passivate

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by passivate 4y ago
It is a bit sad to see the smartest engineers in the world all working towards implementing and maintaining the largest spying apparatus in history. We should be focusing on learning from and highlighting people who are working to make the
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by passivate 4y ago
Heh, I got a chuckle out of that :) Thanks for sharing.
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by passivate 4y ago
Lobbying itself doesn't involve an exchange of money (its illegal to directly compensate a politician in exchange for services). If you write a letter to a politician its lobbying. Donations, many of which are legitimate, are regulated
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by passivate 4y ago
You're 100% correct. Its mostly about finding a system that works for you. As a format fat person I have internalized the fact that my body's hunger signal is broken and that 'eat when you are hungry' leads to weight gai
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by passivate 4y ago
A lot of human progress in core sciences and engineering is on the backs of people toiling the midnight hours on sheer passion for little monetary reward. We owe a great debt of gratitude towards them. In any commercial organization, there
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by passivate 4y ago
Except CEOs, apparently they're always overpaid. ;)
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by passivate 4y ago
>States provide the infrastructure and educate the workforce which enables the job creations. Yes, there is a nice division of responsibilities. But ultimately, governments are doing the jobs they get paid for. And they're not only
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by passivate 4y ago
There were a lot many years from the time of Amazon's inception till they became a monopoly. It seems like your "what could be" experiment has already been done. There was plenty of opportunity, but nobody managed to build a
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by passivate 4y ago
For me, I am convinced that they create jobs, spend money in the economy, help provide valuable goods and services to society, etc. Amazon is famous for not hoarding money but re-investing their profits. Most 401ks invest in index funds tha
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by passivate 4y ago
By that same logic, why should USA salaries be higher than the rest of the developed world? Will you work less hard if you can only get $70,000 versus $200,000? The CEO is an employee. The owners of the company hire him/her to do a job
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by passivate 4y ago
That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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by passivate 4y ago
The quantum substrate being non-deterministic doesn't mean that free-will exists/doesn't exist. It has to be shown as such. What is happening at the quantum level, to the extent that we can understand it, isn't directly
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by passivate 4y ago
>Well current scientific thought says yes Link to evidence?
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by passivate 4y ago
Wind the clock back to a time when you made a decision. Is it possible for you to make a different decision if you had the exact same mood/context/environment/knowledge and all the sub-atomic particles were exactly identical
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by passivate 4y ago
Since its near you, have you tried going there and explaining it to the manager?
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by passivate 4y ago
>In the glorious future, every website will be chock-full of semantic metadata. Restaurants won't have a 50MB PDF explaining the chef's vision for organic cuisine That is a good idea, especially for visually impaired users - bu
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by passivate 4y ago
Okay, but I'm not sure what the pentagon papers have to do with coinbase or anything we're discussing here. It goes without saying that I am not proposing a principle that applies in every single situation, for every single person
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by passivate 4y ago
I was not thinking this to be a payroll position. Just a consulting / one-off transaction. In those situations, I haven't heard of any verification of immigration documents... maybe its common, I don't know.
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by passivate 4y ago
I don't think we should reward employees for bringing the stock up, but blame the CEO for when the stock drops. Its a team effort either way. >That doesn't make the title click bait. It does. Sensationalism and misleading headl
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by passivate 4y ago
I don't know everything about Coinbase's history, but I agree with most of the tweet. Airing dirty laundry in public, and arm twisting management is not really a great strategy. There will always be a power asymmetry, and it was u
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by passivate 4y ago
Hmm, are you on the hook if they don't disclose this?
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by passivate 4y ago
> Even here on HN, plenty of folks will comment on all kinds of research they know little about. I don't see anything wrong with that, because all opinions are not equal. I think there is some level of pressure to get one's wor
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by passivate 4y ago
I don't think low level system APIs when called from an App should be messing with UI components. Can you explain what is better about it?
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by passivate 4y ago
I don't think its realistic to expect a Windows developer to solve a problem in Excel!
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by passivate 4y ago
I think news is a public good, and much like paying for educating our kids, there has to be a sustainable funding model to educate the adults as well. But thats my view, and we may have a disagreement. I don't wish to convince you othe
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by passivate 4y ago
Sure, but it takes time to build brands like NYT, WSJ, WaPo etc. Until then, personal credibility will have to suffice.
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by passivate 4y ago
You will come to rely on publisher branding, following the work of specific authors who you know do good work, etc. Its no different than knowing if the food tastes good at the new restaurant.
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by passivate 4y ago
It should be possible in any western system of law to defend content containing provably true statements (IANAL!). >The thesis that it's ok that we simply not give humanity places to speak & share is ghastly. That goes against t
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by passivate 4y ago
>with the added benefit of actual inheritance Has this inheritance actually been experimentally demonstrated? Yes, random assembly of inherently unstable RNA molecules in a nucleotide soup is possible. And agreed, some of these randomly
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by passivate 4y ago
Nobody is using a phone that is larger than a human's vertical field of view at arms length. Even otherwise, human vision is based on eye movements and a complex form of visual integration. Your desire to mock others is entirely your f

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