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by brhsiao 10y ago
I wonder what clearances you have to go through at Google to get your project into a toplevel directory or subdomain?
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I recently had this exact question. I finally decided on Pawnmail ( https://pawnmail.com/ ). It's free and you get 2 GB. I was worried whether it'd randomly shut down, so I emailed the creator, http://pas
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I wonder how many people were already exploiting this by stealing $50 a day or something. With bitcoin it'd be nearly impossible to arrest them, right? So an unethical person would have tremendous incentive to abuse it?
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Makes sense. Ok, you changed my mind. I did read once that humans basically evolved to handle childcare as a society. Apparently villages used to raise all the kids together. So I am probably arguing against biology here. I'm still not
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I get that humans should have kids, and obviously it's terrible (and should be fixed) whenever kids are neglected. We should have (more, better) programs for this. But why does it fall on companies to create an "environment"
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Unrelated, but as a 21 year old (male!) who knows little about society, human psychology, etc., can I ask with sincerity what is probably a really dumb question? Why do companies/society need to accommodate people who have kids? Why ar
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by brhsiao 10y ago
You're right, it was an unfairly exaggerated characterization and I take it back.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I often hear this sentiment that new languages and frameworks du jour pop up every week, and that past an age a fellow just wants to learn a single reliable stack and collect a weekly paycheck. Am I the only one who just hasn't experie
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Of your points, these * Thiel is passionately against all forms of political correctness, just like Trump. * Thiel: "A startup is basically structured as a monarchy. We don’t call it that, of course." * Thiel wants t
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by brhsiao 10y ago
> Sam Altman cannot coherently believe this while supporting Peter Thiel, who is not just a Trump supporter, but an important part of the Trump campaign. I've yet to see this claim substantiated. Why can't one coherently beli
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by brhsiao 10y ago
You are misreading that sentence. You're talking about money talking symbolically. From context, Sam obviously means if Peter starts saying specific things that Trump has said.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Hm, I paused for a second before using that word. Did I use it wrong?
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I always thought YC founders were allowed to choose which partners they wanted to work with. If not, you're right. Edit: Sam just posted https://twitter.com/sama/status/787794988855812096 .
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but you didn't address this point: > For that matter, it's disingenuous of you to point to an individual's tweets denouncing Trump, then to the fact that his organization hasn&#
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I'm not understanding what exactly you want. If you're saying Sam should come out and say he disagrees with Thiel, he's already said he finds Trump repugnant. Are you saying that in addition to this, he also has to say, &quot
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I think people take symbolism too seriously. I won't argue that it never matters what message an organization sends, but people should stop apophenically inferring messages where there are none. This would include, for example, adoptin
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I think you're thinking of http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ . The chapters I read from that were very good, but I didn't finish the book so hesitated to recommend it.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
For anyone looking for a broad intro to neural networks, I read a bunch of stuff when I was getting started and these two were the most outstanding: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ http://cs231n.stanfor
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by brhsiao 10y ago
His motives could still be perfidious.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Oh. Is opening a brokerage account that easy?
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by brhsiao 10y ago
By simplicity I was talking about the fact that I don't need to fill out paperwork. Filling out paperwork is unrelated to the forecasting which companies will succeed. The point is, if it were 2005 and I wanted to buy Apple stock, with
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Incidentally, if you're like me, and know nothing about stocks, but still want to get rich off companies you believe will succeed, I highly recommend Robinhood. It's like stock trading for chimpanzees. Install an app, fill out a b
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by brhsiao 10y ago
As someone who loves React, the hardest thing about it for me is debugging. I'll get some error about how renderComponent doesn't accept null values or whatever, and when even the outermost error is so cryptic, the stack trace is
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I entirely agree. But the article outright claims it's rude to decide not to go to large social gatherings full of strangers. (I concede your point on coffee.)
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Am I on the spectrum, or does this... > At first, saying “no” to fund-raisers and coffees brought with it a keen, almost illicit pleasure. What freedom! I started slipping out of meetings and school assemblies at the first possible mome
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by brhsiao 10y ago
A friend of mine who's quite into philosophy once told me that a good number of philosophers did little but try to categorize things. Rather than draw meaningful insights, say, or squeeze every drop out of some experience, they'd
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by brhsiao 10y ago
I wish Founders Pledge wouldn't break scrolling or include gratuitous, contentless animations. I also learned far more about what they do from Sam's blog post than from their website.
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by brhsiao 10y ago
Hyperbolic ranting aside, I must say, I honestly prefer this explanation that creepy = ugly. It makes perfect sense to me that for better or worse, attractive people want to be with other attractive people. As a programmer in a field predic
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by brhsiao 10y ago
There is actually a distinct writing style that is meant to provoke, closely related to trolling, and should be recognized. Suppose I were writing a rant about obesity being unhealthy and visually jarring. I then decide, for comedic dramati

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