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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I have no clue where I read it, that was back when meh.com launched eleven-ish years ago. I didn't find it in a hot minute of searching either. I did find these, some of which talk about the circumstances obliquely: https://
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Facebook knows I'm male, and I see things like this very rarely -- on the order of one or two a month. Maybe that's FB ('s algorithm) testing my "defenses": they/it show me something like that as an experimen
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
It works fairly well because your PM and King aren't complete loons. At the end of the process there has to be someone making decisions, and when that person is a narcissistic 8-year-old in an 80-year-old's body, bad things are go
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
To the extent this is true, the entire thing could literally be a grift (I'm not saying Trump is smart enough to come up with this, just that people around him are, and he's grifty enough to go along with it): 1. Trump enacts
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
The team/person responsible for Woot sold it to Amazon, and then launched Meh the day their non-compete ended, along with a manifesto explaining how badly they thought Amazon had handled Woot.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Time for everyone who has posted lamenting how Dark Sky was better (that's me!) to put our money where our mouth is.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
As I said to the other respondent, I think it's important to justify the idea that both security and liberty can be achieved simultaneously.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Your argument is with GP who proposed that the security might be false. But I will say I don't think you should say "options," but rather "possibilities." "Options" implies that all four are actually avail
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
They say this eliminates (studied) openings because no one can study all the variations. I wonder how much of the game is figuring out how to get to “known” territory as quickly as possible. Vs. how much is literally terra incognita.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
If you assume that the security side of the equation is a false promise, then you are not making a decision at all: choosing between liberty with no security, or no liberty plus no security (because it's fake). And for me, it seems som
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Hence the N=1 I started the statement with. If we had a thousand similar situations and it turned out that in, say, 1% of cases there was a lung tumor, then we could debate whether it's worth putting 990 people through a biopsy they
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
Not because of an MRI, but this happened to me: 1. I had a chest x-ray 2. It showed a small dark patch, and my lungs over-inflate. 3. Erring on the side of caution, doctor ordered a lung biopsy. 4. Lung biopsy is painful, anno
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
If Google had stuck with Wave, and applied proper product management to it to refine the design feature set, it would be Slack+Notion today and I'd enthusiastically be using it.
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
In the space of fifteen years we went from Battlestar Galactica, which used those same shots of Cylon ships swerving and getting blown up over and over and over; to Star Trek: The Next Generation, which used models for the ships and was the
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
> And they didn't have sugar daddy (Google) willing to burn several billions a year for many years. Tesla's market cap is $1.3 trillion. Granted the company itself doesn't have access to all of that, but surely if they wan
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by gcanyon 8mo ago
I highlighted a train station, clicked "walk here," and nothing happened. I sped up time and I did not move. I gave up. Also, an introduction explaining what the game is would be good rather than just asking for a player name and
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
This has been going on in technology for decades. 1. New productivity enhancer comes out. 2. Everyone thinks, "This is it! Work will get shorter|easier as a result of this!" 3. Instead the work gets faster|more|higher q
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Something about how you phrased this makes me think you might appreciate Master of Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy. There are five kinds of magic, each with their own unique source, style, and pretty rigorous rule set, and the protagonist sets
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Yeah, I'd at least put the bad people list in some way under the control of the judiciary, but in the end you pretty much have to assume good faith when designing any system of supreme control.
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Funny, I've been working on an SF novelette (probably) for a couple months now, involving a starship even. I guess I should write faster :-)
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Strong opinion loosely held, but the U.S. immigration (not refugee) policy should be: 1. You are going to school? Great! Go to the DMV with reasonable documentation (student ID and registration paperwork?) and you get a year-long visa.
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I wish I had interviewed there. When I first read that people have a hard time with this I immediately sat down without looking at a reference and drew a bicycle. I could ace your interview.
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
One aspect of this is that apparently most people can't draw a bicycle much better than this: they get the elements of the frame wrong, mess up the geometry, etc.
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
People have been debating what "real" development is for as long as there have been computers. "That's not real software development, you're not even controlling which registers you use!" "How can you say
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
"My ID? I identify as Andrew Jackson twice and Lincoln"
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
> orbital data centers I'm not a rocket scientist, but how do they plan to dispose of all the waste heat? The ISS carefully maintains its temperature, and it's not running racks-full of servers. edit to add: this guy, who is
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I have a Concept 2 rowing machine. I've measured: it's about 65db when I'm rowing easy, 70, maybe a bit more, when I'm rowing hard. Most times when I row, it's for half an hour or so, but it can be up to 45 minutes
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
And like I, Robot, it has numerous loopholes built in, ignores the larger population (Asimov added a law 0 later about humanity), says nothing about the endless variations of the Trolley Problem, assumes that LLMs/bots have a god-like
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
I ran an experiment this morning. N=1 but: I created two videos that contained nearly the same content. I recorded both by hand in one take, so they're not identical, obviously. Each talked about this issue. One used the term "Fro
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by gcanyon 9mo ago
Wait, so your theory is that the Dems: 1. Knew that Hilary Clinton would lose to Trump 2. Engineered the primary to select her as their nominee *because* of (1)? That would require an enormous conspiracy, and as many have demonst

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