andrewjl

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You're assuming that we can distinguish between map and territory and science is definitively proving we cannot. See Dr. Robert Sapolsky on behavior as an example.[1] And philosophers like Kant speculate it's map all the way down,
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I haven't seen any cleverness in reactive code that one wouldn't encounter in a non-reactive code base. It is true that one may need to learn new abstractions, but a more imperative coding style requires lots of glue code, much of
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I agree that navigating the ambiguity between different categories requires thinking meta. Where I disagree is the need to drop semantics. Semantics are the foundation of how we organize our society. Perhaps on a small-scale or a personal l
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You don't need a hardware wallet if you use the mnemonic phrase feature.[1] https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Mnemonic_phrase
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Not necessarily if you are in possession of your own keys. Which admittedly most people today are not. A hardware wallet can be physically transported in the same way gold can.
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In your experience, how does that compare to measuring continual "use" of your product, like churn, cohort tracking, and others? From the linked article, I'd say the "what's missing" question is perhaps the bes
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> cheaper than the "build" option with internal talent I'm curious how that gets evaluated, is it more of a ballpark estimate or is there a more formal process involving engineering teams providing time and effort estimate
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You'd be surprised at the complexity involved moving 1-5MM USD across borders, even those without capital controls. And there is definitely a limit on global throughput of dollar movement, which is roughly the slowest processing rate o
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> In real life things get very complex because there are 200 working parts interconnected. And not because "it's bad design". But because that is the requirement. These sorts of things are always better discussed in terms
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If there was ever a way to monetize advanced robotics with pretty much a guaranteed pay off, this is it.
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It's not always that simple, there may be potential uses that are uneconomical at current prices but kick in at 10x or even 2x reduction. The increased demand would prevent further collapse. See Jevons paradox[1] for a more general cas
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Swift, especially if you have a Mac. The numeric features are well thought out and generally work the way you'd expect. The same with syntax. Swift Playgrounds are a REPL with ability to visualize what your program is doing to build on
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I used to do just that some years back. Worked up a great appetite for dinner. And it was a great way to build in exercise into my day.
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> Entire channels being taken down because the licensed music they used contained samples that weren’t properly licensed themselves. One has to wonder why this happens at a time where it's never been easier to build your own mini-Yo
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There's something I've always been curious about wrt `auto`, and that's why have the keyword at all? In Swift for instance, one can just use `var` or `let` to express mutability and have the compiler infer the type. Is there
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The real yield for USD Treasury is currently negative across all maturities, this means that your cash has a negative real return in a savings account at a bank. [1] [1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-cha
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> Its an asset. Like many (virtually all, other than pure financial) assets, it has associated expenses; maintenance, depreciation, and similar expenses are the norm for non-financial assets. To get technical about it, code whose discoun
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> thermal storage, and a bit of electrical storage I'll acknowledge that renewable generation costs have been falling at an impressive rate. However you're understating the problem for storage. Besides cost, there are far more
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> whether we can maintain a stable political environment for the decades/hundred years required to responsibly take care of nuclear. And if that's not the case then what do you think will happen to the other programs critical i
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The regulatory corpus is not provided in a single indexed volume neatly arranged by category, it's haphazardly organized, subject to the whims of bureaucrats when interpreted, endlessly cross-referenced, and even inconsistent in places
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I think to work right the jobs guarantee needs to be a temporary guarantee with the aim of upskilling and not purely a "make work" program. Something more like college, though not academic, with built-in accountability mechanisms.
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> There's nothing humane about preventing people from being able to work My reading of the argument (maybe different from OP) is the choice to work a low wage job isn't a choice made completely by one's own volition due to
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I've had a chance to read your materials. Here's a question: Using the AFC test [1], which seems common throughout the case law cited, how does one distinguish a design decision from a standard programming technique [2] in the
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> it's not like every single businness [sic] in the whole country needs to keep track of every single one. That's an incorrect understanding of how laws and regulations work. Ignorantia juris non excusat . > 2400 seems like
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What are your thoughts on SAS Inst. Inc. v. S&H Computer Sys. Inc. ? Does it fall into the grouping above in your opinion? I find it to be a very quirky decision in light of the merger doctrine principles you wrote about, unless I&#x27
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> I think the key word in your argument is 'implies' and you didn't use the word 'requires'. You can make this same argument for the function name or the parameter names. Nothing about the implementation of the m
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This is somewhat of a meta-comment but why is nutrition research so challenging and contentious even in 2020? What prevents us from developing tools, whether statistical techniques or otherwise, from settling these questions once and for al
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> and regulation is not one of them. > Small businesses are also rare because of zoning codes and infrastructure policies that promote the use of cars Zoning codes and infrastructure policies are a form of regulation. > government
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Re-reading this piece [1] (also see my reply to the sibling comment) should clarify what this trope hides, which is that there's a deep, structural differential in productivity in the current economy it cannot explain. Why do the rich
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These are great examples, here's another good read on the topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/the-fre... A salient quote: 'Elite men in the U.S. are the world’s chief w

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