joshuamerrill

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by joshuamerrill 2mo ago
Classical pianist and software product designer here. I see so much in common with this project and the numerous AI-based UX design tools out there. Whether it's music or UI, now that the "generation" portion of the work cost
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by joshuamerrill 8mo ago
It’s impressive to see simulation training for floods, tornadoes, and wildfires. But it’s also kind of baffling that a city full of Waymos all seemed to fail simultaneously in San Francisco when the power went out on Dec 22. A power outage
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by joshuamerrill 9mo ago
Well, it’s a good example of social media’s negative externalities.
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by joshuamerrill 9mo ago
Taking your questions at face value, the difference is incentives and feedback loops. Books are static. They do not watch you, adapt to you in real time, or optimize themselves to keep you reading at any cost. Social media does. It measures
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by joshuamerrill 9mo ago
The evidence is pretty clear, and it keeps growing. Social media causes real harm, both to individuals and to society. It is addictive by design, it worsens mental health especially for kids, and it rewards outrage and misinformation. In th
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by joshuamerrill 1y ago
Amazon has every incentive to show tariff rates to the customer. They don't want to be the bad guy overcharging in the transaction. Neither do local merchants when they collect a sales tax. Neither does the homeowner when they rent the
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by joshuamerrill 1y ago
https://archive.is/9aiGi
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An Advance in Brain Research That Was Once Considered Impossible(nytimes.com)
2 points by joshuamerrill 1y ago|2 comments
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by joshuamerrill 1y ago
Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections
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by joshuamerrill 2y ago
The fact that nobody on the thread spoke up and said "we shouldn't be talking about this on Signal" worries me greatly. One possible explanation is that it happens all the time.
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by joshuamerrill 2y ago
Because I don't know whether either of those are appropriate. There aren't many comparable breaches to this one. The closest in modern times may be Hillary Clinton's email server being used for government business. In that ca
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by joshuamerrill 2y ago
I began my career in a classified environment working on government satellite programs. In my first week on the job, I was told, explicitly, that if I shared Classified or Controlled Unclassified information over unapproved channels, I woul
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by joshuamerrill 2y ago
Founder liquidity events are done in secret in startup land. There's a simple reason for that. It's wrong. Startup employees, especially early ones, take on most of the risk that founders do. They take pay cuts. They work insane h
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by joshuamerrill 11y ago
This is to show how much employees own of the company they work for. The vast majority of employees do not have access to this information today, unbelievably. Full disclosure: I work at eShares (and love it).
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Bring employees out of the dark(medium.com)
9 points by joshuamerrill 11y ago|2 comments
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Fixing 409A(medium.com)
16 points by joshuamerrill 12y ago|0 comments
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by joshuamerrill 12y ago
While I'm aligned with the goal, it's burdensome for early-stage startups to hire FTEs to deal with what is essentially administrative paperwork. All startups have this problem, so it feels like one that should be solved by soft
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What Does “Wish We Could Say More” Mean?(josh.io)
2 points by joshuamerrill 12y ago|1 comments
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by joshuamerrill 12y ago
"It's better than new. Now it has a story." -David Mamet Not only are these beautiful and useful fonts, but each one has a story that's as unique as the typography itself. I can't wait to use one of these in a p
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
Is it worth mentioning that on top of the $1,100 hourly rate for Bromwich, and the $1,025 hourly rate for the assisting law firm, Fried Frank, he's also demanding a 15% "service charge"? From page 23: "And Mr. Bromwich’s
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Finally, will the next iPad have a flash?(josh.io)
2 points by joshuamerrill 13y ago|0 comments
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
I think of myself as fairly plugged in to the startup scene. One data point that Mattermark is indeed doing what it claims—"to uncover the most promising private companies in the world"—is the fact that I haven't heard of mos
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A few pixels here and there, and iOS 7 is beautiful(josh.io)
14 points by joshuamerrill 13y ago|12 comments
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
I was there today. The emotion was shared and felt by everyone in the room. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems like this could ultimately become a serious free speech issue. Edit: I ask a very dry question at the 45 minute mark. I'm pretty easy
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
That's been the case as far as WWDC, but other press events have had strong hints in the invitation. It could be that this is one such invitation—or maybe not? That's the fun of watching Apple. :)
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Apple’s WWDC invite suddenly makes sense(josh.io)
73 points by joshuamerrill 13y ago|36 comments
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
Bookmarked! I'm going to do this every day and see how it works!
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
There's an inherent conflict of interest when cities, counties, and states rely on traffic tickets as a source of revenue. The all-too-tempting incentive is to maximize that revenue, either by abusing civil rights or, in this case, by endan
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
As was explained to me by a friend who founded a recently-acquired to-do list company, the opportunity is to monetize intent. That is, if my to-do is "take clothes to dry cleaning," the app might be able to suggest a better/closer dry clean
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by joshuamerrill 13y ago
> Frankly, if you have to subsidize it then it wasn't good for business. Electronic car subsidies attempt to balance out the negative externalities of burning fossil fuels. These subsidies are meant to serve the public interest, which i

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