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  1. Ask HN: Is Free Will an Illusion?

    Given deterministic causality, where every event has a prior cause, it would appear that free will is an illusion. While it may seem like we’re choosing our actions, determinism implies that this is an illusion: if all…

    5 points 15
  2. Clever, Brave, Persistent (camhashemi.com)
    32 points 18
  3. Who’s your favorite public thinker?

    Someone who’s ideas resonate with you deeply and who you would recommend everyone to at least know about

    34 points 87
  4. Ask HN: What RDBMS optimizations can we do for append-only tables?

    Let's say we have a table which saves immutable events. This table does not support any UPDATE statements, just INSERT and SELECT. I can imagine that there are some optimizations we can make for such tables, since there…

    2 points 2
  5. Building Through Uncertainty (camhashemi.com)
    2 points 0
  6. A Software Engineer's Arc (twitter.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Ask HN: What was that blog post about writing “manual scripts”?

    the idea was that you can write scripts that are partially automated, and partially manual. this allows you to remember and track the steps of a process, and eventually perhaps automating some of the manual ones.

    3 points 1
  8. Software Entropy (camhashemi.com)
    53 points 17