TrevorAustin

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by TrevorAustin 5y ago
I’ve been in the same boat for a long time, and still haven’t seen an application that’s compelling. But I think I’m starting to warm to the ecosystem, despite all the obvious silliness, so let me run my thinking by you to see if it’s crazy
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by TrevorAustin 6y ago
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by TrevorAustin 6y ago
You'll see that sometimes too with Greek organizations at colleges. I argued at the time the the "corporate death penalty" was the only appropriate remedy for the Equifax breach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by TrevorAustin 6y ago
"Dissolve the organization and start over from scratch" is an under-used solution in American life, even in the private sector. Apparently Camden, NJ did a version of this in 2013 with a fair amount of success: https://
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by TrevorAustin 7y ago
Some very smart friends of mine do this with airplanes to find leaks in natural gas plants and pipelines: http://kairosaerospace.com/
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by TrevorAustin 7y ago
It became in-game purchases. Shareware was v1 of the model, and a very blunt instrument. It's evolved into free-to-play with paid upgrades, which is very much alive.
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Beyond the Hype of Lab-Grown Diamonds(earther.gizmodo.com)
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by TrevorAustin 7y ago
It's very useful to read Girard, not least to steel yourself against the influences of directly Girard-inspired social networks. But I'm increasingly seeing this idea that any time someone powerful or influential is held accountab
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
A data science consultancy I used to work at did box office predictions for a major movie studio, and the fanciest techniques you could dream up gave only a slight lift over the https://www.hsx.com/ prediction market, which
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Probably not, given that he abandoned the app and works at Stripe now.
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
I really liked the added wrinkle in Blade Runner 2049 where replicants have to periodically prove that they're sufficiently robotic.
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
There are a number of structural things you can do to push back on the long-run capture of parties and therefore the political process. None of them play super well with party-list proportional representation, but here's what people sh
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Policy juries are an under-used decision procedure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_jury You could also have one body of the legislature (the US Senate? The House of Lords?) selected by Sortition: https:/&#x
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
My bad, I totally misread something and posted too quickly
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Tim Wu makes the case for breaking up tech giants, and FB specifically, at book length
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
More than a quarter of Americans, and half of young people, report having deleted the flagship Facebook app from their phones in the wake of these scandals. ( https://www.recode.net/2018/9/5/17824116/delet
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
More than anything I've read recently, this article makes me bullish on Microsoft, who are successfully executing the playbook IBM ran to right the ship in the '90s: > The problem for IBM is that they are not building solutions
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Violating Betteridge's Law of Headlines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Seems unlikely there will be tenth amendment problems. It's pretty hard to do over a billion dollars in revenue without operating across state lines.
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Section 230 coverage made (and still makes) a ton of sense for passive hosting of content—it really would be unduly burdensome to require neutral hosts or search indexers to review every piece of content. What wasn't foreseeable 20 yea
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Lol that the hero quote is just by the founder
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
As an engineering manager, what I want most from a project management app is something that does a good job helping engineers on my teams collaborate effectively with non-technical departments. We use Asana for this right now and it works w
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Speaking as a longtime skeptic, A16Z has actually produced the single clearest answer I've seen to that question: blockchains may be good for bootstrapping new network effects by giving early participants in a network (in a Metcalfe&
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
I hope for all of our sakes that it's more profitable for a16z to invest in real blockchain startups and leverage their experience to uncover exciting, legitimate applications of the technology than it is to just day-trade cypto assets
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
There aren't any regulatory issues with taking investment from the a16z crypto fund, where a public ICO can bring attention from the SEC and other bodies. It lets founders and developers focus on getting their token network off the gro
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by TrevorAustin 8y ago
Yes! We use juries for criminal trials not because they're especially good fact-finders but because they're very resistant to regulatory capture. Similarly, Sortition is the real answer to money in politics problems, because there
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by TrevorAustin 9y ago
In 2017 FB made $40B in revenue on 2B users.
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by TrevorAustin 9y ago
I’m sure I’m just missing something obvious, but what are the threes? The article has five headings, and it doesn’t look like each is a list of three things.
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by TrevorAustin 9y ago
Well, Cyan Bannister went on from founding Zivity to be a partner at Founders Fund.

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