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by human20190310 7y ago
I'm genuinely impressed with the public's judgment on this; Uber's stock is generally falling, and Slack is settling into the same trajectory.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Apple is in the music business though. If you combine "Apple" and some music business I think you can expect trouble. In fact they (and Facebook, and others) are in so many businesses that any trademark they claim is going to hav
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by human20190310 7y ago
I think it's appropriate to have a bias toward hostility when a large company makes a large claim, because they've got the legal resources to win basically any dispute once they have a foothold. > I can call a music producer &q
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by human20190310 7y ago
> The notion that music is at all a grid is just ... not true. Nevertheless you can still make some music with a grid.
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by human20190310 7y ago
The irony is that after building in a failsafe to mitigate the consequences of any surprise, the surprise is that the failsafe didn't work.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Concern about "unknown unknowns" tends to be characterized as unscientific.
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by human20190310 7y ago
The pressure on Lenovo, Google et al will never be sufficient to force them to change if people don't retaliate forcefully enough. If people don't react strongly, even to the point of temporarily damaging their own interests, comp
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by human20190310 7y ago
Toxic work environments and constant overtime are to be avoided at all costs. But in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley area at least, companies are absolutely burying inexperienced hires in money, so I don't think the salary issue
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by human20190310 7y ago
Being a fountain of knowledge, with practical application, is sufficient to make someone a great programmer. Carmack, Thompson, et al weren't simply great programmers; they were researchers and inventors.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I think this is a great example of the power of local authority. If there were a single set of (literally) global rules, then global-scale companies could roll out dubious innovations easily. However, if national or sub-national governments
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by human20190310 7y ago
> Show me anything revolutionary that was done by a group of people that weren't obsessed to the point of neglecting the rest of their life Watson and Crick didn't work very hard, but managed to infer the structure of DNA from
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by human20190310 7y ago
> Unless you know what you are doing, don't touch tools you don't understand. That approach makes sense for businesses that need to be risk-averse, e.g. self-driving cars. But in a "move fast/break things" operat
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by human20190310 7y ago
Flipping the table over isn't a new tactic. When Nixon was President, the US abandoned convertability of dollars into gold without consultation (the "Nixon Shock" of 1971), which makes leaving the postal union look like smal
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by human20190310 7y ago
I don't understand this story at all.
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's possible that the best performing startup fund will be one that invests in nothing, collects a fee, and returns the rest of the money later.
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by human20190310 7y ago
It's the musical equivalent of "not even wrong". It's not just that it lacks a human element, it's aggressively inhuman . It creeps me out like those jerky animatronic characters at Chuck-E-Cheese.
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by human20190310 7y ago
Few people can entirely avoid having to work for a living.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I like to leave at exactly 5pm.
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by human20190310 7y ago
> This point in particular is not even contentious as far as I can tell. If you want to fix the problem, the only way to do it is to relax zoning and permit regulations. This has already been proposed by Scott Wiener as SB50. It was opp
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by human20190310 7y ago
To expand the set of people suffering to include landlords and owners, instead of having own group of people benefiting from regulation (in the form of restricted supply) and another not. EDIT: to be clear, not suffering for its own sake, b
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by human20190310 7y ago
> So when over-regulation drives up the costs, the appropriate response is to introduce new regulations to fight the other regulations? Yes. The effort to reduce regulations on construction has failed. As such, retaliating against the
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by human20190310 7y ago
It hurts the owners who would be receiving the wealthy newcomers' money. It doesn't solve anything directly, but it's an attack on the prosperity of the people who are maintaining artificial restrictions on new construction.
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by human20190310 7y ago
There is no functioning market to begin with. Housing prices and rent are through the roof in California, yet supply is not rising to meet demand, largely because existing owners oppose new construction. Turnabout is fair play. If owners
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by human20190310 7y ago
> In that area the feel and impact of music can be altered while no one can pinpoint why. This has happened to me on many occasions. Having a part that needs to be in-the-pocket accidentally shifted (due to MIDI latency on weird gear or
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by human20190310 7y ago
No one gets to escape the real world.
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by human20190310 7y ago
I think you're confusing the real-world version of you that has to pay $20 per transaction with a hypothetical billionaire version of you. People moving large amounts of money around don't do 400,000 transactions at $20 a pop.
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by human20190310 7y ago
The Washington Post did a piece on the unusual handling of Epstein's case, e.g. having his case reviewed at the highest level of the Justice Department in an attempt to overrule the Miami prosecutors: https://www.washingtonp
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by human20190310 7y ago
> You think Epstein funding some research washes him of his past transgressions? No, but it helps him maintain his social standing, which was a key factor in the lenient sentence he got for his conviction. Connections were a form of ins
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by human20190310 7y ago
You are giving Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde short shrift.
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by human20190310 7y ago
If you can't opt out of it completely, that means that there is some socially-determined expectation as to how responsive you're going to be. Not everyone can unilaterally set their own level of responsiveness without a negative

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