chrischattin

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by chrischattin 3y ago
Hardly empirical. The data shows the opposite. ~80% of current billionaires in the U.S. are self-made first generation.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Obviously. I'm just talking about the current state of affairs.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Good point. It's probably more accurate to say it is biased to whatever opinions benefit the YC business model (which is understandable. It's their forum, after all). For example, speaking out against anything other than very lax
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by chrischattin 3y ago
This place is a progressive echo chamber for sure.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
That’s funny because the left currently dominates all aspects of culture, academia, work, and society. The orthodox is solidly “progressive” right now.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
The technology is there from what I understand. The difficulty will be on the regulatory/bureaucratic side.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
I hope and WANT people to pick through any project I post on here. The folks pointing out flaws are doing OP a service.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Or, we've reinvented the wheel once again... I liked DataTables. Never had a problem with it.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
No one has done more to harm the environment than environmentalists that advocate against nuclear power.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Can't tell if sarcastic or not. But, that's perfectly legitimate. You could do that and if everything is signed correctly, the network will accept it. I could write down a seed phrase on a piece of paper and hand it to you, and th
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by chrischattin 3y ago
I think the implication is government putting pressure (or working with) businesses to censor speech. Smaller government would mean less attack surface in that case. Market forces and competition should help keep speech free because if a pr
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by chrischattin 3y ago
ForeFlight is the greatest app ever created.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
"Dudes" is often used as an all inclusive term.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
I'd argue that's more a characteristic of the publishing and peer review process in academia, not actual science.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
No. It's the opposite. All it takes is one single result to show a theory or body of "consensus" is in error.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
No. Consensus is not how science works at all.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Yes, exactly. I get irrationally angry when people say things like "believe the science". No! They entire point of the scientific method is I don't have to believe anything. I can replicate and verify the results for myself.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Good luck effecting a wire transfer outside of banking hours.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
I bought a car with Bitcoin while the banks were closed on the weekend. There are tons of legitimate use cases. However, most of them aren’t immediately apparent to affluent people in the United States as it solves problems most of them don
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Yes. It’s cool. But, it’s hardly revolutionary. They built a Siri that doesn’t suck. It has the potential to be a Google killer as it’s much more effective at sussing out specific information. But, the ideological guard rails OpenAI insist
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Creating a decent Reddit clone is a weekend project. I've done similar stuff as a demo teaching an hour long 'Intro to Rails' class at the local code school.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Just start trying stuff. Learning happens through the trial and error process.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
Regulation would introduce a whole new set of problems and unintended consequences.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
This comment is wrong on all points.
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by chrischattin 3y ago
No. Both of those things can be done with light JS use. A framework is definitely not needed.
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by chrischattin 4y ago
I always use sprinkles of jQuery over React/Angular/Front End Framework de jour if given the choice.
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by chrischattin 4y ago
Yeah, I've done it many times successfully, drag and drop interfaces, form builders, dynamic form inputs, animations, etc. It's 10x easier with vanilla JS and sprinklings of jQuery. Believe it or not, gmail was a much faster clea
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by chrischattin 4y ago
Hard disagree. Front end development was an order of magnitude easier better faster before FB pushed React into the dev mindspace.
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by chrischattin 4y ago
Is there a political philosophy less understood, or more mischaracterized, than Libertarianism?
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by chrischattin 4y ago
Ironically, SVB, or whatever its new name will be. Like how the safest airline to fly is the one who just had an accident.

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