ethbro

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by ethbro 6y ago
Don't get me started on settings only being available if I install an app. That's Facebook levels of UX.
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I can attest to the difference. I've worked in consulting and directly for companies, both more and less evil. There is a palpable difference from company culture to culture. If you work at a place where (a) you disagree with your comp
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As clear a way to put it as I've heard. But all companies seek to become monopolies for purposes of profit, while avoiding being seen as monopolies for purposes of responsibility.
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Clear definition of mission is important. For external and internal consumption. The US military has a pretty clear mission, however you feel about it. Facebook: "Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer to
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At some point, isn't this just Shannon coding that takes advantage of higher-order probabilities?
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Not to mention the hardware inefficiencies of a 5 GB dictionary on naive hardware. Poor caches. :(
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The problem most companies have with this approach is that they stop short of total war. If you wanted to pay streamers to defect to your platform, then don't cheap out and try to pay a few of them. Pay all of them. As much as it t
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I didn't say that anyone wanted to abandon safety. I said that they wanted to deprioritize safety, presumably to increase successful drug development. > Maybe we can find some other way to test drugs that is cheaper per useful drug
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An NGO offers substantially more protection than a direct government store. Whether that is enough protection is a fair debate.
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You run into a regulatory capture problem in any capitalist democracy. Companies squabble over nuances that less impact them, and more greatly their competitors, implemented through their political pressure on representatives. Which is why
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> Not every sin need be taxed. Absolutely... as long as every individual is willing to pay the full costs of their sins.
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Centralized models would be more palatable if the keys to the kingdom were stored with an NGO. There's too much temptation for governments with poor privacy track records (and that's where they're even trying) to stick their
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> I also think the current paradigm for how basic neuroscience research is done is way too limited, and that is impacting the viability of potential treatments that make it to clinical trial phase. Our current paradigm is optimized to
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The solution to population variability is not to use variable models. That just trashes your result set. There are enough confounding, uncontrollable variables in biology already.
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We're also talking about two different ISAs: x86-64 vs A64. In addition to the underlying architectures to implement them. It's not inconceivable that Intel simply made enough arch / process / design mistakes that they&#
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Beware anytime an architect says "subvert" with a gleam in their eyes...
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> However my point is this: there are very few companies out that that tries something truly new, and when one does and fail in the market there too much "told you so" going around. Absolutely agreed. And from what I hear, th
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It's the same argument as posting content to any audience-limited platform. E.g. LinkedIn. If I have interesting content, that I wish the maximum number of people to see, then why wouldn't I make it internet-accessible? Consequent
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Curious, would OoO execution been possible with CMS? It's complicated enough to resolve things when you're dealing with instructions + hardware execution units. When that becomes x86 instructions + CMS + native instructions + hard
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One thing to remember is that this dropped circa-2001. The dominant Windows versions were ME and XP. Both of which featured driver models of... not too much system protection. So applications (especially games) looked a lot more like their
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by ethbro 6y ago
I think of it as: 1) I am personally offended, so you should be offended to. 2) If you are not offended, then because my personal offense is rooted in a just cause, you are bad. 3) Because you are bad, I cannot have a dialog with you. Indee
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In the US, a big part of the anti-union movement's success has been the fact that states retain enough autonomy to rig the rules in pro- or anti-union fashion, while also competing for business that can typically be located anywhere in
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I read a study on international power polarities, and they noted that truly independent tripolar was among the most stable configurations from a game theory perspective. Broadly summarizing, the potential for the remaining tie-breaker to de
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Yes.
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> No the Government borrows against future taxes (consider that an accounts receivable), the borrowed money doesn’t have value because of consensus it has value because it is backed by future tax revenue. This is one of two reasons it ha
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Mostly legacy industries. I don't want to indicate it's common . And typically gets weeded out by Director-level. But I've certainly seen more Top50 companies than not who have at least a few Manager / Sr Manager-level
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> New employees will have to learn that instead of using K8S APIs You know tech has made it when people offer argumentum ad Java. 'Sure, X might not be the best solution, but you can always buy someone to do it.'
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I think most people think of lawyers as consigliere. Friends. People who will give you good advice. In reality, they're employed by you to legally protect you to the best of their ability. This means that (a) they view everything thr
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What if Y = ignorance?
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That's a constant. As an external consultant, do remember you have the power to play the expert. "Well that's how other Top50 companies I've worked with have done it" isn't the worst card to play. Usually thoug

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