crwalker

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by crwalker 7y ago
As a San Franciscan, I am so happy to see this. SF needs negative feedback on the poor choices it makes, and so far the tech boom has somewhat obscured the consequences.
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by crwalker 7y ago
Start and then sell a financial services company. Then build the space company.
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Signing Git Commits with Yubikey(medium.com)
3 points by crwalker 7y ago|0 comments
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by crwalker 7y ago
I am hardly a fan of Gerard but this is a well written summary of the guidance. The only thing I would add to clarify money transmission as "transmitting value that substitutes for currency" is that exchanging funds for goods (nor
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by crwalker 7y ago
I would say ... they folded.
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XPubs and YPubs and ZPubs Oh My(medium.com)
5 points by crwalker 8y ago|1 comments
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by crwalker 8y ago
One-star reviews are the best signal I can find for product quality. They will let you know if there is a repeatable issue with trustworthy incentives. If there are more 2 star reviews than 1 star reviews and there is no pattern in the 1 st
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by crwalker 8y ago
Yes on negative connotations: the title "Turbotax for Bankruptcy" made me think this would be a hit piece on an unscrupulous vendor.
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by crwalker 8y ago
Jira also has the least consistent UX of any SaaS product I've used (Skype may be a close second).
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by crwalker 8y ago
Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is fighting against physics in the same way that O(n) vs O(n^2) vs O(n!) algorithms have wildly different performance at scale. It's a point solution, depositing ~1 voxel per unit of time. Running print
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by crwalker 8y ago
This seems really observant. If the true goal is "building beautiful tech" then shipping an actual product usually takes one (far) away from that goal. Those who appear to self-sabotage by pushing back launch dates may simply be r
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by crwalker 8y ago
I keep suggesting that folks name their next child Ashurbanipal, Shalmaneser, or Tiglath-Pileser. So far nobody has taken up the offer ... but think of the excellent nicknames: "time to wrap up The Prince and study some more endgame st
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by crwalker 8y ago
This sounds like a preeminently practical strategy.
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by crwalker 8y ago
Fair enough: I am most critical of the hype cycle itself, and haven't looked through the longer publications in detail.
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by crwalker 8y ago
Yes, I think it's more about signaling and CYA than fact-finding.
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by crwalker 8y ago
I've found the Gartner hype cycle paradigm to be vastly overrated after experiencing real hype cycles in several industries. If you examine their hype cycle charts over about a decade, you'll notice that technologies join or leave
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by crwalker 8y ago
Is the tin from a conflict-free source? How can you be sure without a blockchain to ensure provenance? (This is an even poorer joke)
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by crwalker 8y ago
Both views could be correct: Taleb's point is that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I haven't read Sapiens, and I hope Harari is correct, but I'm not tracking the second argument. Certain governments believe th
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by crwalker 8y ago
> Thankfully, we seem to have left the world of total war. Deaths in armed conflict form a fat-tailed distribution. Extreme events dominate, and the absence of any world wars for several decades is not evidence that humanity has gotten m
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by crwalker 8y ago
I thought I was going to hate this essay but it was wonderful. He discusses the graph structure of a city: it should be a semi-lattice and not a tree, and there we agree entirely. But a city should be a tree in the sense that it's an o
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by crwalker 8y ago
With an attitude like this, SF will be the next Detroit. Exponential economic curves always turn out to be sigmoids, and when the sigmoid flattens and the economy is carrying tremendous dead weight predicated on future increasing prosperity
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by crwalker 8y ago
It's a simple way to express the difference between probabilities for an ensemble of game players and probabilities for a particular player over time. If the player is ruined, the game stops for them. More from Taleb: https:/&#x2
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by crwalker 8y ago
Weak. SoftBank has always seemed suspiciously large and cavalier. I expect there's a venture analog to the expression "there are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots." Let's hope they
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by crwalker 8y ago
Current US zoning creates vast swathes of single-family-housing-only areas. This segregation prevents a lifestyle of walking. In order to preserve the value of single-family houses, we've chosen to destroy the livability of the city.
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by crwalker 8y ago
There are big potential downsides. Blockchains are chains. They don't forgive. They don't forget. But I still think it's a worthwhile endeavor.
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by crwalker 8y ago
Yes. Crypto is a compelling simulacrum of classical liberalism (free individuals engaging in trade and limited governments using precise laws to protect the commons). This time we are trusting machines and mathematics to preserve individual
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by crwalker 8y ago
The problem isn't the specific number, it's the intent behind changing the number and the decades of training the public on a different number.
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by crwalker 8y ago
If the claim that standard 5 second yellow lights were shortened to 3 seconds for traffic cameras is true, Suffolk county officials should be ashamed. This is simply extortion.
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by crwalker 8y ago
Recognize that other startups are rarely the threat. Doing nothing / business as usual is the threat. Care about solving real needs for your customers.
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by crwalker 8y ago
> "there's nothing wrong with allowing near-infinite screen time ... it's not the screen that's the problem" I beg to differ. Humans aren't built to sit and look at screens 1-2 feet from their face all day.

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