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by evancoop 5y ago
The most common response is likely along the lines of "we don't need our dishwashers connected to the internet, this is unnecessary, another failure mode, another invasion, etc." The more interesting question is who, in the b
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I was really hoping the answer was some input/output dad joke along the lines of: I/O...
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This is an article about Germany's immigration policy that ought to be about America's education system. If we could "manufacture" skilled workers, the debate over "importing" them would be moot. A quote like
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One reads this article and thinks "would I want to live in one of these apartments?" Or possibly, one considers a conveniently-located store that will close. The question that should come to mind might be "what happens to re
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The easy response is to dunk on Nature for rent-seeking. (And it most definitely IS just that). However, the best target for ire is not necessarily the journals (even if they charge a lot and provide nothing more than unpaid editors whose
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The less-discussed issue is the high rate of turnover with respect to corporate roles. There are significant incentives that push new leaders to "remove the fences" rather than spend the time (money) and energy (capital) to deter
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The next iteration will be "buy information, not experiences." Industry creates and purchases data. We purchase books (read on Kindles), online courses, and in extreme cases, credentials. Isn't an NFT just 0s and 1s? Aren&
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The Message of Meat Loaf(ae.studio)
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Does technology force us to make decisions like horny teenagers?
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In everything from federal law down to an organization's handbook, a simple principle applies: If a nonsensical action helps one remain in compliance with the rule, it is the rule (not the action) that is nonsensical. Amazing how many
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On some level, this is the strongest argument in favor of Facebook's original position - that they oughtn't be responsible for distinguishing fact from fiction. Ask any entity to discern truth at scale and there will be errors and
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Seems to raise a couple profound questions: 1. Is there a credible alternative (comparable ease of access and implementation)? 2. Does the absence of such a tool hinder business operating efficiency? If the answer to #1 is no, then any asse
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by evancoop 5y ago
Certainly, the upside is larger - cannot argue. The challenge, in my mind, with respect to software is the unforeseen, not-entirely-in-your-control challenge of integration, bug-fixing, etc. I'd much rather have delivered 95% of the
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I might add two amendments here: The first is that "time and materials" is infinitely preferable to "fixed scope." In the former case, both client and consultant have an incentive to set priorities and make difficult, p
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A college friend wandered the dorm bleary-eyed. His aspirations were pre-med. In a moment of revelation, he noted that if he were so inclined, he could find enough material to spend every waking hour studying. He also recognized that this
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"There was a time that engineers were willing to trade years of their lives for the lottery ticket of stock options. I find that, as more companies try this approach, and it becomes more common, more engineers are becoming literate as
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by evancoop 5y ago
Next week, on "lifestyles of the rich and rent-seeking," we'll speak to the folks from Apple, who have discovered how to extract copious sums from captive app developers and their downstream customers! You won't want to
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Firstly, I will resist the urge to quip about the culinary potential of the remainder of the pig or the moral implications of using animals for their organs (especially since we've already decided, at a societal level, that eating them
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Excess deaths will need to become the standard statistic used to compare nations. Otherwise, we'll be debating "deaths FROM vs. deaths WITH COVID" and the differing statistical definitions from nation to nation. Moreover, i
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It's not simply a matter of willpower to avoid procrastination. The "doom loops" emerge in the absence of a structure that returns awareness to a task (but does not require anxiety about the task BEFORE that return). We&#x2
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The reality is that no such projection is plausible. Could a human being living in 1903, before the Wright Brothers have predicted a moon landing only 66 years later? Could anyone in 1990 have predicted the smartphone, let alone 1922? On
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Though collusion between two tech giants is obviously distasteful and anticompetitive, how is this ultimately addressed? Sure, governments could force Google and Apple to break into smaller entities...but as long as humans still largely ch
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The relevant detail, in my mind, is not whether Holmes deserves punishment, or even how much. The relevant detail is how the judge ultimately sentences Holmes, and more importantly, on what basis the judge selects the upper or lower range o
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The strongest argument in favor of VC would be the ability to deliver capital where otherwise none would be available, the ability to generate above-market returns (at least circumstantial evidence of offering value), and the experience&#x2
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If you had diamond hands when all around you Were selling shares and saying you should too If riding GameStop moonward made friends hound you And worry if the SEC would sue ... If you addressed a virulent pandemic By grokking each new t
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This would suggest that we are not simply using the wrong dictionaries, but in fact, learning to deploy language inaptly from grade school onward. Students are examined on definitional understanding rather than the "hues" to whic
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It seems like, in your case, the publication is evidence that the rabbit hole was at least original and interesting. Students in that category tend to graduate, have a few compelling results to their name, and simply expend a couple extra
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The "lead or be led" trope is apt, and certainly became the paradigm of my doctoral years. I might, however, amend this slightly. There's another idea of going rogue too soon or too late ( https://matt.might.net&#
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Perhaps the next iteration of such tracking would be values for related series of objective measurements that should improve with the investment of time. Continued exercise should yield improvements in weight, speed, endurance, etc (at lea
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With each new opportunity to learn to code without the expense of a four-year degree in Computer Science, don't we reach a point at which either: 1) The four-year degree in CS is actually seen as something of a negative indicator 2) We

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