ejlangev

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by ejlangev 4y ago
This article, while probably true an accurate, seems designed to make SBF the fall guy by portraying him as a uniquely bad actor in the crypto space. In reality, the crypto space is full of fraud that is probably criminal and he is just the
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by ejlangev 5y ago
What an embarrassing article to publish. I can't believe someone was paid for writing this many words about this particular topic. Regardless of if you agree with his politics, there is nothing opulent about having a net worth of $2 mi
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by ejlangev 7y ago
Fitting that in a world where all the same old labor fights that were settled in the past are happening again that someone would un-ironically invent a new form of indentured servitude. Makes me laugh at people who think that non STEM subje
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by ejlangev 8y ago
The man truly is his own worst enemy. Seemed clear that something was up with him when he called that cave diver a "pedo" for no apparent reason. I hope that being held accountable for his actions deflates his head a little bit. S
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by ejlangev 8y ago
> "Private by design" Lol It's me, the company that hoards your personal data and just got hacked in a huge way, please put a camera in your house that I control which I _swear_ won't be used to spy on you. Sort of hi
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Best news from them in months. I wish Instagram would do the same. The "smart" ordering of tweets and photos just makes my experience with both the apps worse.
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by ejlangev 8y ago
I didn't downvote you :(
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by ejlangev 8y ago
> Some analysis is better than no analysis. I don't agree with that. Doing some analysis on a limited and possibly skewed data set can lull you into a false sense of understanding. It makes your ideas seems objective when they can
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by ejlangev 8y ago
This idea always struck me as fairly misguided. It of course makes sense to try to muster evidence and data when making decisions but it's not some sort of panacea. The book The Tyranny of Metrics ( https://www.amazon.com&#
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by ejlangev 8y ago
He doesn't seem to have done well on a lot of these predictions. These are slated to happen in the early 2000s: > Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages. This is sort of possible, but not
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Szilard features prominently in Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Definitely worth the read if you have an interest in early nuclear science. Really filled in a lot of details about scientists that I remember
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Really great visualization here, kudos to the author. Really makes is clear what's going on. Made me think that things like this could be useful in textbooks as well if they were more digital. Maybe in the next few years there will
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by ejlangev 8y ago
I suspect this will be a fairly regular story in the next few months/years. Self-driving tech seems to be a lot further off than people think so a lot of companies that were formerly very exciting will not be able to deliver and will
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by ejlangev 8y ago
If you believe that a company whose whole purpose is to use data on you to sell ads won't use data on you that it collects to sell ads then I have a bridge to sell you. Funny that people complained so much about GDPR being bad for busi
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Was really hoping that "No Reservations" was the Anthony Bourdain show rather than the movie. Somehow I don't think so though.
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Amazon really has to take this back to the drawing board. ~5% accuracy is pretty terrible...
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by ejlangev 8y ago
I think that's the most important message of the book. It's not enough to sympathize with the Lorax, you have to do something about it if you want it to be any different.
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Funny how they needed to make the story serious by applying machine learning to determine exactly which type of monkey the Lorax was based on. One would think that just looking at them would be sufficient. The Lorax living on that land doe
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by ejlangev 8y ago
> The FAA rubber-stamped those measures Friday. Not sure what this line is supposed to mean. Is he referring to them approving them without knowing what they are? I'm glad for the FAA's rules. U.S. air travel is extremely saf
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Read "Ev Williams" and thought of "Evan Williams" the bourbon and was like I don't see how the maker of a cheap alcohol is going to help fix the internet.
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Until people start going to jail for their illegal activity rather than just paying out nominal fines I wouldn't expect their behavior to change. This is at least the 3rd major fine Wells Fargo has paid in the last few years. If only
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by ejlangev 8y ago
As the internet hippo said: "Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting 'Better things aren't possible.'"
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Shocking news that a company aiming to put a microphone in every house is also working on how to analyze all the voice information it can gather.
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by ejlangev 8y ago
I haven't had much luck using Instacart at all. At my last job we would order normal sized bottled water for our office fairly regularly and 9/10 times they would bring the tiny bottles. Also they claim on their website that &qu
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by ejlangev 8y ago
Best endorsement of GDPR they could possibly make. Everyone knows Facebook collects more data than most people probably want so it follows that a privacy law they don't want to roll out everywhere must help curtail that to some degree
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Some great suggestions here. One thing I've found is that developers commonly don't take the time to set themselves tooling-wise. Even simple things like linting built into your editor can provide a big lift by helping catch cer
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Excited to check out this series and glad that Antirez took the time to make it. Would be cool to see more people make this kind of thing in the same mold of this and the DHH series from the last few weeks. Very interesting to hear someth
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by ejlangev 9y ago
It's about time. Blatantly lying to investors is fraud and should be prosecuted as such. People who defraud others should face consequences for doing so.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
This is a fantastic result. The main issue with Ruby has always been the tradeoff of speed for an expressive and powerful language. In my experience the ecosystem around Rails is amazingly productive vs other languages and getting this mu
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by ejlangev 9y ago
It's a shame we moved a lot of the US industrial base to an authoritarian and potentially hostile country like China. A bit scary to think of the generation or two of people who won't have the knowledge to manufacture things shou

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