jonfw

65 ms·

811.
by jonfw 7y ago
What's funny is that 10-15 years ago, apple was making the most approachable, softest computers in the game. My brother's old 2007 macbook is sitting nearby right now, and it's in all white with the rounded corners and it fee
812.
by jonfw 7y ago
This is really clever. It's a very robust way of introducing artificial friction to mode switching
813.
by jonfw 7y ago
> “Eliminate things from your life that don’t bring you joy and happiness.” The key here is to have a long-term view of this. Obviously this doesn't mean to disown your relationships with anybody who didn't bring you joy this w
814.
by jonfw 7y ago
I guess you and I have different ideas about SV company values! I think that SV has very lax attitudes on censorship and data collection, and frankly I think that some of these companies practices would be much better accepted by the ruling
815.
by jonfw 7y ago
This is a fair criticism, but attacking his credibility is irrelevant. He had no credbility to start with, this is an anonymous forum and nobody knows who that guy is. A strong counter here would include a counter-argument, and ideally even
816.
by jonfw 7y ago
If you have reason to believe that the insurance industry is colluding to artificially inflate prices, that's a criminal accusation. If you want to make criminal accusations you start with evidence. In my view, the insurance industry l
817.
by jonfw 7y ago
Your model sucks if you are arbitrarily choosing factors. You choose the factors with the most significant correlations, because those correlations are least likely to be "overly simplistic". Why would we reject that zip codes are
818.
by jonfw 7y ago
It's not illegal to be a male, and my insurance premium still raises because of it. It's the job of the insurance company to accurately assess risk and charge me that plus their margin. If the companies can more accurately assess
819.
by jonfw 7y ago
This is like if I portion out my income and say "money from gig A goes to bills, money from gig B goes to savings" At the end of the day if bills get bigger I can always pull money from gig B because I own the income stream. Just
820.
by jonfw 7y ago
This is assuming that auto insurance isn't a competiitve industry. If a company attempts to raise rates because of a trend that doesn't actually exist, they will inevitably not be competitive with companies that recognize that the
821.
by jonfw 7y ago
> payroll taxes don't fund those It's kind of silly to make the distinction between which taxes fund which programs. It's completely arbitrary. Dollar bills are dollar bills
822.
by jonfw 7y ago
They're doing it because their current business model will no longer be legal and they now have to optimize to a new set of laws. They aren't doing this to be more efficient, this will be less efficient than their existing system.
823.
by jonfw 7y ago
> Punitive insurance rates based on unreasonable inferences, especially for mandatory insurances. Like say doubling your auto insurance rate for buying more than a few beers per week. Or your health insurance going up from buying a power
824.
by jonfw 7y ago
I don't think that limiting the photography or the means of the data collection is the solution. The law is going to have to apply post-mining. In my opinion, we need to start treating data about users as intellectual property. General
825.
by jonfw 7y ago
A good whiteboard interview doesn't require much outside of basic syntax/data structures, and will offer some form of help along the way (often in the form of a somewhat helpful interviewer).
826.
by jonfw 7y ago
The context of the discussion was whether or not bribery should be illegal, I think it was already generally accepted that bribery is a problem that exists. I didn't personally see the relevance of your initial comment. > It made he
827.
by jonfw 7y ago
A really simple CA model would solve this perfectly. In practice it's centralized and "just works" for most people, but it is decentralized in nature and allows you to switch authorities at will.
828.
by jonfw 7y ago
> barring any other activity with greater utility I can think of a number of activities that would provide greater utility than attemting to impregnate as many women as possible. I'm not a pure utilitarian and I see a distinction be
829.
by jonfw 7y ago
It is recklessly ignorant to compare ownership of animals to humans
830.
by jonfw 7y ago
The primary motivation to our livestock farming is certainly the utility, not some sort of ethical imperative. My argument isn't that it's virtuous to farm livestock, my argument is just that it isn't unethical.
831.
by jonfw 7y ago
I certainly agree that there can be a lot of utility in abortions. Frankly that's the major reason why I don't support abortion legislation. I am somewhat a utilitarian and I understand that there are instances where the utility m
832.
by jonfw 7y ago
Just because I don't think it's unethical to produce life in that circumstance, doesn't mean that I think it's your ethical imperative to produce life. Things don't go immediately from unethical to a moral imperativ
833.
by jonfw 7y ago
I believe abortion is generally immoral, but I also believe that my opinion is not important and should not dictate public policy. And when I say generally immoral, it obviously becomes nuanced when rape or young age is involved.
834.
by jonfw 7y ago
I'm not much of a philsopher, but if you're at all interested in the other side of thinking I would suggest Viktor Frankl. He was a jewish person in a nazi concentration camp and he make a much stronger argument than I can for thi
835.
by jonfw 7y ago
Obviously if nothing is illegal than we don't need "authoritarian money laundering laws". But I'm sure we can agree on at least some things that should be illegal. Should hitmen be able to launder money? And I need to po
836.
by jonfw 7y ago
Personally, I would accept any form of life before I chose not to exist at all, because I view life itself as a blessing. I understand that this isn't a philosophy that I share with everybody but you should still be respectful of it. J
837.
by jonfw 7y ago
Would you agree that money laundering is an issue when politicians have to conceal bribery?
838.
by jonfw 7y ago
People aren't going to start keeping the equivalent numbers of livestock as pets. If factory farmed animals fall out of fashion, most of these animals will all die without reproducing and their bloodlines will cease to exist. I agree t
839.
by jonfw 7y ago
People use credit cards for almost everything because cashback is free money and so are 0% interest introductory period. You act like credit cards are for the financially irresponsible, but IMO it's almost financially irresponsible to
840.
by jonfw 7y ago
I have a diverse array of interests. In terms of technology interests I would be at home in San Francisco it seems, but I also love off-roading and shooting guns and all of that.

More ›