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by johbjo 6y ago
> Calcifediol becomes active more quickly than cholecalciferol, enough so that if I were in the business of defending the Spanish study I might argue that it takes a few weeks for cholecalciferol to work, so giving it to someone who will
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by johbjo 6y ago
The crashed bike at 0:29 looks like a Honda CBR 400RR NC29, from 1990, as best I can find out.
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by johbjo 6y ago
It sounds like the new teammates are too comfortable if their current learning rate is 2-4 years. That number could also be an overestimation, which reinforces the relative rank in the team. This points to another "field of tension&quo
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by johbjo 6y ago
How does it do differential updates if everything is encrypted? It would mean the server needs to keep an eternal log of operations, and each client must replay the log to perform a full sync. This works with lightweight data like contacts
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The "more expensive" goods and services are not relocatable, or otherwise have special limitations on supply. College textbooks, for example, are priced monopolistically to maximize revenue as opposed to quantity. Housing is price
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by johbjo 6y ago
> How is Matrix a threat to Google? A matrix user identity will eventually compete with a google account. When google accounts are considered as important as myspace accounts, then much of their surveillance loses relevance.
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by johbjo 6y ago
> The time value of money can be negative The time value is positive by definition, unless you somehow get penalized by having money in the future. Inflation and purchasing power is a separate phenomenon. Negative interest rates is entir
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by johbjo 6y ago
Seems disingenuous. Looking at the their data (p. 13), it does not look like a linear trend. There are two obvious change points; 1450 where rates dropped around 5%, and then 1680 it dropped 5%. Without the extreme outliers in 1905 and 1930
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by johbjo 6y ago
> Assuming that votes represent general quality Maybe but if we let voting/karma/moderation be "perspectives" of the content rather than lossy filters, then it won't matter much. > you need to choose who'
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by johbjo 6y ago
The reason Reddit is a better user experience than usenet is 1) voting on posts and karma, and 2) continually polished user interface. Design a decentralized protocol that can handle voting/karma, while also incentivising developers of
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by johbjo 6y ago
Since marginal cost is essentially zero in software, productivity as measured in revenue per head is not really relevant. The business climate might just be better in the US.
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A "placebo surgery", if it involves incisions to the point of being indistinguishable to the patient, isn't really a placebo since it will still require healing and recovery.
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Managers in US software companies base their seniority on experience in software engineering. Up-valuing software engineers also up-values their own position. Most large employers of engineers in Europe are rather old industrial companies.
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Profit-per-employee is not really meaningful for comparison since very few European companies are pure software, and therefore have cost structures involving much more than salaries. Relatively few employees are software engineers in Volksw
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The markets might be more competitive, which means less profits.
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He believes he is paid what he "deserves". He /should/ be paid commensurate with the value he produces. In reality, he is paid the market rate.
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> Why not (partly) you? The short answer is that he is replaceable, while the owners are not.
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> No one would like to take a risk unless it's absolutely necessary. It's mostly a rational calculation. Because of crab mentality and stigma of failure, the downside is worse in Europe. The expected value of risk is lower than
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by johbjo 6y ago
Somehow, we need the mindsets of Zara and H&M inside VW, Mercedes etc. These have been different universes.
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I'm probably using boomer to refer generally to "stale mindsets". But the current state is the result of sequences of decisions made in the preceding twenty years. Until it was literally demonstrated by Apple, they entirely d
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Apple and Huawei are very recent phenomenons in Europe. GSM, and today's mobile networks, are essentially products of subsidized European national telcoms. The problem is rather that Europeans have historically been ineffective or slow
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Algorithms would try to maximize expected value. As far as I can tell, here it seems humans value choices over expected value. In other words, humans pay for the perception of freedom.
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by johbjo 6y ago
A vaccine prepares the immune system for the virus. It does not completely prevent infection or exposure. The infection is just so inconsequential that it's unnoticeable.
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Early Google used commodity hardware to the point of being comical. Somewhere there is a "historical" display of commodity motherboards spread out on cork trays in a rack. Maximizing density/minimizing cost. The ability to sc
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by johbjo 6y ago
Wikipedia makes a point that contributions do not correspond to rank. It seems the article addresses typical ways in which people come in conflict with this. Most workplaces make the rank ladder part of the incentive structure. Usually, the
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Procedures don't have arrays/structs/classes/objects. This means they can't share data unless through parameters. Polymorphism is possible, but not really encapsulation. One could argue that arrays/objects woul
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There can be many databases. They can be running in parallel with the same SQL inputs. You can have provisions for this in your middle ware, but there is also stuff for this in the db replication. Replaying SQL logs on test instances. It is
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Money is not an issue at all. It's about protecting the perception of quality that comes from having Google co-authors, and ultimately the Google brand. Otherwise, everyone and their mother would milk the Google name by submitting pape
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The walled gardens are using polished UIs and free hosting to win over open alternatives, and both of these costs money. From users' perspective, it's free and convenient. To break these, we need technology and infrastructure that
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A doctor treating a patient is not a scientist. Neither is an academic economist that passively permits government officials to lie using scientific language. The issue here is not the lying. The issue is the status of economics as a scienc

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