ahepp

19 ms·

271.
by ahepp 3y ago
If we're going to discuss this, I'd like to keep things on point. My specific question was, how do you propose paying for this system of allocation when the entire premise is to eliminate non-trivial domain fees. As a brief exampl
272.
by ahepp 3y ago
The glaring hole in the alternative you proposed has nothing to do with the existing system being well established.
273.
by ahepp 3y ago
One big problem I see with this, is it sounds like you're proposing we dramatically expand the scope of registrar duties while also proposing we stop paying them. Where are they going to get the money to fund their nuanced and mindful
274.
by ahepp 3y ago
Do you think there's potential for language models to play a role here? I know that AI can get tossed around as a buzzword, but hasn't it proved quite successful in fields like computer vision? I'm not deeply familiar with th
275.
by ahepp 3y ago
> Broadly speaking, this indicates that there needs to be a mechanism to bind your IRL identity to your digital identity and your device(s) The link between digital identity and device ownership would have been sufficient to prevent this
276.
by ahepp 3y ago
That's an interesting idea. Some kind of e-fuse that can permanently disable Find My. As you say, there are some concerns for resale, but let's assume those can be worked out. I am not sure I see the feature being very useful. If
277.
by ahepp 3y ago
> The fact that it is possible for Apple to undo the lock proves that the device isn't controlled by the owner. I agree I think it's an inversion of the trope because this is presented as a good thing, and something that Apple
278.
by ahepp 3y ago
The story is 2500+ words in two different articles, to summarize: * The author's MacBook was lost/stolen * Because the author hadn't set up Find My, someone else was able to reset the laptop * When the author recovered the la
279.
by ahepp 3y ago
Here's one: https://github.com/ahepp/resume/blob/d7778b1339271cbd7812634... It uses GitHub's devcontainer plugin. There's a devcontainer config at .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, which sa
280.
by ahepp 3y ago
Shall we call it the "slow code movement"?
281.
by ahepp 3y ago
> You don't have to make Gitlab/GitHub YAML files complicated if you don't want to. The "script" section can be just a call to a normal shell/Python/Typescript CI script. It took me an embarrassingly lo
282.
by ahepp 3y ago
Which of these graphs do you think supports the claim that LFG has very good predictive power? I browsed the first few, population, fertility, mortality, and food per capita. In each case the empirical data clearly diverge from all four LFG
283.
by ahepp 3y ago
What? Maybe my brain isn't big enough to understand this, but I don't see how you could disentangle the two without getting into pedantry.
284.
by ahepp 3y ago
> the papers emphasize they are not predictions, but illustrating complex relationships If it has no predictive power, why should it be taken seriously? I'm concerned about the environment and sustainability too, but that's the
285.
by ahepp 3y ago
Is there any reason to take this more seriously than garden variety malthusianism?
286.
by ahepp 3y ago
Isn't the resistance of a wire usually modeled as a constant value? Power dissipated in the wire as heat is proportional to the square of the current. It's equal to the voltage drop times current (P = I * V). Voltage drop is curre
287.
by ahepp 3y ago
I'm sure there would be challenges. In a lot of ways, they seem like the same challenges that have always faced OPEC. It does seem like a scenario where you don't really want the efficiencies markets discover, which is why I men
288.
by ahepp 3y ago
I think the arguments for leaving oil in the ground have more to do with path dependence than prioritizing the needs of oil company shareholders. Markets have a limited ability to look ahead. It's like a greedy algorithm. You're f
289.
by ahepp 3y ago
I'm aware it's a "real" paper. I did try reading it, but I stopped since it didn't seem to answer any of my questions. I'm not an academic, and certainly not an academic in the field of economics or monetary po
290.
by ahepp 3y ago
Well, presumably you'd only get paid to not-drill if you otherwise had the drilling rights? So if you bought the rights to extract from an oil field in Alaska or the Gulf, you could get paid not to use them. That seems reasonably coher
291.
by ahepp 3y ago
I read up until about this point in the book, but frankly I stopped because I lost confidence that KSR had any idea what he was talking about when it came to central banks, and more broadly finance in general. Maybe someone here can help me
292.
by ahepp 3y ago
I don't think I disagree with you in principle, but it's interesting to note that Henry Ford published a four volume book "The International Jew, the World's Foremost Problem". And Volkswagen was founded by the Nazi
293.
by ahepp 3y ago
One of the hardest problems in a workplace is coordinating the workers. There's also a substantial overhead cost for every employee. I'm sure workers are less efficient at the end of a 12 hour shift, but shift changes also cost a
294.
by ahepp 3y ago
This article is bizarre. ProPublica really took four trips to a town of 220 people with > four journalists toting notebooks and a video camera, driving around town, flying a drone overhead, watching police officers wait for speeders. and
295.
by ahepp 3y ago
per FT: > What’s the point of all these subsidiaries? > They’re to give Microsoft a stake in the commercial bit while wearing no responsibility for the Asimov-y stuff that concerns the management layer. This seemed to suit both partie
296.
by ahepp 3y ago
Isn't Microsoft famous for their insane API stability and backwards compatibility?
297.
by ahepp 3y ago
If Starbucks started giving the drinks away for free, I doubt people would still pay $10 for it.
298.
by ahepp 3y ago
This is a bit tangential, but I actually think charging money to participate in certain online discussions is a really good idea. For instance, I think it would be awesome if everyone sending an email to my main account had to send me $1. I
299.
by ahepp 3y ago
I've never read any resources on what constitutes proper open source. It seems like there are a lot of different and incompatible goals in the world of open source. For example, if I wanted to get paid I definitely wouldn't be rea
300.
by ahepp 3y ago
I hear this and it makes sense that a minority of users sucks up a lot of time, but what isn't clear to me is why maintainers don't ignore these people. I've never maintained a popular open source project so maybe there'

More ›