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by dalbasal 5y ago
I can see where you're coming from, but I think common carrier type action is pretty unlikely here. Besides controversy, it's too technically hairy to legislate. There's also no reason. "Surveillance advertising" is
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Not a ton of depth in the letter itself, but I like the angle they take. It's not all about privacy or data security. " In addition to the clear privacy issues caused by surveillance-based advertising, it is also detrimental to th
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I don't think the letter writers' goal is data security.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I never said theatre is illegitimate, just that it's always been a big part of governance. This is true for Pharaoh Tutankhamun, King George, Boris Johnson, Xi Jinping and I can't even think of a counterexample. I'm not sure
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by dalbasal 5y ago
A lot of what happens in politics is theatre, always was. Sitting in chambers listening to speeches is politicians' job though, for whatever that's worth. Anyway, parliamentary stuff is theatre and this bot is participating in t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Really matters could be interpreted different ways. Expressed in startup-metric terms, it might be "% of users that watch something" or "time spent browsing before watching something." Any real improvement on such is p
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"ROI" is probably the wrong frame for this question. "Worth it" is better. "Better than X" might be better still, since it frames the question such that "X" needs to be defined and quantified. The ben
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"millions of times more effective at killing viruses and bacteria than traditional commercial methods.." "..revolutionise water disinfection technologies" I don't think this is comparable to a water treatment plan
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> Math used to be taught with more drill style. There are many ways to suck. We tend to think in folksy wisdom: simples rules, simplifications, generalities. Practice makes perfect. 10k hrs. Problem solving. Etc. Often, we bounce bac
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Writers of the time, including Pliny the Elder and the Greek geographer Strabo, described these sacrifices as a chilling spectacle. A priest would lead an animal, perhaps a sheep or a bull, into the shrine. As if by the hand of the god, th
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The wisdom of folksy statements is usually a distillation of a morality tale of some sort. Reasoning about them in the abstract is missing the point. It isn't a pure logic kind of exercise. Anyway, discussing the wisdom rally cries, 1
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Both Amazon and Aliexpress/baba follow a "this is a city" mentality. Crime and such are understood as statistics, not as a thing happening under their roof. This is a "beef up police funding next cycle" kind of prob
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by dalbasal 5y ago
I think of it this way. All problems that become sticky problems, got that way by being sticky. Re-writes encounter the sticky problem one way. When the spec is real, the spec is vast. "Do everything GMail does" is a lot of thing
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by dalbasal 5y ago
He can ... really really accurate estimate, ... a lot of time .. building .. verifying .. actual requirements.. designing ... solution .. validating .... process will require dev resources.. resources... people.. support team.. a lot of t
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>>It’s pretty clear that it’s not short-term unsustainable I wouldn't rush to this conclusion. Robustness and sustainability are related, but not equivalent. Being wrong the other way might be higher consequence, in their estimat
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by dalbasal 5y ago
"Great Resignation" is an annoying term, but IMO this is a current development worth following. Just.. there must be a better way of following than these articles. These're put together like school projects. Some anecdotal hu
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by dalbasal 5y ago
The way HR communicates (requirements are a communication) is asymmetrical. Within HR, you are regularly exposed to examples. These requirements yielded these resumes, these hires... A lot of this is temporal and demand sensitive. That allo
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Feasible, but in a naive sense. much sk The number of people working in "those areas," defined narrowly, is much bigger than it was eight years ago. That makes this a big requirement. People who are skilled, deep or enthusiastic
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by dalbasal 5y ago
There probably is some tethering to whatever his perspective is at the time. At some point, YC was a relatively new idea coming to life and he was probably constantly thinking a certain way. Now, it's something that he's been up
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Time will tell. Honestly, what I think is missing is a good destination. What is edX trying to be?
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by dalbasal 5y ago
My condolences.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
Shoulds are ethereal. >> You can't escape it. Au contraire :) Escape from it is evident, it's clearly a hot potato. No one who should do the job would. Martyrs don't persist.
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It isn't just boring. It's much worse. Taking any kind of responsibility for a spec is a fools mission. In most shops, doing specs is not highly regarded work. You don't earn much respect or career progression. You will i
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by dalbasal 5y ago
>> People in businesses don't want to write specs because they're worried about being blamed for them being incorrect True, crucial point. This also explains a lot of developer behaviour. Specs are kind of like legal agreeme
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by dalbasal 5y ago
King of reminds me of Venkatesh Rao. A lot of the "Blogging Golden Age" style came from these sorts of perspective. Playful, but actually trying to be real about things that are hard to be real about IRL. Sociopath is such a pre F
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by dalbasal 5y ago
That's quite a stretch. Existence proof for a particular isn't hard to come by. Lots of companies (including google & facebook, ironically) blew up without sales or marketing playing a significant role. The "modern econom
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by dalbasal 5y ago
We're going in circles. The premise of this article is that the written recipe is a lie. There's a nebulous, yet "real" recipe which is instructions for onion soup or rogan josh with the flavour and texture it's su
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by dalbasal 5y ago
This is interesting. Well written/compiled. All sorts of things to be interested in. One noteworthy point is how much frames matter. Adjusting quantity (eg small old spice bottle) instead of price makes a big difference in how things p
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by dalbasal 5y ago
It's not a neutral observer kind of an examination. Some things are intuitive if you understand the subculture. It is similarly difficult to "prove" the antipattern in a web app's data consent model to a neutral observer
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by dalbasal 5y ago
IDK how Brother Occam cooked his onions, put the author is not arguing semantics. The Author is calling out recipe writers on succumbing to something or other... and fibbing. Occam was a man of god and would have told the truth. I don&#x2

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