bentona

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by bentona 3y ago
The argument is that the cost of dealing with this legislation will result in the cost of internet service going up slightly, e.g. $10/month. This is irrelevant to the wealthy but impacts the lower classes more.
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by bentona 3y ago
If you'd like yet another somewhat similar inquiry into the information-theory-based definition of life, I'll mention Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_pr
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by bentona 3y ago
Some advice based solely on my experience, YMMV etc. Re: Mentors - reach out to someone who you enjoyed working with in a previous role, looked up to, and would enjoy working with again. Just ask them to have a quick chat, and have specific
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by bentona 3y ago
Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA Didn't realize this before watching, but it's interesting that there's an incredibly complicated board state but the game state / actions a
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by bentona 3y ago
Recently watched a related short vice doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDseTCNGyA
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by bentona 3y ago
Personally, I find that trying to stay away from single-value representations of skills/health/etc is more helpful and facilitates more curiosity. Instead of wondering, "Am I better at X than Bob?", I try to focus on &qu
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by bentona 4y ago
Maybe an aside, and I don't necessarily disagree that async is sometimes inefficient, but it's more efficient if you bias for reading instead of writing. For example, take 15-20 minutes to write the thing, so it only takes 3-5 min
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by bentona 4y ago
What you're saying resonates a lot with me - I feel like I fell into programming (also writing game hacks), and I'm jealous of the passion I observe in others for SWE-specific concerns. You look at the core problems of software e
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by bentona 4y ago
I would frame it differently. There seem to be many dysfunctional marriages that are carried by e.g. inertia - and because of this, I do agree that perhaps marriage shouldn't be taken as such an assumption. By the same token, though, t
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by bentona 4y ago
We don't currently have the means to live forever, but if you manage to live long enough, you might survive until we do.
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by bentona 4y ago
Any clue what one of these might cost?
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by bentona 5y ago
> Compare the intelligence of a cow or pig or similar mammal to an octopus and the mammal will DESTROY the octopus What studies do you have in mind?
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by bentona 5y ago
Awesome! I'm a little concerned about the pricing though - while lifetime membership sounds great, I'm afraid this could end up something like a "pyramid scheme" where my membership is reliant on revenue from new users t
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by bentona 5y ago
This might be a bit contentious, but there's no top-level comment starting the discussion about regulation of UX patterns. My concerns are mostly those that could apply to related regulation (cookies, internet traffic, etc.), but I&#x2
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by bentona 5y ago
The article alludes to this but maybe doesn’t point it out clearly enough: they can only minimize cost in this way _because_ it’s hard to evaluate - otherwise the engineers in question would just work somewhere else where their value would
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by bentona 6y ago
Interesting take from another market leader: https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/knowledge-center/googles-mov...
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by bentona 6y ago
I agree with the comments positing that persuasion is clearly alive and well, given the enthusiasm of today's e.g. demonstrations. I believe the author's point, however, is that persuasion can (should?) engage the conscious, ratio
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by bentona 6y ago
Semi-related, IMO it's easier to not get siloed, at work and in general, if you position yourself as a math major rather than a CS major. Most people don't realize the overlap, and think "programmer" when they hear CS an
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by bentona 6y ago
This might be incredibly pedantic, but since this is a mathematical philosophy article, I'm going to go ahead. These aren't "hard" problems, they're simply questions that don't make sense. Is finding an odd num
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by bentona 6y ago
Listening to Hearts of Space as a child was my first experience with "experimental" music - definitely formative. You can still listen to it online: https://v4.hos.com/home
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by bentona 6y ago
I agree, but I'm still, probably unwisely, allowing myself some anticipation for Diablo 4.
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by bentona 6y ago
This is by Gregory Chaitin, who also published a pretty interesting & related book called "META MATH!" [1] I especially like the Turing / Godel equivalency stuff he discusses. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf&#x2
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by bentona 6y ago
It'd be really interesting to see more than just averages for rates. Many dev shops I've interacted with are all right around $250/hr here in the US / on coasts, I wonder if there are similar standards elsewhere, or diff
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by bentona 6y ago
To me, the most interesting implication here is that this must not adversely affect Google's ad revenue. If it did, they would surely fix it. This, in turn, means that apparently we have been trained to interface with search engines su
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by bentona 6y ago
Cool! I like the doubling-time datapoint, haven't seen that before. Btw, I think your column sort only sorts a subset of the data.
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by bentona 6y ago
This seems like a potentially game-changing discovery - if we could trivially diagnose 30%+ of cases, that could drastically diminish growth rate. Are there standard anosmia tests? I'm wondering how to make this actionable in the most
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by bentona 7y ago
There is at least one project listed specifically to enable this.
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Ask HN: How can I help my local community during the Coronavirus pandemic?
2 points by bentona 7y ago|1 comments
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by bentona 7y ago
Here's more detail: https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-12/british-government-wants... The article mentions that "...allow the virus to pass through the entire population so that we acquire herd immunity, b
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by bentona 7y ago
I agree. When I read something like this, I have a hard time trusting that the rest of an article isn't aimed at pushing a political agenda rather than spreading information directly related to containment. I'd rather not have to

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