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by ethbro 6y ago
I suppose the argument goes: if anyone can approach that optimality, it's a company with a large fleet of repurposable drivers. Being able to dispatch to a driver in motion depends on having a suitable driver available. I'm still
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by ethbro 6y ago
Reposted from a previous comment, as answering the same thought: The danger of SARS-CoV-2, given the relatively low mortality (and based on genetic modeling of potential mutations), was never that it was going to crest with Ebola-like propo
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by ethbro 6y ago
To be fair, in many cases markets are explicitly set up to preclude innovation. Monopoly grants with rate caps don't afford much aspirational budget for SV-wage engineers.
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by ethbro 6y ago
I have. And I try not to make a habit of doing so for reasons of expediency. Here, there doesn't seem any clear benefit to overloading. Depending on context to post-hoc disambiguate definition collision is a slippery slope. Especially
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by ethbro 6y ago
Well put! It's an interesting co-evolution (or lack of) with dramatically scaled corporations, as well. Pre-interstate, you didn't have as much consolidation of firms (e.g. local burger vs McDonald's, local inn vs Marriott).
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by ethbro 6y ago
What are the industry incentives for Tesla to do this, instead of utilities? It just seems kind of weird for Tesla to be saying "We'll sell you this thing you tell me you need" and also "Here's us building a thing t
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by ethbro 6y ago
This was mostly driven by economics. It's cheaper to pave everything in sight vs build multi-story parking decks + greenspace. And local zoning boards / politicians were only happy to hand out passes, as commercial taxes pay for t
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by ethbro 6y ago
So what's the plural third person pronoun?
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by ethbro 6y ago
If thou takest thy authority from a 1375 education, methinks the chasm betwixt us doth yawn overbroadly for debate.
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by ethbro 6y ago
The embodiment AI folks seem prescient, here. How can chatbots ever mimic human interaction, without experiencing human-ness? We parse incredibly complex dailog exceptions every day because "we made that mistake yesterday" (or &qu
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by ethbro 6y ago
>Gendered pronouns (for example "he" or "his") become they or their. For the love of grammar, just invent a neutral pronoun. "He" or "she" is singular. "They" is plural. These things are
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by ethbro 6y ago
It's hard to detect what HTTP DELETE does without, well...
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by ethbro 6y ago
The editorial and stylistic independence is what I miss. Absolutely: there is more stuff on the internet than there was then. But! How much of that stuff is creatively controlled by actual end users? I'd say < 10%. The large platfor
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by ethbro 6y ago
The best thing about the early web was that nobody knew what it was for. So people just did things, without considering if it was "right." Nowadays, you'd never get Bob's Labrador Page. Because "Hi! I'm Bob. I
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by ethbro 6y ago
Absolutely. If you're not using your truck for truck stuff at least twice a month, it doesn't make sense. And unless you're using it more frequently than that , only a fuel efficient medium / small one makes sense. (Pos
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by ethbro 6y ago
Only if it's about to decrease!
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by ethbro 6y ago
I wasn't so much using it as a proxy term for growth, but rather as a direct description of work culture. I've worked and consulted at a variety of companies. Of the ones that had an expectation that you do 1-2 year stints on team
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by ethbro 6y ago
Any discrimination and groupthink seems intensified in workplaces with (1) little reassignment, (2) long tenures, & (3) little external, objective performance feedback. E.g. government and many portions of academia. People who don'
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by ethbro 6y ago
The hollowing out of small town America by Amazon & Walmart is sad to see. You can talk all you want about free market cheaper prices raising all boats, but it doesn't jive with profits circulating within a community vs being shipp
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by ethbro 6y ago
The financial justification for antivirals is terrible, given alternatives. Hence why we have so few. So whether the DoD or whatever government branch catalyzed progress doesn't matter much to me.
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by ethbro 6y ago
> So cat owners should start buying remdesivir then Yes! For many reasons. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0422-covid-19-cats-...
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by ethbro 6y ago
Only one number that matters, the current / effective reproduction number [e.g. 0]. Everything else is a consequence of that. Deaths within cohort are decreasing because of increasingly effective treatment options [1]. The medical syst
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by ethbro 6y ago
Atlassian does SaaS like Java does terseness.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Valid / invalid for metaphors, to me, depends on the audience. For laypeople, ill equiped to deal with high orders of complexity: spooky. For people in the field: details. For some audiences being accurate is less descriptive than bein
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by ethbro 6y ago
I was reminiscing the other day about the Encyclopedia Britannica set we bought when I was a child. Probably within the last 10 years dictionaries were sold. A few years later, Microsoft Encarta [0] was available on CD. And a decade later,
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by ethbro 6y ago
I used to think that, but I don't think it's going to happen unless we criminalize some level of human impulse hacking. At their base, social media platforms specifically engineer their desired behavior, powered by obscene amounts
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by ethbro 6y ago
"The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind."
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by ethbro 6y ago
Trivial in the individual case is not trivial at scale.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Not to belittle the difficulty, but as someone who just drove from WY to WI over the last couple days... east of the Mississippi is drastically wetter than western MN+.
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by ethbro 6y ago
Microsoft's cloud storage integration suffers from configuritis for me (poster child: SharePoint). I'm sure there's a perfect way to use it for all my use cases. But doing so would require I learn / study the correct One

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