dchyrdvh

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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
I think burnout is about reducing the perceived world to a shallow mental model, getting locked in it voluntarily and getting depressed as a result. But it's a 3 wall prison cell: it works so long as the prisoner doesn't bother to
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
"A magical thing happens when you help someone. You forget about yourself." - that's a remarkable statement, actually.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
But imagine the new frontiers it opens! Countries would exchange and trade massive amounts of user data like oil. Want to participate in air travel? Better to sign treaties to buy tracing data, as without it your country won't be compl
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Interesting how it's turned around. A few weeks ago one of my HN accounts was banned for a neutral note that the lab hypothesis shouldn't be disregarded. Now it's openly talked about on WaPo.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Ubuntu has followed the same path of first building their user base on trust and quality and then monetizing it hard with various shady schemes. Even coffee shops do it. First they sell high quality coffee for little margin and "don&#x
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Sounds like Americans should live in Europe then.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Companies that cut half of the pay are unlikely to offer corporate housing or free food. Even remote interns need to live somewhere and rent isn't cheap. On the other hand, interns might be ok with sharing a 2bd apt with 3 roommates an
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
After taxes, rent, bills and food that's 3000. And 4800 turns into 500. That's like a coffee budget.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
But it's not deadly enough to reverse the climate change. Humans are smart animals: they will adopt to the virus real quick, restart the dirty economy machine, get their previous life expectancy back and suffocate in dirty air, water a
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
That wouldn't justify surveillance.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
I'm sorry to be dense, but that's a naive view, that an otherwise sleazy sociopath can be forced to behave by public opinion. Good people give food to homeless because they see value in doing so, not because they fear repercussion
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Because there are multiple paths and the virus really spreads like a wave frontier in a 10 dimensional space of human to human contacts graph. The virus also spreads in a non uniform way: it's not about the distance between two interac
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Because "in the world of souls there are two poles and between the two, wastes time and disappears into nothingness the majority of the humanity".
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
They are doing well. The symptoms are the same as mild flu or allergy, and the effects are nearly non existent except in already old and sick. If half of infected got severe complications, it would be a blood bath with military on the stree
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
The source is a very simple observation that if every 5th New Yorker has antibodies, half of those with symptoms would be noticeable.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
TBH, the real solution will be reopening the economy with masks on and social distancing. Vaccine is a pipe dream and by the time it might be created, everyone will have been infected a few times. My conspiracy theory is that the government
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Yes, they all have no value. Let's assume someone got bankrupted by a hospital over a severe coronavirus case. This means that someone has been wandering around for weeks infecting others. Let's assume there is a chain of 10 conta
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
With 95% infected not showing any symptoms, contact tracing is pointless, as it will be about tracing contacts of those few severely ill. With this in mind, contact tracing is really just a way to sell survelliance to people and then seal i
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
TBH, it's nothing to do with those lazy petitions. This happened because the CA's AG chose to be a good guy, leveraged his power and put a lot of effort into fighting the bad guys. I'm sure he's been offered fat kickback
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Does anybody need those 5.3 GHz at 300 watts? I believe the next big thing is "massively parallel distributed processing": thousands or maybe even millions of tiny processing units with their own memory and reasonable set of instr
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
They are right, though. It's not about the app, it's about normalizing global survelliance: once the populace is convinced enough, it'll be sealed by laws and enforcement. The whole idea is clearly insripired by the Chinese W
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
I have a controversial hypothesis about what creates freedom in nations: it's the self sacrifice of people willing to make others free. In the US it was the independence and civil wars. Then the lazy descendants carelessly waste this f
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
I'd rather let people follow the social distancing policy and stop this mental gymnastics about the necessity of tracking. P.S. I'm in the US, so I can actually freely move now.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Are those pics in the readme the actual output? If so, this is freaking astonishing cinematic-level quality.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
I know some people coded up raytracers with glsl texture shaders, but rayracers are massive parrallel with no shared state needed algorithms (the entire scene is tiny in those examples). Would this new API enable shared state (to some exten
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
At the same time, Amazon makes its corporate employees sign non-competes and actually sues former employees from time to time.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
They don't know what to study and they don't have strong enough intuition to guide them in the discovery process.
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
The goal has ever been making as much as possible while giving as little as possible. That's how it's been since humans developed ego. You're describing business between post-ego humans also known as saints. We don't hav
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that interference pattern from a sum of two waves is the sum of individual interference patterns. This should follow from how the wave equation looks. The real physical solver doesn't do FFT, though. It makes the b
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by dchyrdvh 6y ago
Here's lazy and cynical me makes a guess what it is reading just the title. It's a grabby data mining platform that hoards medical data and gives Stanley nickels in return. Something like Fitbit, but with crypto currency buzzwords

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