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There's lack of proof to back up the 10k hours. I get that he has worked 15 years at prestigious companies but I have to take his word on it. Some aphorisms jelled with me but othe…

It's still difficult to export very unique tangibles and intangibles from Silicon Valley. The intangibles: a high tolerance for risk and a high degree of insatiable curiosity unfet…

Yeah, created a bot that just trades the 1D MACD on Ethereum on a point & figure chart crossing up. Ridic how profitable this is. Proof is backtest on tradingview.

Which historians is he referring to here? It is no real secret that as a discipline, military history is sometimes held in low regard by other historians. The crux of his argument …

Yeah, let's just ignore the 1.2 billion Muslims in the world that don't drink and assume they're untrustworthy. What a sophomoric article! الله اكبر

In different senses. Socrates prefers philosopher kings. Aristotle, a mixed polity, e.g. a government with checks and balances.

I'm truly baffled by this. Was it an attempt to display marketing prowess?

Great suggestion, and it also does fill in the chronological gaps in anyone's history of philosophy education. All those years ignored by uni aren't with this podcast. The companio…

How did this end up on the front page? Hacker News has always struck me as anti-philosophical and anti-literature. This was one of the book that I read on my own after reading Bloo…

Why node? 2 reasons: async which C# has too, and coding in just one language. And no, writing backend JavaScript doesn't mean you're better.

What a missed opportunity for developing new tech with all that capital! Brilliance should always be needed and welcomed.

You mention gatekeepers going away, but aren't the barriers to doing information warfare held by the same gatekeepers (the monied and the state)?

All the firing of brilliant coders at WeWork makes sense now, after reading that Adam is dyslexic. These coders were asked to make something awesome. Given that vague direction, so…

It's possible but all the tools, the author of the language notes, have a 50 year head start in English with English language assumptions baked in, e.g. reading left to right vs ri…

I work on the backend so I have a de facto boycott. On the front end I'd probably be forced to use it until something better came along.

All, too, well aware. After Facebook bought Instagram was the last time I saw Kevin and Mikey (IG's co-founders). You're right to point this out, but I'm very ambivalent: a tool th…

Ordinary citizens: Even in a US presidential state of the union, the Presidents (Trump included) will quote ordinary citizens about how the country is doing.

In a world where QE is used to fund everything, this is the result. Incentivize rather than penalize saving and this goes away.

Anything that goes from Zero to 1 (Peter Thiel). An example, pre-airplane civilization to a jet set civilization. I'd say that in 2016, that was the year for ML to seriously influe…

This piece is shocking in that nobody was interviewed. Not one single source anonymous nor named. This fails journalism 101 for me.

It looks like configuration management for devops. If I have an app and want it run in 3 different environments that each have rapidly changing configs, I might use this. But I won…

The same reason a real estate company needs data science. To find correlations that no human can find given their vast stores of data for co-workers.

The article never explains why Wittgenstein is overrated. I've read it twice. All I can gather is that Moore felt he didn't really understand W's philosophical method enough to use…

IMHO, the politics has created an industry of homelessness. SROs or other business are created by political fiat to cater and keep people homeless.