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by daenz 4y ago
5 unicorns + IPO! And stood up to the Patent Troll If anyone is interested in these kinds of social resource management games, I recommend FrostPunk[0]. It's a stressful survival-based RTS where you're trying to keep the last huma
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by daenz 4y ago
You're right! Totally forgot about Square. Though I still maintain he is known for Twitter.
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by daenz 4y ago
>What's next: Dorsey's next move remains unclear. Do founders ever feel regret when they walk away from what they became known for? If you still have drive after you leave, I imagine there is a lot of pressure to reproduce your
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by daenz 4y ago
Different economic policy simulators. I'd like to see realistic behavior of businesses, people, and markets as a result of different policies. I want it to be a "game" because I want it to provide story-driven insights into p
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by daenz 4y ago
>The "problem" will solve itself and no one will notice it ever was a problem! Yep, everybody wins. The person selling gets quick cash for minimal hassle, and the person buying gets extremely inexpensive treasures. Win-win
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by daenz 4y ago
To do PiP (picture in picture), you would be restricted to a much smaller size, but otherwise good calculations.
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by daenz 4y ago
Links die. As long as the video exists, the files that the video uses will always exist.
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by daenz 4y ago
How much data can you store if you embedded a picture-in-picture file over a 10 minute video? I could totally see content creators who do tutorials embedding project files in this way.
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by daenz 4y ago
At a previous job, we self hosted our version control software, and when it broke, you could practically hear the money being poured down the drain, as the SREs scrambled to figure out why and get us back into a working state. At least when
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by daenz 4y ago
>that universities aren't supposed to be vocational education but more about research and personal enrichment. Where do you hear that?
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by daenz 4y ago
For example, the ability to spin up ad-hoc services to test the software against, like if I was replacing mysql with postgres, or experimenting with a caching service. If I have access to a terminal connected to a container, that's nic
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by daenz 4y ago
The ailments you describe can be resolved by having a small dedicated Developer Experience team. Their mission is to ensure that developers can ramp up quickly with deterministic environments and keep a high velocity with developer tooling.
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by daenz 4y ago
Anal sex has a much higher risk of transmitting infections due to the different mechanics around lubrication and bleeding.
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by daenz 4y ago
Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't want to do all development-related tasks in my web browser. As a software engineer, I want local control, where an internet connection is optional. I want to be able to experiment with the softwa
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by daenz 4y ago
The "Gender Equality Paradox"... there's a fascinating episode[0] about it. It's incredible how unscientific and ideologically-motivated one side comes off in it. 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XsEsT
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by daenz 4y ago
"Is Taiwan a country" also comes to mind.
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by daenz 4y ago
I'd be careful where you're going with that. You might make a point that is the opposite of what you intended.
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by daenz 4y ago
I think the statistics/representation problem is a big problem on its own, but IMO the bigger problem here is democratizing access to human-like creativity. Currently, the ability to create compelling art is only held by those with som
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by daenz 4y ago
>While we leave an in-depth empirical analysis of social and cultural biases to future work, our small scale internal assessments reveal several limitations that guide our decision not to release our model at this time. Some of the reaso
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by daenz 4y ago
>I supposed I could be wrong and that my taxi driver is indeed well informed about the nuances of monetary policy and monetary history. Why are you strawmanning my argument? I didn't ask if you believe your average person knows &quo
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by daenz 4y ago
Let me make my question more clear: You're assuming people have never thought about it, and I'm asking why you believe that they have never thought about it.
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That looks absolutely nothing like a young Bernie Sanders, but there seems to be multiple places online claiming it is him.
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by daenz 4y ago
>but we never stop to think about that. Why do you think people don't know about it or haven't thought about it? Is there some predicted outcome in the world—that is absent—that suggests that people don't know that "v
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by daenz 4y ago
I believe the charitable interpretation of "the reaction is the same" is "the reaction is the same for the time period." Comparing reactions modern reactions to blasphemy to "back in the day" reactions is an un
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by daenz 4y ago
Never understood this counter argument. It sounds like "oh you think crypto is based on nothing? well it's true, but you're a hypocrite because you also use something based on nothing." Is it supposed to convince people
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>It's interesting to note that the author does seem to have had anyone accuse him of being "traitorous" for trying to understand. He just asserts this strawman to paint those who might disagree as unreasonable and then bem
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by daenz 4y ago
There's another tactic that you could list under the "strategic model" so that it becomes like the "outlier model": misrepresent how many people actually hold the opposing view. For example, with abortion, by the wa
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by daenz 4y ago
The bit about not being satisfied with clocking in to Google... I've been fortunate enough to have been approached by some of the big tech companies, but it never appealed. Even if I survived the interviews and had an offer, I have thi
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by daenz 4y ago
FWIW, the idea of paying taxes on a fluctuating property valuation has never sat right with me either. So you could say that I am perplexed by that. If I'm on some kind of fixed income, suddenly I might not be able to afford the taxes
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by daenz 4y ago
That sounds generally reasonable then. Except the pressure to sell stock in order to pay taxes. I don't know enough to know in all the ways this is bad, but don't you generally want to keep capital with the company that needs it?

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