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by anamax 2y ago
That relies on introducers/mutual acquaintances, which isn't enough. Here's an easy problem that it doesn't solve. I'm giving a public talk and want to provide an email address so that people can contact me. How do
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by anamax 2y ago
> If email didn't need fixing, spam wouldn't exist. Let's start with something easy - [1] define spam. [2] Can spam be identified with a purely mechanical (no humans involved) process? Do you have a definition of "sp
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by anamax 2y ago
> This is the S1 in Berlin The vast majority of people in the US do not live in places that are at all comparable to Berlin, or NYC for that matter. > Shopping should be local, Which means that you're limited to what's popul
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by anamax 2y ago
Domestic cats don't affect the food supply of large raptors because those cats are where people are, and where large raptors, for the most part, aren't. (The peopled places that have largish raptors also tend to have a surplus of
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by anamax 2y ago
> The only places that got shut down by the government were bars, restaurants and schools. At least one SoCal city filled a skate park with sand. There's a video of harbor cops going after a guy paddle-boarding in the ocean. (There
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by anamax 2y ago
I see a lot of information about how to distribute content and revenues, but I don't see how you ensure that enough revenue comes in. Wordpress' Tumblr problem is that costs exceed revenue, not distribution. Note that "decent
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by anamax 2y ago
Cats rarely kill large raptors.
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by anamax 2y ago
DRAM and SRAM capacities are in binary, but storage device capacities (from device manufacturers) are decimal. (I thought that storage device capacities were actually mixed, that is, decimal kilobytes, so a megabyte is 1000 * 1024, but I c
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by anamax 2y ago
To be fair, Germany is fairly small (by US/China) standards. The continental US (no Alaska or Hawaii) is > 22.5 times as big as Germany but has only 8.8 times as many miles of "navigable waterways." (However, it's not
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by anamax 2y ago
> The line between Kiruna and Narvik is so beautiful I’m not sure why you’d want it to go faster. That makes it a tourist line, not a transit line. There's nothing wrong with tourism, but it isn't transit.
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by anamax 2y ago
As your link shows, money that is spent on making a good freight rail system is mostly money that doesn't help with passenger traffic. You claimed that there were "many" countries that had both good freight and passenger rail
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by anamax 2y ago
A given rail system can do freight or passenger well, but not both. The US system is optimized for freight. It's not obvious that passenger is a better choice.
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by anamax 2y ago
> I would also settle for a loophole that would allow the library to OCR a physical copy they own and then own the resulting digital copy. That was what the Internet Archive was doing. They got sued and the last I heard, had lost at ever
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by anamax 2y ago
They're double-apping because they want more business than they can get from either app alone. It's unclear why that's a "flaw". If Uber has to pay idle drivers, it has to charge more for rides. Do you want there t
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by anamax 2y ago
Lots of zeros is good. One big problem with null pointers is that there's only one of them. (One of a given type doesn't help.) Hoare's "NULL was my biggest mistake" rant proposed the wrong solution, namely no null
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by anamax 2y ago
"Leatherman Tool" is a good comparison, as pretty much every "blade" in a Leathermann is a crappy tool, better only than the Swiss Army knife equivalent. The Leatherman's reason for existence is that you have it wit
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by anamax 2y ago
> Independent redistricting commissions Define "independent". I note that California has an "Independent redistricting commission" and it gerrymandered the state more than the previous "by legislature" syste
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by anamax 2y ago
[0] "What problems do you have?" is too vague. [1] The response rate correlates to the product of how painful the problem is and whether the potential responder has some faith that you have a solution.
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by anamax 2y ago
Bad joke: Loki is the Norse god of mischief, trickery, and deception (traditional). In the Marvel Universe, he occasionally tries to take over.
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by anamax 2y ago
It's also true for loki.
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by anamax 2y ago
"bombing each other into rubble" can happen this century.
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by anamax 2y ago
> Do people just not think about how their product will make money, who the competition is or how are they going to get customers? The short answer is "yes, people don't think about those things." The longer answer is that
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by anamax 2y ago
> No investor is going to give you specific feedback. That depends on what you mean by "specific." Several Sand Hill Angels members, who are investors, provide feedback almost every month. (It's in the context of a pitch,
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by anamax 3y ago
Every one of Buffet's "for the good of all" policy positions put money in his pocket. For example, at least one of the BH insurance companies makes serious money from the estate tax, a tax that doesn't hit Buffet's
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by anamax 3y ago
US cities and counties are creations of the state that they're in. States are NOT creations of the federal govt. The federal govt is a creation of the states.
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by anamax 3y ago
Why should my money go to someone who is providing services to a movie company.
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by anamax 3y ago
> Is the stock market for investing in a company With the exception of the IPO and buy-backs, the stock market is NOT for/about investing in the company. When you buy IBM on NYSE, IBM doesn't get anything. Similarly for sellin
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by anamax 3y ago
> Never make incentive deals with megacorps unless it's for the film industry. They know how to scratch someone's back. What kind of "back scratching" does the film industry do and why should I like it? Speaking of &q
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by anamax 3y ago
"blah, blah, blah" can be an expression of scornful boredom or the utterance of a vampire.
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by anamax 3y ago
The flip side of "don't use different names for the same thing" is "don't use the same/similar name for different things."

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