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by olfactory 8y ago
Today we have a military industrial complex supported by both parties and our most vital student loans (championed by our "left" party) come with no bankruptcy protection. We do have a very strong Federal government, but it's
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by olfactory 8y ago
He's going to be many times over the richest person in history before long. This has been clear for a long time if you look at the rate of growth of his wealth. But it's not bad news. Bezos has an unmatched ability to create infr
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by olfactory 8y ago
I've moved many of my tech investments into Amazon b/c of the steady track record and stable trajectory of good decision making and execution. If the economy tanks, it makes Amazon's review data and free shipping even more va
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by olfactory 8y ago
That's misleading though, because he's had great risk of ruin and lots of smart people have tried (Jet, Azure, etc.) to compete with him but have fallen short. Compare Amazon to something done by government like the highways. Whe
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by olfactory 8y ago
Bezos will surpass that several times over in the next few years. He's added tremendous economic value which is why so many of us pay him for his many products and services.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Is it not obvious that this article is meant to make us imagine beloved elders as participants in high risk sex?
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by olfactory 8y ago
That just changes the risk profile of deciding to execute a trade vs the predictable outcome. It may be more costly or less costly than existing approaches.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Well, FWIW js is not the most friendly language for functional programming. I'd argue that the trend toward immutable.js and redux occurred partly because rest/spread syntax was/is relatively confusing, and so immutable patt
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by olfactory 8y ago
His point was that openness is highly valued. The way I'd put it is that in SF, it is completely OK to be a nonconformist and to do things your own way. It's actually hard to be fully aware of the high levels of conformity one f
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by olfactory 8y ago
Yes. This is obvious but also counterintuitive. People forget that it's a long game and that malware (such as Stuxnet) is patient and penetrates gradually.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Great links. I've been using cake for a while but without the advanced options. One random question: Does it ever make sense to add SQM to a tap_soft interface? I have two locations and both have SQM set up to minimize bufferbloat, but
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by olfactory 8y ago
I think it makes sense to give it 100 pages, but I read a fair bit faster than the average person. I think it is also a question of the other factors indicating that a book might be worth reading... is it a classic? Have others highly reco
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by olfactory 8y ago
A few interesting things about SDR and the kind of tinkering and experimentation one can do: - in amateur radio, SDR is starting to dominate new commercial designs, but has not yet overtaken the superhet. - you can buy a low end SDR (rtlsdr
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by olfactory 8y ago
Maybe different learning styles? I spoke with one very young math prodigy a few years ago who told me that her secret to self teaching advanced material was that she tries several texts and ends up using the one that teaches the material i
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by olfactory 8y ago
> I doubt it was some hybrid free for all like you're suggesting. I certainly would not have expected it to be a free-for-all, but the quote I pasted suggests that there was not necessarily a perspective on how the decision about th
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by olfactory 8y ago
Doing a hybrid app in the way that the articles describe sounds like a recipe for tremendous complexity. One line in one of the linked articles that really struck me was "Often times, it is not clear whether code should be written in
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by olfactory 8y ago
There is a big difference between ego and narcissism. Many people have low self-esteem, which means that they are constantly doubting themselves, feeling less worthy than others, feeling destined for failure, feeling too timid to take reaso
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by olfactory 8y ago
The root cause of this problem is that YouTube does not offer a whitelist only option for parents.
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by olfactory 8y ago
FWIW I think you guys should put out a major call for help to other companies and add more non-FB people to the core committers. React Native is fantastic, but the ecosystem is thrashed around horribly by these kinds of bugs and the non res
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by olfactory 8y ago
This is a great point. There have been a few issues that I've followed only to find that eventually the entire thread on Github with tons of example cases of the bug gets "closed for inactivity" because nobody from Facebook
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by olfactory 8y ago
> Why should Facebook pay for that? Because the overall health of the open source ecosystem around React and React Native depends upon the cost of development being somewhat predictable. Most of the bugs in this category are inefficient
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by olfactory 8y ago
I think you should just hire a few smart people who can be dedicated to supporting these issues which are high priority outside Facebook. These issues are extremely costly to teams using React and they absolutely need much faster resoluti
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by olfactory 8y ago
Official inflation numbers are based on a basket of goods that are thought to be representative for the purpose of broad economic policy. But it's certainly true that inflation is not the same for all goods or for the basket that is hi
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by olfactory 8y ago
And significantly more opaque. I’d say the title went from a B to a B- due to the moderation action.
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by olfactory 8y ago
I've always maintained that Open Source is less an ideological movement opposed to capitalism than it is a different sort of contract for capitalist interactions. Of course, it was inevitable that in order to survive Microsoft would ad
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by olfactory 8y ago
The second one created from the same IP worked, so that does not seem to explain it. I think it's unlikely that deng would find the punishment problematic.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Nurture is the major factor in nearly every aspect of human achievement. Alternative explanations justify genocide, neglect, and let adults off the hook.
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by olfactory 8y ago
Not sure how HN has limited bandwidth. It would seemingly be easy to simply ignore Bitcoin discussions if you don't care for the topic. I avoid discussions of Ruby on Rails but do not believe they should be suppressed.
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by olfactory 8y ago
> Political discussions usually descend into arguments about competing values. People have different interpretations of the trade-offs, and the friction turns into a lot of heat, without much light. The same can be said for discussion of
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by olfactory 8y ago
Very well put. I've made a very similar point to HN mods in the past and it was arrogantly rebuffed. They just don't perceive the distinction you describe. I think many HN readers agree with the point you make, but a vocal and inf

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