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by kweinber 7y ago
There is a great new book describing ethical and moral stances and how one goes from moral absolutism to decency called “A Decent Life” by Todd May. Also, corporations allow you to avoid personal financial liability but not personal respons
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by kweinber 7y ago
I received a great piece of advice once. A person asked "If you had a child you loved that looked up to you that was struggling with something, would you be encouraging, patient and instructive to them or would be vicious, degrading,
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by kweinber 7y ago
Github isn’t anywhere near a startup. It is a big division of Microsoft.
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by kweinber 7y ago
Proprietary trading is trading your own money with no obligation to transact or do any business with others. Market making is offering public liquidity as part of a market function. They are designated market participants with rules and re
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by kweinber 7y ago
Almost all people are employed by companies. If companies don’t advocate for human rights that means that almost noone will except for politicians and the unemployed. We should expect more civil responsibility from companies since they hav
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by kweinber 7y ago
The accounting world considers code an asset and allows you to amortize its creation. Making progress in the world is fighting against entropy. Just because it is hard to fight the disorganizing efforts of the universe doesn’t mean that yo
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by kweinber 7y ago
"Often it was lonely, isolating, I felt out of the loop on some decisions, I didn't get some in-jokes and nicknames, I missed the non-holiday parties and happy hours, etc." I am in this boat now. . . and find it really tough.
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by kweinber 7y ago
Is it just me or are others deeply disturbed by his correspondence with imaginary sea monsters? I am perplexed by the political appeal of claiming affiliation with imaginary power-symbols like this.... but it seems to appeal to voters near
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by kweinber 8y ago
As we learn more about neural networks, I predict that we'll hit new advances in psychology and psychiatry. If one oversimplifies neural networks and thinks of them as pattern-matching machines, it would make sense that our brain'
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by kweinber 8y ago
“15k would be a delight”, implies that 250-300k is not a delight. It sounds like your loss of interest may be correlated with your level of discomfort with increased cognitive load.... the alternative explanation would be strange: you can o
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by kweinber 8y ago
It is possible to act morally without God as motivation. God was a strong motivator in the Dark Ages- did people act more morally then? It is possible to be a capitalist and act morally. Rates of crime are at some of the lowest levels of
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by kweinber 8y ago
I always keep my new password in my old vault to protect me from forgetting it in the future.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Round watches don’t get caught on clothing, or on other people/obstacles as you brush past.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Haiku-OS is a another incarnation of BeOS.... a desktop OS created years ago be ex-Apple exec Jean Luis Gassee.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Which is a book where a character kept killing cute things by being too aggressive with them...
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by kweinber 8y ago
This probably proves Pelosi's family is on the up-and-up. Not only did he disclose same-day, those trades were terrible ones. . . if there was corruption or advanced insider knowledge, he would have bet the other way. Instead, they wi
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by kweinber 8y ago
Nicotine use alters cholesterol. It raises your LDL and constricts your blood vessels.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Sites like this are recruiter-bait. (Notice that Triplebyte is a recruiter). They purport to have real salary info from the richest companies in the world to unsettle employees. (With no claim to even be telling the truth). This inspires
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by kweinber 8y ago
This entire article and discussion is based on a fake headline and a false premise.... there are far fewer disasters of these kinds than there were because we learned from them. There are far fewer system failures of most technical kinds a
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by kweinber 8y ago
Couldn’t advanced interpretative ability predict greater income, translating into more charitable giving? Perhaps English speaking people who can’t parse those sentences don’t have the free time or cash to give away.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Agreed. Also, freedom of speech doesn’t mean unlimited rights to all broadcast venues for speech. If these guys want to publish stuff on their own website, no one is stopping them.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Agreed... the good old days were better when the big mussels were only into steroids.
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by kweinber 8y ago
Even simpler. Apple doesn't have "enterprise" products that it sells to governments. Therefore, they can't be forced to comply through any wallet-based incentive. Having said all that. . . I'm not sure that the ri
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by kweinber 8y ago
Wasting a resource decreases its supply. With legitimate demand constant, the decrease in supply increases the price of the good. If the price is then in the fossil fuel range, you’ve increased the demand for fossil fuel.
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by kweinber 9y ago
This was a great example of design hindering interpretation. The graph’s diagonal/diamond shape made legibility much harder. A traditionally oriented graph would have been trivial to read and correlation more obvious.
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How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive (2015)(theatlantic.com)
34 points by kweinber 9y ago|10 comments
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by kweinber 9y ago
I’ve been saying exactly this for years. Want to start a party that only advocates for candidates and laws that follow these rules? We could call the platform/mechanism “test-first” legislation.
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by kweinber 9y ago
The world in which everyone solely does the minimum of what they are explicitly asked to do would be a unkind, bleak, unproductive, and dysfunctional one. I am extremely grateful that not everyone espouses this philosophy.
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by kweinber 9y ago
You mentioned "shitty enterprise software, on one of the worst code bases I've ever seen" Do you realize that this is your fault too? Your job is to manage, maintain and improve the code-base but, instead, you choose to take
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by kweinber 9y ago
It would be cool for them to do a study.... have the default set to whichever version of the toolbar people use most in their settings. A real life, long-term usability study. I bet the ribbon loses big-time since it Is such a discoverab

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