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I'd go further and bet that those "impact" metrics likely came from a spreadsheet pusher like Schmidt. Schmidt still takes the gold medal in my estimate for destroying a company he ran by not understanding how the business ac
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Back when Andreessen Horowitz was investing heavily in ICOs I realized that their business was essentially offering their LPs legal access to the ground floor of scams. Every time one of the ICOs turned out to be a fraud they could say &quo
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Firstly, the entire port of insurance is to spread risk. If the the market for insurance is "too efficient" at determining who is high-risk and who is not, then it is no longer fulfilling its social function. Secondly, you seem to
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I'm sometimes reminded of a parable of an old lady who swallowed a fly...
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The problem is that stack ranking rewards the political actors and not people who heads down focus on their work. This is especially true when the organization has already been taken over by the parasites. I think Boeing needs to immediatel
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Honestly they're probably trying to get ahead of anti-trust, in a twisted way. Basically Apple has been caught being willing to negotiate with big app developers like spotify and applying the 30 percent fee to smaller developers while
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I have an interest in metal boats. I read a book written in the 1970s by a British author who went to the netherlands to get up-to-date on the best metal boatbuilding methods used by the world's experts. He enthusiastically championed
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Closed cell foam will trap moisture underneath it. When sprayed on wood which is naturally moist that water will have nowhere to go. Any delaminations of the foam from the substrate will form pockets where wet will concentrate, and as the f
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I have an interest in metal boats and in the 70s-80s it was common to spray foam these vessels. This pretty much always caused premature end of life due to corrosion. There's a whole class of corrosion in metal structures called Corros
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Hillary's emails was more about the Presidential Records Act than FOIA. PRA requires documents of the president, vice president and their staff to be kept forever. It was enacted because of efforts by Nixon to destroy information. Usin
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This is some impressive mental gymnastics in support of not holding powerful people to account. Are you a Stanford ethics professor?
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My perfect example of the failure of our industry to maintain any professional standards is the widespread use of YAML. This is used as a configuration and data exchange format despite having no formal definition, resulting in different res
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They've moved on to offshoring.
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Not really spread like a virus but rather imposed from above. I've worked in organizations where the worst possible thing you could do is not report something negative to your boss. Not reporting carries way worse consequences than the
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It's interesting how from the very beginning of this AI hype cycle the focus has been on replacing human creativity. One theory I heard from Robert Evans is that a lot of the tech bros (Altman, Musk, Andreeson, etc) have developed thei
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I found this article to be really confusing and convoluted. It sounds like Bill Ackman tried to raise a fund and wasn't able to get it fully subscribed so the deal fell apart? I used to love Matt Levine's break-it-down style for t
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This is an awesome list and incredibly damning. Musk is a grifter. Good job.
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> which is a good rough measure of how bad it was This is a part that he takes on faith which is completely unsupported. What the market is really doing (assuming rationality) is judging how much any punishment Wells Fargo might receive
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R is an open source version of S, which was a competitor to SAS. Julia, from when I looked at it years ago was trying like a new version of Matlab or Mathematica. It was very linear-algebra focused, and were trying to replace those packages
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Yep. Probably people who are on drugs that cost very little to make but are being sold for enormous amounts of money. The medical industry seems to operate a lot like gambling where outsize profits are available from a small percentage of &
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It's not necessary that lower farm income results in lower prices at the supermarket. For instance, the price of a chicken at the chicken farm is completely disconnected from the price of a chicken at the supermarket by the Tyson/
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> Speaking of,I wanted to mention a slightly related observation I've had recently scrolling through twitter (unfortunately) looking for information on this crisis. There are a lot of people who at least know enough technical jargon
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When has Crowdstrike taken responsibility for a hack? I think it's more like, security is heavily check mark based. Crowdstrike and friends have managed to get "endpoint security"[1] added as a "standard security best pr
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We had cylance take out all of our kubernetes clusters a few years ago. The whole cybersecurity concept of installing third party mystery meat in the kernel controllable over the internet by a different company seems contrary both to good s
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I like the idea that technology is so unreliable in star trek because the computers are all centuries of software accretion with Windows way down the stack somewhere.
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It's the opposite of what they want. Artifacts in isolation are not very useful to archeologists. They want them "in situ". For instance, digging up a graveside and pulling all the artifacts out, without extensively documenti
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> Even if you're burning half your CPU cycles on busy work waiting for user input. Of course then you slam into a wall when people want it to run on battery-powered devices.
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I feel like the invariant with "AI" is the software engineer saying "with enough data and statistics I can not understand the problem domain." It's fundamentally a rejection of expertise. Take weather prediction for
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I've heard this before but I read a book called "Computing in the Middle Ages" which was a memoir of a man who worked on the SAGE, LINC and Xerox Parc projects. According to him, programming especially in the batch era was a
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Yes. The purpose of Mozilla Org, from the perspective of the people paying for it (Google), was to kill Firefox. Mitchell Baker got rewarded because she did her job.

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