Kalium

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by Kalium 6y ago
I was deliberating mirroring my interlocutor's phrasing to make a point. One was resented, and used as a point against the person. The other passed unremarked. As a rhetorical flourish, it did it was intended to do and exposed an appar
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Mayor London Breed didn't support Prop C, eh? I guess Benioff represents SF culture, while Breed doesn't? It's perhaps worth remembering that Benioff - who also bought his name on a hospital - got a pass well before Prop
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by Kalium 6y ago
> It was insane for Twitter to open their HQ in the middle of SF's skid row. I remember SF city government going out of their way to try to get actual businesses in there. Clearly Twitter made the egregious error of trying to play b
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by Kalium 6y ago
Twitter and Zendesk and more have volunteering cultures and do their best to support the community. Nobody cares, except to criticize them as being insufficiently charitable when it happens to be noticed. I think Benioff gets a pass not bec
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by Kalium 6y ago
One of the things you absolutely cannot do, in the face of powerful people, is tell them that they are the problem. It gives them a common enemy - you. Humiliating them with the patent silliness of their positions just ads rage to the volat
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by Kalium 6y ago
I remember using Hired, once upon a time. The vast majority of what I got through it was companies looking to stretch a budget of three peanuts to build some product on blockchain digital art collectible cards or similar. It was generally n
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by Kalium 6y ago
> * To pages which are fast. This is based on measurement of a specified benchmark, regardless of the implementation used to achieve those results. I believe they've been doing this for quite some time. It hasn't been great for
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Nations should spy on enemies, not friends, lest they find themselves without friends. It's an established norm that nations spy on their friends. Everyone wants to know what their friends are thinking. It's often much more
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think it's possible that there's a wonderful diversity of cultures, each of which is possible to completely immerse yourself in.
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by Kalium 6y ago
What actions could they take, today, that would demonstrate to your satisfaction that they take counterfeiting and honesty seriously?
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by Kalium 6y ago
> If this is the comparison, then be afraid, because streaming has both destroyed a huge amount of value in recordings and redirected a significant portion of remaining value towards new middlemen. Counterpoint: streaming didn't des
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by Kalium 6y ago
> In general, restaurant websites appear higher than their online ordered alternatives They do, in the case where people are looking for a specific restaurant. What about the now-increasingly-common case where people are looking to see w
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by Kalium 6y ago
If memory serves, firefighting technology at the time often consisted of tearing down the building to prevent the conflagration spreading. Saving the building was generally not considered an option, and the way Roman society accounted for v
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by Kalium 6y ago
> Oh, I think body shops are a good one, but auto glass companies too. You could just stage some break-ins that just vandalize car glass. People will blame the guy whose glass was broken (why did you park there, was your car empty, blah
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by Kalium 6y ago
> What part are you referring to? A lot of the program seems to have rested on subsidies and incentives, which are nice ways of saying you're relying on a profit or investment motive. > Well, on the other hand, is there something
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by Kalium 6y ago
Reading the description there, it seems to rest heavily on profit motives. Perhaps I have missed something? I would love an example of housing for everyone in locations that meets their needs, achieved in a timely manner, in a way that remo
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by Kalium 6y ago
That's fascinating! Is there anything I could read about this? I would love to hear more about a rich first-world country being able to meet literally everyone's housing needs fully and in a timely manner without using a market ec
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by Kalium 6y ago
Do you have a good example of removing the profit/investment motive and the result being enough housing for everyone?
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by Kalium 6y ago
I don't think that's a real number for anywhere, unless you insist on never leaving the Upper East Side.
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by Kalium 6y ago
I think you're right - our key difference is in risk tolerance. You can choose to minimize your risks to maximize your resources for dealing with unexpected events. This is absolutely, completely, and in every possible way a valid life
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by Kalium 6y ago
I remember 2002 and 2003. And 2008. You're right. These are real worries for real people in the real world. Let's ground this in more realistic numbers: you can reasonably buy a $500k residential property in the SF Bay on a singl
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by Kalium 6y ago
How many software engineers do you know who are legitimately terrified of their student loan debts for a Bachelor's in CS? I've met people with grad degrees in less remunerative fields who absolutely have exactly the worries y
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by Kalium 6y ago
People like having one factor to blame. It means they can avoid all the cognitive overhead of engaging with a complex reality. It means never having to evaluate if policies you support and goals you desire might be at odds. When everything
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by Kalium 6y ago
Without google's recaptcha, do you think there would be less spam? Personally, I suspect there would be more without at least some speed bumps to raise the cost of spamming. I would absolutely love for there to be better options than
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by Kalium 6y ago
You're absolutely right! Freight cannot be efficiently moved between the railyard and final destinations on public transit, on foot, or on bicycles. Self-driving vehicles can do this.
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by Kalium 6y ago
> how is revolving our infrastructure and culture around them any better than simply investing in public transportation by making it a more feasible option for people? Public transit can't haul freight cross-country. Self-driving ve
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by Kalium 6y ago
There's a reflexive tendency for people to assume that a problem manifests at whatever point it is measured. It's an easy assumption to make. However, estimating malnutrition by measuring the heights of adults is not a great way t
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by Kalium 6y ago
> The big behemoth is Salesforce.com. My experience with Salesforce.com is that it's only a no-code champion if your needs are so simple that you might as well not be using Salesforce.com - i.e., a simple CRM with a few plugins. The
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by Kalium 6y ago
> I have no doubt that it's easiest to wait, have somebody else develop the market and then buy them. But it also costs a lot of money. Is not having to figure out how to work with M Pesa worth $200m? I think that would depend a lot
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by Kalium 6y ago
> If you treat other markets as being cookie cutter versions of your own market, you're going to fail. This is a critical insight that I've seen missed more than once by business leaders. For a time I worked for a company headq

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