def_illiterate

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by def_illiterate 11y ago
BTW, this is where I show my powerlevel and burn the account. Nice knowing you, HN. I learned a lot.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
It's a later "chapter." The man writes essays, and he tried to string them into a book. The attempt is laughable, but the essays stand on their own.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
This will be dismissed as racist, pseudo-intellectual drivel by the effete silicon set, but anyone wanting to understand why this happens ought to read Jack Donovan's excellent essay "The way of the Gang" to understand why gr
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
We're having fun at this, but I think you may have just found a way to better gamify wellness initiatives...
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Hear hear.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
It's really not. People used to pass the bar without ever going to a law school. The entire profession has been captured by educational institutions. It's a posterchild for what tech should not allow itself to become.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Step 1. Get admitted to MIT Step 2. ???? Step 3. Profit. This is a really cool story, but if the OP isn't coming from somewhere as highly regarded, it may not be the best thing to hear.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
I think the last UI decision google got right was the search box on the main page.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Aw hell no. It's hard enough to concentrate in a cubicle.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
I think it would be better that the landlords were not the beneficiaries of this type of subsidy, though. I'd prefer to see them have to compete, and this doesn't attack the problem from that end.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
This is awesome. No more searching for quick workarounds to share notebooks with people who don't know how to use a command line.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Step 1: get into MIT... Looks like that train has sailed. :-)
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
It reads like a precocious high-schooler wrote it. I stopped reading when I got to that paragraph.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
You might find this interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment It blew my mind when I first encountered it.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Some of us think the system can't be fixed--we just want ours. And that's okay.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
I imagine there would be pretty good money in licensing an API. That's probably where the real money is--let the idiots make the trades, and you sell them the software.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
This is the most important question here. (Thanks for the giggles it gave me. You made my morning.)
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Yep! And I quoted the article's quote from a critic. I felt it was worth pointing out one of the most patently ridiculous things I've ever heard, and the fact that it was given play really tells you how the NYT leans.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
>“If Kleiner wanted to look classy, it could have said, ‘This was hard fought and we obviously disagree with your view, but it’s in the interest of all parties to walk away. In the meantime, there have been lessons learned and we are goi
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
>With only a brief skim of your talk, I wonder what you think of the moral implications of this project being DARPA supported. You're not adding to the conversation by pointing this out. We can all clearly see this for what it is.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
You know what doesn't have loud ads? Good, old-fashioned print books. I've been meaning to go back to them over a lot of other entertainment media consumption.
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
I lived through a large natural disaster. (I don't want to go into specifics because I like my anonymity.) The local FM station was the only show in town for about 2 days. The local t.v. stations were back online, but a lot more peop
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
The war on drugs is a jobs program. Period, end of story. It reduces the labor supply by keeping a large segment of society behind bars, and it provides employment in enforcement for a segment of the population who we really, really don&#
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by def_illiterate 11y ago
Same thing, same groups. Same groups behind Donglegate (or Donglewater, however you prefer to call your scandals.)
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by def_illiterate 12y ago
This would be an awesome pedagogical tool. I'm a student and often find myself struggling with pseudocode to the point that I end up writing it out by hand and annotating it in a similar fashion on paper.
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by def_illiterate 12y ago
An argument could probably be made that it worked fairly well in subduing East Germany after WWII.
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by def_illiterate 12y ago
Genuinely curious, wouldn't EBIT be a more conservative number than EBITDA? Not that it matters in tech, as I assume Depreciation and Amortization are almost nil.
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by def_illiterate 12y ago
If it's the 30 year old secretary coordinating the shareholder meeting I'm quitting school and pulling a Chris McCandless. Otherwise, going to be a very interesting thing to watch. Mr. Buffet's love of economic moats will li