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by jib 11y ago
I commute for about 1.5h each way. About 40 or so of those is biking, the rest on a bus with wifi. The bike part is exercise I would have needed to do anyway. The bus part is either working, or reading things I would read anyway. Sure, I wo
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by jib 11y ago
Honestly, lack of exercise probably shortens life spans by a lot more than what high impact sports does. We can't ban everything. We can make things safer.
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by jib 11y ago
I think it would be a worse game. :) I used to play an ok amount of bridge. I enjoyed trying unusual systems, but playing against them were less fun. Sure you can play some advanced relay system, but even with open information about the sys
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by jib 11y ago
Like the article mentioned, this is how (some) bridge tournaments have been played for a long time for what its worth. Not in separate rooms, but with a screen in the middle hiding your partner. http://www.bridgehands.com/S&
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by jib 11y ago
Bridge is two games combined into one. The bidding is a game that you can describe something like: "Using an open channel, and an open communication protocol, communicate hidden resources in a precise enough way to mutually agree on wh
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by jib 11y ago
You can also niche your space. Hoogle would be an example of that. If you know the searcher cares about Haskell functions only I imagine you can beat Google in that space. That solution probably expands to other interest spheres.
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by jib 11y ago
It is though. Search is about providing the highest likelihood of the desired result, not matching words, at least in one value space. If most people searching for "goat" want to know what the word means in slang, that should be t
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by jib 11y ago
99% of all houses are secured worse than any online account would be my counterargument, while holding items of much higher value, relatively. Give me 15s with a crowbar and I will be able to enter almost any house. Crowbars are like 10 dol
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by jib 11y ago
I think it is more about two things. 1. Learn to flex across roles 2. Be specific about roles in a project/team/task Sometimes you need a bunch of strong dudes working together on something. When you do, it is extra important to b
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by jib 11y ago
Or to think that it doesn't matter what happens externally. Aurelius says something like "How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised by anything that happens in life." As in, why would external events matter or be a surpr
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by jib 11y ago
I think it depends on the product. There are times that I want a Swiss knife. The office suite is a good Swiss knife for me, I want it to do a bunch of stuff ok, I don't want it to be the best layout tool, or presentation builder, or e
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by jib 11y ago
Sometimes you can know the likelihood. It's not a nihilistic hole that you throw things at and see what sticks. Stuff that people go out of their way to do, even though it isn't supported is a good clue. Stuff that someone keeps r
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by jib 11y ago
Inventory is waste. It is one of the most insidious kinds of waste since it feels productive generating it. In reality it is waste. It being waste doesn't mean you dont need it - that's how waste builds up: you create stuff in cas
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by jib 11y ago
I'm not sold on density. I think improving rural logistics is more key. Make more land attractive rather than making more use of current land. That is logistics both for people, data, and goods.
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by jib 11y ago
Synchronised frequencies sounds bad. You want non-synchronised to avoid amplification and ensure error correction, surely? If you have just one temporary bottle neck screwing up the relative distance, causing a capacity shortage down the li
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by jib 11y ago
France, the US, among others. First thing I got when I moved to France (admittedly 12 years ago) was a checkbook. Hadn't heard of them since the 80s in Sweden.
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by jib 11y ago
I am 70% e-books in the last three years or so. A quick count gives ~200 books in my kindle library, and I dont think I've bought more than 100 paper books in the same time frame. Paper books are mostly read and dispose of for me anywa
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by jib 11y ago
Greece has consistently received at least 2% net of their GNI each year in subsidies from EU since 2000. This is investment in Greece with EU fees removed. (EL is Greece in the data below). Germany consistently operated at a net deficit of
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by jib 11y ago
Not really, to me. There are (in my experience) very few companies where you have one genius spending most his time making decisions and a bunch of minions just implementing those genius decisions. If I was to estimate I would say that for
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by jib 11y ago
Yep. "Assuming the initial odds are right, these guys may have cheated". That's one hell of an assumption. The odds moving is one of the strongest indicators of the initial odds not being right. Market efficiency etc.
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by jib 11y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme The houses themselves are pretty good actually, but sadly due to where they are and the amount of them many have become undesirable neighbourhoods.
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by jib 11y ago
Uber gets to use a massive amount of physical assets without any investment in those assets. I imagine their future with automation is the same. No way they want to buy their own fleets of cars, they will just let you lend them your car wh
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by jib 11y ago
Mail. In the area I worked there was one apartment area with letterboxes at the door and about 20 areas with the mailbox in the doors of the apartments. Sweden built a ton of housing (the goal was a million apartments in 10 years or so) bac
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by jib 11y ago
Volume is predictable but not the same. Mail volume varies easily by a factor 3-4 between days. The cause would be high volume things would be things like utility bills that usually go to everyone inside an area on the same day or within a
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by jib 11y ago
I was a mailman in Sweden for about 3 years in the early 2000s. One year full time, temping while doing uni for another two. Full time employees were salaried, with 8h work day averaged over a month. When work was done, you went home. If yo
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by jib 11y ago
Spolsky quoted someone saying "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement." I feel like there is room for an analogous quote about using the Poisson distribution compared to capacity reasoning.
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by jib 11y ago
So - real life example where I personally would have benefited from wearable screens. In another life I was a mailman using a bike. To do that efficiently you steer the bike with one hand, keep the mail on a tray in front of the bike and de
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by jib 11y ago
Getting mobility right is a big step forward. The intermediary steps are not so financially rewarding or even interesting, but the end game is significant. Durable, flexible screens allow a whole series of new technology. Off the top of my
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by jib 11y ago
Yes they do. People are people at the end of the day - they will focus some of the time on the stuff they think is important/fun. CEOs/presidents have even a larger amount of individual influence on what they do, as the roles are
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by jib 11y ago
It is well established that the extended civil records of the Netherlands in the 30s contributed to the high rates of mass murder in the Netherlands compared to other countries with less developed systems. This is a real life example of whe

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