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by fossuser 5y ago
This is some of the appeal of urbit to me: https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progr... That blog post is old, urbit does exist now.
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by fossuser 5y ago
This does give me pause and is pretty weird when you think about it. The 'old way' makes a nice kind of sense. Company goes to the public to raise money to build a factory or something. In exchange the public gets a share of the c
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - this is definitely something I wonder about: https://twitter.com/zachalberico/status/1390331653541687299?... If you create a system without a central authority able to correct for incentive failures of syst
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by fossuser 5y ago
To me this is like complaining about webvan in the 90s and missing the forest through the trees. DAOs, and AMMs are interesting - there's a lot of potential in leveraging DeFi to make systems that can work in ways better than existin
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by fossuser 5y ago
There was a great little video on twitter I can't find where someone took one of those little robots with big on screen eyes and had it reading output from gpt-3. It was cool since you could basically ask it anything - I'd buy one
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by fossuser 5y ago
POS is a reasonable trade-off to solve scaling and make DeFi practical (imo) - his blog posts about it and arguments make sense. > "Sure infinite coins can be fixed later, but the same can be said about Bitcoin. If POS works, it can
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by fossuser 5y ago
The stuff I linked above I thought was good. Unfortunately, as is becoming more and more true in our pretty weird modern inter-connected world there's no substitute for getting your own hands dirty, reading primary sources and trying t
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I started off cautiously optimistic, but I've gotten more and more confident in its long term future. The DeFi tech is real, but early. Vitalik Buterin is a really good leader for Ethereum and development. Vitalik Interview: ht
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by fossuser 5y ago
IIRC he was a couple years out of school at the time, probably ~23-24
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I had a negative reaction to this in 2011, if anything it’s only soured more in time (and the artist seems even less aware of why people hated it or why he was investigated). It’s also the low quality (imo) type of art that does a di
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by fossuser 5y ago
No worries - there’s a lot there, but I’ve been happy with the variety. Some others that I forgot are the 538 podcast, Bari Weiss, and the new Joe Lonsdale YouTube channel.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Respectfully, I think you’re cherry picking the current (more correct) understanding and missing what the consensus was at the time with the benefit of hindsight. At the time “masks don’t work, “it’s not airborne”, and especially “it wasn’t
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by fossuser 5y ago
I don’t know about unbiased, but seeking out smart individuals who try to be correct has worked the best for me (and then Axios for general news updates, SF Chronicle for local). Some quick ones: - Stay Tuned with Preet (legal policy stuff)
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’m not looking to downplay the virus - the initial downplay came from Vox and the NYT (journalists, not scientists - but often pretending they’re delivering scientific consensus): https://medium.com/@balajis/citations-
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’ve been using Apple Maps exclusively for the last couple of years. I find it to be better, but there’s a major caveat that I primarily use it in the Bay Area. Outside the bay it’s worked for me too, but it’s just rare that I test it in th
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by fossuser 5y ago
This straight appeal to authority is particularly weak given the last year or so. - lab leak hypothesis - “masks don’t work” - “not transmissible via the air” - “it’s not a pandemic, don’t panic” The authority has shown its capacity to be w
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I’m guessing American. The pandemic is over in America (for now), definitely not true for all of the rest of the world though. I do suspect while there are long term complications from particularly bad covid cases (lung damage, etc.)
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by fossuser 5y ago
Fresh is cheaper, more accurate stock, doesn’t require interacting with the shopper, has more available delivery times, more vertically integrated, and (subjectively) a less crappy website - easier to do basic things like add old stuff to o
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by fossuser 5y ago
It was a direct quote from the article I linked: https://paygo.ghost.io/why-did-i-leave-google-or-why-did-i-s... - not a straw man I made up [0]. The 'You' wasn't you personally, but the general 'you&#
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by fossuser 5y ago
You should have some perspective. If your complaint is “what? Sushi again?!” then you should shut up (imo). That’s just a subset, others take an overly adversarial stance to drive attention to themselves as activists - rather than have in-g
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by fossuser 5y ago
He talks about the average Googler and the culture, which was the relevant bit.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I started using instacart at the beginning of the pandemic - every experience with it was painful. From the UI to the ordering process and the interaction with the shopper, and the cost. Amazon Fresh is categorically better and it’s include
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by fossuser 5y ago
They're in the same business - not sure why you'd expect them to have different incentives. Both are trying to do things at massive scale and dealing with the problems associated with that. I think both do things I don't agre
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Hard to know without being there - but honest/nuanced answers require in-good-faith questions and not political posturing or using the opportunity to attack/leak. Though I think Zuckerberg has done a good job continuing this despi
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think Google has a culture problem (they're massive, doesn't apply everywhere, etc. etc.). There's a weird sense of internal entitlement where some (likely a small, but still substantial) number of people work there, are we
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by fossuser 5y ago
IIRC (don't work at Google myself, but friends do) - you start out of college as an L3 and are expected to make promo twice to L4 and then L5. Once at L5 it's okay to just stay there and do good work, the pay is still really good
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think Oracle would still have a bouquet of roses, but they'd only go to Larry Ellison.
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by fossuser 5y ago
My first new personal laptop! It's funny I was amazed how small it was, but picking it up recently it feels like a giant brick. I also remember it being a lot faster than it was - some of that might be age, but I suspect we used to jus
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by fossuser 5y ago
Sounds a lot like the modern variant of Walden: https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2021/06/30/walden... Henry David Thoreau would somewhat comically fit in as a particular modern day silicon
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by fossuser 5y ago
Reminds me a little of this: https://www.vice.com/da/article/xd578z/i-ghostwrote-hundreds... [0] I don't have much sympathy for the cheaters or those writing these essays rationalizing it via whatever ex

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