pocketsquare2

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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Well. Aren't Velvet Underground basically a Genghis Khan of 20th century western music, as in 95% of people who attended their shows started a band, and roughly 37% of contemporary bands carry their DNA? :) That said, baity title but t
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Occam's Razor. You typed a lot of words when the truth is obvious. Billionaires don't acquire media outlets to make money (directly).
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
The title now is "In praise of Tesla’s bankruptcy." Did Tesla file for bankruptcy? I'm confused. Nikolai Tesla filed for bankruptcy in 1916. This is phenomenally irresponsible of TechCrunch generally, and Jon Evans specifical
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Case further in point, MJ with "The Shrug Game" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daP4JysFcUg
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Is Eugene Kaspersky going the way of Julian Assange, or is he just another Deep State 33rd Degree Freemason casualty? Who knows. Either way the flavor of the comments on this thread are really, really unusual for Hacker News and YCombinator
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
> Edit: I’m not saying that Ive’s a bad designer. Not at all. No, that's exactly what you're saying. Would you mind providing an example of your Platonic ideal of a designer?
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
They are artificially manipulating the market. That's about as textbook rigging as putting three masts on a ship.
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Link to the article, published in Nature, so we can judge it on its merits rather than via the NYT summary: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00957-y Either way awesome NYT article title.
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
I'm impressed by a great product. What are you doing with all those FLOPs?
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
knowing what i know about fiserv your thesis is either laughable or horrifying, the truth likely lying somewhere in between as it does
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
> In this talk we'll draw a direct connection between this ubiquitous insecurity and basic computer science concepts of Turing completeness and theory of languages. We will show how well-meant protocol designs are doomed to their im
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
The fact that I couldn't read this because it redirected me to a Medium web app that I wasn't logged into told me everything I needed to know about the article. The medium remains the massage.
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Sorry, but how is that any more non-electronic than storing your ATM PIN in a safe? Given that the weakest security link is invariably human.
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Correction: the best UI is no UI. A UI doesn't have to be point and click; it can be 4 confusing refuse receptacles. The best UX is happiness, beauty, convenience, pleasure, security, justice, idealism, power and so on. Did you really
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
sounds like you experienced a 0th world problem
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
I'll go on the record and say that Equifax makes subpar quantitative decisions; i.e. cannot do the math. And also that their attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys, and their attorneys' attorneys' attorneys are very b
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in... shit ." - Mark "Citation Needed" Twain
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
John Sculley. "Jeff [Immelt], do you want to sell planned-obsolescence dryers and weather derivatives the rest of your life?"
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
If everywhere you go smells like shit, maybe it's time to check your shoes.
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
Awesome vision, product and person. I started using RescueTime back in '09 and it has helped me immensely over the years. I would say incalculably but I can actually calculate the impact quite well. :) RIP and best to his family, frien
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
It would be really fantastic to hear more if you're willing to share!
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
it is always easier to criticize than to create
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
The first time I tried to read a Feynman Diagram as a kid I had to put it down -- the incessant "ME! ME! ME!" dripping from every subatomic particle was a little too much.
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
> The tech who services my car at the premium car dealership said he has another job in addition to this full time job and still cant afford stake [sic] at home. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche?
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by pocketsquare2 9y ago
You're comparing Vanguard to Enron & MCI / WorldCom. Would you mind explaining your analogy? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't think, for example, my investments in Vanguard funds are precarious because they are o
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by pocketsquare2 10y ago
What sample size or methodology for the question at hand would satisfy you at this point? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science