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by achou 8y ago
Interesting idea. Can you elaborate on the TypeScript comment? How would you encode something like this in TS?
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by achou 8y ago
A question for those of you in France (or Europe more generally) - many of the changes being proposed -- universal healthcare, free or low cost education, paid for with higher taxes on the wealthy -- basically already exist in your country.
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by achou 8y ago
Yes, exactly. You, the rest of the world, are indeed subsidizing this system to some extent, and in exchange, far fewer of your own young people are sitting in garrisons around the world, doing push-ups, playing with guns and yelling each o
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by achou 8y ago
Actually, I agree with you that this is kind of how it works. My point is simply this: the headline number for "military spend" includes a great deal of funding for research: https://www.aaas.org/programs/r-d-
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by achou 8y ago
I didn't see the part where I said anything about stimulus or investing. WWII is what enabled the US to adopt this position, and its memory, rapidly fading into history, are why the US chose involvement and leadership of the world inst
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by achou 8y ago
Folks, realize that US military spending: - backstops the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, which allows the US to have a large deficit with low risk to its economic system, which basically means the US can ship paper to other
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by achou 9y ago
I like that FOSSA scans FOSSA. Here's the link from the "license scan" badge on github: https://app.fossa.io/projects/git%2Bgithub.com%2Ffossas%2Ffo...
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by achou 9y ago
Demographic decline seems almost inevitable given our economic system, sans immigration. I'm a parent in SF. The cost of housing and availability of quality care (day care, nanny), and schools are definitely factors among the parent co
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by achou 9y ago
Is it not obvious that a search algorithm for maximizing a revenue function, devoid of ethics, eventually becomes a search algorithm for identifying and exploiting human weaknesses? AI/machine learning is just a way to optimize this fu
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by achou 9y ago
I have one child in preschool and another that just entered second grade. They go to a progressive school that focuses on inquiry based learning, and the most important metric is that they seem engaged and enthusiastic about school every da
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by achou 9y ago
The book touches lightly upon advertising and how it can affect demand: http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/07.html#711-p... This strikes me as a very important subject, one that I heard little abo
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by achou 9y ago
A very small startup team does benefit from an open plan, such as shared desks or a shared office. This scales to maybe 6 people. I think this is the environment that larger companies are trying to capture. But at scale, this is a ridiculou
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by achou 9y ago
Needless to say, spending and income are two different things. This is very easy to see if, for example, one spouse loses their job and the other continues to do exactly the same housework and child rearing -- but now can spend much less.
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by achou 9y ago
I probably should have said "all economic systems since the dawn of time" but I took a shortcut that covers most of the modern world's economy instead. I certainly didn't say that communism was somehow different or bette
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by achou 9y ago
Consider what happens if one spouse loses a job and is forced to take one with half the pay. The spouse doing the work at home suddenly has to make do with less, even though their work has not really changed. My point is not really about sl
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by achou 9y ago
Thanks, will check it out.
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by achou 9y ago
"the history of paid work suggests that the unpaid labor of mothers in the family is the critical thing" Thank you for this much needed shift in perspective. It should be obvious: mothers' work has been on the critical path
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by achou 9y ago
My point is that the systems we've built optimize for things we choose to measure. We're very much measuring and optimizing for money and the kinds of goods and services money can be exchanged for. But to a startling degree we&#x2
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by achou 9y ago
Truly remarkable story. One thing that struck me is that Lola did so much of the work of a traditional mother's role: raising the kids, cooking, cleaning, laundry, and even providing emotional support. The mother had to take on a tradi
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by achou 9y ago
Yes, I do have children. I got the idea from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/sunday/take-your-... Bringing babies to work definitely has issues, but also benefits.
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by achou 9y ago
I'm a founder looking for ways to make my next startup family-friendly. I'm a parent of two sons in SF so I know what it's like. A grab bag of ideas so far: - Allow parents to bring babies to work (0-6mo) - Locate in suburbs
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by achou 9y ago
The survey polled 430 "mostly everyday programmers". Unfortunately, everyday programmers mostly know very little about security. Developers tend to think of security as about avoiding coding mistakes, and that's reflected in
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by achou 10y ago
"How do I spend this money?" If you're asking yourself this question, you're not focusing on building your business. How to spend it becomes a distraction. The converse also happens: for any business problem the easiest
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by achou 10y ago
(I'm an investor in Fossa) Open source is ubiquitous, and few seem to have a great handle on what they are using. Excited to see Fossa take a stab at this in a way that is developer-friendly. Also check out tldrLegal, software licenses
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by achou 10y ago
Why bother raising from a VC? Bootstrapping can work out very well.
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by achou 10y ago
I'm a founder of a company that had "mid-success" (a few times over). I mostly agree with this article and when I see companies in my former market raising $100M+ rounds I always cringe. > But as a general rule, the longer
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by achou 10y ago
I'm a parent with two children living in SF. Before I had children, I had no idea how difficult it was going to be, even putting aside finances. Most people without children just don't get how much more difficult ordinary life b
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by achou 10y ago
Simple example using Pinyin: 你好吗 is "Hello, how are you?". In Pinyin you'd type: "ni hao ma?". It sounds like this: https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/你好吗？
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by achou 10y ago
To understand the impact of Pinyin, all you have to do is take a look at the alternative input sources for Chinese on your computer or phone. On my Mac it's under Settings -> Keyboard -> Input Sources. Add a new input source for
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by achou 10y ago
When I was taught Pinyin, the instructor explained that the phonetics were influenced by the Russian pronunciation of the roman alphabet. Not sure if this is true, or if it explains the issues you're describing. But it seemed plausible

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