AkshatM

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by AkshatM 6y ago
Seconded. Tracy was an amazing leader my entire time at PlanGrid.
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by AkshatM 6y ago
I worked at PlanGrid during this event. The exec in question received an offer from one of the Big 4 at an equivalent (and possibly more senior - this was in late 2017, so memory is fuzzy) exec-level position, and simply sent word they woul
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by AkshatM 6y ago
> the only people who don't have smartphones these days are the kind of people who have made an intentional choice to reduce their always-on digital connection This needs to be qualified: with respect to Twitter's target audie
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by AkshatM 6y ago
> This is similar to the AI question. Are you willing to put your full trust into a system with dynamics not fully understood, or do you put your trust into humans running centralized systems? Tangent, but this is poor phrasing. If posed
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I came here to ask the same question.
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Change my mind: package management infrastructure run by government as a public service should be the ideal end outcome for everyone. Why I think this: private or volunteer models are unsustainable in the long run owing to funding uncerta
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is currently a matter of legal debate, but I don't think platforms can be held accountable for (most of) the actions of their users. A large part of what would be considered "destroying the fabric of society" - fake news
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Well, you're not really defining what you consider 'passive communication' or why you harbor this view, so there seems to be material missing to formulate a nuanced reply. Assuming you are defining "passive communication
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Ask HN: Where and how are you using distributed sagas in your architecture?
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I wonder if there are any advantages to using formal methods over thread-local simulation in this case. Eighteen months is a long time of development, and there are at least some benefits to catching bugs in the design phase before pursung
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I don't think "ease of grok" is the sense the original commentor meant :)
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I share eqdw's distaste for knee-jerk symptom addressal without adequate understanding of the cause. I am somewhat disappointed by the other responses to eqdw here because they each immediately proffer or refer to competing interpretat
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Vertical scaling (getting a beefier machine) is less preferable than horizontal scaling in the case of cloud providers, because a) it usually costs more to upgrade instance types than to run multiple smaller instance types, and b) eventuall
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Obligatory mention of Parkinson's law ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Parkinson%27s_law#/Generalizatio... ), which states > The demand upon a resource tends to expand to match the supply of the resource (If th
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is the price of a movie ticket in the United States, at least in California. Source: lived in LA and the Bay Area.
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by AkshatM 7y ago
> not having a fallback position leads to higher commitment That's what the article claims, but that doesn't necessarily make that statement accurate. There's no proof Cortez et. al.'s troops actually felt higher comm
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I'm still dubious about the implication that digital advertisement is fundamentally broken. My issue is that the article doesn't demonstrate selection effects dominating over advertising effects for companies with no major brand i
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by AkshatM 7y ago
> Right, limitations like: width of human mothers' hips limiting head size, inability to continue growing the brain after adulthood, the decades-long education process, the impossibility of doing repeated experiments of different te
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is one of those questions which I actually think requires empirical investigation. Fortunately, Jonathan Haidt has excellent papers on the historical formation of moral systems in culture collision events, and the argument he has is th
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Thanks for the response. This helped tremendously. I've been fairly engrossed recently in readings on moral relativism, in an attempt to understand what ethical behaviour might look like without the influence of social norms. Your resp
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is a good point. I hadn't considered it from that angle, and I hadn't understood the significance of the "tragedy of the commons" remark. In my original answer, I had talked about how choosing not to give money to c
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I think a useful somewhat-apples-to-apples comparison for moderation is: Quora and StackExchange. Both websites are intended to be Q&A platforms, but their approach is markedly different and results in different moderation issues. Quora
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is like saying it's rude to choose not to give all your money to charity - after all, that too is a choice that is only justified by benefitting the would-be giver. Doing what you want with the resources available to you is a perf
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by AkshatM 7y ago
This is more of a joke answer, but r/ProgrammerHumour recently underwent a spate of submissions competing to come up with the wackiest and "wrong" ways to do common UI elements, such as the slider or phone number inputs. A sm
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I would argue both lauding and condemning are problematic practices in most cases. My history professor in college used to cite the old adage that 'the past is a different country', meaning that one shouldn't pass judgment on
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Related: Hellerstein et. al's paper evaluating the limitations of serverless frameworks for different use cases. ( https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/01/14/serverless-computing-one... ) tl;dr FaaS lifetimes, la
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Is this Richard Stallman? ;)
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by AkshatM 7y ago
I just have to say that, assuming this was a spoken interview, Chomsky can talk . I can scarcely comprehend using the same number of choice phrases Chomsky employs in a sentence if I had a paragraph - and I certainly wouldn't be able
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Yes, the distinction is effectively only a connotational one and not a denotational one.
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by AkshatM 7y ago
Then I have even more questions, because in order to offset operating recurring costs for Arrived, that "equity credit" can't be a one-to-one mapping to the house's actual value - it has to offset costs for maintaining t

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