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by jasmer 4y ago
Such a great point. I think one way to go about it is to just put the Agile bits inside a Waterfall. Which is frankly how it works anyhow. You can characterize early sprints at 'research'. Later the sprints are just 'sub proj
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Yes, of course, and the US has made other kinds of mistakes and will continue to. But mistakes and even directly supporing bad leaders are not inconsistent with the motivation for world order, because better alternatives are not always poss
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[1] State of California's guide on 'Conflict of Interest' which one will find that appointing one's partner/gf/bf/spouse to arbitrary positions would nominally be illegal. Note that this is the statement b
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by jasmer 4y ago
Kamala Harris used her relationship to obtain considerable power in a nakedly callous manner, it's a stark reality. Aside from the more vulgar elements, it's immoral and wold be illegal in most circumstances; it's just straig
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by jasmer 4y ago
No, this is not an issue of moral relativism. The Americans are the central power that keeps the world from falling into insane tyranny. The oceans, suez, panam, bosphorous, etc. are all open because of the US Navy (previously UK). And part
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by jasmer 4y ago
It's definitely not 'crony capitalist'. It's an authoritarian one-party system, now edging towards a bit of an ideological dictatorship. The crony capitalism is the second or third layer of power. The crony capitalists a
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by jasmer 4y ago
I suggest this is sexism here - and I'm generally the last person to call that kind of thing out, usually assuming goodwill. Specifically for implying that someone traded sex for a promotion, unless you have some legit data there. Mari
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by jasmer 4y ago
Yes, but it was a good HN type article anyhow. So valid clickbait. Like that croissant where you thought it was chocolate inside, but then wasn't, but then it was something good anyhow.
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by jasmer 4y ago
'almost all ideas are bad' This is not the way to look at it. 'Ideas' are too early to be judged as good or bad. Ideas are fodder, they are there to be moulded into things that are good or bad. Often ideas are just foils
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Retail has long needed a shake up in the face of Amazon.
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Tech is power, but how that power is distributed is not a given. We should not assume the power that tech creates just magically diffuses among the plebes. It's a interesting paradox that consumer surpluses are quite enormous: we live
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by jasmer 4y ago
I think you're a bit confused with the term 'strawman'. The entire nature of 'free speech without consequences' is about populist appeal to stupidity. The evidence exists in the fact that 30% of Americans believe th
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by jasmer 4y ago
You're going to use 'If they tell you to jump off of a cliff, would you do it?' arguments? Really? Are you suggesting that doctors don't have an institutiona legitimacy? Seriously? Hydroxicloroquine and Ivermectin? They
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by jasmer 4y ago
This comment belies a misunderstanding of institutions and human nature. The notion that the loudest and most populist voices that make ridiculous arguments and appeal to sentimentality - have anything to do with the 'truth' or an
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Love it! Is there a way we can accelerate this learning?
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Because it's not pragmatically useful, and the speculative nature of it attracts enormous amount of grifty/spammy types of money and people. There is a reason most of it offshore, there is a total lack of transparency etc..
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by jasmer 4y ago
I think 'Adaptive Algorithm's would be better. But he's missing something key: the ever elusive lure of true, AGI is like crack to the media. Watch how Altman and others in the press use that kind of language in small doses t
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by jasmer 4y ago
I don't think feeding those videos is a terribly hard engineering challenge for Engineers who are organized and are backed with the right financing. And who for one reason or another seem to be motivated to work almost 7 days a week. R
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by jasmer 4y ago
I understood your comment, I'm sorry to say that I don't think you have yet absorbed what 'productivity' is or how 'fractional reserve' banking works. Productivity isn't some adjective in your head that de
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by jasmer 4y ago
If there was a fixed supply of currency the deflationary thing would be #1 problem. Otherwise, the issue is the loss of regional monetary supply controls. People do not like their salaries changing in nominal terms - that causes riots, but
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by jasmer 4y ago
My gosh man, everyone lives somewhere where there is a 'local currency' and that local currency exists for good reason. If everyone in the world switched to BTC it would be a catastrophe worse than COVID. If you live outside of th
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by jasmer 4y ago
There is no such thing as a 'stable price'. That's the rub. I think what you mean is 'stable next to some other asset'. Like USD. Ok, but if they are marked to USD, and you want them to be marked to USD, you have to
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by jasmer 4y ago
There's a very different thing in hoping/misunderstanding the value of a creation (.com bubble) and doing things which have obviously zero-sum game characteristics. A lot of crypto is de-facto scammy and much of it is designed tha
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by jasmer 4y ago
I wonder if we need basic regs given that search is a public good, including best practices such as SE transparency. If they search you, they have to say something about the parameters and the results etc..
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by jasmer 4y ago
The delusion of efficient central planning is maybe one of the most poignant problems in civilization, because free markets are completely counter intuitive. The 'reading' that needs to be done here is Adam Smith. It is extremely
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by jasmer 4y ago
Landlords provide an economic service, in fact for most of them it's not just arbitrage. "It is inevitable that banks will eventually only loan for productive purposes." They will always lend to those who can pay them back wi
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by jasmer 4y ago
"Once understood, it is self-evident that banks are wholly responsible for asset bubbles. " No, it's not remotely. They are no more responsible than the counterparts to the loan. Every loan a bank makes comes with risks to th
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by jasmer 4y ago
Science is 80% discussion, opining, thinking, reading etc.
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by jasmer 4y ago
This is ok. 90% of research is creative thinking, dialogue. One idea creates the next, some are a foil, some are dead ends. As long as there are not outrageous claims being made for 'hard evidence' where there is none, it's f
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by jasmer 4y ago
The hardest challenge is knowing how much to integrate the correction. You can do some really magical things by laying on hard to the auto correct but it comes subtly at the cost of making some rare words really hard to type.

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