Tloewald

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by Tloewald 9y ago
Explain how the Concorde (an example in the article) benefited the poor more than the rich.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I think you're ignoring payroll tax and public subsidy of private sector by allowing them to hire people at below subsistence (because medicaid and food stamps are a subsidy to Walmart)
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Right. This is a direct consequence of my proposal.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Yes, and indeed with this system a theorist can look for interesting data out there and publish with attribution, while experimenters can look for interesting failures and home methodology.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I think that a very stringent threshold for p values (it's going to be a lot harder to get to p < 0.005 than p < 0.05 and it's going to encourage a lot more gaming of the system) is not the solution. At best, it will lead
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Ah yes, let's use Perl 6 to avoid usability issues.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
UX is the bane of usability (at least as practiced). E.g. We've had professional "UX" designers seriously contend that "cancel" buttons should be made to not look like buttons. The joke at a certain large company wa
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I think it's healthy to be skeptical of people claiming to be solving a more general problem than the actual problem at hand (which is a large fraction of the advice in this article). Unfortunately, a non-technical manager trying to
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by Tloewald 9y ago
VW in particular has a pretty poor reputation for long term reliability (also see Consumer Reports et al). The stories I hear about American cars, by contrast, tend to be poor reliability soon after purchase (followed by solid long term rel
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I assume you were replacing the timining belts on schedule. Given the near legendary reliability of the Honda Accord it makes me wonder if there's something about the way you drive. Even so, 200,000 miles is not too shabby. I don'
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I think you've mostly answered your own question. To some extent, Amazon presumably creates new sales (and hence new jobs in production) but this is almost certainly offset by the jobs it destroys (middlemen of various kinds). AWS migh
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Thanks for addressing this specific issue (and hey, Hixie!) Obviously, I don't know much about the APIs so I'll take your word for it. I guess my first objection (doesn't unify web development) stands, but that can be address
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by Tloewald 9y ago
This is a fun (and classic) thread and it's worth reading the pro and con arguments. It really falls under the old joke "you have a problem and you decide to solve it with regex, now you have two problems". HTML is very gnarl
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I'd like to point out that the things he says he's doing instead of marketing are, in fact, marketing. It's "guerilla" marketing, and it's being paid for with the writer's time. Nothing wrong with that, ju
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by Tloewald 9y ago
You're missing the point (again). VHS defeated Betamax because Sony tried to keep porn off betamax.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Thunderbolt is Intel AFAIK. (Correction: apparently Intel made some claims but Apple owns it.) My guess is Intel probably would have backed USB over Firewire regardless since it had a stake in USB. The irony is, USB would probably have fail
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by Tloewald 9y ago
My first problem with Flutter is that it doesn't unify web and native development, so it fails to solve the big problem immediately. If you can deliver web and mobile from the same codebase, you can deal with the "long tail"
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Isn't this a little like Madoff being vital to Madoff Securities? Uber's insane market cap is a direct consequence of a whole bunch of unethical, illegal, and barely legal activities.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
It was definitely planned as a more personal computer. Bear in mind that the iPad was the original product, and they switched to a phone because the iPad would be too expensive to do at the time. So "phone" is the afterthought.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Don't forget to eat a $15 lunch special in Palo Alto and for bonus points get a parking ticket for failing to parse the insane special case parking signs. A lot of people like to take selfies at the Facebook sign if you can get to it w
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by Tloewald 9y ago
They're trying to explain why they want to charge higher premiums for X vs. Y. They can either explain their entire business model for X in isolation, including assumed profit margins, investment yields, or simply point out that X is w
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by Tloewald 9y ago
In the end this comes down to a gripe that you can't use Chrome for web views on iOS owing to platform restrictions (and, secondarily, that you need to use XCode to submit to the App store, which I agree with, although it's prett
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by Tloewald 9y ago
The interesting thing about Amazon's horizontal service architecture is that it should be easy to break up if it starts using its monopoly power to charge rents. Given that its market cap seems predicated on future rents, there may be
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by Tloewald 9y ago
The worst features of Uber are more of a testament to the lack of labor protection in the US than anything wrong with Uber per se. If we had single payer health care, automatic employee protections without ridiculous loopholes, and so forth
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by Tloewald 9y ago
We won't need to go to a world before Uber since the business model is out there now. The core concept is great (and in fact it already pretty much existed in places with well-regulated taxi industries) and doesn't need a giant ma
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by Tloewald 9y ago
No-one has published _direct_ evidence of collusion, but there's plenty of _circumstantial_ evidence. I would like to think that if there were solid, credible, _direct_ evidence of collusion then even the House "Freedom Caucus&quo
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by Tloewald 9y ago
At this point he is so far past "the appearance of impropriety" that I doubt it can cause him any harm.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Instead of relying on selected quotes from the Washington Examiner, you could read the (declassified version of) the report: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3254229/ICA-2017-... From my quick skim, I wo
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by Tloewald 9y ago
Yes, indeed I think the supreme irony is that Comey is, in effect, being fired by Trump for helping Trump get elected.
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by Tloewald 9y ago
I read this post hoping it would articulate the challenges of VR at a high level in an innovative way. After a promising start it turns out only to cover the problems that oculus has addressed — which all deal with the headset. The other pr

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