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by elvinyung 7y ago
Shouldn't cities be obligated to make sure they're able to have teachers and plumbers and piano tuners?
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by elvinyung 7y ago
I mean, it's not like individual automobiles are the only way to get around...
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by elvinyung 8y ago
ok, without doing that :p
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I think you're slightly missing the point -- for me, a certain unique "awesomeness" lies in specifically being able to literally pipe stdout back to stdin and get back the exact same data structures.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I think they just mean that lithium and sodium are both in the same valence group, but I'm not sure if that has any actual nutritional significance here.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
1980s is not "mid 20th century".
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by elvinyung 8y ago
On top of the Amazon answer, I think you're sometimes able to get it off of Modernist Pantry [1]. [1] https://www.modernistpantry.com/booker-and-dax-searzall.html
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Existing Conditions is probably my favorite bar in the world. I think nowhere else can you get (relatively) unpretentious drinks that are as perfectly executed. (And if you read Dave's Liquid Intelligence , you'll know why.)
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I mean, isn't CosmosDB more like Cloud Datastore/Megastore?
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Azure Cloud Spanner time?
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Square Card(squareup.com)
2 points by elvinyung 8y ago|0 comments
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by elvinyung 8y ago
This reminds me of core rope memory [1], AKA "little old lady" memory, which was literally a ROM that was manually woven. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
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by elvinyung 8y ago
One possible interpretation of this trend is that it is yet another manifestation of the neoliberal era. With the steady loss of job security and other benefits from stable employment, along with a society that repeatedly stresses the virtu
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Very tiny nit: DynamoDB is not Dynamo. Leaderless replication was popularized by Amazon's original Dynamo paper, true, but DynamoDB is not the same system [1]. [1] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01&#x2
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by elvinyung 8y ago
>The city’s goal: To be what it calls a living lab. Sure reminds me of Foucault: >But the Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used as a machine to carry out experiments, to alter behaviour, to train or correct individuals. T
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I guess you can say it's less like a scheme and more like a meme.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Lucas critique is predated by Campbell's law and Goodhart's law.
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by elvinyung 8y ago
"But artisans are complete only if they are also prospectors; and the organization that separates prospectors, merchants, and artisans already mutilates artisans in order to make 'workers' of them." -- A Thousand Platea
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Exactly -- then how can you claim that the "chaos" of an implicit outside influence is better than an explicit outside influence?
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Well, that's just one possibility in a space of many. The core of the point is this, reiterating from the article: obviously a ministry of truth is bad. But isn't the chaos just as bad, since it is susceptible to be dominated by a
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by elvinyung 8y ago
There Are More Than Two Things [1]. It's a spectrum, not a dualism. Which is to basically ask that, for example, does it work to have multiple semi-competing Ministries of Truth? https://twitter.com/_shyextrovert/s
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by elvinyung 8y ago
The thing that worries me even more is that more and more diverse types of content will be susceptible to algorithmic amplification in more and more sophisticated ways. Right now it's still relatively easy to tell what is a bot and wha
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Here's a Twitter thread with a director at Elsevier (@mrgunn) making extremely snarky comments about why they think academia shouldn't be free and widely available: https://twitter.com/dgmacarthur/status/
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Cool project! One minor question, how much does becoming a patron affect rankings?
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Totally, but in the North America it seems like we are culturally nowhere near aligned on changing this for the better. The cultural opinion seems to be slowly improving, but it still seems like most of North America has very agrarian/
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by elvinyung 8y ago
I'm going to give the typical leftie answer: neoliberalism. Basically, large public works projects still seemed possible up to the early 1970s. The hypothesis is that it's only after two near-simultaneous changes, the rise of Reag
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Well, that does fit into what I meant -- Outside North America, it seems to be generally (more) taken for granted that public transit and density/mixed-use feed into each other (such that either can be a prerequsite for the other), whe
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Jane Jacobs talks about how cities generally fall into one of two different kinds of equilibria: a public transit equilibrium, and a car equilibrium. In each one, the preferred kind of mobility further shapes land use to make that kind of m
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by elvinyung 8y ago
Nice username -- I'd like to agree. That said, I think that the city that you and I want to live in isn't quite there yet (but almost!).
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A Blueprint for Content Governance and Enforcement(facebook.com)
1 points by elvinyung 8y ago|0 comments

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