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by kevinr 9y ago
Serious question: do any reputable economists besides Tyler Cowen believe in cost disease?
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by kevinr 9y ago
A single submarine loss (the Thresher accident) was enough to prompt the US Navy to institute the SUBSAFE program, possibly the single most successful safety program in history.
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by kevinr 9y ago
Not the parent who mentioned _Normal Accidents_, but this is one of my hobby-horses, so I'm glad you asked! Prof. Nancy Leveson of MIT has done extensive research over the last forty years on the safety engineering of complex systems,
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by kevinr 9y ago
As we have seen with old SSL versions and Windows XP, it will be 10-15 years before the whole world is migrated onto containerized software, so this exploit should have a long, long active life.
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by kevinr 9y ago
Friendly amendment: it's about access to capital relative to local costs. Arguably OP's point is that he had access to enough capital relative to his local costs in Colorado to afford to bootstrap, whereas he'd have needed VC
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by kevinr 9y ago
tav, I'm sorry for my delay getting back to you. I just sent you an email at your profile address to introduce you to someone on our New Business team, who may be able to help. Open source funding is a cause near and dear to my heart,
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by kevinr 9y ago
tav, have you looked at Stripe's Connect product ( https://stripe.com/connect )? Stripe already is a payments company, and Connect is built to let you use it somewhat like your own payments company, to pay others. Lyft
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by kevinr 10y ago
Why must there be something bad going on here? All good things come to an end, leadership positions among them, and the sign of the best leaders is a measured and orderly transition and an organization which lives on long after them.
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by kevinr 10y ago
No, that's a sign of stable and sane leadership transition planning. Big enterprises don't change course overnight.
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A lot of our security advice is crap. Here's the start of a better model(free-dissociation.com)
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by kevinr 10y ago
I've been learning about systems theory for about five years now, and I've been frustrated by the same things, but I've come through them to something which I think provides a path forward. I think changes which lead to posit
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by kevinr 10y ago
I don't have data, only anecdote. I've used two of the same supermarket chain which both had the machines, one in a mixed-use area next to a mid-sized research university, and one in a very residential area in an inner-ring subur
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by kevinr 10y ago
Fists ain't cheap. Slaves are capital, and, like all capital, acquiring and maintaining them has nonzero cost. In the antebellum American South, some tasks like ditch-digging were sufficiently hazardous that a plantation owner would ra
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by kevinr 10y ago
> And they will be able to provide better and faster service. On the contrary, my local grocery store took out their self-serve checkout kiosks and replaced them with human checkers. Turns out there was some skill involved after all.
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by kevinr 10y ago
As is only appropriate, given the word's etymology. > ro·bot (n.) 1923, from English translation of 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "for
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by kevinr 10y ago
Look: there were a lot of people to whom he mattered, whom he left behind, and they're good people, a number of them my friends, and I care a lot about them. Their voices and concerns deserve to be heard, whether or not I agree with t
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by kevinr 10y ago
I'm not talking about violating trespass laws or any other legal principle---I'm talking about guestright. Aaron Swartz abused MIT's institutional journal subscriptions, which he had access to as a guest of the institution.
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by kevinr 10y ago
Unpopular opinion: Aaron Swartz abused the trust which was placed in him by MIT as its guest when engaging in his civil disobedience, and MIT was perfectly justified not to intercede in his case. A bit like if your friend comes to your hous
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by kevinr 10y ago
A 401k is not a savings account. It's a retirement account. You're not supposed to pull from it between jobs, and there are serious financial penalties for withdrawing before you're past retirement age. A 401k is also suppose
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by kevinr 10y ago
Every asshole I've ever known in tech got flagged by an interviewer during the hiring process, but the people making the hiring decision ignored the feedback. Often the person doing the flagging was female, or the hiring manager was d
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by kevinr 10y ago
Can you say more about how they do handle it? I've very little visibility into other professions' hiring practices. (My housemate who's a middle school history teacher and I were mutually horrified last night at our respectiv
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by kevinr 10y ago
I say again: if all of that is true of the people you know, even in software, even making above-average salary for your area, you're very lucky. Also, and I say this as someone currently going through the process: given the way hiring
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by kevinr 10y ago
Oh, they know people are on the market. That's the vultures circling. They also know they need to be on the lookout to disqualify you if you exhibit bad behavior, so they're going to be very picky in the hiring.
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by kevinr 10y ago
> I don't think anyone has any issue with having to physically use a marker on a whiteboard during an interview. I have friends whose RSI is sufficiently bad that it could be an issue.
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by kevinr 10y ago
> Few people are in the situation of a single interview or they don't get to pay their bills next month. If this is true of the people around you, then you know folks who are very, very lucky in their life and work.
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by kevinr 10y ago
How do you feel about interviews for roles where it's required to keep a cool head under incredible pressure? (This is a serious question. It describes a lot of the security incident response work I've hired for.)
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by kevinr 10y ago
Code like the Boeing 787's avionics package gets one better: the spec specifies what the register values should be after each step of execution, and there's a company which takes the code, puts the processor in single-step mode, a
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by kevinr 10y ago
Parent's MIT Press link has a link to the final PDF, down the page on the left.
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by kevinr 10y ago
URLs aren't normally considered sensitive by users. "Hey Carol, can you send me the link you're using to the wiki? Mine isn't working."
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by kevinr 10y ago
> Keep in mind that Sandstorm is meant to host internal-facing services. This is not really obvious from any of your marketing copy or documentation, nor would it be a realistic expectation if it were. I think you need to secure like you

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