danblick

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by danblick 10y ago
Honest question, what do you think was ripped off from Microsoft? I wouldn't think Linux or Android took much from them, really. (When I think of innovation at MS I think of developer tools, research on programming languages and distri
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Global Fishing Watch(globalfishingwatch.org)
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It's actually very easy to disable location tracking across all your Google devices and services. https://myaccount.google.com/ and click Privacy. I did this and also cleared the (kind of cool, really) history they&#x2
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Many states require employers to give time off to vote: http://www.findlaw.com/voting-rights-law.html
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Does anybody know more about how Mozilla manages experiments? I'd always assumed that all users downloaded an identical binary and got the same behavior. How do they assign 10% of their users to an experimental group? Is it possible th
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The thing that's always bugged me about proof of work systems is that there's no reason to assume mining power won't become concentrated into the hands of a few actors. In fact, if (1) there are economies of scale in mining
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I'm disappointed this article wasn't about Seattle's true superhero, Phoenix Jones. https://youtu.be/t2pNxzmZDbs
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When I think of the Koch brothers, I think of their support for the Mercatus Center, which is associated with a bunch of (libertarian-leaning) economists I respect and frequently learn from.
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Poe's law?
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That sounds fair, but to be honest I don't trust the government's official bullshit either. What gets accepted as the officially-sanctioned wisdom is too easily influenced by special interests ("bootleggers and Baptists"
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I don't have direct experience to answer your question, but I think perhaps audits are part of the answer. Really, you can go a long way by asking "who has access to the system storing the data", "what is the policy for
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I've always worked at large companies with dedicated Infosec groups, so I'm surprised to hear security is so awfully lax at so many places. I thought maybe small companies would be using open source software and something like:
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Look up "model checking" and see how that compares to what you're thinking about. How would you specify tests (or rather, correct program behavior) in such a language? The languages Alloy and TLA+ come to mind. (So does Co
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My prediction: we're going to invent alien intelligences on this planet a long time before we find them in outer space.
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Coase is great. On a related note: not long ago, I discovered the wikipedia pages on "Internalization theory" and the "Eclectic paradigm", which descend from his ideas. Those views deal a bit more with intellectual prop
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I'm starting to think of what VCs do as providing a "product" to entrepreneurs. Is it really qualitatively so different from getting a car loan (with banks competing to offer you the best terms?). Shouldn't we all be ask
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Typeshed: static types for the Python standard library(github.com)
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Lessons in Small Scale Manufacturing from the Othermill Shop Floor(hackaday.com)
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DEFCON 19: Build your own radar system(youtube.com)
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Slightly OT, but I enjoyed the discussion about (physical building) construction in the book "the Checklist Manifesto". In The Mythical Man Month, Brooks advocates the use of something like the "master builder" model fo
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I'm curious about the relevant economics here. A fully automated system for designing websites could make it easier to design good-looking websites without hiring a designer. If your system works perfectly, that allows someone who want
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Eileen Naughton to replace Laszlo Bock as Head of People Operations at Google(fortune.com)
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Thinking Fast and Slow is generally about research in the "heuristics and biases" school. When we make decisions, we don't always think completely rationally, but rely on approximations and rules of thumb that simplify the t
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Sorry if this is too impractical, but you might look at gamification as an application of general principles of human psychology and decision making. Some interesting books in this area are "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg
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Poppycock. It is widely known that miasmas such as chicken odour are the source of disease, not a cure. In fact even the name "malaria" means "bad air" for this reason. """ For when the morning breezes b
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I'm sorry -- I think the author completely misses the point about why microservices were controversial at all? Distributed systems are not the same as centralized ones, and you cannot paper over the differences between the two. It is
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I don't think that's accurate. If I have a ledger in which every record is signed (along with the previous signature) it's fair to call that a block chain, isn't it? Systems based on signatures without proof of work are
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This reminds me of a topic from Neil Postman's excellent "Amusing Ourselves to Death". To paraphrase: we're probably worrying too much about media censorship, and not enough about the mindless content media does provi
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I think you just suggested running a power line around my head?
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> What's wrong with centralized decision making and planning out everything for years? Read Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society"; it's about exactly this.

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