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8 years ago
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on: ‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
I'm not lack of control is the deciding factor here. People still accept car accidents even if they're not the ones driving the car, such as when you're riding a bus.
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8 years ago
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on: DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Album, and $7.3M
How can something be a crime if there are no victims?
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8 years ago
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on: Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
Wouldn't that mean they don't get away with most murders?
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9 years ago
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on: Anagram Scoring
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9 years ago
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on: Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
The utilitarian approach is such an interesting way to frame problems like this. It's obviously wrong for me to murder to my neighbor for their organs, even if those organs could save five other lives. But is it okay for a car company to roll out an AI program if it saves more lives than it costs? When viewed from afar the utilitarian mindset is always so alluring.
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9 years ago
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on: Post office stamps as currency (1862)
One of my favorite quotes from Making Money, discussing the true power of gold:
"It’s in the city itself. The city says: In exchange for that gold, you will have all these things. The city is the magician, the alchemist in reverse. It turns worthless gold into…everything."
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9 years ago
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on: Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
People have a finite amount of time and energy. How do you choose what to prioritize if not by saying that some things are worse than others? They didn't say that some things don't matter, just that it doesn't come close ethically.
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9 years ago
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on: World's oldest person Emma Morano dies at 117
Still, if it's a process as poorly understood as dying of old age, saying "made me wonder if any of her longevity can be credited to having a severely calorie restricted diet" seems like a reasonable response.
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9 years ago
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on: Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down
Your thesis is basically, ratings mean absolutely nothing, and how good something is should solely be based on how popular it is?
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9 years ago
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on: The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript
The article lists
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:moment:20161019 as an example of a vulnerability (although not one that is tracked). Could someone explain how a Javascript vulnerability could cause a DDoS? Even if it does cause Moment to hang, how would that affect the server?
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9 years ago
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on: Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack
> For example, the profile page could be potentially very light, and there would be no reason for that if someone is linked directly to the profile page; it should load every single piece of Javascript in our project.
There are plenty of ways to do that with single Page apps; it's not a great argument against all single page apps, just poorly designed ones.
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9 years ago
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on: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Those are some absolutely stunning photos! I love the design and layout.
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
A Reddit alternative where the ranking for posts was personalized to each user. The ranking would be based the similarity between the voting history of the people who've voted compared to your own voting history. Think Netflix recommendation algorithm for Reddit.
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?
One I don't see recommended very often is: Fortune's Formula. It describes the lives of Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp (author of Beat the Dealer) and how they use the Kelley formula in both gambling and investing. The Kelley formula, as the book explains, is a formula for determining the optimum amount to bet on a wager (or investment) if you know the edge you have over the house.
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9 years ago
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on: Is artificial intelligence permanently inscrutable?
I strongly agree but I'm left wondering, what would a falsifiable experiment look like in this case?
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9 years ago
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on: A Primer on the React Ecosystem: Part 2 of 3
Since this article's been written, the eslint-airbnb version chaos has been sorted out and is fixed with v10.0.0. It was a pretty annoying mess for a while, there.
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10 years ago
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on: What Happened When Venture Capitalists Took Over the Golden State Warriors
I thought this article was a pretty good overview of the team, and it did at least acknowledge the difficulty in separating the ownership from the start player, in terms of success. But one part at the end seemed super out of place.
> He confided that he figures he’s one of the 10 best blackjack players in the worl
What? How can this man be thought of as a shrewd businessman by anyone after saying something like that. The only possibly explanation could be that he's referring to card counting, but I doubt he's playing million dollar games against people that don't realize what he's doing.
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10 years ago
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on: Django React Redux JWT Base Project
Does this render all the React content server-side first? I wasn't able to figure out from an initial glance through the files.
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10 years ago
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on: Use Atom to edit in Chrome
This is a really cool idea, accidentally pressing my Sublime shortcuts on website forms is definitely a very common mistake for me.
