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by clusterfoo 11y ago
The Economist is a prime example that quality still sells, and always will. Even their new daily newsletters are top-notch. IMHO they get right what most "old media" are getting wrong: The Economist isn't trying to compete wi
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
I don't think that's feasible either on a large scale. How about this strategy: 1. Pick the top three offenders (not in the same industry). 2. For each offender, find their cash cow, or top 3 most profitable products. 3. Make a co
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
What a great case for pure research: > "He was a whiz with formulas and I think [his aim was] to construct those near counter-examples to Fermat's last theorem. So he developed a theory to find these near misses, without recogn
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
So... the Internet.
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
A growing millionaire class is not mutually exclusive with consolidation of wealth, if growth of millionaire class is less than reduction in middle-income class.
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
How do I access this from my phone? Same with other open source solutions... the only way to open it on my phone is to trust an unknown app developer to open it for me. I trust GNU zip, but can I trust MiniKeePass? Can I trust iZip?
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
It's really turning out to be a beautiful general-purpose language as well. I've been playing it for a few days now, and it's such a joy to work with. So many great forward-thinking libraries: (Reactive, Compose), excellent,
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
this is great! -- would be nice to add categories / filters. Also interesting if each story had a 'stats' page with some numbers so it's not so much a black box.
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
Tangential pet peeve: but this kind of thinking, while noble in principle ("let's not waste resources / brain power on what doesn't matter"), tends to lead to stagnation, not innovation. Paradigm-shifting discoverie
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
And who would you trust with manufacturing and programming such a chip?
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
And security. The biggest problem of course is that this a field ripe with potential for abuse... there's a fine line between a personalized book recommendation service, and a massive, streamlined propaganda machine. We have the knowho
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
Which leads to an unsettling thought: > And culture builds on culture. (...) That cumulative process is what allows for the civilization that we now live in, but it raises a very interesting paradox and it’s interesting that it’s very ra
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
> It's not just useful for convincing other, but also to notice when you’re being manipulated. In my experience (having started uni in the humanities), this way of thinking (which is how most people think) actually makes you more su
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
Agreed. This is the crux of the problem: if we're worrying about this leading to an "underclass"... does anyone think its illegality will prevent the ultra-wealthy from funding this technology? And who will be overseeing the
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
Only one point to nitpick: let's stop spreading the "RSS is dead" meme. It's not. RSS/Atom are alive and well. Google reader != RSS. These standards are open and simple enough for everyone to implement on their site
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
Problem is phone manufacturers have a vested interest in making the web experience sub-optimal (and even limit developers' means of building a proper mobile browser, like Apple).
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
From a discussion in /r/rust. Great overall discussion about the benefits of Haskell-like abstractions. This example almost looks like magic, it really helped me understand the power of these abstractions. Often people (including
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Atomic, Composable Financial Transactions: The Power of Haskell's Purity and ADT(reddit.com)
5 points by clusterfoo 11y ago|1 comments
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
Be well versed in genetics / molecular biology! - If I had the time to finish school, I'd double in biology / math or CS. Man will that be a killer combo when that kid is 30. It feels like biotech is where computing was in th
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by clusterfoo 11y ago
But that could never happen to us, right? > Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. And apparently every programmer sees himself a
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
It's not a dissenting opinion, it's plain false. What he's thinking of is dissociative drugs. Even at very high doses of psychedelics, you remain perfectly aware that you are tripping, and if anything, tend to be extra-carefu
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Minor pet-peeve. But we should probably refrain from immediately jumping to "drug cartel" examples. It only further perpetuates the meme that privacy is only something criminals and perverts should be concerned with. Why not &quot
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Hey, look at the bright side, at least yours didn't turn out to be stage IIIc cancer, after three months and two doctors assuring me "You're young! It's probably nothing." Even with a family history and scans showin
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Same, I've had co-workers laugh at my crazy key bindings, but by comparison, whenever I have to code on my Mac (which I've not customized, or someone else's computer, I wonder how I ever managed to get anything done without a
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
But what happens when physicians' criteria don't align with the priorities of a patient? Take this hypothetical example: you wake up with a dozen marble-sized tumors in your brain. A combination of BRAF and PD-1 inhibitors has a s
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
The way things currently are, people are dying without access to drugs that are known to work. The approval process is painfully slow. As a concrete example, there's a new class of immune therapy drugs used in the treatment of melanoma
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
To play devil's advocate: could it be that generally curious, risk-taking, meta-thinking individuals tend to make better engineers, which just happens to be a personality type that is naturally drawn to psychedelics? Really, we can pla
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
> “The `class` keyword will probably be the most harmful feature in JavaScript." I'm glad I'm not the only one. One of the reasons Javascript became so popular is that it took many of the properties that Lispers have been
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
You're still not focused on the road though, that's just not how the human brain works, and insinuating that this device somehow makes texting while driving safe is hugely irresponsible IMO, considering how many thousands of lives
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by clusterfoo 12y ago
Naive question (I know nothing about this stuff): If mathematical logic is a property of our universe, then aren't we again entering the realm of circular logic? i.e: "Given the logical frameworks that are correct in our universe,

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