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by jgust 6y ago
IANA neuroscientist but I suspect it's a measurement problem. The structures of the brain are microscopic and enormous in scale, so how do you capture all that data and make sense of it?
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by jgust 6y ago
Do you have an account with every gas station that you use? Grocery store? Restaurant? There's some tech bias to this line of thinking.
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by jgust 6y ago
The quote is referring to the concept of pre-ordering a game.
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by jgust 6y ago
> I don't think it's fair to blame this on gamers That's sort of what I'm alluding to. Personal responsibility doesn't work when you need collective action, so something else needs to step in to fix this. Remindi
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by jgust 6y ago
It's a tragedy of the commons situation with gamer enthusiasts acting against their own best interest. If people can't delay gratification for something as inconsequential as "non-broken video games", I don't see ho
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by jgust 6y ago
^ Found the person who microwaves 3 day old fish in the break room.
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by jgust 6y ago
Another bonus is that I bet you can ask the people working the market and they'd be more than happy to explain what is in season and when!
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by jgust 6y ago
Real life example of living inside a local maxima.
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by jgust 6y ago
Throwing out a prediction: If the Biden/Harris ticket wins in 2020 and Trump is charged with anything, expect a pardon from the president. People will rage for a bit, get tired, run out of attention span, and move on to the next contro
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by jgust 6y ago
With the ease and prevalence of identity theft these days, it seems almost trivial to do for any determined actor.
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by jgust 6y ago
See: classic cars. Most cars from the 60's-80's are objectively _bad_, but there's something interesting about driving and maintaining them.
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by jgust 6y ago
This, exactly. All complaints about JIRA boil down to poor administration, not the tool itself.
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by jgust 6y ago
This is like the Overton window of phone sizes. Customer: "We like small form factors, like the SE" Apple: "Here's a 'small' phone, it's the new SE" Customer: "Didn't you just make the other
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by jgust 7y ago
As any reasonable, educated consumer would be. I would like to know if a McMaster-Carr, Grainger, et al had fallen into the same traps Amazon has when it comes to supply chain and if eventually Amazon will be shaped into a similar company &
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by jgust 7y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion that Amazon is re-solving problems that traditional supply chain companies like McMaster-Carr solved 1-2 decades ago. It would be fascinating to read a case study comparing the two.
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by jgust 7y ago
> plenty of business owners who would prefer the stabler "lifestyle business" Is there an opportunity for a new VC or hedge fund to come through and suck up already profitable businesses and ween technology companies off this &
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by jgust 7y ago
Absolutely. Use the right tool for the job, etc.
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by jgust 7y ago
Or you know, knobs and buttons which don't require any user on-boarding or discovery process.
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by jgust 7y ago
yes
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by jgust 7y ago
> trying to maximize profits for their employers > What specifically are you going to punish management for? Maybe punish them for their myopic view on "maximizing profits"? What's worth more: $100 in profit in Q1, or $
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by jgust 7y ago
Let me do some digging and see if there is anything internal I can share. If not, the airbnb engineering blog has some good articles on this approach: https://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/
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by jgust 7y ago
I see teams who are investing in "design systems" approaching this operation model. They're codifying the design language, teaching their applications to consume this language, and then making changes to subsections of the de
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by jgust 7y ago
I compare this to two global software teams, 1 in country x the other in country y, who both have the identical charter to massage bits and bytes into a certain shape. Team 1 believes in "The Best Function" approach, and team 2 be
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by jgust 7y ago
Buried underneath this discussion is a lesson in incentives.
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by jgust 7y ago
Destroy your cell phone, delete your internet accounts, and only use cash.
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by jgust 7y ago
> Once we know the actual cause I suspect we’ll see research funds skyrocket I agree with your hypothesis, but saying it out loud seems backwards. In an ideal world, wouldn't we see research funds rise now in order to discover the c
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by jgust 7y ago
This is the answer, but it opens up another line of questioning: do we force people to live in dense urban areas? Sometimes I wonder if pro mass-transit commenters (I'm pro mass transit, FWIW) have ever lived outside of a major metro.
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by jgust 7y ago
> Finally, wildfires don't support life Not entirely true. Forest fires and prairie fires are a part of some plant lifecycles. https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyr...
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by jgust 7y ago
Political land grabs for the "new hotness".
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by jgust 7y ago
Male here. CS courses were _not accessible_ to those without prior experience, male or female, full stop. That issue was compounded by having to use the IDEs and tooling available to us 10+ years ago. It wasn't until the last year of m

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