NotPavlovsDog

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by NotPavlovsDog 6y ago
Long-overdue legislation and increased activism, including activism by the tech community, and ongoing informing of consumers about dangers of sharing their data, are some of the possible mitigation steps. A simple first step: send an artic
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There's also whole-sale auctions for banking transaction data, insurance, stock holdings and, generally, anything with digital money, which is most money today, CC-related or not. And many consumers that operate with cash use merchant
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I'll just leave this here: [1] "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit ca
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by NotPavlovsDog 6y ago
Nobody wakes up at night dreaming of making somebody else rich. There is a place for studios, but there's also a reason many founders want majority control. Instead of "I have a vision, let the market see if it's viable"
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by NotPavlovsDog 6y ago
But why would you have concerns downloading a banking app directly from your bank? You have trusted them with your money, after all... With apple, you can't install and run software even from sources you trust, outside of apple. Apple
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The paper they are basing the opening sentence "phone addiction is one of the biggest non-drug addiction(sic) in human history" on is written by a Doctor of Business Administration, a dean that has "particular industries of i
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Sociophysics has not been met with a wide welcome in management studies, perhaps due to its approach to proof. It requires a lot more work than popular hand-waving. It will be interesting to see whether physics-derived tools and approaches
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Interesting, thank you for commenting! Popular management research does seem like an extra easy target... I have had exposure to several social science departments across continents, not just management, and those members that could be desc
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I am currently pursuing a second master's degree (in management), some of my personal experience in academia: 1) Publish or perish is a real thing. Citation ratings and measuring affects many of the academics I have encountered. This c
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1) Non-fiction: Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/ Entire e-book available free online. The recursion part is especially fun. If you haven't tried
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With outsourcing comments someone else handles (some of) the back-end, facilitating appearance of comments on your site but limiting your own back-end exposure. One solution under active discussion is here: https://news.ycombinat
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There is published, credible research about the US sugar lobby influencing health policy to downplay the risks of sugar [1]. Here's a popular media story about the article [2]. I have cut out sugar except for social occasions in the la
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A childhood friend, now a plumber doing work for high-security installations was making more than me. He is not the smartest. His dad is a lifer from the system and his mom is on the zoning comish. Trades that are easy to learn build a fenc
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You could consider reviewing how others do it. There's a reason why less and less want to host their comments and outsource that instead. Comment = write access to your site. You don't want that. There are multi-million dollar spa
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Thanks for your feedback. The case cited was a 3-state machine distributor with 45 full-time employees. I've gotten the same sentiment, perhaps slightly differently worded,and argued, from some well-known actors, you might have read th
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Wordpress is a fascinating example of worse-is-better in market-facing technology. I was working with Wordpress early on and finally fired my last client 2 years ago. What many inexperienced clients expect from technology is a miracle, a ma
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The statement "Which came first, HTML5 web browsers or HTML5 web content? Neither, of course. They evolved in loose synchronization, tracing from way before HTML itself, growing slowly and then quickly in popularity along the way.&quot
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US citizenship comes with a big administrative burden even if you don't live in the US. Some parents with European citizenship sometimes do not file an American birth certificate when registering their child for a European birth certif
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1) How much physics and math do you need to ride a bike? 2) How about designing and manufacturing a bike? Spokes and gears and diameters and metal expansion / contraction coefficients and whatnot. 3) How about doing number 2 from scrat
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An excellent presentation. I find his other presentation, the Cost of Code, more important but less entertaining. "Fix it in software" is going to be growing in magnitude and impact, as software eats the world. (Boeing Max crashes
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by NotPavlovsDog 6y ago
Paul Stamets, a legendagry mycologist and founder (A Scientist and entrepreneur that successfully founded a mushroom company that grew and grew and grew ). This talk is on psychedelic use, but there are multiple other sub-topic talks by him
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I'm actually not sure which one was the original, as I got introduced to the programming koans genre well long after it had been established.
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If you like the koan format, you might like to check out Lisp koans (Common Lisp), which I found to be quite enjoyable. https://github.com/google/lisp-koans