truethurts

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by truethurts 14y ago
How dare he say that? :) No stretch is too much for the Reality Distortion Field. We can invent a new reality. We are Apple. Watch as we make the complaints disappear. Poof!
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by truethurts 14y ago
Agreed. What if someone with Theil's resources "brute forced" some area of therapeutic development, like Gates did with vaccines? I say brute forced because the natural tendency of investment has never tended toward vaccines. It has tend
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by truethurts 14y ago
Am I really the first comment? I have beaten the cultish defenders of Apple? Is it because Apple is not in the title? I will steal their fire: This guy is wrong. He's wrong. He's just wrong. Blah, blah, blah. OK, now that we have tha
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by truethurts 14y ago
What if you are a policy maker, or someone poised to influence policy makers, that could affect the prospects for Silicon Valley and "Web 2.0"? I cannot take him and his arguments about "science" seriously because 1. he is using the concept
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by truethurts 14y ago
"go work on it himself" Amen. Some of his philanthropic efforts may prove beneficial to science. He could just be a quiet philanthropist. But these sort of PR pieces, even putting aside how annoying they are in terms the total lack of sou
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by truethurts 14y ago
Great idea for a post and great idea for a project. I have thought about something similar. Encouraging people to read code, by making it easier to do, is a worthy objective.
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by truethurts 14y ago
But the statement is not applicable to PayPal nor many of Thiel's "Web 2.0" investments. Yet it is used in the column as if it were. NB Section III. Do you understand?
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by truethurts 14y ago
"Leverage is not a solution for scientific progress." But neither is PayPal an example of scientific progress. It's squarely in the same category as credit. A way of separating people from their money. Science is about learning and, hopefu
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by truethurts 14y ago
The coders who join these companies are not in it to do the right things (cf. the popular things), to make sound decisions (even if they are based on "old" thinking, like the notion of privacy, and appear to be boring). These developers are
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by truethurts 14y ago
This a question I think about often. Like everyday. Here's a few tenative conclusions: 1. The best coders are not necessarily interested in the same things as people who start "Web 2.0" companies. 2. Many of these coders who never get invo