ethbro

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   by ethbro 9y ago

   I'm saying that statements like this: > You cant reduce a compnies profits and think that will increase employment. Have a lot of implicit assumptions about the market that company operates in, assumptions that may or may not be t
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   Never underestimate the ability of someone with an IQ of 135 to make every problem difficult.
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   > If a company makes less money than others, it will stop investing investingn in itself and divert funds to more profitable ventures. + + In a free market without monopoly in its industry
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   I'm curious about whether a sale like this included full due diligence or if the extra-ordinary nature meant some other standard of accounting was used. If SoftBank went in with eyes open, this seems business as usual. If they're
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   I would have gone with the Gulf of Tonkin incident [1], in which it was later revealed that MACV-SOG had inserted a covert operations team (which was captured) and paid for an airstrike the night before North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   I'd say that's the opposite. The borderline conspiracy theories that seem popular are pretty different than "the garbage needs to be picked up on time" locally important issues that I thought you were talking about.
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   > Most people vote based on some very personal and everyday issues. Things they experience in their lives not discussions on facebook [...] I'd say exactly the opposite. The politically empassioned folks I meet lately (on both sid
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   Or as I saw misattributed to Keynes in a comment here: "It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong." -Carveth Read With humility for one's own skills and respect for the author, there are many times a literal trans
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   by ethbro 9y ago

   I know it's present in Zen poetry, but not sure beyond that. As a semi-related concept, I stumbled across an entry on Haragei [1] (non-verbal, implied meaning?) in Japanese culture yesterday. The myriad of ways that necessary communica
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    > If Oumuamua is a ship, the question would be why didn't they [build a larger and faster ship]? Because they didn't know we were here? Supposing you're exploring the galaxy, hyper advanced technology doesn't free y
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    It's not like the expectation is that his internet will be slowed down forever. I think it's perfectly fair, if legal under all current laws. "This is the future you want" doesn't sink in until your kids are bitchin
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    I'll shortcut my rant about the focus on cheese and moving thereof by noting that we're talking about two different things. If any option is buried in an archaic path, that's not a well-formed system of discoverability to m
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    > If something isn't on the ribbon or in any of the subdialogs it's almost certainly because it's deprecated and only still exists for some obscure compatibility reason. Am I using it wrong then? I don't dive into O
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    Granted. But these things aren't rocket science. There was a time when everyone managed to get by without building codes. Sure we had a few fires and collapses, but statistically speaking they were still outliers. Don't let the 1%
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    To level-set, - oil-based energy powered our global economy that was able to research alternative forms of energy - both nutrition and science have always been an unfinished work, "we don't know everything" != "we know n
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    Am I missing something that's exceedingly lethal to van dwellers but not traditionally-homed humans? Worse case, you drive to the nearest ER. Worst case, call 911 or stumble out onto the street and ask someone to do so. No different th
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    I used "smart" because ML / AI seemed overly charitable for what was going on behind the scenes. And it's certainly distinct (or tries to be) from "you must type in exactly and only the name of the thing you want to
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-work... In short, Ford likely realized in the 1920s that with the usage of mass manufacturing / shifts, worker effort was more important than hours spent wor
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    I'm going to generalize a bit here and say that "smart" features have decreased usability, as aside from single-focus products (e.g. Mint) no one seems to priotize deep discoverabity when the "smart" path fails. Exa
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    > public discussion That's the reason in my opinion. (A) If the Soviets publicize US penetrations of their airspace, they look militarily weak. (B) If the US publicizes their penetrations, then (A) as the Soviet public possibly fi
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    Before intelligence needs could be solved by satellite imagery, violating airspace for military purposes wasn't exactly rare. Everyone largely agreed it wasn't in anyone's best interest to talk about it publicly though.
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    I'd put the literal Battle of Crécy up there. An army of commoners being able to murder armored nobles with the aid of the longbow certainly changed the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    > There needs to be a new set of rules built around enforcing competition around the data economy. Agreed. In the US, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the last major attempt at FCC rework. Our world looks nothing like 1996. My em
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    - Extract lots of sand [from the desert] - Fill it with water - Run solar distillation - Create additional freshwater source for region (at expense of creating a high-salinity lake)
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    Aka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    From what I remember of a deep dive post I read on this once, the ordering type bug / no-bug situations tend to be the result of incorrect optimizations. Changing the ordering will sometimes make the code look just different enough to
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    To turn the tinfoil hat the other way though... until recently it would have been trivial for a nation-state to intercept and add a hardware implant to a motherboard. So on the one hand SecureBoot & ME are terrible, but on the other han
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    No, I mean it literally isn't universally shameful. In that in most countries obeying an order to fire on civilians, or doing so because you believe your life is in danger, will not result in penalties. Because "it's what y
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    It does mean it's not universally held to be shameful.
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    by ethbro 9y ago

    This would be your person opinion, given that the militaries of the US, the UK, China, Russia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Spain, etc. (probably easier to name those that haven't) have officially performed such actions, with the sol