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by jacobr1 5y ago
I suspect the catalyst has been the media tour for the book, "The Joy of Sweat." It has been getting outsized press and I think a lot of knock-on related content on smell in general. But this is just wild speculation on my part.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
This is still the case for plenty of websites. Searching google with "site:example.com search terms" often still gives better results than using a site's own search tool.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Isn't the stated intent of most censorship to protect from harm?
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Both scenarios can be true. FB could be at the forefront of AR/VR with Oculus and maybe related things like Identity. And on the social network side, they could be a in a slow decline. My bet is something more akin to AOL/Yahoo ra
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The problem with most these malthusian style analyses is a presumption of a first-order system within their models. Human society is more able to adapt than deer herds, between both social changes and technology with second and third order
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by jacobr1 5y ago
That was an error, thanks for pointing it out.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
There are different scales though. It is very hard to turn a $50M investment into a $500M exit. That requires chasing unicorns. But you can find many more opportunities to turn a $1M investment into a $10M return. Same 10x factor, very diff
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by jacobr1 5y ago
This is why Qt or Flutter are interesting.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The article advocate for long-polling
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The distinction is the belief that there is no intended meaning beyond the literal meaning.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I can highly recommend "Legal Systems Very Different from Ours" by David Friedman http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo... It includes a few chapters on religion-based legal systems and
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Sure, many of these ideas have been floating around for a while. That said, I stand by the claim that you can draw a causal line from the publishing of the Netflix culture deck and the widespread adoption of "Unlimited PTO" for ex
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The answer seems to be that we should tax capital gains and income at the same level. This would disincentive investment on the margin, but it seems like it might be the better tradeoff. Alternatively you can go the other rough and tax cons
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Which is why this thinking morphs from sales-tax to VAT, so it captures the revenue across the supply-chain.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
For the same reason though, complementary goods don't necessarily have the same tax burden or margins. So the distribution of purchases might shift. Restaurant-goers might just eat at home more, or maybe even just go out to more expens
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The classic offshore approach is that Apple USA doesn't make any profit because they find a way to make the accounting work such that Apple Ireland actually made the profit. It only becomes income or dividends when it gets transferred
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Expensify has a really good scanner and sync-to-CC data system. I have only ever used it as an employee, but my understanding is that it has good backends synchronization with a variety of accounting packages.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Netflix was the first SV company to articulate all these ideas (more or less) coherently. They are now pretty common, especially the no-specific-PTO policy. This is kind of like the "Seinfeld isn't funny" trope. You may or ma
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by jacobr1 5y ago
... and look at all the PRs that are not being merged. He should disable them.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I've also seen advancement as a cover for "unfair advancement of others." Which is sometimes the trigger for leaving: "why did they get the promotion when I have been-here-longer/work-harder/do-better-work?&quo
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Yep, but there are price points where it starts being worth costs. If you want to hire a team of 10 engineers (mix of junior/mid/senior) at an average FTE cost of $150k and are struggling to do it in the US, and could probably mak
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by jacobr1 5y ago
This is the power of the price system and markets. If there is increased demand, with limited supply, prices rise. This, in turn, incentivizes the creation of supply (and supply of substitutes to the extant that is feasible). For your examp
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Access to capital? The small business loan system could be modernized to support a wider variety of businesses, could incorporate grants, could be more generous - especially if we wanted to advantage certain groups - like first time entrepr
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by jacobr1 5y ago
And yet that same sort of "village culture" of adults in a neighborhood looking after the kids collectively was very common in America throughout much of its history; co-occurring with individualism.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> Or I guess maybe I'd want to attest that the signing service is what I expect? Exactly. If you have a threat-model where you want to limit access to your secrets from a limited code path, you need to attest that only specific, sig
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Also, even for the people doing the work overloading communications to include not just tracking/assigning work, but also describing the requirements or details
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Even presuming that the act was worthy of censure, and an apology sincere, forgiveness can't really be given until some sort of restorative action is taken. Words, even sincere words, can't provide recompense. Of course, most thes
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by jacobr1 5y ago
That is fair, it is less commonly advocated. And further, as a political matter, I don't think social security is going anywhere even with UBI. But just from a cost standpoint, it seems unlikely that we could actually afford a UBI woul
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I presume that if we had a UBI, then we wouldn't also have social security (or social security would be a smaller layer on top of SS). If that is the case, then my point was that we can ignore the individuals currently receiving SS whe
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by jacobr1 5y ago
That dynamic only really works when the supply is fixed. Many places don't restrict the supply of building more, or denser, homes the way the big coastal cities foolishly prefer. As demand and prices rise, supply will to rise to meet i

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