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by leepowers 7y ago
Ostrom's work is parochial. Her real-life examples center on small populations adjacent to large natural resources with access negotiated via long-standing community mores. That simply doesn't apply to the high-density populations
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by leepowers 7y ago
No country views property rights as inviolable. Eminent domain trumps individual property rights. Property can be seized pursuant to a lien due to debt, non-payment of taxes, criminal activity, etc. We're not operating under some slavi
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by leepowers 7y ago
> the same gmail -like GitHub notifications experience So it's OK for your design to emulate gmail, but it's wrong for anyone else to emulate you. Got it. Inspiration can only travel one way.
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by leepowers 7y ago
https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
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by leepowers 7y ago
It's hard to be the recipient of downvotes. At the same time it's a great tool for assessing the quality of posts. It's the same reason HN allows downvotes. However the dynamic of SO is different. Users are coming to the site
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by leepowers 7y ago
Very true! It depends on the particular variation[1] of the game being played. Which is one difficulty of MH - the ambiguity. Probabilities change when the initial conditions are slightly different or when the problem is interpreted differe
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by leepowers 7y ago
Alternatively, the way I think of it is as follows: An initial random guess has a 1 out of 3 chance of being correct. Being shown a goat doesn't change this probability. Staying with the first choice doesn't change this probabilit
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by leepowers 7y ago
That's not necessarily a negative. Rogan is wide not deep. The eclectic guest selection means listeners are exposed to a wide range of ideas. Well, at least as wide as the guests Rogan can book, and the topics and people that interest
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by leepowers 7y ago
Email is hard across time. Meaning yes, I can setup a mail server, and yes I can configure DKIM+SPF, and yes I can initially get good delivery to all the major providers. But that's just the beginning. Email is an ongoing maintenance r
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by leepowers 7y ago
It's a moral panic, at least in part. Panic explains why due process is ignored and why accusations are considered unassailable. But questioning accusations is not the same as denying them. And while reliving trauma is a risk it can be
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by leepowers 7y ago
I've often thought that SO should archive questions past a certain age. With the archive being a button click away, so those questions can still be browsed, in case of miscategorization. Or if I could choose to archive an answer once I
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by leepowers 7y ago
One issue is moderation vs answering. Users interested in moderating questions are more prominent than users looking to actually answer questions. 1) Grace period. For new questions (and especially for new users) - add a grace period where
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by leepowers 7y ago
Accessibility is hard. It's not just a technical problem. It informs every stage of conceptualizing, designing, and implementing a web site. Accessibility is end-to-end. For instance WCAG 2.1 requires a minmum text color contrast ratio
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by leepowers 7y ago
> We will at some point recognize the audacity of this piece as art as well. Audacity is overrated. Twitter is full of clever people straining to be as audacious, controversial, memorable, and viral as possible. Audacity is as common as
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by leepowers 7y ago
“Married people are happier than other population subgroups, but only when their spouse is in the room when they’re asked how happy they are. When the spouse is not present: fucking miserable,” he said. “We do have some good longitudinal
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by leepowers 7y ago
Headlines that say "Fed survey shows 40 percent of adults still can’t cover a $400 emergency expense" are technically incorrect. A majority can cover the expense with either cash or credit. But I think that misses the point. O
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by leepowers 7y ago
Been using the KeePassXC[1] community fork for about three months now. The transition was smooth; it's pretty much identical to KeePass or KeePassX. Has TouchID integration for MBP which is super useful. Plus the source is available on
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by leepowers 7y ago
Just from the abstract I can't tell if the study differentiates between sole proprietorship and solo founders. The former is a business built around a person's individual skill set. The latter is built around an idea, a product, o
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by leepowers 8y ago
Found at least one error on the list. This claim: > Apple's mail service silently censors the mail people send. Is based on this article: https://www.cultofmac.com/103703/apple-may-be-invisibly-filt... Where on
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by leepowers 8y ago
You are correct. That's way too much trust to put in a company. I can export CSV files from my bank. I'd use the service if I could upload CSV files for my accounts for a given year, and run the data through their algorithm.
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by leepowers 8y ago
> Mr. Richard said California’s strict environmental regulations have become a pretext for anyone who wanted to stop the project. > “The environmental process has become about litigation protection,” he said. “You’re going to get sued
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by leepowers 8y ago
Yes. The anti-democratic nature of philanthropies is a feature not a bug. > His general argument was that endowments should be permitted, in some cases even celebrated, but that they should never be perpetual and that the state must alwa
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by leepowers 8y ago
It's possible to be right about the universe and the galaxy but wrong about the earth. The 90% that is accurate is still accurate even if another 10% is wrong. More pointedly - we are all in the same position as the flat-earther you po
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by leepowers 8y ago
It's a mistake to process these ideas on the basis of trust. True, the religious angle is shoehorned at the end. But the author cites secular books and ideas throughout; these ideas and the relationships between them are worth consider
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by leepowers 8y ago
Does stuff like this actually work? Never done anything like this before. Seems very unprofessional. Get a 1/2 deposit upfront. This clears out most of the scrubs. Only commit your time when the client has committed money.
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by leepowers 8y ago
The only success I've had on any of these freelance sites was by treating them as a marketing sales channel. Didn't lower my prices at all and landed a small project at my normal rate. This served as the start of a more permanent
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by leepowers 8y ago
A few counterpoints: 1) Google and Facebook represent only a very small and very elite slice of the developer market. This bizarre focus on what happens at the top 0.5% of the market has a distorting effect. The rest of the market is ignore
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by leepowers 8y ago
> While it is true that venture-capital investment in the U.S. continues to rise, having reached more than $90 billion in 2017, such investment is growing even faster in other parts of the world, expanding by nearly 375 percent—more than
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by leepowers 8y ago
It might work. B&O taxes are taken out of gross income, but no where near 30%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_and_occupation_tax#Ma... So a federal B&O scheme might work if the rate was low enough. Audi
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by leepowers 8y ago
Long Now Seminars podcast: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/

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