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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's hard to be optimistic about this. Regulators, lawmakers and courts are working with very blunt instruments and making up for it by being gentle. Whether or not they succeed at improving choice and reducing centralised power over c
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So I guess the big questions remains: (1)Do Google still get to tax all revenue made by the app? (2) are we likely to see price differentials, so that Spotify can return some of the savings to users?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I suppose easy and hard depends on who you are. Pre-2015 there were a lot of opportunities to get a running start without much investment. A cool new web-thing would spread organically, could be coded pretty fast, etc. Now, it's easier
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by dalbasal 5y ago
...those are the days that never end.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... A method for scalping scalpers?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So "strategy" doesn't apply to tasks like going to the moon, curing cancer or getting into shape?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Ok so this is social-psychology in an economic framework. That is what it is, and I think we should view such articles as rhetoric rather than science. That said... there are some good, pertinent ideas here. From author on twitter: Second,
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There are two aspects to this One is the problem that governments make investments, and private firms are the primary beneficiaries. This exists broadly. In some instances, it feels fine. Governments are supposed to make investments that
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I kind of agree, but for different reasons. C1 isn't for fast-but-low-quality. It's for instances where you have a detailed spec. Maybe there isn't much ambiguity. Maybe there is, but you're working with an iterative pro
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Inventions don't come out of thin air either. They interact with context, needs. They arise within limitations. Etc. I totally disagree. The spec dies not exist. It isn't buried in your customers' brain or your CEO's. It
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by dalbasal 5y ago
No. I'm against framing design as "requirement gathering." If you're designing, deciding or otherwise doing subjective, creative work don't wrap it up in a fake-discrete process. Customer feedback is valuable inform
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This may be true in an abstract sense, but not in the RW context that this post is dwelling in. Requirements in the sense that a customer or higher up might negotiate with a PM aren't atomic like that. Imo, this is a lot like an engine
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Whatever you call them, attempting to formalise them as a discrete object is flawed. These aren't discrete objects. They're key parts of a formal, or semi formal decision making process, administration systems, management methods
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Imo, the trouble starts with the term "requirements." There's an old joke about posting requirements to a job site: "(1) awesome webapp (2) really useful (3) must make me a billion dollars. The requirements problem is l
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is true, but Keynes was just encouraging a macro perspective, in that statement. An economy, by definition, can afford it's output. It's still true that what we build, destroy, deplete and such affect the future. All keyenes
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by dalbasal 5y ago
They can probably feed themselves. Growing calories is something we're good at, especially Russia. The hard part is dealing with a scenario where there is plenty of wheat, but people have no money to buy it. Ireland, in the 1840s suffe
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by dalbasal 5y ago
At the moment, they aren't paying for much. Most of what they're using (weapons, vehicles, fuel, ammo) is coming out of storage, reserves, etc. Soldier pay is in rubles. That's not to say russian doesn't need money, but
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Not really weird tips, but these two "meta" dieting tips worked for me. (1) fast. Doesn't have to be harsh (I do the 500 calories method) or often. However, I found that it helps reset my gut. If I'm in a phase where my
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by dalbasal 5y ago
So... There are a bunch of loosely connected elements here. The primary one, IMO, is the "anyone can be a dev" ethos. A lot of this ethos is historical. Programming does not have long decades or centuries of history, like civil en
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Strict vegan diets, in communities that are studied scientifically, were pretty rare until recently. We'll have good data in a decade or so.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This isn't true, at least in Israel. "Faith" is a big word, but for many/most haredi people "community" is the more operative term. Leaving a sect means becoming an outsider. All their family and friend relat
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There's a decently populous anti-vax vegan community too.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I don't think it's a mistake as much as it is multiple parties making statements, interpreting them and/or using them rhetorically in whatever way served their purposes. Imo, a straightforward rendering is A - russians st
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I'm not quite sure what the context/purpose of this text... but it reads like debating notes. Each "myth" is essentially a russian grievance, debating point used by Russian apologists or Western critique of "NATO p
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Almost all analogies are bad and distracting, to some extent. Itoh, I do think it gets across, coarsely, a point about the sentiment scape. Russian people's tolerance of Ukrainian suffering can't be taken for granted. Kievans have
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Perhaps, but perhaps not. We think in stories, and economists use the term "story" frequently as a quasi term of art. Well understood cause, effect and evidence are few and far between in social sciences.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is nonsense. The statement isn't meaningless. It's a tweet, not a formal conjecture. Sure, no one knows what exactly consciousness is... or what slightly conscious is. The idea of protoconsiousness isn't that much of a s
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Are there back breeding examples for species that still exist in the wild? Say domestic sheep? If a back breeding projects target appearance, does behaviour generally follow behaviour serendipitously? Will these behave like aurochs?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Re smilodon... Cats are a fairly young family of carnivores. They're surprisingly closely related to eachother with some surprising hybridisation potential. It might not be that far fetched.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Remember that autonomy and "intelligence" aren't necessarily related. We could probably have a fully autonomous auto fleet with current/available technologies, if we adapt the roads, rules and such. Human-like autonomous

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