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by nmrm2 11y ago
> They are not after the 1%, never have, and never will. They are after you and me, my friend. Oh right. Those bastards trying to close corporate tax loopholes are totally doing so because they hate me and all the money I'm not sa
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Parent said METERS, not feet. So parent is saying maybe 8mil for a mile. Not insane to assume low volume work in a presumably remote area will be double or triple the price that the entire state of Florida can get. Especially for a previous
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> So a few hundred feed, costing millions? Nonsense. 1. Your parent actually actively maintains a private road, and has probably done their research... 2. It costs them so much because they just have a single road, so they can't a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I hope that globalization isn't inconsistent with national autonomy, especially when it comes to taxation and social policy. If these two things are inconsistent, then globalization will lose out in the long run. That would be a shame,
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Hence buying 100k of the same car.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> If you really mean globally, then inequality is in fact falling. No. Inequality is decreasing between nations as the developing world catches up with the west. But inequality within nations -- even developing nations -- is increa
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Even if you only care about programming, you should still try to get a fair deal. Places that treat you fair are more likely to have high-quality senior devs who will make you better at your craft. Aynways, the currency does still matter. T
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by nmrm2 11y ago
1. I was responding to your Mercedes/Uber scenario; the comment I was replying to literally didn't mention Tesla (which fits more aptly to Apple's position in the desktop computing analogy). 2. Interstate driving autonomy and
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by nmrm2 11y ago
People said the same thing about Microsoft. As it turns out, going from sensors to working self-driving car is a pretty difficult task, and Uber has some of the best self-driving researchers in the world working for them.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Retro-fitting. They buy plain old cars and then slap their sensor suite on top.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
It is clear that you've never been through an entire market cycle.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Product development isn't actually the purpose of science.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Oh, I meant get off my lawn
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Yes. Most people who used the early web spent huge amounts of time making one or more of these. And posted them. Not just for free, but even on shared hosting plans they paid for. People paid money to share their "content" for
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> American police forces are already stretched to the limit and can be easily tied up Which is why state police and then the National Guard and then other branches of the military become involved in any serious unrest. E.g. Ferguson fo
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Fair enough. But I don't think "Hard Tech" is being used as SV jargon here. The first paragraph defines what is meant by "hard technology" mainly in the negative -- critics who say "SV isn't doing hard tec
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I don't think parent meant to say that the technology behind Facebook is trivial. Just that it's trivial when contrasted with a bunch of technologies that are at best in prototype stage. A decade-long life extension or growing mea
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by nmrm2 11y ago
>> and some good experience manipulating continuous functions and their derivatives. > Nope 1. "good experience manipulating differentiable functions and their derivatives" sounds weird in prose. 2. Some continuous functi
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Hard Tech means nontrivial problems in all varieties, but Altman is particularly "excited about AI (both general AI and narrow AI applied to specific industries, which seems like the most obvious win in all of startups right now), biot
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> If they seriously expected people to stop dying then the estimated value of life insurance policies would drop to zero. I think it's (not im)possible that rates would go up ! Here's why: The most risky (largest) life insur
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Interestingly, variations on "the exploratory garden-path" are widely hailed by qualitative social science researchers as sound methodology.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I think the article is using software maintenance as a kind of inside-government term-of-art for the maintenance portion of a waterfall-style project. Undoubtedly, the audience of this article is software developers and managers of software
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Or, more accurately, most US homes do have one -- it's in the coffee maker :-)
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> How does learning to code prep one for work as a service technician or helpdesk agent? Because it's treated as an alternative to the main-line college preparedness curriculum. This isn't Algebra I + Programming I. It's
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> They are talking about how the internet, which was once seen a conduit of 'truth', is just a conduit which also spreads bullshit That's what bikamonki was saying. jerf's comment was tangential to the central thesi
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> computer science professors generally speaking couldn't care less about the marketability of their degree programs among the general public, much less the lower income general public. Enrollment numbers just aren't importan
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Offering a glimpse into the not-too-distant future, [Joseph Sweeney] describes a day when... artificial-intelligence system will build the app... Coding might then be nearly obsolete It's always cute to hear school administrator
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> There was never a stream of pure, refined truth availablem, that just somehow lacked a distribution method Academic educational programs have exactly been the source-without-a-scalable-distribution-method for at least the past centur
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I think the size of labs is more important. Bio and Chem labs -- especially the best ones -- are often freaking huge. There's no way the PI actually has time to meaningfully contribute to every paper when they are bringing in enough mo
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years It's really interesting -- I heard this 15 years ago. I think post-modernism has been "dead for about 10-15 years" for at least the past 15

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