Kadin

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by Kadin 9y ago
I think it has a nice UI, and presumably it's also a hosted solution. But fundamentally it seems to have many of the same features that Mailman et al have had for decades. Good on them if they can make mailinglist archives great again,
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by Kadin 9y ago
> what other ways do we have of increasing the bargaining position of labor? You tighten the labor market. It's not coincidental that unions, which depend on a tight labor market for a bargaining position (striking is fundamentally
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by Kadin 9y ago
> what other ways do we have of increasing the bargaining position of labor? You tighten the labor market. It's not coincidental that unions, which depend on a tight labor market for a bargaining position (striking is fundamentally
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by Kadin 9y ago
Mostly Microsoft Outlook. (But more seriously, even with a good MUA and either client-side or server-side search, the way mail messages are constructed, with tons of reply quoting, makes searching them a pain.) In lots of business cultures
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by Kadin 9y ago
I recently re-read the classic "Peopleware" (written 1974) and I think it's a bit unfortunate, given all the innovation elsewhere in the field, that there hasn't been much innovation or even experimentation about the nat
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by Kadin 9y ago
It'd be interesting to see what the reaction is from people and companies in the field. Preemption legislation seems a little premature, to me. Sure, it would stop states from hindering autonomous-vehicle development, e.g. to protect
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by Kadin 9y ago
I am honestly surprised there is not more ultra-targeted advertising to either ultra-high-net-worth individuals, or to individuals in key positions within large institutions. E.g., there are ads all over the DC Metro for huge defense-sector
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by Kadin 9y ago
It's worth remembering how Facebook got to the userbase that it currently has -- they didn't start out targeting "everyone on the planet", which is an almost impossibly hard challenge because of the network effects you n
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by Kadin 9y ago
Scottish (and most, although not all, other types of) whisky is produced using a "pot still" rather than a modern column, so you don't get an exact separation by boiling points. I mean, generally you're running the stil
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by Kadin 9y ago
I would be interested to know more about this; why they were doing it at the time and if it's still being done. The use of port 80 is not really important; I'm not sure if the article's author is using "port 80" as
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by Kadin 9y ago
That may be true, but if that is the case and you want to define a "computer scientist's" job that way, not many people are actually interested in hiring computer scientists. What most firms are interested in are software eng
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by Kadin 9y ago
That seems to imply that there is a surplus of automatable jobs or job functions in "traditional" engineering disciplines, which is ... not really consistent with my experience. Those fields have had nearly as much computer power
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by Kadin 9y ago
If you found the article interesting or insightful, I would encourage you strongly to take a look at the book "Peopleware" by Lister and DeMarco. The first edition was published in 1978; the edition I have is from the early 90s,
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by Kadin 9y ago
None of those arguments really wash. If an industry depends on hiding its typical (or even exemplary!) operations from the general public, because of fear that people might not buy the industry's products if they knew what was involve
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by Kadin 9y ago
> Issuing certificates cost money and has to be paid one way or another. It's not clear that the prices being charged by commercial CAs are anywhere close or even related to the underlying costs. I think LE is beginning to demonstr
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by Kadin 9y ago
Wine coolers are just an alternate path to what Europeans call "alcopop", but via the US's oddball tax structure. It's just cheap but high-ABV wine, cut down with water and flavoring (to something like 5% ABV). (The othe
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by Kadin 9y ago
> they take already perfectly good wine, and "reyeast" it to fake how and where it was made. Is there really any evidence to suggest that is going on? It doesn't make a ton of sense as an (admittedly amateur) wine and bee
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by Kadin 9y ago
People want new bodywork, seats, electronics, etc. It might be possible to make all that replaceable, so that a car can be fully refurbished, and certainly that is done to commercial vehicles all the time (passenger buses, etc.), but not su
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by Kadin 9y ago
In large swaths of the United States (and, presumably, most of Canada) road salt will destroy most cars long before the drivetrains are worn out. Collisions also destroy a significant number (in some cases partially destroying the drivetra
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by Kadin 9y ago
OPEC is definitely an exception in that it stayed together even though there are multiple times when it wasn't clearly in any of the members' economic best interests to participate or maintain the cartel's supply control. Th
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by Kadin 9y ago
> I wouldn't expect all codecs to come with their own container format! Huh? That seems totally wrong to me. I wouldn't expect a codec to develop their own, unique, incompatible container format, and I would hope very much t
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by Kadin 9y ago
Similarly, Loglan is superior to English in every way.
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by Kadin 9y ago
As a distribution format for mixed-down music that will be consumed from a portable device's internal storage, 320kb/s VBR is great. There's some unfortunate irony in that we just got out from under the MP3 patents, which mea
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by Kadin 9y ago
IIRC one of the things that the TPP was supposed to do was "harmonize" (read: ram the US idea of down the throats of everyone else) software patents and other relevant aspects of IP law that were near and dear to major US companie
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by Kadin 10y ago
When it starts affecting people who vote, they'll start to push back and you'll get either Keynesian economic stimulus (we'll pay you to dig a hole and fill it back in again), or regulation that makes automation more difficul
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by Kadin 10y ago
I've been on the Internet since before advertising became common, and I am not convinced that advertising is the only, or even a good, model for funding either content or infrastructure. The move to advertising as the basis for the Int
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by Kadin 10y ago
That doesn't make sense. Once you connect it to the rest of the network, it's no longer "air gapped". The phrase "air gapped" doesn't signify something special about air , it refers specifically towards
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by Kadin 10y ago
The article in question here is titled, very specifically, "Snap Tumbles Below IPO Opening Price..." making the comment you're responding to especially apropos. While you may think that just the IPO is finished "that par
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by Kadin 10y ago
It's not clear that there's really that much demand for captioning. There's a CA law that's created a perverse opportunity for aggrieved individuals to try and extort money out of public institutions who put content onl
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by Kadin 10y ago
Ironically, it appears to be the laws specific to California that are putting Berkeley in a bind. In other states, they'd be able to cite administrative burden and tell the complainants to pound sand. But CA has a well-intentioned bu

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