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by jfoutz 8y ago
Advertise schemas and accept functions over that schema.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
How are those contradictory? I get rid of my dictionary, my other books still work. I, personally, understand the shortcut. Do you want to not break stuff or educate consumers? One of those sounds really expensive. I mean, it’s a clever thr
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I haven’t looked in years, but the prices and regional modifications paid by Medicare were available. Check the docs for electronic submission. Maybe that’s been taken down? Always seemed like a reasonable place to start.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I never played marathon. Halo was amazing. I have no problems with the versions I played (1-3). Maybe Microsoft became a bad steward?
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by jfoutz 8y ago
It seems like you're leaving out a bit about information asymmetry. maybe multi billon dollar companies don't have any extra facts that aren't available to somebody in the 'gig economy' but this [1] keeps ringing a
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Are they? I don’t mean to be fussy, well maybe a little, but when you ask for something from Atlantis, and Atlantis responds, is that interaction at your place? Is it in Atlantis? Some weird combination of the two? I don’t outright disagree
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Use a knuckle. I have a similar problem. Works ok.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
There are a few. The AA advertisement up in the air, the counterfeiter catch me if you can, and Sophia copala’s lost in translation all spring to mind. Not smashing successes, but sort of light stories about nothing when nothing happens. Ge
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Yes. Yes it would. But comparing against baby aspirin might be worthwhile. There is some (safe?) effect beyond sugar pills. Remember, the patients don’t know each other, and don’t compare symptoms. Hopefully.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
200 billion is a lot, but something in the ballpark of just 7%. [1] I agree, it’s hard to measure, but do you think those estimates are more than 3% off? Best case, eliminating all drug research saves you 10%. Although if costs in other are
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by jfoutz 8y ago
i was under the impression welfare was umbrella term for disability, unemployment insurance, food stamps, medicaid, and other stuff like that. I think rconti means unemployment insurance/assistance in this case. (if anybody else is a b
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by jfoutz 8y ago
The jvm is really nice. Operationaly, it’s kind of a pain. You can upgrade the installation on bare metal, you can play the packer game and ship new vms, or you can have crazy fat docker containers. K8s can sort of deal with the vm model, b
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by jfoutz 8y ago
This is a great article worth reading. I found myself walking around my apartment having a conversation with my imaginary version of the author. There are at least four points that i would quibble over. That said, i like the analysis. In sp
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by jfoutz 8y ago
This is super neat! i'd encourage anyone who liked this to check out dybvig's thesis[1] - super readable. It's neat to see how you can cleave the runtime system and compile time system. The first two chapters, at least, are
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by jfoutz 8y ago
microsoft in the 90's would relentlessly execute. Word and excel spring to mind, but really hundreds of little software shops woke up to discover their product was now a windows or office feature. Think instagram eating snap, but for l
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Did you get that backwards? Also, this map looks a lot like a population density map - it’s great housing is cheap in Nebraska. But there’s just not many people there. I would say Pennsylvania and Ohio might be worth looking at though. >
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by jfoutz 8y ago
It’s hard to explain “from scratch”. A blind person can certainly perform the task. But, uh, how do you translate the image to something sensible? Heck, I’d bet high school kids that have never seen the ocean could be fooled often with imag
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by jfoutz 8y ago
You might wait for a few flights over an empty field first though.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Because money. This is restaurant expansion 101. In this specific case a large sophisticated organization may be exploiting an unsophisticated organization, but really this is standard operating procedure for any franchise.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
There is an eaisier question. Is it better to have more ambulances or faster ambulances. Faster wins every time. Analogy is a terrible argument. But I kinda think faster transportation beats more transportation every single time.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Corruption is a thing. The specific organizational model really doesn’t seem to matter much. In a game theoretic sense, I think the only option is to make whistleblowing optimal. I like rules. Weird shadow rules that aren’t written down mak
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by jfoutz 8y ago
There are of course extraordinary cases. There is that last tiny fraction of survivors. But really, falling sucks. There is a reason working in solar is more deadly than working in nuclear. And the reason is occasionally an installer falls
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by jfoutz 8y ago
So, fuck pg&e. I’m not a fan. That said, this isn’t quite burned down a house, which they should absolutely be on the hook for, this is the whole city burned down. There is sort of a structural responsibility to limit blast radius of ba
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by jfoutz 8y ago
On the other hand, if you don’t build something with it, it’s hard to tell when to apply the tool. I personally have to build some things that turn out to be the wrong approach so I really understand how to build the right thing later. Some
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by jfoutz 8y ago
There is also the point of familiarity. Those old cli apps were hard to learn but crazy fast. I recall much grumbling about replacing good, but hard to use tools with web pages back in the 90s. If someone spends a decade getting good at a s
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by jfoutz 8y ago
There was also a world wide depression. I kinda think that paying the minimum possible attracts low quality workers, which is ok, but sub optimal. Making the pay competitive, like it was then, might reduce the total cost.
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I read a neat criticism of ai techniques. The author pointed out humans can pick out a strong signal as well or better than ai. Humans could pick out signal from an array of weak sources. Ai would identify that case with fewer weak signals
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Not exactly the same thing, but I found breath of the wild 100%speedruns pretty calming and engaging. Mostly link running. Occasional intense battles. Every 15 min or so, you see something really clever. I know it’s not quite the same thing
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by jfoutz 8y ago
Inbox was a tragedy. It’s very effective at separating stuff I care about from stupid junk. Unfortunately it greatly reduced the time I spent looking at email. Fantastic for me, awful for ad impressions. The new gmail is ok I guess. It’s no
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by jfoutz 8y ago
I always thought this kind of stuff would be the killer app for machine learning. Products slowly drift out of tolerance, and the ml applies corrections to get back into tolerance. Apparently there’s just not enough data to respond well.

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