BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
For a website to stay online, it is not required that the website itself make money, let alone that it do so via ads. For instance if your website is directly selling an actual product, you can make money by selling that product. Or you c
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Amen to that. I would go further and say that there is just no such thing as "this future is coming regardless" once you get out of the realm of physical facts. One of the things that by turns depresses and enrages me about so mu
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> She says there’s been more enthusiasm for the product among administrators than teachers in her school. That is a warning sign if ever there was one.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Federalism is a red herring. For every case of "federalism is good because it let the states do this good thing" you can find a case of "federalism is bad because it let the states do this bad thing".
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> Can you explain this reasoning without implying American political leaders (or perhaps broader society) are racist? Why would we need to do that?
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
The problem is how do you know who's a criminal beforehand.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Or you could just, like, not update things immediately just because you can. It's wild that we now refer to it as a "cooldown" to not immediately update something. The sane way would be each user upgrades when they feel the
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> but only in javascript/WASM Well that's right out then.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
Are you saying this was a case of top-whistling?
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I think it's a bit more complex than that, because sometimes even the people outside that bubble still don't want to rock the boat because they're comfortable enough, or worry that things could get even worse. Still, your poi
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
> I think if you have a healthy busy growing well, you shouldnt raise unless you have ambition and urge to go faster. This is why VC is a cancer on society. If you don't have a healthy business growing well, your business shouldn&#
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I'm not sure how I'd feel about a ban on factories, but I think cars, as bad as they are in terms of environmental effects, are far less harmful to our society than "AI" companies and the big-tech companies that are inte
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
I'd be more likely to donate if they kept it like it was 10+ years ago. I still use an old version because they keep making gratuitous changes to the UX.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
The way it's working though is that they don't provide much information, because there's very little time between their public bet and the outcome they bet on.
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by BrenBarn 6mo ago
They should probably be regulated as utilities and broken up into smaller companies, so that it's easier for people to migrate to alternatives when one company does something bad.
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
Of course not. No one can be trusted to control our future.
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
I've been fascinated by this island for years.
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
> There is something to be said for that's how stuff works today. I think there's much less to be said for that than we currently are trying to say for it. :-) > "a complex apparatus of legal jousting and machinations
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
There's still documentation.
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
> It is not new, and it is legal. I think this is an important point lurking behind a lot of disagreements about these kinds of issues: basically, there are a fair number of things that are legal that people don't want to be leg
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
This is an interesting article. I feel like the point the author thinks he's making isn't maybe the one he's actually making, or at least not the one he ought to be making. The problem is he sets this up as a contrast betwee
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
Sup dawg I heard you like status pages.
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
I said tax it on the total net worth. Splitting your wealth among different companies shouldn't affect anything. > These lawsuits have to be designed with the idea that the people with the most resources will try to exploit them,
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
All kinds of open source projects do this too. It's really annoying. It's one thing if the authors actually try and fail to verify the bug, but these days it seems like most projects just close "stale" bugs as a matter
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
Okay yeah that sounds closer to what I'd call a meta-analysis. In linguistics (which is the field I was in) "literature review" just means "someone looked around and read some papers they thought might be related".
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
Working on something that already existed for decades?
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
> Any literature review must be reproducible. That's totally at odds with my understanding, but perhaps this differs between fields.
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
Very convenient how his solution is "bringing more people into the capital markets", also known as "more customers for my company".
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
For me, a lot of these issues become immaterial if the threshold is high enough. If the threshold for a particular tax is assets over $100 million, or a billion, then the answer can just be "you are totally screwed" and I'm
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by BrenBarn 7mo ago
That can be mitigated by setting high thresholds on the whole process (e.g., the tax doesn't apply if your total net worth is under $10 million).

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