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by aeturnum 6y ago
This is a sad reminder of the masses of invisible labor (unpaid and paid) that hold up our world. Social scientists have been studying how labor becomes visible (or invisible) for a while without finding obvious solutions to "the situa
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by aeturnum 6y ago
In an age of corporate sponsored wildly increasing visibility & reach, it's a counter-cultural act to forgo visibilty & reach for other goals.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think some of the furor over bitcoin power usage is overblown. It's true, as crypto folks say, that the power is doing "something." It's more that...a system where you will pay anyone who finds any cheap power source a
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Some folks are nit-picking about which statements are really sexism and which are more universal. I can understand that but I think a better way for folks to sit with this is to pull back. Homogeneous cultures are bad at understanding how
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think it's a pretty good deal to get back 100% of the time you spend maintaining something while keeping 20% of the revenue.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
This seems like a great deal for everyone involved! I think the real takeaway here is that many entrepreneurs are not interested in running successful business. They'd rather be starting new things! So if you are good at running busine
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by aeturnum 6y ago
How is one more vendor offering to run a blockchain vm centralization? It's just a hosting service.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think it's important to talk about the difference between interpersonal violations ("rudeness") and legal protections ("crime"). The former really is whatever people feel it is - notch can feel any way he wants
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think one of the sources of this kind of attitude is experience with type systems that are clumsy or slow to use. This goes equally for languages without type declarations and those with. Personally, the two things I informally look for a
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think the idea is that, as mining fees and power generation requirements increase, you have less incentive to build the most efficient power generation (renewables) and increasing incentives to build financially reliable proven technologi
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Well, as long as you're facing this problem in 2020 and not around 2012. Even though Rockstar should should have patched GTA by now, battle-tested JSON parsing solutions were a lot rarer 8 years ago.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
From the article: "...it doesn’t work, unless you have massive amounts of funding or a brilliant idea that can completely disrupt the existing the market." That's why I said scale of the project matters. Using a 1% (or 0.1%)
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think it's good to point this out and think a little about what "health" means here. Looking at their consolidated financial data on page 11, you can see they spend about $1 providing a service someone pays $2 for. Then all
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by aeturnum 6y ago
One of the things I think about is how important scale is for evaluating the viability of a product. I suspect that there aren't enough people who would pay $99 for a IDE theme to support an ongoing company with employees. However, for
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I definitely raised my eyebrows at "access to AWS YC slack" It's really nice to hear from high-prestige companies about their experience because it gives outsiders a sense of what prestige might fix. If you're a small st
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I think it's lovely how accessible high quality photographic equipment has become. Naturalism is much easier when it's not just the "professionals" who have access to high-quality telephoto equipment. These clear, detail
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by aeturnum 6y ago
>Is the word "own" being used in two ways here? I think the folks in the crypto world are using it one way and you're introducing a second meaning. They just mean "own" in the legal-rights way. Like one might &qu
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I totally agree that many sites put the scores in to maximize revenue. I'm just trying to consider scoring systems in the wider context of user <-> website interaction techniques. If score systems were just to generate revenue,
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by aeturnum 6y ago
The sociologist in me suspects that scoring systems are popular because they instrumentalize interaction in a sufficiently ambiguous way to do work for many audiences. It's really useful that comment scores have vague relationships to
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Oh thanks! I didn't know that he'd responded.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Ah Xanadu! I always think of the 1995 "The Curse of Xanadu" in wired[1], both because it's good and because it's from an age when the idea of universal connection felt much further away. [1] https://www.wired.
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by aeturnum 6y ago
> There's too much emphasis on closing questions that are duplicates (when in fact they are not, and technology changes so a duplicate question asked 2 years later is going to get different responses) I've always been a little
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I appreciate that this post focuses on the key element that I hadn't understood about ECC: how it replaces factoring as a 'easy to do, difficult to undo' algorithm. This is a great example of a post that has enough informatio
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by aeturnum 6y ago
I really like being able to 'tent' my keyboard like the Kinesis keyboards[1] - the higher the better. So I'd love a split model if one is available. [1] https://spin.atomicobject.com/2018/02/11/
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by aeturnum 6y ago
This seems like a good thread to ask - are there any split keyboards that have the "shared" keys (5/t/g/b and 6/y/h/n) on both sides? I have never found home-row typing comfortable and often move my h
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Normal Accidents is a real classic of the genre of disaster studies and points out some very useful realities for tightly coupled systems. Engineers building highly complex systems would do well to read the book and take its lessons to hear
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by aeturnum 6y ago
The aspect that reminded me of the paper (and the concept) was how the low level employee can really only screw up. If they do well, then it's a credit to their boss, but if they do something wrong it's on them and they'll be
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by aeturnum 6y ago
This reminds of of a 2019 paper on "moral crumple zones"[1] which talks about how the human component of automated systems are increasingly there to act as the focus for moral failures. Did your giant automated system do something
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Leaving a subsidy on the table is not exactly like leaving money on the table for either party. They lower costs and lower the tax revenue from a business, but they don't represent a cost (outside of the cost to negotiate and write the
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by aeturnum 6y ago
Foxconn is an international company that operates in many countries outside of China. Suggesting they are too simple to realize the business climate is different outside of China seems insulting and infantilizing. Their operating income is

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