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by isamuel 5y ago
Let’s go ahead and caption this comment “On The Cusp of a Revelation (2021)”
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by isamuel 5y ago
In America, the federal child pornography law applies only to depictions of an actual child (and you have to know it, for possession offenses, though that’s another matter). But the Justice Department has long taken the position that an ima
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by isamuel 5y ago
The article argues that Apple is "antifragile" > thanks to a diverse mix of strong products. That is not quite correct. That is robustness: it means the company can endure stressors in a variety of ways. (Other commenters have
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by isamuel 5y ago
As a bookmark I can point to later, I want this on record: This kid's going to the moon.
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by isamuel 6y ago
You can do both. Usually, nails go along the outside and screws in the "field," but I'll confess that it's been 30 years since I helped my dad do it (I was a big help, I'm sure) so perhaps the state of the art has c
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by isamuel 6y ago
This is a better way of putting the point I was inelegantly grasping at. The neighbor kid is just an industrious kid---they happen to be nailing up drywall, but it's not that nailing up the drywall is why they end up running Berkshir
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by isamuel 6y ago
All of the people on this list are "software engineers" in the sense that they have some rudimentary education in the field. Almost none of them could get a job as a software engineer at their own company, if they had to, becaus
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by isamuel 6y ago
There is no empirical evidence that can "validate" a normative claim, except to the extent that such claims rely on empirical priors. You can't squeeze an "ought" from an "is," literally by definition. The
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by isamuel 6y ago
Seuss had a lot of weird ideas. Any literary executor worth his salt would find a way to preserve the value of the literary estate by limiting distribution of the weird shit. Imagine that: a great guy had some bad books, which ought to prob
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by isamuel 6y ago
The only correct points in here are 3 and 4 but they’re said in a really roundabout way. You don’t sell “time” for money. You sell labor. To do that you need a buyer. Most buyers purchase in bulk, and in many fields, want “requirements agre
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by isamuel 6y ago
Any firm with a truly valuable product could buy the patent (or at minimum, a license). This is basically Coase Theorem 101. At this scale, transaction costs are not significant and so the property right will end up allocated to the most ef
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by isamuel 7y ago
This sounds entirely right. Because I also have a recollection of that party room in the clouds. Actually, it's further refreshing my recollection---I think the main area was called "the Sprawl" or something like that? Maybe
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by isamuel 7y ago
I spent an enormous amount of time on "Snow Crash", a MOO that I think was similar and was popular around the same time. This was in the middle or late 90s. The world was incredibly rich---everything in it was an object that was p
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by isamuel 7y ago
Personally? I think the best length is "short." More seriously, this study is selecting on the dependent variable. No good.
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by isamuel 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by isamuel 11y ago
The Lavabit case was decided on entirely procedural grounds—the Fourth Circuit never said that it was OK to compel the disclosure of the SSL keys, only that Lavabit had waived its objections in the district court (at which stage Lavabit was
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by isamuel 12y ago
It's not even criminal to possess material, non-public information and trade on it. It's only illegal (at least in the United States) if the insider gives you the information in exchange for some tangible benefit, and then you tra
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by isamuel 12y ago
Bone broth is really good, and it's also very easy to make if you aren't a New Yorker or don't want to pay $4 for a small cup. Put a bunch of bones in the slow cooker; add some water and vinegar; let 'er rip. That's
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by isamuel 12y ago
I've found Safari's credit card auto-fill to be remarkably good. To a first approximation, I never type my credit card information anymore—and when I do, I'm willing to blame the website designer for doing some goofy thing to
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by isamuel 12y ago
The iPhone 6 has both a secure enclave, for Touch ID, and a secure element. "Every time you hand over your credit or debit card to pay, your card number and identity are visible. With Apple Pay, instead of using your actual credit an
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by isamuel 12y ago
NYU's law school has been an elite institution for some time. The same is true of the philosophy and Italian studies departments.
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by isamuel 12y ago
It's a reasonable question, and it's one of the things about airline status that I actually value a lot, so here's an attempt to answer it. First, if you have carry-on luggage and the flight is full, this guarantees you acces
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by isamuel 12y ago
I wonder how this counts third-party clients; does a download by Tweetbot count as an "impression?"
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by isamuel 12y ago
I've been looking forward to this and was planning on a day one purchase, so I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that there's even more here than I expected. Things like Smart Speed and Voice Boost are features I haven't s
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by isamuel 12y ago
What in the world makes you think Time Warner would sell HBO to Apple?
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by isamuel 12y ago
The actual notice of proposed rulemaking (or "NPRM," as ad-law nerds call it): http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-14-61A... I haven't read it in full yet, but I've read the i
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by isamuel 12y ago
I think you're stating their point accurately. But what I mean is that in the usual case, the value of 1,000,000 shares is actually greater than 1,000,000 x (price of one share), because you're getting something more with those mi
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by isamuel 12y ago
Usually, you pay a premium for large equity stakes, because they come with more practical control. (Witness every tender offer takeover ever.) The other two points are more convincing, however.
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by isamuel 13y ago
Good on you. I think you're on the right side of history.
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by isamuel 13y ago
This is a great demonstration of a feature I didn't know existed—using Dropbox to save application-level data. I'm sure I'm just behind the curve, but there are probably a lot of us back here. Nice move, DB.

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