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by anamax 5y ago
Never care more about someone else's project than they do. (A more positive version is "Your job is to do your job, not someone else's job.") This isn't your project - it's your company's project. It wil
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by anamax 5y ago
I wonder what the reaction would have been if Trump had done something similar during the "mostly peaceful" protests about 18 months ago? There wasn't much/any honking, but there was some looting and burning.
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by anamax 5y ago
There's an assumption that the brain knows that its support structure, aka the body, has stopped functioning in a permanent sense. I can see how brains could evolve to do status checks and respond to survivable events. But, I don&#x27
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by anamax 5y ago
> OTOH if they haven't been sentenced yet and the electricity company knows of it, I think they are walking on thin ice if they don't report it. In what country is "no electricity" (part of) the sentence for murderers
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by anamax 5y ago
> If they chose not to use it, they can sell it to someone who will You're assuming that someone else can make it work financially in the original domain, but what if no one can? The IP may have value in other domains, but you seem
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by anamax 5y ago
Email is a couple of related but separable things. One of those things is transport and all that it entails (delivery, storage, addressing, etc.) Another is a particular kind of messaging. One can use the transport for other kinds of messa
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by anamax 5y ago
There are a couple of assumption here regarding using e-mail as transport for a social network [1] said e-mail account is also used for other purposes (such as personal email) [2] said e-mail account is read with an ordinary e-mail reader.
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by anamax 5y ago
You're assuming that satisfying demand is not a good. You're also arguing that we should wear a hair-shirt until the rapture. (If the alternatives can't compete with relatively good traffic, if they're only used when n
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by anamax 5y ago
The response to Covid-19 isn't a big deal for most of the upper middle class in the US, especially those in the tech industry. (Google shutting the cafeterias....) However, the lockdown had a huge effect on everyone lower on the food
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by anamax 5y ago
To first order, planes only crash when they're landing or taking off. Cars crash in pretty much every situation. Fatal incidents are more clumped but no where near as much as planes.
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by anamax 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/303/
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by anamax 5y ago
What's the problem? Everyone knows that EARN IT is aimed at Trump, white supremacists, and anti-vaxxers.
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by anamax 5y ago
> I read a tweet that referred to HN as "Silicon Valley" CA is more than SV. (That said, while the Los Angeles basin has a lot more people, it and the San Francisco bay area are more alike than they are like central valley CA
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by anamax 5y ago
The problem with Cambridge Analytica is that the wrong people benefited. https://medium.com/@PatrickRuffini/the-medias-double-standar...
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by anamax 5y ago
Never have obligations (loans, credit cards, etc.) and assets at the same institution. Neither side can resist the temptation to use the other side to "resolve" disputes.
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by anamax 5y ago
Are Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in or out today?
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by anamax 5y ago
> It seems like many journalists are failing in their primary responsibilities to keep the public informed. Journalists themselves do NO say that "keep the public informed" is their primary responsibility. The dominant "wh
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by anamax 5y ago
It was reasonably common for the US left to show American flags where the stars were replaced by or covered by a swastika. The folks showing such flags were saying that the US and/or the US govt was fascist. I mention that because som
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by anamax 5y ago
How many other SV VCs joined Draper? FWIW, I heard that Ellison also put in some early money. If that was it, then will you agree that "mostly outside of the usual SV crowd." is accurate How many rounds did Draper participate in
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by anamax 5y ago
It's not clear how to distinguish my example from every other shortcut that people do to get things out the door. (It's not the numbers - growth can jump to 100% if marketing gets its act together.) While Ward Cunningham may have
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by anamax 5y ago
> Don’t most national healthcare programs also add in collective bargaining? Which of the major cost drivers in US healthcare does collective bargaining address? Yes, we could switch to paying marginal costs for drugs, but drugs don&#x27
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by anamax 5y ago
What's missing in the above is some notion that the "feature machines" should actually do some work to show what the feature will accomplish. Better yet, is that feature more profitable than some other feature? "you can
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by anamax 5y ago
> I think we need less bullshit and more environments where people can openly admit to and discuss mistakes Are we talking about mistakes? Suppose that I build a system that has capacity 1M when the usage is 100 and growing at 10% a mont
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by anamax 5y ago
"It's a risk" means there's profit in removing the risk. As far as insurance goes, it just reduces the variance. Folks who buy the insurance will take short-cuts elsewhere because money spent one place is money that can
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by anamax 5y ago
I didn't know that IMAP supported search. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1730#section-6.4.4
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by anamax 5y ago
> I can lookup any email I've ever sent/received. Not with gmail you can't. As of a couple of years ago, gmail search was a crap-shoot. It would consistently fail on some things, occasionally fail on others, and work just
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by anamax 5y ago
Steel can become soft at 1000F. I mention that because 60% efficiency on a 70F day requires a heat source of at least 900F. https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/carnot-efficiency
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by anamax 5y ago
"Manufacture such parts yourself" is not OEM (original equipment manufacturer). Yes, even if they're physically indistinguishable. (And they would be physically distinguishable because 3d printed parts can be distinguished, e
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by anamax 5y ago
> Besides that, I'm a huge fan of disposable code. In my experience 99% of the time, the best approach is to just dive into the problem and try to solve the problem My approach is slightly different. I think for a while and then sta
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by anamax 5y ago
> RAM bandwidth doubles with each generation and throughout and latency improve RAM bandwidth is improving a lot faster than its latency. (The latter is almost as stagnant as max CPU clock frequencies.)

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