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601.
by gfodor 4y ago
That’s definitely part of it. Another part is just the various multipliers you get from having a small number of tools. Team mastery, more mobility of personnel (no/low ramp up times), unexpected opportunities for re-use, high quality
602.
by gfodor 4y ago
It seems highly unlikely anyone who leaked this was part of the core of the institution of the Supreme Court. Selection bias kind of leads to an assumption that those who work for the court support the neutrality and processes of the court,
603.
by gfodor 4y ago
I’ve never liked this best-tool-for-the-job mental model with software engineering. A given project has multiple needs, and unlike more physical tools there is a very high marginal cost for each incremental tool you use. So there is a huge
604.
by gfodor 4y ago
This is why for example when you take your car to the DMV to get a new drivers license, there is always a small chance you will leave without a license, or a car for that matter.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The point is the trajectory, not the position. Given network effects and other phenomena, there's good reason to think Twitter could converge on some kind of universal, global engine for the vast majority of all future short conversati
606.
by gfodor 5y ago
Twitter's userbase is immensely valuable, but the company's execution has both been slow to unlock its full potential and also is on a fairly clear trajectory of eroding the window of permissible speech on the platform which prese
607.
by gfodor 5y ago
Fair, but why the leaf?
608.
by gfodor 5y ago
It has been a rule: the US and USSR went to insane lengths to maintain plausible deniability of direct military-to-military engagement. The Soviets flying jets over Korea spoke in Korean on the radio and flew Korean jets! The scenario I am
609.
by gfodor 5y ago
The nuclear-ICBM powers have largely converged on a Nash equilibrium for these questions, they're not new. And they are informed by nuclear weapons in a way the pre-nuclear era could not be. If nuclear weapons existed before 1939, th
610.
by gfodor 5y ago
The point is previous things you thought were ridiculous were normalized, in a very deliberate process. So to it will go with "mother", if the past is any indication. However, it may not be, because people are (ironically) waking
611.
by gfodor 5y ago
It’s only similar if you do not think global annihilation being a meaningful risk factor blows up all your priors comparatively. I do.
612.
by gfodor 5y ago
Did someone say it did? It wasn’t me.
613.
by gfodor 5y ago
Not really. The existence of nuclear weapons makes the game theory of WWII largely irrelevant. People who have continually compared the situation to Hitler’s invasion of Poland are in large part Americans who are unable to draw on other his
614.
by gfodor 5y ago
Musk literally published the "master plan" for Tesla over time, and has largely executed on it, and described the goal of rocket reusability for the purpose of colonizing Mars forever ago. Are you sure that you're not confusi
615.
by gfodor 5y ago
It’s funny that Musk explains specifically why he is doing this - just like he always does - but people are so deeply cynical they don’t even realize they are ignoring it and coming up with more Machiavellian explanations.
616.
by gfodor 5y ago
Yes, but blockchains were first. If your point is that we should evolve to newer, better solutions sure. But I'm guessing you're arguing something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_T0oq_rQ9s#t=9m8s
617.
by gfodor 5y ago
There's probably already child porn on the ethereum blockchain. If not, there will be eventually. Then what happens? Is your argument that it's obvious they're going to jail anyone who has the chain on their computer?
618.
by gfodor 5y ago
You can do optimistic updates with JS
619.
by gfodor 5y ago
That’s a feature, since it will force society to resolve a variety of incoherent laws.
620.
by gfodor 5y ago
Claiming a technology is not a silver bullet is a statement that contains no useful information, because no technology is a silver bullet. However, blockchains do provide a very high level of durability across various dimensions, and some i
621.
by gfodor 5y ago
Phoenix LiveView provides a sane solution to this problem.
622.
by gfodor 5y ago
I explicitly said that it’s necessary, but generally it’s not for the primary purpose of encoding the core point one is trying to make. Nuance to me is more about convincing the unpersuaded reader the idea has merit and is important or usef
623.
by gfodor 5y ago
On the contrary, a person skilled at Twitter could have compressed the essence of what you wrote into 280 characters. I’ve found the best books and essays are similarly compressible, with the rest of the information being about bolstering i
624.
by gfodor 5y ago
Wow, I am so surprised to see this - I came upon an earlier version of this deck 10+ years ago, and it's one of a very small number of things I've held onto and made a point to re-read every couple of years. Very cool to see there
625.
by gfodor 5y ago
The reason people are complaining is we have found ourselves in a situation where Twitter is arguably already or indisputably will become what amounts to a global public square. The early philosophical developments around freedom of speech
626.
by gfodor 5y ago
Sure seems like it could be - I wouldn’t opt-in to allowing mine to be distributed, why would I? And I don’t think Twitter has the rights to do so. So you’d at least need to solve the anonymization problem, or you’d have to package a data r
627.
by gfodor 5y ago
I’m sure twitters algorithms take advantage of all interaction data, like impressions, scrolls, and clicks. Agree tho it’s good a lot of the data is public.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I’m not arguing against it - I’m arguing that people who are focused on the idea of releasing the code are miscalibrated on the marginal impact of doing so given a lack of domain knowledge. The net suggestion is to demand more, and start de
629.
by gfodor 5y ago
It would provide insight but if the goal is to increase transparency to the point of meaningfully improving trust in the centralized actor that is Twitter, I don’t see it moving that needle much. Given the right data you can kind of coax a
630.
by gfodor 5y ago
I don’t think so - because releasing the data is a massive hill comparatively due to the immense privacy and legal issues.

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