dventimi

44 ms·

1. 571.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   > but even they have precious few examples of cities to have attracted and generated tremendous wealth without also having tremendous poverty and depravity Have you considered the possibility that the poverty is a consequence of the weal
2. 572.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   These policies: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/13/16771912/mayor-ed-lee-sa...
3. 573.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   SF voters don't get to vote for or against the Pope.
4. 574.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   No you don't gotcha. There's plenty of concrete action at her level that led to SF's benighted circumstances.
5. 575.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   Ok. She and her liberal cohorts in SF, in Sacramento, in DC, and on Sand Hill Road opened the floodgates to an ocean of money pouring into and through the city, got rich doing it, and ruined the city. The only thing to say in their favor is
6. 576.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   > It doesn't take a lot of effort to reverse engineer mechanical parts Have you personally ever reverse-engineered an internal combustion engine or recreated parts from a patent document?
7. 577.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   I don't have to assume there will be competitors because I know that there already are competitors.
8. 578.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   > the tech isn't open source Neither was automobile tech a hundred years ago yet somehow GM and Chrysler managed to put up a fight against Ford > the hardware is expensive...and then there's the massive regulatory over head
9. 579.▲
   by dventimi 3y ago

   Then customers will choose their cheaper competitors.
10. 580.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Hopefully you'll forgive me if I think it WAS written that way.
11. 581.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    > All this said, I’m not the only one who does this. I have encountered a lot of [managers] that do this. They’re the ones people want to work for How about people who don't want to work for a "manager"? Where should we go
12. 582.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Let's set aside value judgements. After all, I don't know that small startups are optimal any more than you know that they aren't. Hopefully, what we can agree on is that small startups are different from large companies, eve
13. 583.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    > I had some really great leaders early in my career that showed it’s not only possible it’s the only way to enjoy any role at any company no matter the size. I'm not persuaded anyone is in a position to know that there's only
14. 584.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Would you describe your work at large companies as "intoxicating"?
15. 585.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    > The arguments are entirely false: ex N^2 communication. No team depends on every [other] team in the org. From the article: "You can’t just work on whatever you want; coordinating would be an O(N^2) communication mess." Evide
16. 586.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Well...it might change some people's minds
17. 587.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Ask your mom.
18. 588.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    1. I invite to inform the members of the DES collaboration that they're doing nothing more than running a computer program on existing data. It'll be especially exciting when you tell that to members of the LSST consortium, who ha
19. 589.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    It's not obvious to me so if you want to persuade me you'll have to make an argument. While you're at it you'll have to make another argument if you want to persuade me you're in a position to know which are the rig
20. 590.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Personally, I value determining the dark energy equation of state to be more valuable than discovering room temperature superconductors. My wife's view is the opposite. Which of us right, and why?
21. 591.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    You miss the point that you don't know the value of the outcomes. Nobody does because being a matter of judgment about conditions in an unknown future, that's not something that can be known. The best we can do is make educated gu
22. 592.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    I'm so used to empty boasts and humblebrags from tyros on HN that I overlooked the real McCoy. That's on me.
23. 593.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Then that covers everyone.
24. 594.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    > Could understand why someone with less experience programming would find [LSP] helpful Have you considered the possibility that people with more experience programming than you might find it useful?
25. 595.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    A version of this question is asked in the article, but I'll ask it again anyway: As a thought experiment suppose Britain lacked the necessary precursors to create an industrial revolution. How confident are you that an industrial revo
26. 596.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    How many revolutions was Rome supposed to have? Ok, it didn't have an industrial revolution or a computer revolution, but it obviously had dramatic advances in roads, warfare, law, and bureaucracy. Why isn't that enough? Related q
27. 597.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    I was talking about the value of the outcomes.
28. 598.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    "Plenty of sense" is a subjective measure that can't be quantified. A person could just add easily state that it makes plenty of sense to concentrate some resources on a few or even just one line of inquiry, because of the pe
29. 599.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    > Have We Gotten Dark Matter All Wrong? No https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
30. 600.▲
    by dventimi 3y ago

    Well put