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by jyounker 7y ago
My favorite variants of this phenomena are "let's just add a column instead of creating a new table" and "let's add a boolean argument instead of creating a new function."
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by jyounker 7y ago
If you show a Greek map of Cyprus to Turks, you’ll get pissed off customers. If you show a Turkish map of Cyprus to Greeks you’ll get pissed off customers. I know this because I’ve been in a team dealing with exactly this set of issues. As
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by jyounker 7y ago
Find a therapist. This will be much more help than reading a book.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Because people understand how distracting their conversations are to those who are not involved in the conversations.
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by jyounker 7y ago
This is one reason why term limits are pernicious. They channel effective politicians into the lobbying industry, rather than allowing them to continue practicing their skills in government.
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by jyounker 7y ago
The lobbyist then gets to choose an expert which represents the lobbyists worldview. This is what he is getting paid to do.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Congress used to have The Office of Technology Assessment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Technology_Assessmen... ) but the republican party considered its expertise to be a hinderance to corporate influence,
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by jyounker 7y ago
Bugs are delicious.
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by jyounker 7y ago
People's emotional reaction to nuclear plants isn't about long term safety, it's about the failure mode. When a nuclear plant fails catastrophically it becomes a long-term area denial weapon. At a statistical level, I'm
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by jyounker 7y ago
Yeah, one of the primary uses of my iPad was learning to read music.
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A short film with AI, drones, and worry(youtube.com)
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by jyounker 7y ago
My understanding is that this process was driven largely by pressure from the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_external_power_supply
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by jyounker 7y ago
We've been trying that for a good chunk of the last decade. That's why interest rates have gone to near zero, and in some places negative. It's not working so well.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Or you could pay works more so that, in their role as consumers, they can buy more.
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by jyounker 7y ago
On the other hand, the Japanese are inveterate umbrella thieves. So much so that you will find locking umbrella racks in many buildings. The pressure has to go somewhere.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Thesis proven? :)
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by jyounker 7y ago
Is concern trolling newspeak for expressing empathy?
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by jyounker 7y ago
That's called graduate school, and because it's so hard to do the teacher can only take a handful of students every decade.
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by jyounker 7y ago
The last part of that is a really a good cross-domain analogy. Kudos to you. :)
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by jyounker 7y ago
First and foremost they implement US censorship policies.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Wealth translates to political influence. If most of the wealth in a society belongs to a few people, those people have outsized influence on the those in power. Conversely, the more distributed wealth is within the society, the more repres
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by jyounker 7y ago
> All I'm saying is you can build a pretty successful business even with a bad engineering team. A good business model covers a multitude of technical sins.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Nope nothing changed. I've just spent a few years going through this at a much smaller scale.
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by jyounker 7y ago
But that requires forethought, planning, and a dedication to testing.
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by jyounker 7y ago
Those generally aren't what are considered to be small updates. Organizations doing small updates to are doing them multiple times a day. (e.g. FANGs) My experience is those is that those lessons (e.g. the need for extensive automatic
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by jyounker 7y ago
There is a lot of data over many decades that supports the expectation that optimism (which ISTR has pretty clear a definition) creates all sorts of positive life event outcomes. (e.g. you're more likely to succeed in whatever endeav
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by jyounker 7y ago
In other words, you get a discount for buying in bulk. :)
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by jyounker 7y ago
In Davis, CA they would perch on power lines holding a walnut in one claw, positioned over on of the wheel paths, and wait until a car was approaching in the appropriate position, and then drop the walnut just before the car arrived. They h
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by jyounker 7y ago
It gets even better. Because commercial property taxes are so low, the state is forced to rely more on income and sales taxes. Unfortunately these taxes source are affected much more by recessions. Things go to crap, and the state's c
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by jyounker 7y ago
Those of us subject to the wage competition in silicon valley make wages many times higher than the minimum wage. We're talking an order of magnitude more money. Competition in silicon valley does shit all for the people on the lower e

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