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by chipsy 13y ago
No evidence.
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by chipsy 13y ago
Indeed. That's consistent with most proposals(including negative income tax) and the few real world implementations such as the Alaskan benefit. The government can always opt to print for its expenditures - there is nothing stopping them fr
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For prices to rise, the nominal amount of money flowing through the economy must increase somewhere along the line. However, what occurs in basic income is a straight-up "redistribution of wealth" from richer to poorer, which means that the
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by chipsy 13y ago
Way more interested in what it will do for notebooks. I've let myself wait until this generation to do a refresh.
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Or: Design systems, not features.
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I don't want to dismiss the article - Xanadu remains an intriguing idea even now - but it leans heavily on the concept that market forces can create wealth equality, and the historical record of that is sketchy at best. Markets are, after a
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by chipsy 13y ago
Lately I've been using my phone to do a cycle of 15/5 minutes sitting/standing, with standing time also being a break from the computer. It's worked really well. The break time is not really an interruption; 5 minutes is enough for most sma
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The main issue with free is that there's a mismatch of incentives, since the devs ultimately have to consider their own economic situation. As soon as the situation looks troublesome for them, nothing's stopping them from leaving. So in the
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by chipsy 13y ago
This perspective is true of commuter public transit as well. High availability cuts the average time of the entire trip, smooths out capacity usage, and increases accessibility.
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They're just low budget. There's a difference.
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Here is my answer. App.net has positioned itself as "anti" - capturing the developers who were turned away from other social networks. That's OK as a starting point, but it doesn't account for growth to 100k users. So who are those users? A
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by chipsy 13y ago
I'll start with a general disclaimer for what you're looking for in feedback. When you get a "crickets" or a polite "looks promising" response, it indicates you are currently missing the mark, either in the concept or the marketing(and the
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by chipsy 13y ago
I generally allow my identity to be navigable, but I enjoy using pseudonyms in many venues to slightly discourage the act, and make it more of a "public secret" than a broadcasting. I also think it's extremely difficult to use real identity
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by chipsy 13y ago
Although I find Bret's talks inspirational as well, I see obvious limitations to his approach of direct feedback everywhere. Namely, our art hasn't always been made in this fashion - that's an easily disproven statement. Textiles, architect
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The replacement is already being piloted in schools: mindfulness meditation. It encourages the same kinds of depth and discovery, in a more general-purpose fashion. After all, if you aren't patient enough to do nothing at all, how are you g
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When I think of budget effects work today, I immediately think of Freddie Wong's stuff. Almost entirely effects-driven web videos.
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I'm reminded quite a bit of OMeta and the other VPRI work on DSLs, although this is more targeted towards a specific application(dynamically optimized DSLs) and uses a more familiar imperative environment, rather than being parser-focused.
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by chipsy 13y ago
It's aimed at people who would like to design a very performant DSL. Roughly speaking, your Lua code is the compiler, your Terra code is the runtime. Because the Lua code can metaprogram the Terra code, it's possible to perform dynamic tuni
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by chipsy 13y ago
I've had some success by attacking this kind of problem from two angles: 1. Bad prioritization. Changed the way I did my to-do list so that it always contained more tasks, mixed across all projects, than I could possibly complete in one mon
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by chipsy 13y ago
I had this argument with my brother too, who is a mathematician. He was able to enjoy it on its own terms, I wasn't. As he concluded, "they couldn't solve an interesting problem, so they solved an uninteresting one instead." And from a cert
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by chipsy 13y ago
The actual scope needed for a playable prototype is generally on the order of a few hundred to a few thousand lines of code, possibly less when you rely on a framework to take care of the low-level details. You do need a little bit more CS
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by chipsy 13y ago
He's referring to the utility of immutable data for solving certain parallelism issues - rather than attempt to coordinate all the code that uses a data structure, you can double-buffer it and queue up the write events for the "next frame"
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I call it "the right to quit."
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I think the prevailing opinion of most Californians now is "we'd like to, but can't do it as often as we'd like."
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I think the whole thing is another symptom of the local government's dysfunctional incentives. There's no unified agenda for the Bay Area, and it hurts everyone. It shows in the approach to housing and transportation, in business developmen
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Lower development and support costs. (In theory.) If you can ship one build and it runs on every device you care about, that's a huge burden lifted. It's not there yet for all types of games or applications, for a number of reasons, but the
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There are a number of such domains... security, DSP, real-time systems all have "unnamed" skills to them. Games happen to be pretty good as well because they let you wrap several different kinds of technologies together - the tricky part wi
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Here's a real-world example of a mass migration occurring: German reunification. 20 years on, a disparity remains but both economies have grown substantially and towards parity, and the population figures have only shifted somewhat.[1] To s
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It totally is about the mindset. And it's a combination of being properly motivated(intrinsic interest), and also seeing different ways in which to navigate the subject, and also knowing which ones are suited to your abilities at that momen
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As the article establishes, beauty in the traditional sense mostly means "average." To some extent I think you can take more control over your appearance by searching for an identity that goes beyond traditional elements - taking an artisti

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