metamemetics

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by metamemetics 16y ago
Well my platform is n number of $20 linodes to start. I'm clustering the python application across them using uwsgi+nginx (all I have to do is add an IP address in the config to scale), it's going to be a given that I shard the database acr
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> Please ask yourself why. Looking for a way to hands-free scale very cheaply without vendor lockin. Would be nice if I can simply add another machine to the database to the cluster. And not have to generate the ids in the application
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by metamemetics 16y ago
I am investigating replacing MySQL with MongoDB in my model layer for my next prototype. My mind is still thinking in 3NF though. I understand dernormalization and avoiding joins will be useful from a performance standpoint. However I am un
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Google Launches Online Bookstore, Challenging Amazon(wired.com)
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Do HNers still watch TV? I stopped paying for TV ~ 2 years ago and find it mildly nauseating when I visit relatives and they want to have it on in the background.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Anyone engaged in military\defense contracting is a legitimate target of war under the Geneva convention.
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Complex mathematical problem solved by bees (Travelling Salesman)(physorg.com)
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> wealth would be 'the ability to follow curiosities and interests, whatever they may be.' How would you differentiate between the terms wealth, freedom, and happiness (or do you consider them interchangeable)? I think from those 3, '
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Wealth is the ability of an entity to create change. Skills you know, your business network, your emotional support network, assets you can exchange. People with great wealth can affect the world in profoundly positive or negative ways. In
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> their backers were betting that Mr Obama would push through an energy bill that would force America to embrace alternative sources of energy more aggressively. Give him a break, getting healthcare reform passed already involved flam
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> non-monetary gains like prestige or autonomy "Gains" obviously did not refer to strictly cash. Gains refers to anything you value. Cash is just a tool. I would go further than you and say the vast majority of entrepreneurs seek au
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by metamemetics 16y ago
I meant the human species as a collective has no single consciousness. And also that individual humans do not have metaphysical consciousness.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
I studied cognitive psychology not economics ;) I'm familiar with the topics your bringing up and agree they're interesting but also think they are irrelevant to the issue of correlation vs causation and the red herring of "risk" when looki
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by metamemetics 16y ago
If you want to go to Kahneman & Tversky, yes different heuristics people may use for estimating risk and reward are probably biased estimators (although I hope all pirate-entrepreneurs are using a little math and obtaining feedback ).
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> What I think is wrong is to take only a single terminology Utility is a basic textbook economics term and the context of Arrington's article. Also, Arrington was an economics major. I think sticking to one terminology is highly pre
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> or else your definition of sane is very limited or else your definition of gain is very limited. You seem to be implying a mountain climber makes no gains by tackling Mt. Everest. The risk is not what is preferred, the sense of acc
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> What if exploring the boundaries of your capability, your talents, was its own reward? Then you're gaining something (discovery of new assets, freedom, happiness, sense of accomplishment, self-actualization, etc.) and seeking to max
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> They don’t need to be rewarded for risk, because they actually get utility out of risk itself. In other words, they like adventure. Completely flawed. Every sane person seeks to reduce risk. What entrepreneurs also seek is to maxim
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> which will raise the general discourse level On one hand you want to avoid trolls, but on the other hand you want to avoid a circle-jerk and "my boss can google everything I wrote" timidity and un-hackerish conformism. Tending towar
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Seems unnecessary considering some of the most thoughtful discussions come from throw-away accounts doing Tell\Ask HN. It could also exacerbate other issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority [ ie. comment upvotes co-va
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by metamemetics 16y ago
keep track of submission karma and comment karma separately. People should not be able to downvote in comments unless they have earned the karma threshold required to do so from comments. Ex [of what to prevent]. someone submits the latest
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> a sort of wildly self-improving problem-solving algorithm that has no real consciousness and simply goes on an optimization rampage through the world That sounds pretty similar to humans.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Ever since Frankenstein was written, I think we have always been unfairly predisposed to think our creations will turn on us. Probably due to the ubiquitous nature of inner-guilt or as a social legacy of Christian sin.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
Facebook has not built any robot cars that can accelerate onto highways, so no. For innovation, Google is practically grad school in comparison to Facebook. [ I'm not sure if Facebook has invented or done anything new rather than just make
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by metamemetics 16y ago
An additional problem with subsidies is the detrimant to international trade. For example, massive subsidies make corn in America TOO cheap, that everyone in Mexico City buys American corn! Yet comparative advantage would say Mexico, with a
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> I have no means of predicting the political state of the world in another couple of centuries. Do you? We can look at futurists who claim they do. We can look at big trends that have occurred since the Big Bang. And the "futurists"
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> being more natural to people My argument was actually that things modeled after genetically evolved structures share in the advantages of increased genetic fitness inherent in that design. i.e. Survivability and future-proofness. [i.
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> I wouldn't be drawing diagrams of synapses and how the chemical signals flow I actually think that's a pretty good analogy for what programmers do. You program the give function to accepted the variables nominative (you), accussative
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> but the recursive structures in human languages generally don't get more than a couple levels deep - the linguistic stack seems to get smashed pretty easily. Sentences yes (figure 7 chunk limit), semantic associations tokened by wor
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by metamemetics 16y ago
> Spoken language sentences do not evaluate each other and none of them are apparently functions I tried to clarify the proper analogy at the end. LISP is not directly analogous to spoken language (the surface level), LISP is directly

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