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by bsanr2 7y ago
Those were years after PCs had made a foothold in (well-off) US households because they allowed you to do digital word-processing and spreadsheets at home.
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I don't know if the Apple Watch is a great example of product strategy, specifically, driving success. Pebble and other companies established those use cases first, but failed to get traction.
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This is it. Everyone knew that it was a hedge to get in on the ground floor in case the technology blew up faster than anyone could predict. Nobody wants to be the person who missed out on the next Google or Facebook, especially Google or F
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Was that the one where they vibrated a fiberoptic to basically create a scanning projector?
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This is the thing that gets me. There are plenty of people who would be willing to design around existing constraints, just because they think the tech is cool and they want to see what they can do with it. But the cost of entry is mid-4-fi
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Not everyone. The potential is absolutely there, and even the devices that are available today would be groundbreaking, if only someone could figure out something to do with them. As for that, the ecosystem is far too closed. ML and Microso
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by bsanr2 7y ago
If you're the kind of person I think you are, then it's going to take all of the energy you can muster to convince yourself to vote for leftists/American democratic socialists in the next election. But I promise you, those ar
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I don't know if it's a class thing so much as an aspiration thing. In my diverse community, which could be broadly characterized as "middle -class/upper middle class black, lower-middle class/middle class white,&quo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Everyone wants to not forget genetics. No one wants to admit the inadequacy of their models of heritability of cognitive function in explaining disparities in educational outcome. Should we continue to judge the entire country solely on stu
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Unfortunately, our systems must reflect the fact that our "reluctance" to provide truly equal opportunity in early learning and grade school precludes any claim to meritocracy. We have hobbled ourselves, but not in the way you see
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This happens in America; the difference is that there is an expectation that parental means play a role in success (both in the way the system is oriented and on the part of parents themselves). Most, though not all, of the time, those with
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by bsanr2 7y ago
That's a false premise. One of the intended effects of UBI is to universalize the kind of stability of cash flow that the wealthy tend to benefit from under Capitalism. This effectively shifts the balance of both economic and political
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by bsanr2 7y ago
*elbows Though I don't doubt the possibility that nose-rubbing is a time-honored tradition of at least one final club. We'll never know.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>If Harvard were catered to all students with capable ability and/or drive then we'd have a new class of highly paid professionals. I doubt that. https://web.archive.org/web/20140525060607/http:/&
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The parent argument has been made for going on 3 decades now and is the source of the austerity and institutional divestment that has proven unworkable at best, and disastrous at worst. It's telling that a single f-bomb is interpreted
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Third, non-voting legislative house. 1 member for every 3500 citizens, geography agnostic; get 3499 of other interested citizens together and elect one of you to represent the group, for whatever policies or interests you care for. Members
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This is the kind of response that comes from, and please excuse my language, someone who doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. There is barely a safety net. There is barely any institutional support for innovation. Acc
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Which bus venture was it? The devil is in the detail with these things, and I think the point is that, while regulatory capture is a huge problem, there are often legitimate and/or competing interests calling for these regulations to b
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This is another impediment he didn't mention: a sort of regulatory capture working on the social level. Harvard's prestige begs the question of why people want to go there. None of the interested parties want to change that, becau
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This is a much better version of what I was going to respond with, which was, "I dunno, Marc, you're the one with all the goddamn money, you fix it." I think we're on the same page.
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Because a law is a machine to compact thousands of hours of ethical thought into an actionable doctrine. It's designed specifically to take the subjectivity and bias out of executing policy, which is introduced by a single (or small gr
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The existence of debt and interest coupled with lack of practical planning for the eventuality of economic decline or stagnation.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The gendered history of programming is particularly interesting for anyone who wants to understand the nature of office culture for software engineering/IT and of computer science academia. https://timeline.com/women-pi
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The absence of certain types of bias does not preclude nor excuse the existence of other types. >There is a lot of evidence pointing to a really diverse, generally progressive industry with, if anything, a higher over representation (com
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That is inaccurate to the point of straining good faith.
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It's generally a well-known phenomenon, but here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/success/layoffs-women-minorit... https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-most-performance-evaluations-a
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I included the parenthetical to make it clear that what you're asserting was not my intended meaning. I am a gay black man.
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Statistically-speaking, this will disproportionately effect women and minorities (low performance reviews !necessarily= low performance when implicit bias is present, which again, statistically-speaking, it is). Certainly these times suck f
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>It's not that terrible if the customer knows what they're getting. Between cigarettes, credit default swaps, and asbestos, I think this is a phrase we should become very wary of saying with a straight face.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Obama didn't set up killer FEMA camps, Trump is actively encouraging killer climate change. That's the difference. The example you're looking for is something something Heinlein/Card, where awareness of the very real rol

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