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by blagie 3y ago
It's not an unwieldy application. It's an unwieldy domain. 3d is hard. Drawing apps are hard. Video editing is relatively hard. Throw those together, and you get fundamentally __hard__. The excavator is a good analogy. The best-de
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by blagie 3y ago
It's free market dynamics. There is a constant push towards things which are more addictive and make more ad click dollars. That's the opposite of better. Better is made with soul, and often for free. Google has come full circle.
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by blagie 3y ago
I'm not so sure. There are two different problems: 1) What conditions equipment works under 2) What conditions equipment went through testing under, as per regulatory regimes Equipment I worked on needed to be tested for a variety of f
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by blagie 3y ago
I am trying to explain to you why people might have a different value system from you. It's a lost cause. I, and many others, have the ability to understand value systems we don't share. It would be a good skill to consider develo
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by blagie 3y ago
> Ah got it Apparently not.... > So if someone pulls up alongside you at 80mph on a highway and remotely disables your vehicle without your prior consent and you crash into a barricade and your entire family dies, we can just take not
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by blagie 3y ago
You don't get it. The core issue here is _systemic risk_ and _systemic resiliency_. The risk profile of driving does not change. By driving a car, I expect a risk of 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles driven. We all agree that's a r
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by blagie 3y ago
This would be a big step forward. I think at least as important is having a common visa for non-Africans coming into Africa. The two together would create a Schengen-style zone across Africa, which would be huge. It's also okay if that
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by blagie 3y ago
I think that's a false analogy. I don't have a clear sense on the ethics here, but the basic point is that we should be resilient to crises and broad cyberattacks. Cell towers _will_ sometimes go down, and rare events, such as nat
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by blagie 3y ago
The idea is to change incentive structures around specific types of assets, not to raise money. The idea of rent-collecting landed gentry is economically devastating. Adam Smith wrote extensively about the outcomes, and that is a natural pa
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by blagie 3y ago
It just needs to stall appeals until there is a friendly administration. Buying a friendly administration costs less than $29B.
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by blagie 3y ago
One of the problems is that for smaller economies (including Nigeria, below), investing requires local knowledge. A US index fund will roughly track the US economy. The 20 largest local companies in Poland? Not so much. In other words, it&#
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by blagie 3y ago
https://www.patreon.com/kmacleod (linked from here: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/faq.html )
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by blagie 3y ago
I like this a lot. Curiously, it's useless for what I use graph paper for. I'll describe my idealized graph paper -- similar to what I made myself in a drawing program, but with several improvements taken from browsing these and s
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by blagie 3y ago
Enumerate, please.
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by blagie 3y ago
That's not very hard in an economy which has grown as quickly as Poland's. Find another country which will have the same growth for the next 20 years, invest there, and you'll see similar results.
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't have real numbers for anything, but I tend to do analysis like the above quite often when evaluating business models. It's usually within a factor of 2x to 10x of being correct, so please don't take it as anything mor
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by blagie 3y ago
As does counter-artillery. Fighting against a technologically-savvy opponent, you get off one shot and you're dead.
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by blagie 3y ago
You're making shit up. You posted the same comment in several places, and it's false. It's not helpful or constructive. If you believe a law says something, quote it. Right to expression doesn't cover this, under any non
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by blagie 3y ago
That's money. Lawyers are $300/hour in the US. Money and time are completely interchangeable.
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by blagie 3y ago
My understanding is that, on paper, to be prosecuted, a few things need to happen: - Law enforcement needs to raise the issue to a prosecutor - A prosecutor needs to pick up the case - A grand jury needs to indite you - A petite jury needs
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by blagie 3y ago
I think this is a central issue. The justice system should work as follows: Any money that either side spends on legal resources, 50% goes to your lawyer and 50% to opposing counsel. You can spend $1,000,000, or go pro se, but the other sid
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by blagie 3y ago
What's in the bottom right is still not the same. Plenty of projects use github issues for issue tracking without being open-source. This links to the github issues. It's still three clicks to find out it's open-source. In a
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by blagie 3y ago
... they're good enough. I have an accent. If not for that, I'd be a great presenter. If I could translate my voice into a poor Neil deGrasse Tyson, a poor Patrick Steward, a poor Carl Sagan, a poor Morgan Freeman, etc., my presen
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by blagie 3y ago
The language is very, very nice. However, if I ran into this incidentally (not posted to HN for review), I would never use this. I'd see the lack of a github link on the top right, and assume it's a some kind of startup making som
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by blagie 3y ago
On the whole, the answer here is "not at all," or if anything, slightly increases the likelihood that I'll use it. 1) There's a difference between a government and people living in that country. If my country does someth
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by blagie 3y ago
> Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... No. It's not. Here: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... If you believe some
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by blagie 3y ago
.... somewhat .... In the US specifically, there are protected first amendment rights. However, plenty of people have genuine reason to be concerned. Stalkers. Witness protection. Etc. Having managed large datasets, these things come up fai
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by blagie 3y ago
If you look at this through an organizational lens -- how incentives line up for individuals -- rater than as what makes sense for Intel holistically, it might make more sense. You see similar behavior in many failing companies, as well as
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by blagie 3y ago
What I really want is a simply end-to-end way to program these devices to display something: basically, something as easy as QBasic, P5.js, or Scratch. What I don't want is to run a server to host something for them to display. I want
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by blagie 3y ago
I recently left Prime. I was disappointed to see ads introduced into Amazon Music, for music I'd paid for. I could get the same music with ads elsewhere. To me, if I can't keep music I'd paid for, there's a strong case f

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