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dgellow
20,453karma·5,795submissions·March 22, 2013
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Located in Hamburg, Germany.
1st Stainless engineer, 2022-26 (bought by Anthropic).
My main interest on this website is reading about VC investing, privacy related topics, and indie businesses.
https://sam.elborai.me
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I really don’t think so. You just replaced hate speech by dehumanizing speech but have the exact same situation. Same question then, what is dehumanizing speech, who defines it? The definition that yo…
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Are colleges and bootcamps the only options in the US? Don’t you have apprenticeships (with and without school at the same time), technical schools (with and without working at a company at the same t…
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The threat of withdrawal is part of the negotiation as far as I can tell.
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C has clearly other issues than just a lack of features.
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Google explicitly said in their post that they don’t have more than two weeks of logs (ironically, for privacy reasons).
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Any idea what happened in between 2013-2014?
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How did you picture it?
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I’m curious about the reasons someone would use Datomic. Did you just tried it out to evaluate it or did you have an actual use case for it? If you did have one, would you be okay to elaborate?
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That seems sincere and is well formulated. Kudos to him for sharing that publicly.
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> They have figured out that its much more about connections and office politics than hard work. Just to be fair, developing/maintaining/managing connections and the political side (negoc…
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Can I ask you to be more specific on the underhyped part?
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Have you read the article you linked? Nothing in it is remotely closed to what one would call “horrible security”.
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Please, provide sources if you’re willing to say something like that.
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My comment was specifically about hate speech. I never argued that absolute freedom of speech was a thing or that anyone can say anything.
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> There is also laws around hate speech and so forth. Not in the US (as far as I understand). See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United…
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> Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries. We are engaged on the issue and committed to looking at options that support our full range of digital offerings to…
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Isn’t this “fake” politeness part of the German culture? I see it in everything related to business communication, from banks, insurances, public services, etc. Even from retail stores. That has been …
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10% sounds impossibly high to be honest. I would expect something around 0.1%, but I cannot easily find data :(
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My guess is “Due diligence”
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Yep, that makes sense said like that :)
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> But saying "what happened, happened" isn't teaching us anything, it's just a tautology. That’s a very reductionist summary of what I wrote that I wouldn’t consider accurate. I…
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I think that you misunderstood my comment. I’m not arguing about probability, I’m saying that the toss of coins have already been done, and cannot be repeated or changed. That’s exactly what defines t…
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What are you disagreeing with? I don’t see what is not true, based on your response.
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> Really, nobody actually studies history going forward. We don't for example study random people's backgrounds on the off chance they might have an impact. Rather we pick important figur…