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bigleagueposter··on Facebook moving away from React Native?
Only considering products made by actual engineers at big companies makes a ton of sense. All the dead web frameworks of the week where made by silly hipsters weren't great choices in retrospect.
bigleagueposter··on Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
P = NP is trivially true on machines which compute everything instantly (using paradoxes).
bigleagueposter··on Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)
Fuzzy analogies will get you nowhere.

> And the issue of trying to prove N=NP is essentially trying to prove that there isn't a magical way to train a neural network with just one image of training data

No it's not. You can't do reasoning on bullshit inaccurate analogies.

bigleagueposter··on Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapping schools (2017)
> I objected to the game and the rules, and did not want to play. After the game, in class, he commented that "Exchange students always object that the rules are unfair, while local students always accept that the rich get to set them."

Isn't objecting to unfair games super silly as life is inherently unfair.

bigleagueposter··on On Cumulative Advantage and How to Think About Luck
Doesn't mean the rules of making money don't cause it to drift to those who already have a shitton of it.
bigleagueposter··on Ask HN: Any good collaboratively built documentation on good parenting?
Plenty of way parents can heavily influence you. I would have turned out much different if my father didn't teach me programming. The current POTUS wouldn't be who he is if he didn't get a small loan of a million dollars.
bigleagueposter··on Who controls glibc?
Nope
bigleagueposter··on Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body
Pig brains are just (dog) food. Morality shouldn't be concerned with food no matter how sentient it is.
bigleagueposter··on GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere
MoarVM/NQP compares very badly with Graal and Truffle. MoarVM is a ton slower and less flexible.
bigleagueposter··on More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices
Hitler is the most well known vegetarian.
bigleagueposter··on When should behaviour outside a community have consequences inside it?
Radical vegan want to deny the fundamental right of eating meat.
bigleagueposter··on Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016
Google is moving stuff from the Microsoft controlled desktop to the browser.
bigleagueposter··on Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016
I support google because they are enemies of microsoft/apple/facebook.
bigleagueposter··on Facebook's market share has declined by 7.2% in the last six months
great
bigleagueposter··on Justice Department suing AT&T to block $85B bid for Time Warner
CNN is extremely anti-Trump
bigleagueposter··on Artificial Intelligence Uses Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
Looking at the paper the set of games it can build seems rather limited. It could work for cookie cutter platformers (the sort of games that engines that don't require programming let you build).
bigleagueposter··on Introducing Atom-IDE
I don't have any patents why should I give a fuck about people who want to steal money from facebook?
bigleagueposter··on Ask HN: What's the worst Oracle can do to OpenJDK?
Wouldn't they shoot themselves in the foot by sabotaging the JVM? They seem to be taking a serious push at taking over the dynamic language space atm?
bigleagueposter··on Branding workaholism as a desirable lifestyle choice
If it was a failed startup all their code was in the end useless garbage.
bigleagueposter··on New York Police reportedly needs to replace 36,000 'useless' Windows Phones
Not taking a bribe would help you avoid such taking such decisions.
bigleagueposter··on Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in prison
Is hope of buying a bunch of things you will never be able to afford really a good thing?
bigleagueposter··on We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance
Is Aikido better than sports? A lot of it seems to be based on a ton of bullshit. Imaginary feats of mystical founders and delusions that you can actually use it in a fight.
bigleagueposter··on A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?
There is an algorithm to find prime numbers. It might not be efficient but it exists.
bigleagueposter··on Jim Mellon and high-profile partners roll the dice on an anti-aging upstart
If you didn't age you would reduce the risk of fatal accidents.
bigleagueposter··on Kalashnikov’s new autonomous weapons and the “Terminator conundrum”
The AI could use a human army. If it wanted to eliminate humanity in a not lethal way it could sterilize everyone with a virus or something.
bigleagueposter··on Why I’m Learning Perl 6
The parrot threads didn't communicate with each other and you could wait until all of them finished. They provided a tiny subset of the functionality real threads offer but in a more efficient way.
bigleagueposter··on Why I’m Learning Perl 6
JVM is now becoming what Parrot was intended to be with Graal/Truffle.
bigleagueposter··on European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance
I have no idea whose bribes control the corrupt EU bureaucracy. At least Google helps me by moving stuff from windows into the browser.
bigleagueposter··on Webpack 3: Official Release
Can't you just use a project starter script and get it set up in minutes?
bigleagueposter··on Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?
Why would you want force companies to use their patents.
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