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triplesec··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
That looks on the face of it nice and worthy but it's rather be meaningless because those are not actual goals. Those words are way too loose for that. The other thing about it is it smells like a marketing phrase rather than anything truthful
triplesec··on App pays users to line up outside new restaurants
see, I think Bi-rite is mediocre at best. I prefer Humphrey Slocombe. also available in some flavours at he Exploratorium. But lines, or queues, are annoying. But I'll use them to learn some Zen.
triplesec··on SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside
what kind of things has it been doing to drive them away?
triplesec··on Show HN: Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam, neural nets
Ah yes. No idealistic Asimov algorithms for real robots. You can't trust them, especially when programmed by wetware in the first place.
triplesec··on Why Facebook should pay everyone a basic income
I'm interested in your reasoning here: how does local currency solve the problems that UBI is meant to, but better?
triplesec··on Proof of Work Without All the Work
My maths isn't good enough for this yet, but I did wonder why there wasn't a popular SETIcoin
triplesec··on There is no such thing as EQ (2016)
This seems to be the most sophisticated post here, so thank you for the context. Indeed MBTI is also pants. But what is grit? I've not heard of that.
triplesec··on NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand
And it is indeed incorrect because the constitution and the bill of rights do apply to foreign citizens who are visiting the us. Of course there are laws which are designed to protect citizens but don't protect foreigners but they are not actually part of the constitution
triplesec··on Ways a VC says no without saying no
I think it would be helpful to other entrepreneurs here if you could name and shame
triplesec··on The Man Who Got Americans to Eat Pollock
It sounds as if he made a lot of his money by regulatory capture and anticompetitive lobbying practices
triplesec··on Google Home breaks up domestic dispute by calling the police
This is very troubling, despite this good outcome: here is an extra level of active surveillance and 4th Amendment erosion.
triplesec··on AI Is Making It Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat
TL;DR: Wolfram Alpha is very useful and kids are using if for homework. That doesn't matter, says Wolfram: be a computational thinker instead.
triplesec··on What the brain's wiring looks like
Yes. If the author is alive and you wish to reward their huge efforts and encourage them to write more of such books, buy them new.
triplesec··on A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End
As soon as Ronald Graham turned up it wasn't surprisinng that this was related to Ramsey Theory, even as a non-mathematician. Graham's Number is such a wonderfully large thing that introduced me to tetration and up-arrow notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
triplesec··on Intel fires warning shots at Microsoft, says x86 emulation is a patent minefield
AMD always ran hotter. They were always about the same in technolgy level, just marketed differently because of design choices. Horses for courses.
triplesec··on The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other
Not so fast, Mr Bond. You mean to tell us that the information in early manuscript such as the Bible and other religious tracts were not misleading? My point is that though they may have been culturally agreed to be true these few authoritative books suffered from a lack of open access to information. So I believe we need to separate out honest intention towards truth and actual empirically and theoretically truthful writings. Another way to put this is that it is not just the technology but the social relations that go with that technology that matter.
triplesec··on Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (2014)
Also Polansku's Macbeth, Coriolanus with Anthony Hopkins, and King Lear. . I think there's a Richard Briers version which was really excellent, though you may find others. And of course Olivier's famous Richard III.
triplesec··on The Human Fabric of the Facebook Pyramid
BBC article introducing the topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39947942
triplesec··on When the Hindenburg Was the Height of Luxe In-Flight Dining
I refer you to this article by a chemistry professor: https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/helium-in-crisis/3007...
triplesec··on When the Hindenburg Was the Height of Luxe In-Flight Dining
This might be true, that you don't lose much, but every day they'd need recharging a bit, and even without dirigibles, we have barely a century of supply. That is not much. The market rate is criminally low. https://priceonomics.com/the-increasing-scarcity-of-helium/
triplesec··on When the Hindenburg Was the Height of Luxe In-Flight Dining
I think a big problem is that helium is a very scarce Resource and which we get only from fossil fuels. Much helium has been wasted in the past couple of decades and prices of it will only go up as its scarcity increases. It's really highly needed for medical equipment and other things and I can't see it being used in bulk for this purpose.

Now using hydrogen has been mooted, using newer technologies to keep it safer. I love this idea mentioned in this thread of a vacuum glimpse as well

triplesec··on Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police
which country? Do you have an idea why?
triplesec··on Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police
As with the other response to your comment: there will always be some on the right that claim this. The truth tends to lie in examining the details and actions of people, rather than asssuming that an organisation standing up for the rights of muslims is necessarily going to be a terrorism-supporting organisation. I don't know in this case, but we give a lot more leeway to extreme churches, for example.
triplesec··on Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police
Be careful of how you approach other religions: peaceful Christianist pressure groups don't get the same treatment.
triplesec··on Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police
Really? For a search? You are allowed to hide things in your house. This is certainly not legislated.
triplesec··on Human rights activist risks prison over refusal to disclose password to police
I don't think this objection flies, because if you just turn up with a wiped phone and special login accounts they also can't do anything to you.
triplesec··on Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
Humans are strange. Perhaps, though it's not certain, if your original comment were couched as a softer request, then that softer approach might not pique certain small subsets so much?
triplesec··on Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook
Can you tell us what processes you used to sell well / point us at resources? Especially re pre-sales, but also for how to make a good book sustainable like that?
triplesec··on Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
I took it to mean the (then) top rated answerhere on HN, so I'm glad of clarification.
triplesec··on I spent two weeks delivering for Uber Eats and made $4.40 per hour
And there's the rub. How do we deal wiht this, or head it off? Most people and discourses have their headds in the sand about this
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