aaronsw

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by aaronsw 18y ago
I don't think anyone is worrying about a depression based on the _current_ unemployment number. The concern is that things are going to get much worse because of frozen credit markets, nationalized banks, globalized finance, trade deficits,
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by aaronsw 18y ago
The left likes credentials? The right doesn't like intergenerational transmission of income? These aren't any left or right I recognize. Who is PG thinking of?
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by aaronsw 18y ago
watchdog.net is looking for good people: http://transparencyjobs.com/jobs/49/
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by aaronsw 18y ago
What if instead of an override link it made you answer a Mechanical Turk question? Then at least you'd be accomplishing something useful with your procrastination.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
How is voting for a binding commitment a vote against personal responsibility? As Jon Elster shows, if we take hyperbolic utility discounting seriously binding commitments like these are a key part of personal responsibility.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
For the hardcore Feynman fans, there's the Feynman Lectures on Computation: http://books.theinfo.org/go/0738202967
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by aaronsw 18y ago
For a more reality-based answer, try http://howdidthishappen.org/
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I assume you mean procmail, not procmon. Decent MTAs (like qmail) make it pretty easy to have mail delivered to a script.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Do what ezmlm does with bounce messages: use a different envelope sender for each outgoing mail and encode the message ID in that address. If you get a mail to the envelope sender you can typically assume it's a non-delivery report of some
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by aaronsw 18y ago
This article seems to ignore the main argument I've heard: exit strategies are fewer in a recession. IPOs are out of the question and few companies are in an acquisition mood. So instead of growing fast and selling out before you hit your p
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by aaronsw 18y ago
That's the horror of UTF-8.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
That's the beauty of UTF-8.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
This was caught here: http://www.nabble.com/Bug-in-fetch.c:doit--td1143190.html
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Geez, that's a lot of ad hominem . Did I accidentally murder your dog or something? I wasn't saying anything about what 37signals does , I was criticizing what they recommended . You know, in their book. That I link to in my first paragr
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I've often wished that the "x for" could be optional, but yes. It's like bar charts and tables. Tables communicate more information, but we're visual creatures and thus prefer bar charts.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Tufte debunked this book in Beautiful Evidence . It even led him to coin the term economisting (emphasis on con and mist ). Draft: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0... When I first read it I remarked that he
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I assumed http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=267809 was a parody of the inevitable "what? I could build that myself" comment made about all YC startups. A site where you vote on links? Why I could build that myself. An SMS interface to P
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I think the real factor is control. Does Paul Graham really seem like the guy who would want a boss if he could avoid it?
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I didn't get into this, but Brook argues that allowing people to become billionaires has led to increasing costs of living in major cities, pushing out the kinds of people who start startups in favor of trustafarians, i-bankers, corporate l
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I'm not sure I understand this argument. When startup founders bail out, they typically go and find a normal job instead. Why would a social safety net make this any easier?
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Do something big. My experience has been that funders are pretty persuaded by the impressive cost-to-impact ratio. But the trick is to go after funders for the particular field you're in, not general technology funding. So for a book-relate
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Craiglist isn't a nonprofit and never really has been to my knowledge, so I don't know what you're talking about.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
That's the monthly singularity discussion chat; not the Gatekeeper chat.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Maybe because he doesn't want to make the Fundamental Attribution Error? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I clearly say I'm talking about their episode "The Giant Pool of Money" which was very clearly a news show, co-produced with NPR News.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I suspect a black scientist was included not because of powerful groups but because of guilt on the part of teachers who wanted to appear racially-sensitive. I remember that as a kid, between PBS and the racial sensitivity of my all-white s
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Because understanding the notion of suburbia at that level of detail can't possibly be useful or relevant.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
Did they ever respond to your email? When I sent them nitpicks their reply was all snippy about it.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
So the issue is: 1) they were putting ads on top of Craigslist, and 2) they were using up too much bandwidth. I expect if you actually wanted to build something useful you could just email Craig and he'd get you a dump.
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by aaronsw 18y ago
I typically just put them on the Web myself; if they make money I discuss with my partners what to do with it. If any of them were to make a lot of money, I'd probably start an S-corp or something to reduce the tax liability, but it's never

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