goodgoblin

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by goodgoblin 2y ago
Isn't this exactly what Peter Zeihan said was going to happen? I think it is.
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by goodgoblin 2y ago
I also appreciate the marvelous rhythm of the modern world, more miracles per square foot than the life of any saint.
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by goodgoblin 2y ago
I was unpacking and yesterday from a move and saw a copy of his "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" book and remembered he time he answered a fan email I sent to him with the simple reply "It's always nice to receive an email
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by goodgoblin 3y ago
this is such a good idea for a movie
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by goodgoblin 3y ago
I firmly believe the only way to stop our culture from obsessing over the wrong things (politics, climate emergency, vaccines) is to give it something even worse to focus on - enter the War on Plastic! I genuinely hope this catches on and
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by goodgoblin 3y ago
b/c the 'writing' part is at the end of the process of gathering the news.
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by goodgoblin 3y ago
I have noticed the same kind of degradation -- pair-programming with GPT4 used to feel like I was working with one of the smartest people in the world, and now it's really uneven.
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by goodgoblin 3y ago
The spontaneous toxic content stuff is a little alarming, but probably in the future there will be gpt-Ns that have their core training data filtered so all the insane reddit comments aren't part of their makeup.
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
it just bears remembering that whenever anyone in SV says "government bad!" - the government saved their asses
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
I used to ride my bike to work in Boston, and one day I ran into the rear fender of a car who had cut me off, basically crashing into the car at pretty high speed, and the car didn't even notice. I realized that even if I was a master
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
Just wanted to say nice job!
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
and til the difference between (and that there was a difference between) honing and sharpening.
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
A couple of years ago I realized that the big metal rod inside the box that holds the knives is for sharpening.
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
I just listened to this guy on Rogan - absolutely blew my mind - https://zeihan.com/end-of-the-world tl;dr as others have pointed out 'globalization' is another term for Bretton Woods , i.e. subsidizing countries
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
you are totally right - I just watched the original Point Break over the weekend and all the surfing scenes obviously have different human beings from the actors they are meant to resemble but your brain still wants to think they are the sa
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
It's been a little while - but I think it's because NP problems can be converted into each other, so if you can solve one of them in P you can solve all of them in P.
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
My advice is to read "Spiritual Laws" by Emerson - with an eye towards trying to discover your own "calling". This doesn't have to lead to another project, but will get you to start listening to your inner voice wh
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
this would be a really bad idea -- b/c if you shoot too much into the atmosphere - you'd basically have an ice age - right? It's just scary b/c we don't have a "QA" planet to test it on :)
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
thank you - I thought someone might make a comment like this, which is why I added the qualifier ("weather which led to the dust-bowl") to distinguish it from the human factors - but hey - it's cool - and I love that you used
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by goodgoblin 4y ago
I'm sorry, but this is utterly unhinged. There is no evidence of weather patterns of any kind, much less indications that we are about to face "extreme-weather". What caused the weather which led to the dust-bowl? What cau
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by goodgoblin 5y ago
Sorry about your friend. I bought some books yesterday from Powells - a good bit more expensive - and I won't get them for 2 weeks - but I feel good about it - and will give me more time to read the books I already bought and haven&#x2
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by goodgoblin 5y ago
There are kind of two main axes you can impact 1. The Devs 2. The Org For The Devs With regard to the developers you need to make sure they have what they need to succeed, and to help them grow. For this "Peopleware" is great - it
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by goodgoblin 5y ago
ViralGains | Boston or Remote USA | Full-Stack or Front-End | Full-time ViralGains is a leading Creative Advertising Technology platform looking for engineers to power the next stage of explosive growth. We are seeking a highly talented sof
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by goodgoblin 5y ago
ViralGains | Boston or Remote | Full-Stack or Front-End | Full-time ViralGains is a leading Creative Advertising Technology platform looking for engineers to power the next stage of explosive growth. We are seeking a highly talented softwar
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by goodgoblin 6y ago
FWIW - I started a game on Defold and ended up rewriting and porting it to Unity. It's been a while since I used it - about a year - but Unity just has a lot more bells and whistles. Defold uses message passing, which initially I was
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by goodgoblin 7y ago
Massachussets has a law that enables developers to bypass zoning restrictions if they are helping bring low income housing to an area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Comprehensive_Pe... I think it's s
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by goodgoblin 7y ago
"Peopleware" is a great one -- https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-...
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In Praise of Mediocre Kids(bostonmagazine.com)
1 points by goodgoblin 8y ago|0 comments
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by goodgoblin 8y ago
ViralGains | Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Software Engineer in Test | Boston, MA | ONSITE | https://www.viralgains.com/company/careers/ ViralGains is a leading video ad engagement platform looking for peopl
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Largest art heist in history is still unsolved(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by goodgoblin 10y ago|0 comments

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