andrewjl

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It'd be helpful to read up on constitutional law before drawing these conclusions because there is a long and complicated history around interpreting every phrase and most words in the part that you cite. Probable cause is a great plac
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This is an important distinction and to understand why, it's helpful to read about its predecessor, the League of Nations which due to mismanagement failed spectacularly in its goals to prevent conflicts between nation states.
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> The problem in the US is that everything is aligned against making stuff here. The unions have been in damage control mode for decades, trying to avoid losing the factories that employ two hundred to the more automated factories that e
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> That said, we should still be the first to realize that a successful, fundamentally new way to program would target a new generation and idea of software maker, one that won’t look like the modern developer at all. Channeling Gibson[1]
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It's simpler to justify if the development process is also seen as a knowledge acquisition process. Does the knowledge acquired by re-invention and its effect on subsequent effectiveness and or productivity outweigh the cost of time ex
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Risk probabilities also need to be taken into account. The science on mask wearing did change and it's possible it may change again if the virus evolves in the near future. What won't change is the risk profile of wearing vs not w
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Look back on your past projects and try to see common patterns where you've either succeeded or enjoyed the experience irrespective of outcome. They don't necessarily need to be technical and they don't need to be specialties
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There's a distinction to be made in corporate vs individual uniqueness. It is easier for an individual to pivot and try something completely new. And on communities or databases, I think much of the story remains unwritten and current
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Likely due to oligopolism[1]. [1] http://paulgraham.com/re.html
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Enjoyed reading the post but find it glosses over the easiest way to escape competition, doing something unique. It's a safe bet that uniqueness will become ever more disproportionately rewarded in the near-future. This can mean develo
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A flat distribution doesn't comport well with heterogenous consumption preferences. The latter is a trend that will likely intensify in the coming decade. The challenge with discussing welfare is that different people have radically di
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Causation is often treated as a binary outcome in the popular press, more recent attempts at adding nuance to that via statistics aren't much better. Hard to come up with solutions or alternatives but speaking personally I felt humbled
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I don't share the pessimistic view mostly because there's a lot we do not know. The shape of all possible disruptions is hard to predict a priori . And desktop OS is nowhere near as dominant as it once was so significant market s
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> General computing platforms should be protected from such predatory practices by manufacturers through strong government regulations. I find it much more plausible that any regulations will end up entrenching market incumbents and clos
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Averages can conceal just as much as they reveal. What does a society look like with those same averages but where the distribution of production is governed by power laws and the distribution of consumption isn't?
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Revenue across the App Store has a power law distribution. This discount has minimal financial impact on services revenue and results in a massive boost of goodwill for the platform.
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> but there are then restrictions on issuing more in dividends or buybacks than you have in profits, and borrowing isn't considered profit. So they can get the money back into the US and use it for wasteful empire building but they
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> Multinational corporations commonly avoid taxes by keeping profits offshore in a low tax jurisdiction. That does happen, but many including the biggest tech companies found a clever way around it. Via a combination of ultra-low interes
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Corporate tax rates can be lower, ideally at 0, but I doubt our current system incentivizes corporations retaining profits. On the contrary, recently many needed to be bailed out because they paid out too much to shareholders instead of s
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> because we're always learning, and we can always do better I think this is a very important point, but it should IMO be considered along with context. Languages are always used with a particular tech stack, targeting particular
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What's a possible way to design a language for collaboration besides encouraging ever more fine-grained modularization and code reuse? I can see collaborative debugging and sharing of environments, especially with web services, as poss
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Rationality itself is not falsifiable, it relies on axioms that must be assumed true in order to work. Edit: Treating rationality as something real as opposed to just a (very useful) figment of our imagination, i.e. something like a variant
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Resources may be finite but human ingenuity, appropriately harnessed, doesn't have to be. Increased technological capacity can also create access to resources previously inaccessible, such as asteroid mining.
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Do you have any links on the connections between glucose and brain chemistry?
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Important to distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, one of which is genetic and the other isn't.
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> Because the user is the product rather than the customer, the user’s needs are not the priority of the business. That's a reasonable way to look at it but it omits an important detail. User's needs do matter a great deal to t
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I don't think they do, at least in the long term. In the short and medium term its arguable either way. We're still at the very beginning of the era of truly distributed computing and what it tends to do when it spreads is replace
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The issue is that for all the customer-centric rhetoric today, actions like these speak far louder than words.
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Textbook shortsightedness. IIRC before the change to collaborator-based billing, the GitHub model was that the private repos would be frozen if one stopped subscribing. Yet still remain private. That's a much better customer experience
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We can certainly measure mineral depletion in soil that agriculture drives. This affects the resulting nutritional value of agricultural products.[1] In general we over focus on stocks rather than flows when it comes to natural resources. T

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