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by crmd 5y ago
With respect, I feel like you have some phobias relating to electricity and magnetism and accidental blindness. I understand your recommendation and hope you find relief and stay safe.
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by crmd 5y ago
I would rather see my kid risk a burn taking lasers and motors apart, versus her risking depression and body dysmorphic disorder from passively following toxic video game streamers and Instagram influencers. The amount of gatekeeping-cum-c
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by crmd 5y ago
20+ years of using Unix and vi, and still learning tricks. Love it!
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by crmd 5y ago
I enjoyed this podcast[0] with Peter Thiel and Eric Weinstein, where one of their central discussion points is the current stagnation of technological innovation, beginning in the mid 1970s, with the sole exception of computer software. [0]
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by crmd 5y ago
There are plenty of capitalists who believe one of the several purposes of a company is to provide meaningful jobs in the communities in which they operate. When company owners cut the payroll to hoard profits, the remaining employees have
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by crmd 5y ago
CP was widely recognized as a well-governed company prior to the corporate raid. FTFA: >In 2009, CP was awarded the Governance Gavel Award for Director Disclosure by the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance. Then, in 2011, CP ranked 4t
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by crmd 5y ago
Probably better for employees. Canadian Pacific was a well governed, profitable company when Bill Ackerman raided the company and laid off 4500 unionized workers to goose the share price. I would be furious if a sociopathic activist investo
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by crmd 5y ago
When I hear Facebook leadership talking about the VR vision, I’m reminded of IBM in the early 2000s encouraging employees to claim their second life avatars and setup cyber customer briefing centers.
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by crmd 5y ago
Not in the USA. [0] The Supreme Court, in Pruneyard v Robbins, expressly rejected the claim "that a private property owner has a First Amendment right not to be forced by the State to use his property as a forum for the speech of other
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by crmd 5y ago
The moral of this story is that, along with great execution, you have to get the timing exactly right for disruptive technology.
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by crmd 5y ago
> Studies show that across much of Europe, a strong sense of party identification is waning, and voters are less likely to take their party affiliation as preordained. Very interesting, seems to be the opposite of what’s happening in the
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by crmd 5y ago
It seems to me that YouTube is doing complex bucket testing with the recommendation algorithm. Some days, my recommendation list is full of obscure-but-relevant-to-my interests content that would require legitimate ML to populate, and then
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by crmd 5y ago
Why wasn't George Bush Jr. tried at the the Hague? At George and Martin's level in the global elite, you don't go to jail for almost anything, maybe you pay big fines. I certainly don't approve of them, but these underst
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by crmd 5y ago
“I need to make $X on the exit”. Negotiate and set the expectation with your CEO in dollars not shares.
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by crmd 5y ago
Agree this is a persuasion piece not straight journalism, but in the author’s defense, the article was originally published under a CC license, and he could have no idea it was posted on this website.
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by crmd 5y ago
> Those in favor of mobile nuclear power for the battlefield claim it will provide nearly unlimited, low-carbon energy without the need for vulnerable supply convoys. Imagine the situation we would be in if the US military had been using
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by crmd 5y ago
In war games, the only winning move is not to play.
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by crmd 5y ago
The storage industry has spent literally millions of developer hours over the past decade migrating functions from kernel to user space for reliability, performance, and security reasons. An SMB server in the kernel is not a good idea.
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by crmd 5y ago
It makes me sick that income inequality has gotten to the point that the top dogs can’t even flex against one another via jet aircraft and billion dollar super yachts anymore, so they are flexing with their own private NASAs, while our terr
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by crmd 5y ago
I couldn’t help but read that in Feynman’s voice!
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by crmd 5y ago
> Digits shall have the right to collect and analyze data and information relating to the use and performance of various aspects of the Services and related technologies (including, without limitation, information concerning Customer Dat
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by crmd 5y ago
Yes, but you don't pay off the inspectors directly. You pay the money to one of a dozen or so "expeditor" firms[0] that are typically staffed by ex-municipal employees who make money in retirement by filing permits on behalf
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by crmd 5y ago
The “homeowner” here is analogous to an outside investor in Amazon (like me) who has no operational role in the company. The entity who directs the the manner in which subcontractors work, like Amazon does with its delivery companies, is a
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by crmd 5y ago
My uncle’s neighbor retired from a New York bank last year, after ~20 years as the Head of VMS system administration. He managed a team of three whose sole job was to keep a small VAX cluster 100% available during business hours. I don’t re
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by crmd 5y ago
As opposed to the annual corporate VMWare enterprise license shock and awe ritual we go through every year. Infrastructure platforms are wicked expensive.
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by crmd 5y ago
You can be sure there is already a team working on the architectural changes needed to implement lawful intercept and passive surveillance on Wickr. This is what happens when a secure platform gets too big. The same thing happened to Skype.
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by crmd 5y ago
I know. This epistemological self-referentiality, i.e. "whether or not objective reality exists is itself a matter of opinion, therefore there is no objective reality", is why I consider postmodernism an intellectual dead-end.
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by crmd 5y ago
What has been most shocking to me is the normalizing of postmodern thinking in American politics and journalism. The idea that there is an objective reality, facts, truth/falseness, e.g. the sum of votes for candidate A was greater tha
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by crmd 5y ago
I felt something in media much darker than the stereotypical SV kumbaya-change-the-world thing. It was about loving that you have the power to influence how and what ordinary people thought about. Keep in mind this was before social media.
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by crmd 5y ago
I was recruited as a junior executive into a large media corp earlier in my career, and I will never forget my manager's closing "sales pitch" at a bar in midtown Manhattan: "Join us and become part of the group that sha

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