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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think one perspective shift that needs to occur in tech is not of lowering some bar but recognition that many bars are unnecessarily high. Many interviews can end up selecting for group compatibility "Can she passionately discuss Has
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think btc is being more and more recognized as a store of value rather than a currency. Gold/stocks also fail as currencies and are also prone to speculation bubbles.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Is this something that be automated by a sufficiently advanced smart contract? It seems strange that energy is directed towards creating yet another market with yet another moat to capture money when such a service should be forced as close
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think some sort of painful event is necessary for certain types of change. Like the Titanic encouraging safer ship specifications and processes. Contract safety needs to vastly improve before smart contracts can be relied on. Forks should
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
From my experience telling people this doesn't work as everyone thinks they are smart enough to avoid the trap. Like many companies going into China assuming things will be easy. Code ends up complex yet works because the complexity wa
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
To add something I think is overlooked, many people from China feel very unsafe in the US due to all the news about mass shootings. The previous generation of immigrants came for a better life and a sense of safety is an important part of t
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I feel like visualizations rely too much on the existence of a meaningful isomorphism. That is, once a problem is visualized effectively it becomes trivial and though applicable to future similar problems the isomorphism itself is too domai
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
This may interest you, AI as an artificial belief system. http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593... My interpretation is that AI can allow you to rapidly load and unload mental models so that you'
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Most pure knowledge based cutting edge exploration isn't highly paid though. High pay mostly goes to man vs man status based contributors rather than man vs nature based ones. A/B testing and ways to improve ad conversion or stick
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Large companies IMO aren't setup to take advantage of arbitrary levels of ability. They're antifragile in being able to ingest common denominator type skills and plod along despite bad engineering. The lynchpins are already in pla
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Have you tried recursively applying your own statement about heuristics to your own heuristics? The only thing you are doing is declaring that your own simplified view of the world is truer than other people's simplified view of the wo
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
The poor follow the rich, buying what they buy, wanting what they want. The rich look to the richer similarly. At the top however there is no one to look to except for the gods. Just as flowers demonstrate more value than a toaster precisel
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Here are some good points on this. About how expecting all your needs to be met by one person will lead to dysfunction and how we create organizations to fulfill these needs. The groups the make the most impact are those of sufficient size
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
A lot of former addicts often reminensce about their addiction days. Exposure to such a large maximum of happiness recalibrates life so that everything becomes dull. Even if quality of increase in absolute terms, if the relative difference
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I like the Hollywood model of bespoke teams for projects. A stable salary could be created via long term "royalties" that each project creates. (or may not be require if each project is big enough.) This model requires projects th
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think more graceful failure modes would be better as well. One thing that AI systems don't seem to do a lot of nowadays is quantify their failure level. Voice assistants always reply with the same degree of sureness leading to some s
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There's an interesting fat protocols article on block chain technology by usv. Unlike thin protocols like tcp/up where the value is captured by edge nodes, a fat protocol captures the bulk of the value and the edges are forced int
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Wouldn't this require at least implicit acknowledgement that top tier schools are not diverse? Subsequently all existing people already at companies need to acknowledge this as well. (Since they are from those schools) It would require
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Fad diets like keto offer something very important, a model of nutrition. Currently heuristic based eating like "natural" or "non-processed" work, but the knowledge doesn't compound and is brittle. In eastern cultur
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think there's a common lesson though. Geniuses seem Superman because the magic of compounding intelligence is just as astounding as the magic of compounding interest. Geniuses seem superhuman but only because we cannot conjure up the
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Desperation creates grasping feature creep.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Another thing is that software is more mercenary while sales/marketing is more embedded. Theres more domain expertise that needs to be built and legacy folks that need to relinquish their positions. This requires more time and risk. Th
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
It's actually quite useful I think, it keeps the idea alive in the background.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
large public labelled datasets is probably the most overlooked one. the largest gains are in the areas with the most open labelled data.
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think it's similar to the reason we have public education. It's a recognition of everyone having equal potential but that most people will not realize their potential because of cultural expectations creating self fulfilling pro
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Similar to humans, Bitcoin grows in value according to degree of faith placed in them. It's the same mechanism that gives Trump power and keeps minorities/women out of tech. The two main forces that give Bitcoin more faith power t
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
There's also leverage. Banks are willing to loan you a million dollars to buy a house but not for investing in the stock market. (Barring catastrophe, over 30 years, there are usually gains.)
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
I think sports have always been war games of sorts in that they carve out boundaries of in groups and out groups. People overwhelming support the team that they identify with (geographically determined for the most part) regardless if they
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
Yea, it's a weakness to have to constantly be evaluating a situation with "Was that because I'm black/female/gay/..." Power comes with the leverage of keeping a function DRY and re-using it. One small chan
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by dlwdlw 9y ago
White males are overly represented but I think it's fair. After all the US is white male culture at the higher levels so those who grew up with this culture have an advantage. They are fish while everyone else are forced amphibians. It

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