I made no judgments on the merits of either side of the squabble. I trust the readers of HN are capable of forming their own judgements based on available ev

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