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If they're only not total racists, as in still partial racists, you're very right, I working fit in. If need zero racists for that.

But if that's what you meant, hm, you might believe that doubt but that's not what happens in my life. And hey, that's not very inclusive of you.

I'd definitely fit in, if it was just about being "not racist". But it's not I guess.

Seems SV still not ready to discuss racial bias in hiring

Re pg saying that, that's sort of different to what OP is saying. It's not just a general "startups suck" or "it's hard". It's a specific critique of the structural abusiveness of the industry which pg is actually a part of propagating these days.

I hear you, it does sound super hard, never seen it addressed in the "SV lore" and you could be onto some uncharted waters, would could spell opportunity. Whaddayathink?

Good to hear you're sounding a little better, because it must be super hard to go through that.

Re pg, it's obvious to me why nobody mentions this. It's not part of the narrative, which is designed to produce useful slaves (darts) to throw at a bet (target), with a blindfold on.

If you wanna chat more about it, you can mail me [email protected]. I have a feeling it could be interesting.

well based on that belief I think you might have your answers to why you went through this experience. you clearly value discovering both sides of things and you say you want to integrate that. The positive take I have on that is you want to integrate all of that information positive and negative into something stronger and more real. that's ultimately more creative and future looking then the CEO kiddies who just ride the wave of success.

not to pep talk at all but possibly you could be setting yourself up for something great in future. jobs had a pretty terrible time getting fired by the Soda executive.

the thinking of it this way and I'm just brainstorming here perhaps any resistance you have to moving forward with this new perspective could be related to the fact that you're comfortable with how you now see yourself. no longer the hundred percent optimist doing something positive for the world. it's a more compromised position. you're more embracing the shadow side as well. I can understand why that would be hard but depending on your path it might be useful and could be your destiny.

If this gets to front page I'll put a demo server up

From Section 25 point 1, Historical Introduction

> In 1801 Johann Wilhelm Ritter, a Polish physicist working at the University of Jena in Germany discovered a form of light beyond the violet end of the spectrum that he called “Chemical Rays” and which later became “Ultraviolet” light

Chemical Rays

I like your design, simple and elegant.

One thing I did when designing random functions is run them against DieHarder and Practrand, but then also against SMHasher, you just have to use some construction to fold the key into the state. I think that's a useful somewhat orthogonal way to test. have you considered this?

Intuitively, yes.

If something is irreversible then it's not 1 to 1 and you don't use the whole state space, so you'll likely have short cycles.

Second part, again yes. But you can add that useful irreversible transform in the finalization of the output, and not in the state transform itself.

I'm self taught so my understanding and terminology may not mesh with the people who have been taught this.