qez

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by qez 3y ago
If you find yourself explaining the intricacies of CNN algorithms in your suicide note, consider that you are too "dug into" a bespoke topic. In 2 years, none of these math problems would be his mind at all.
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by qez 3y ago
I wonder, are there an infinite number of proofs of the theorem, each more complex than the last? Can I rephrase what they did, make it more convoluted, and call it a new proof?
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by qez 3y ago
Whoever wrote this piece is a bad communicator who thinks he's a good communicator, and then goes through life getting confused about why no one understands him. For example, in the story about the Japanese, he assumes some context fro
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by qez 4y ago
This post claims that the answer to "why white" is because of the beneficial effects it has on the disposition of the writer. But that's hardly a reason to write, that's just a helpful side effect. The reason to write is
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by qez 4y ago
As someone without a lot of math background, the most confusing part of this is k. Is k a number, like 7.45 or whatever? Or something else? Everything else is just normal mathy stuff.
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by qez 4y ago
> So then you need users. Elon has 115 million followers on Twitter. He'd get users no matter what he built, so he's solved that problem too No. He got that number of followers because he is on Twitter. He would not get the sam
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by qez 4y ago
> Some of them, like Dolphins, sure seem damned close to our own capabilities with likely fully formed languages ... Because we're definitely trying to communicate with the species we're aware of that we think have language. Th
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by qez 4y ago
> But as for "could"? Shit you can do that at Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Yes, these are some of the highest paying companies on the planet. Your statement is not a put-down of Jane Street.
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What's the Catch?(epiphanyaweek.com)
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by qez 4y ago
> anymore than there is a clear winner between tabs and spaces. But there is a clear winner here. Tabs won, almost all code files use spaces. Of course everyone uses the tab key on their keyboard, and the IDE makes spaces for you; no one
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by qez 4y ago
I don't think solar energy is the only type of energy. And if you are at "we are running out of square meters of land to put solar panels on", space might actually be viable at that level of advancement. Food is not limited b
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by qez 4y ago
No that's their point. We could provide for everyone but we do not. I disagree with that like you might, but you're missing the point.
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by qez 4y ago
> Not being able to send things into space is not scarcity. Strictly speaking, this is false.
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by qez 4y ago
> Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way? I think it's clear from Paul Graham's essays that he always basically defined "hacking" as just programming. He then cr
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by qez 4y ago
Who decides what's right for humanity? Someone has to. How about the owners... aka the shareholders.
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by qez 5y ago
People will overgeneralize this. The biggest similarity is that they are both personal finance / money related subreddits. The other connections are mostly the human mind making a story. Not everyone on r/poor is poor, not everyon
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by qez 5y ago
The author seems to be confusing distributed systems with market systems. Cloud services are a market system, but it isn't distributed... it's all in central servers. The technologies that are "simply never going to be able t
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by qez 5y ago
I have most of my money invested with Vanguard, but I will say that they don't actually have the lowest fees in the industry.
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by qez 5y ago
This is weaponized verbiage. "My opponents are wrong because I assume they have harmful motivations." Way to dodge the actual point of contention: whether modern art styles are ugly vs classical styles. Most people should not and
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by qez 5y ago
No, there is no reason to believe that.
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by qez 5y ago
The capacity to practice is itself partially innate. Take a person with ADHD - they will naturally have a harder time practicing piano. I myself was unable to practice piano as a child, but for different reasons.
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by qez 5y ago
He didn't misrepresent or disagree with the author. He added extra commentary on something the author brought up.
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by qez 5y ago
As per gold: I agree with that common objection. If bitcoin is a ponzi, so is gold. > First, few if any gold investors have expectations of profits. They generally invest in gold as a hedge -- a "store of value" -- that they ho
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by qez 5y ago
> So while my students are out on their walks, they might be mind-wandering more than in the classroom, but this is a good thing To be a bit flippant, isn't this obvious? Who thinks that mind-wandering is a bad thing? Teachers, I gu
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by qez 5y ago
> The requirements aren’t being used internally as a strict pass/fail criteria before anyone is considered for the position. Then they are mislabeled as "minimum requirements." They must be relabeled as "preferred req
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by qez 5y ago
And I know many more who sought out his class.
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by qez 5y ago
I think you read the blog post in the wrong order. The apology is on line 3.
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by qez 5y ago
> My main criticism to cryptocurrencies is that they're mostly unbacked. The fact of a currency being "backed" by something went away in 1933. No currency is "backed". > This makes me think cryptocurrencies ar
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by qez 5y ago
I was a bit shocked by this sentence > On the media 'not taking it seriously' - because there was no evidence whatsoever outside of conjecture and it was being pushed heavily by misinfo merchants. As far as I can tell, it makes
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by qez 5y ago
Oh ok, the prisoner's dilemma is about whether you should tell your coworkers your salary.

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