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by IsaacL 5y ago
Please see my comment to another post above, and read the following pair of links! https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo... https://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engin
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by IsaacL 5y ago
I went down this rabbithole a few years ago. At the time, I looked around but couldn't find any more details about centaur chess, or evidence that centaurs could outplay AIs. Then, last year, I stumbled across the following pair of art
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by IsaacL 7y ago
I read your blog a ton back in the day! Good to see that you're still around. Whenever people start talking about introverts vs extroverts I still think "it's only a model!"
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by IsaacL 7y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. My own story has some similarities to yours -- I joined an elite startup accelerator straight out of university, thought I had a bunch of pretty damned good business ideas to work on (and looking back, I did -
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by IsaacL 8y ago
> Startup culture was at its peak in the PG days today it's closer to a nadir. Yes, totally. I became interested in startups in 2009. I was a CS major and there was a tiny group of other students who shared my interests - we had a w
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think this is a good point to end my Hacker News usage for good. Some thoughts: 1. I've just come off a call with a university friend who is now a manager at a big startup out in China, w
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by IsaacL 9y ago
I signed up back in 2009, so almost 9 years ago now. I've been frequently telling myself since then that I should cut down, and quit using it for a while. I always end up using it again. The reason I use it is that sometimes there&#x27
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by IsaacL 9y ago
"As a practical matter, what do you think happens to any society that suffers a class divide severe enough that (a) the majority of the citizenry ends up in the underclass and (b) being in the underclass sucks badly enough to really pi
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by IsaacL 9y ago
OK, sure. Charging more gives you access to the better class of clients. At age 23 I started out doing shitty freelance PHP work, included a bunch of fixed-price projects. Later on, at age 26/27, (I worked full-time in-between), I spen
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by IsaacL 9y ago
I second my sibling poster. "It's easy for me to armchair quarterback these situations" You have the self-awareness to recognise that you are "armchair quarterbacking", then you decide to... blame the guy for his pr
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by IsaacL 9y ago
I agree. "Dishonest" might be too strong, but economics is too complex to present without bringing in political assumptions. The following two links may provide a useful alternative perspective: https://keithweinerecono
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by IsaacL 9y ago
I've heard the opposite. [1] You sound like you have some first-hand experience though, so I'd like to hear what you think of the below: That’s about the most reckless and grotesque characterization of an airline pilot’s job I’ve
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by IsaacL 9y ago
"Private central planning" is a contradiction. Nothing stops people creating competing funds, investing their savings in said funds, or investing directly in companies. I.e. in the private sector there's always the threat of
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by IsaacL 9y ago
This really is a matter of what variables you choose to measure. For example, the US is by far the world leader in medical research spending - 44% of global medical research is spent in the US. (Until recently it was even higher). [1] On th
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by IsaacL 9y ago
How did you come to the conclusion that HN is majority pro-capitalist? Did you look at the comment threads on political articles? Recently there's been tons of favorable discussion about: - the "right to repair" (I.e. regulat
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Christensen's response, linked to in those threads: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-06-20/clayton-chri... Innovator's Dilemma is way better thought-through than most business theories. If
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Great list. I've seen lots of these ideas float around certain circles. As an example of the kind of person who spreads such ideas: a few years ago I knew a recent university graduate who was very friendly, enthusiastic and reasonably
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Next to the old charts you mention, the author writes: "This is just the 2017 version of The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs, which I wrote about a few years ago, where I showed some stats indicating that email marketing open rates are on
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by IsaacL 9y ago
But with the level of compensation people think energy producers should pay to offset their "negative externalities" -- if governments forced them to pay it, the price of energy would rise by a huge amount, disrupting the economy,
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Yup, that was exactly my thought. And it sounds like the root of the issue is the rent controls - intended to protect tenants - lead in practice to an incredibly messed-up relationship between landlord and tenants. Not mentioned in the arti
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by IsaacL 9y ago
But implementing end-to-end encryption is much harder than adding a cookie notification. https://www.howtogeek.com/166507/why-most-web-services-dont-... There's a few startups working on platforms to make adding E
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by IsaacL 9y ago
"End-to-end encryption means the company providing the service does not have access to the key, meaning it cannot "listen in" to what is being shared - giving the sender and recipient added confidence in the privacy of their
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by IsaacL 9y ago
I don't think anyone would argue against the idea that fossil fuels have helped technological progress But many implicitly ignore the benefits of fossil fuels. I hear many variations of the comment I originally replied to, i.e., &quo
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Look at his actual arguments and data. He cites sources thoroughly IIRC.
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by IsaacL 9y ago
The pros and cons are rarely made clear: imagine if removing cheap sources of energy makes our standard of living much worse. This should be of interest: http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/0
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by IsaacL 9y ago
The headline sounds sensationalised. Below are the relevant sections from the Conservative Party Manifesto ( https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/manifesto2017/Manifesto20... ). "The safest place to be online In harn
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by IsaacL 9y ago
Japan's famously efficient train network is almost entirely private. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan "The privatised network is highly efficient, requiring few subsidies and running extr
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by IsaacL 9y ago
So did I. The point of my comment was that you can avoid street food and eat at classier restaurants (or fast food outlets, or whatever) if you're so inclined. Me and a friend avoided street food during a month of travelling in India,
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by IsaacL 9y ago
You see the benefits of regulation but not the costs. Eg, in a weestern country, most restaurants are hygienic with properly maintained premises - which seems great. Until you compare to Asian countries where you can visit nice restaurants
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by IsaacL 9y ago
I disagree. See my last paragraph to two posts ago.

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