Felz

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by Felz 8y ago
We can build over all of the parking lots once driverless cars become a thing, can't we? Public transportation looks awfully like a dead end in that light. If you don't have to park and drive them, cars are better in nearly every
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by Felz 8y ago
Personally, I'm fairly certain that this stuff does matter, but that a successful company will inevitably backslide to the corporate mean. The things that initially made it successful will be lost. Anything not an immediate disaster fr
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by Felz 8y ago
You need both the password and the phone number, so compromising the phone number via social engineering still requires the password, and thus can't be less secure than just requiring the password. That's… why it's called two
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by Felz 8y ago
The most terrifying part of this article is that I have no idea whether this is true or not. And I'll probably only find out when the next major financial scandal erupts. How is democracy supposed to function if our civilization become
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by Felz 8y ago
Beware the fundamental attribution error. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error If somebody comes off as a jerk and doesn't appear to listen to you, it's almost certainly not because tha
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by Felz 8y ago
I'm surprised that founders preferred stock classes aren't more common. They allow founders to sell a small percent of their stock to investors, enough that they don't have to worry about money, and start caring more about bi
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by Felz 8y ago
Floating city projects seem to conceptualize themselves as "buildings, but on water". Seems ineffective to me. An armada of ships strikes me as the cheaper and far more practical approach.
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by Felz 8y ago
Thanks. I think I agree with everything you wrote- it's good to know I'm not insane for thinking like this.
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by Felz 8y ago
Thank you for this comment. It helped summarize my thoughts. Do you know if there's any pattern to the big, dumb changes? Are specific changes more likely to signal shipjumping time for top talent? Or is it a growing dysfunction?
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by Felz 8y ago
We're not constitutionally a two party country, so the solution as described in the article does not seem to apply.
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by Felz 8y ago
I feel like optimizing for manageability is a great way to run a tech company into the ground. And I notice that Microsoft, which gives its programmers offices, seems like the only tech megacompany that can still produce software.
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by Felz 8y ago
Yea. In the US agencies like the SEC and FTC and legal concepts such as "securities" and "accredited investors" were created to prevent exactly what's happening with crypto- people getting scammed, or overhyped on s
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by Felz 8y ago
Cryptocurrencies are so rife with scam that I'm shocked that major governments haven't done anything to stop them yet. Are they so ineffective that if you paper over a scam with "but the blockchain!" they won't do a
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by Felz 8y ago
That's exactly what the article I linked said, isn't it? It has low pause times, at the expense of everything else. Beware trading a visible cost for an unbounded number of smaller costs. In Go's case, in return for minimal p
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by Felz 8y ago
That's definitely such an underspecified claim that it's not even wrong. Fast as C under what conditions? I've personally found that a lot of Go's marketing is, if not misleading, outright false. As an example: https:&#
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by Felz 8y ago
There does seem to be a need for better methods of quoting. I've seen people quote text with code blocks that look absolutely abysmal on mobile. Most people seem to end up doing it 4chan style, sans the highlighting 4chan provides. Oth
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by Felz 8y ago
It feels to me like if there are "10x programmers", they'd get dragged down by process and environmental mediocrity. In other words, they'd be subject to Amdahl's law: the programmer may be 10x, but the tech environ
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by Felz 8y ago
I'm frustrated that so much work is duplicated. Every new programming language seems like it requires another new universe of packages around it. Often there's not even an attempt at interoperation, except maybe for C. But even ju
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by Felz 8y ago
I assume it's a convenient form of the holy grail of suppliers everywhere: price discrimination. If you can afford a big tip, and social mechanisms shame you into giving it, then great! The restaurant makes a lot of profit. If you can&
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by Felz 8y ago
In other words, you think that the blockchain setup is more trust _worthy_ than political accountability. That's fine (if not my cup of tea). My point was that you're still extending the same amount of trust; i.e. you have to acce
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by Felz 8y ago
Trust is inescapable. You've simply shifted yours from reputational trust to trust in the decentralization of the computing frontier of a specific hashing problem. But while reputational trust is cheap and a well-solved problem, the tr
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by Felz 8y ago
I could see a case for all the other big tech companies, but why Apple?
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by Felz 8y ago
The fundamental problem is that if you do end up reimplementing a slightly better DOM yourself, you end up with (e.g.) 20 MB of browser and rendering code. This will have to be downloaded by the client. If this were a onetime thing (perhaps
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by Felz 8y ago
Why won't WASM really work with the "source map paradigm"? Is there something fundamentally different about bytecode that means it cannot be traced back to its original source, given tooling support?
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by Felz 8y ago
Unions almost invariably require government regulated support, because collective anything rarely stands on its own before people defect. I think that's a general good feature of the free market. Collusion is hard until you get down to
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by Felz 8y ago
Keep in mind that 5/6ths of the vanillin used for flavoring is synthetic.
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by Felz 8y ago
Counterpoints: 1. It's not concentration, it's creation. There's probably not an active conspiracy to make the rich richer. (Your phrasing seemed to connotate that) http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html 2. We t
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by Felz 8y ago
> You write enough system software in functional languages and you realize you just traded one set of headaches for a different but equally infuriating set, and that most headaches are sociological aspects of teams writing code, not just
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by Felz 8y ago
I worry that text files promote local minimums. Like, the standard GNU tools or whatever editor you use is "good enough" for what you expect to do with them, but there exist better tools for your specific task that you never even
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by Felz 8y ago
This is very interesting, because I wouldn't want to spend that much on movies either. Yet a decade ago, people were happy paying $1000 a year for a cable subscription. Not directly the same value proposition, but similar. It seems lik

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