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by a4isms 4y ago
Sir/Madam: I said no such thing, you did. So AFAIC, you are arguing with yourself, not with me or my words. That, plus the fact that you are making claims without any arguments, examples, or reasoning to back up your claims, suggests t
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by a4isms 4y ago
I actually did directly refute your point: Better information does not dispel misinformation in public forums. I gave reasons why this is the case. Mind you, better information can dispel misinformation in non-public forums. For example, in
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by a4isms 4y ago
That's the old "sunlight is the best disinfectant" trope. To which I reply that "A lie can travel around the world while the truth is still putting on its pants." The problem is that virality in public forums is not
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by a4isms 4y ago
"America was founded by a group of slaveowners... Who wanted to be free." —George Carlin (1937-2008)
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by a4isms 4y ago
> Okay, except this is nothing like that. Computer programs can have defaults. When you don't like the default, you go to the settings screen to change it. If you don't want to deal with settings, you never have to open up the
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by a4isms 4y ago
> I have zero intention of rewriting public documentation and calling it a book Put like that, it sounds terrible. But if I may way metaphorically... Consider a Museum or Art Gallery. There is going to be a public, free guide to the gall
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by a4isms 4y ago
I feel this greatly as an author, but I also acknowledge that other people have different motivations. It's like saying "Don't write software if you aren't passionate about software." If we're lucky enough to h
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by a4isms 4y ago
I am another self-published author. I am of the belief that the best poll you can conduct is to announce that something exists and then try to get people to invest something—time, attention, money—in it. For example, you can announce you&#x
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by a4isms 4y ago
"It's implosion-type devices all the way out."
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by a4isms 4y ago
I was speaking to why they rushed the launch. CNN+ being intrinsically bad as a service and/or a terrible fit for their built-in market can also be true, and the two reinforce each other: This is 100% unadulterated speculation on my pa
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by a4isms 4y ago
If I read the article right, with a merger in the offing, they realized that the entire project was likely to be cancelled before launch when the reconstituted executive team performed a thorough review of every line of business. It's
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by a4isms 5y ago
If flying aircraft carriers of this vintage interest you, "The War in the Air"—written by H.G. Wells in 1907 and published in 1908—is chock full of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_in_the_Air >
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by a4isms 5y ago
I actually like what you're saying, but there is a problem here that is larger than whether it is just that Mr. Milken deserves a pardon. The problem is that justice unequally applied is injustice. So if we are saying, "Everyone c
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by a4isms 5y ago
According to the link: > The Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland allow some form of the deduction. That's six out of roughly 195 countries in the world. Perhaps you live in one of them, but bil
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by a4isms 5y ago
I think this varies between jurisdictions. I believe it is deductible in the USA, but not here in the People's Republic of Kanuckistan, although there are ways around the limitation, depending on your appetite for the risk of a drawn-o
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by a4isms 5y ago
80s Junk Bond King (and convicted felon*) Michael Milkin tells this story. He was once talking to an ambitions entrepreneur about funding a buyout with junk, and the entrepreneur asked, "This is a lot of money. How do you know I'l
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by a4isms 5y ago
Yes, but the hoi-polloi don't get to write off their mortgage interest as a tax deduction. "The rich have all of the money and pay none of the taxes. The middle class pay all of the taxes and have none of the money. The poor are t
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by a4isms 5y ago
I started programming around 1972 or so, so we are likely of similar vintage. I think we tend to find what we seek. I have found much to learn from Smalltalk and Lisp in the fifty years since I first wrote FORTRAN programs on punch cards at
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by a4isms 5y ago
> I think this is only practical with electric cars. All cars are electric cars if you put a solar panel on the roof! I believe that Bentley had this as an option some years ago: The solar panel would power enough of the climate system s
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by a4isms 5y ago
Every safety feature is a slippery slope to sloppy drivers making mistakes. You can make the same arguments about disc brakes, anti-lock brakes, systems that mitigate crossing the center line or running off the road, systems that attempt to
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by a4isms 5y ago
Some vehicles have a specific method of disabling the passenger seat air bag. Outside of the desire to place a baby seat there, some passengers may have a medical condition such that their risk of death is higher if the airbag deploys than
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by a4isms 5y ago
Those commercials have metastasized into ad-chum appearing on every news article we read on the web. Whether it's a mesh that allegedly keeps leaves out of your roof gutters, some electro-stimulation medical quackery device, or this ne
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by a4isms 5y ago
> Aircraft aren’t the only thing [Bill] Lear invented. He is also known for developing the 8-track cartridge audio tape Did they ever ship a Learjet with an 8-track system for playing music in-flight? Wikipedia's entry doesn't
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by a4isms 5y ago
For a solo developer, you can opt not to use any of the new features of JS. But if you are working in industry and do some front-end programming… You are going to work with the features that other people around you have decided makes their
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by a4isms 5y ago
The dynamics of the Enterprise market are such that there are features where having just one customer that will make a buy/no-buy decision based on just one feature will deliver enough incremental ARR to justify the opportunity cost of
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by a4isms 5y ago
If it's no more than 5% of the features, it's actually n-choose-k(100,5) + n-choose-k(100,4) + n-choose-k(100,3) + n-choose-k(100,2) + 100! 75,287,520 + 3,921,225 + 161,700 + 4,950 + 100 ----------
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by a4isms 5y ago
They used to say of Microsoft Word, "Nobody uses more than 5% of its features, but every company uses a different 5%." The saying is apocryphal and unlikely to be accurate, but the shape of the thing its describing applies to almo
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by a4isms 5y ago
It wasn't a point to debate, it was an observation that I find it interesting that these two orthogonal issues: 1. whether an industry built on people doing business with each other has physical centralization effects, and; 2. whether
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by a4isms 5y ago
Again, you're making things up. I never said that, I didn't even say you were wrong. I actually said you were not even wrong , and I'll say it again here: When you decide for yourself what somebody else might say—but hasn&#x
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by a4isms 5y ago
I'm fully aware. I was just musing that it is interesting that the culture around the digital instruments of crypto is not always aligned with the corporate culture around companies making/trading/facilitating/mining the

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