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by klenwell 6y ago
> I think the level of impunity of "I am the law" instead of laws being laws, has taken over far too many in the police department. For a more organized version of the mentality, see the Constitutional Sheriffs movement. I forg
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Wartime for Wodehouse(newyorker.com)
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by klenwell 6y ago
There's a quote I recall from the introduction to Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest in the Norton Anthology the first time I encountered the play years ago as a college undergraduate in an English Literature survey class.
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by klenwell 6y ago
Sometimes it just takes "a terrible outbreak of tuberculosis selectively killing off the biggest, nastiest and most despotic males, setting the stage for a social and behavioral transformation unlike any seen in this notoriously trucul
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by klenwell 6y ago
A friend who relocated to Japan mentioned this to me a few weeks ago. I was surprised that I had heard nothing about this in western media, since it seemed like the media was latching on to anything that might offer some hope of treatment o
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by klenwell 6y ago
I noticed that, too. I think that's mostly coincidence. Velocity is based on story points. Here's a definition of story points as a unit of measure that I like: A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used b
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by klenwell 6y ago
On the productivity question, if you're interested in some soft (very squishy) numbers, I can provide them. I manage four small development teams and the one metric I track is velocity or velocity per developer (VPD). If you're fa
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by klenwell 6y ago
I guess we moved from Eisenhower's concern about the influence of the Military-Industrial complex to concerns about the privatization of the Military-Industrial complex. Have we entered a new phase: Gig-Economization of the Military-In
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by klenwell 6y ago
That was my first cynical thought, too. How many Orcs are out there on the other side? Actually, it was worse: How long before the Elves become the Orcs? Anyway, go Elves! I guess.
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Online-Only Currency Bitcoin Reaches Dollar Parity (2011)(news.slashdot.org)
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by klenwell 6y ago
> How many of us ever refer that accumulated digital memory? I do all the time. Behold. I don't have a particular refined process or taxonomy. Just Pinboard and tags. One tool I use to keep things circulating is a daily script that
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by klenwell 6y ago
I agree. Moreover, the cited bug ("predictions varied by around 80,000 deaths after 80 days") doesn't really seem to impact the over all policy implications: no lockdown means exceptional number (400 to 480k) of deaths. Unles
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by klenwell 6y ago
The conclusions from the first critical code review cited: All papers based on this code should be retracted immediately. Imperial’s modelling efforts should be reset with a new team that isn’t under Professor Ferguson, and which has a com
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by klenwell 6y ago
I think the actual quote is a little different, but I like this version: I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17105-i-like-to-pay-taxes-w...
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by klenwell 6y ago
Isn't that a felony? Years ago when I was in college I talked to a post-doc or visiting professor from Germany who got am aerial speeding ticket for going really fast on some desolate part of the I5 on his way from San Diego to San Fra
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by klenwell 6y ago
This is encouraging to hear. My company built a tool to improve website accessibility. It fills a niche. We're almost ready to open source it. Basically just need to make the Github repo public. The one thing that gives me pause is the
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by klenwell 6y ago
If this is a topic you're interested in, I strongly recommend Philip Tetlock's book Superforecasting. The Good Judgment project that he helped launch uses Brier scores to assess forecasters.
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This reminds of an online I loved called The Quest for the Rest. It was a Flash game featuring soundtrack by the Polyphonic Spree. Actually, I think it may have been designed to promote the release of one of their albums. Such a sweet littl
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by klenwell 6y ago
Neither site is clear where the testing capacity goal comes from. For NY, it is 30 per 1k (3%). For Bay Area, it is 200 per 100k (.2%). If my math is right, that's a significant discrepancy. Actually, I see NY's goal is monthly. S
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by klenwell 6y ago
I love this topic, too. And this is so true: > I think one thing that's needed to establish a culture of written communication is getting rid of any cultural elements that allow people to use the avoidance of reading and writing as
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by klenwell 6y ago
Thanks for the summary. This is a question that had piqued my curiosity. Based on past bubbles, I cynically assumed it was mostly delusion ("market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"). Paul Krugman provided his
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by klenwell 6y ago
Since reading about Paul O'Neill's turnaround of ALCOA, I've been convinced that worker safety (or well-being for less life-and-death office environments) should be the one OKR/KPR/whatever-you-want-to-call-it every
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by klenwell 6y ago
> This is the cost of a profound lack of leadership. Paul O'Neill died recently (not COVID-19 related). I don't have many business heroes. O'Neill was one of the them. (Andrew Grove is the other.) Here's how O'Ne
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by klenwell 6y ago
Article date: March 10, 2018 He swore that he would avoid learning about anything that happened to America after Nov. 8, 2016. ... Mr. Hagerman begins every day with a 30-minute drive to Athens, the closest city of note, to get a cup of co
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by klenwell 6y ago
My favorite is the erroneous theory of immunization that informed Pasteur's successful development of a vaccine: Accordingly, why was Pasteur such a genius as to discern how the immune system functions to protect us against invasion b
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> Trump has plenty of employees in his businesses, and support from lots of business folks. On that topic: For some, it was a plainly calculated choice. Thomas Peterffy, a billionaire who owned the largest estate in Greenwich, donated t
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by klenwell 6y ago
My Millennium Prize challenge for those clamoring to reopen the economy is: How do you reopen Disneyland? (I think Disneyland was even referenced in the article.) That's a giant social space people would be clamoring to go to. But give
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by klenwell 6y ago
It's also apparently a college sport. From one of my favorite Metafilter comments: One chilly night in the fall of 2004, I chanced to find myself upon the streets of Toronto. I represented one half of the august top-rated debate team
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by klenwell 6y ago
Good point. Maybe the theory was the attenuated pathogen would consume available nutrients thereby depriving the real pathogen when it arrived?
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by klenwell 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. You're right. Just to clarify one possible misreading of Chiang's point I noticed due to the way I excerpted his statement: he's not suggesting that incompetent officials should not b

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