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by cturner 11y ago
Right - there's a tendency to see bad things that are done in crony capitalism, and then - in reaction to that - to entrench at the zero-sum fallacy. I'm interested in this topic - what to do about corporations. Something I think
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Your musing poses an interesting question. But I'm writing just against the bit where you say we should default to accepting the zero-sum perspective given a lack of understanding of physics. The evidence against the zero-sum perspecti
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"Nowhere have I seen any social democratic reformer argue for artisanal crafts and decentralized governance" I hear you but, the way you've expressed this could use some improvement. If one of them did, they would cease to be
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by cturner 11y ago
Another option - you can do everything in a terminal. Not everyone finds minimalism beautiful, but - if you do.
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"You are posing two extremes: One where everything can be known with certainty, and one where everything is purely based on faith, and dismissing the potential of there being something in the middle." That's not what I'm
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> What happens when a bunch of states and > municipalities alter their minimum wage policies What kind of sizes to you need to be statistically significant? How can you be confident that there are not network effects in
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So the issue is - is it possible to produce a valid measurement? In scientific method, part of an experiment involves a control. There's no way to produce one in economics - the systems are too complicated. You can't know whether
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I don't think this was always true. Torture used to be taboo in entertainment. I think that changed after September 11 - you started to see it used extensively by supposed 'good guys'. I remember noting this when the show 24
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I always think of disrupt from the perspective of creative destruction, and it always being unambiguously good. So if I was in a stagnant industry, I'd be trying to reform. And if I was getting hit hard by reformers, I'd see that
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by cturner 11y ago
Yes. Spolsky has a better term for the same idea - he describes an engineer who can hit the high notes. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html
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Is there a limit to your principle? Should people be able to live at university forever, with a living wage from the public purse? What if they were enrolled but didn't ever attend? Should the government even be involved in education?
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What is the Turing Machine of macro languages?(songseed.org)
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It is not a zero sum game. free trade lets specialisation scale better, and there are outcomes where everyone wins.
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It's particularly funny when the stack fallacy is held by database providers, because databases are the wrong tool for most of the jobs they get used for at the moment. Current usage of the database uses it as a loose, adhoc, difficult
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Sorry. "Kernel". Through the kernel. But you were there already - I hadn't twigged that there's no need to jump out of userland in the first place.
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> Commodity hardware and general-purpose systems win every time. What's latency like on commodity hardware vs dedicated equipment? I've no experience but would expect the dedicated hardware to be better. BSD is a monolithic ker
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by cturner 11y ago
I had a run-in with Lenovo support last year. Three-year warranty, two and a half years old, fried motherboard caused by the plastic in the power socket coming apart. Not sure how, don't care - it's wear-and-tear. On initial calls
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by cturner 11y ago
I like thinking about this problem space. However, I do rely on awk. Awk has been around since V7, I've not yet found a system without it. A gap I've spent some time thinking about in constrained unix - how to do socket IPC. For e
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Hey, how are you going with the problems you talked about here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10169937
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DR-DOS was a clean-room reimplementation of MS-DOS. Linux is a reimplementation of unix. Fender guitars work remarkably like Gibson guitars. The steering mechanisms on Masdas are the same as Mercedes. Nothing wrong with it. If you don'
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How do you line up data to copy into the DSP for the purpose of programming it? Is it a memcpy operation? How do you know where to copy to?
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Thanks!
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Words are funny things. But the crowd's against you on this. Space and lasers don't make something sci-fi, and Star Wars is a conversation example of Science Fantasy - magic in space. Science fiction builds a universe on the innov
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Music is critical to star wars. This film is scored to the standard of the originals. // Music in star wars Sound is critical to Star Wars. There's lots written about this, http://houstonsymphonyblog.org/09&#x
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Confluence gets sold directly against Sharepoint. The communications department says, "we need to create a corporate strategy for communicating. Dealing with culture is hard, so instead we're going to go and throw money at mechani
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He isn't in a position to criticise Assad for exactly that reason. Nobody wants a knock on the door in the night.
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When you do new things, one of the challenges is other people's mental prototyping process. Crowds line up to say, "it's like x," when it's not. They just don't grok you yet. It takes time for people to get use
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Just a thought. If you enjoyed these books, you might like _Old Man's War_.
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Culture is a distraction. The actions in the articles against boys and girls fail the live-and-let-live principle on the most basic levels. The word 'uncivilised' gets thrown around a bit, and loses weight. Here we see it in the r
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Hmm. When I think of commodity, I think of something that can be traded or consumed. Wheat? You can trade it or consume it. Metals, water rights, carbon credits? You can trade or consume them. Bitcoin doesn't have a consumption model.

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