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"Doesn't make sense for us but mandated by policy" is a super common phenomenon that you'll sadly encounter all the time in the industry. Especially when it comes to security. In t…

"it would be cool if ..." runs into "but effort" and dies, while "it sucks that ..." is something that gnaws at you

If you're playing Terraforming Mars you want to build your "engine", in terms of resources or points generated per turn. The usual way to achieve this efficiently is to use up as m…

https://picrankr.com - upload pictures and have friends rank them. I've already showed it to enough people to know about some of the issues the idea has, and will improve it whenev…

Yeah, it's a good example of lindy

Pretty sure that is because of metals. Living things die when boiling anyway

FYI: The author of this blog post also wrote "How to do research at the MIT AI Research Lab". While it's fair to suspect he may not be fully up to scratch with how things are done,…

You can't look only at track record. Afaik they have an unreasonable amount of infantry for purely defensive purposes. They're #3 globally in terms of firepower, of course they won…

I got really stressed out by Trump winning, but I still think the backlash against social media and tech companies has a lot to do with the establishment being afraid of losing pow…

The author can't have listened much to Thiel. He certainly doesn't speak without a filter, most of what he says he will repeat in interview after interview, for years. Every now an…

Shulgin was pretty weird, but maybe not as weird as some of the others.

Panasonic must be very happy about this plan

When is enough enough? No-one gets to say. For better or for worse, a race to the bottom is a coordination problem where the incentive is always to be the defecting party. This mea…

Yes, a thousand times this. First of all, regex in the wild (e.g. Perl regex) is much more powerful than the CS version (that can only handle regular languages). This point is ofte…

David Chapman, the author of "How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab" is currently writing a book on meta-rationality over at meaningness.com. Highly recommended. A taste from the bl…

Recommended by Peter Thiel

Why give it away? Could be spent on some pretty amazing projects that would otherwise not happen, with enough imagination.

Sunk cost, just stop

This interests me, who would I contact to sell that slave coal? Do they use external recruiters? Any pointers would be appreciated

HN thread from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209228

Kind of proving my point? :) He did have to go aginst the grain though[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8UKBAOfGo

If you had read my comment a little more charitably, you might have noticed that I never said you shouldn't consult or listen to experts, but simply that you shouldn't assume someo…