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by lkrubner 4y ago
Every time this conversation comes up, someone on Hacker News says "You can pay someone for that, it only costs about $5 a month." Every time. And then someone points out "$5 a month is a lot, even for some people in the deve
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I think you read my comment backwards. You wrote: why IP is somehow not "enough" How did you get that from my comment? I said we have almost 8,000 RFCs, IP is very robust, but in its complexity there is a certain minimum, unavoi
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Whoever said that specific quote, it is a paraphrase of a point that Alan Kay has been making since the late 1970s. His speeches, in which he argued in favor of SmallTalk and dynamic program, make the point over and over again. I believe he
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I think this cannot be done with IP/TCP because of the reliance on each individual to pay for both active web servers and some kind of DNS config. It's possible to imagine other protocols that could force at least text messaging t
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I recently wrote about my experiences here, and especially, what makes a great project manager who can move a project in a flexible way. I quote myself: -------------------- What about Scrum, Agile, Kanban, PMP and CAPM? At this point many
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Are you suggesting that all world views, no matter how ignorant or contradictory, are equally valid?
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Despite having the advantage of an extra 19 years, I don’t think this essay offered any new insights that weren’t already in Clay Shirky’s 2003 essay on power laws and inequality: https://extremedemocracy.com/chapters/C
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by lkrubner 4y ago
I've never had a comment on Hacker News that went up and down as much as this one. Up to 9 points at one point, then back to 1, then back up to 7, right now at 3 points. Interesting that this one apparently brings out very strong for a
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by lkrubner 4y ago
All of the populist far-right parties seem to lean on "whataboutism" as their main explanation for everything. "We did something bad? But what about that time the other side also did something bad? Surely that means we are in
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You have no evidence for any of the things that you say. The credit that you are trying to give to Glassdoor is especially artificial. Large scale economic forces, such as the crisis of 2008, have had a much larger effect than Glassdoor. Yo
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I’ve hired a lot of developers who were straight from dev bootcamps. Some of these were very good. I wrote about the candidates I hired from the Grace Hopper program here: http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/the-grac
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There is good stuff in this article, though I wish more writers would hire editors to help trim these articles (I always hire an editor when I write something this long). I think this is the heart of it, though you have to go pretty far int
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The current burst of inflation is global and is caused by a global pandemic that unleashed global shocks to global supply chains. There isn't much any one government can do, other than continue to push the Covid-19 vaccine out to as ma
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And yet it is the opposite fact, strong anti-monopoly enforcement, which lead to such labs. Most big companies had big R&D efforts during the mid-20th Century, and that was because the government was unusually aggressive in its anti-mon
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I suffered through a catastrophically badly managed startup, back in 2015, and the experience was stressful while it was happening. The aftermath was uncertain. I had some rough months. But then I wrote a popular book about the whole experi
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PHP was my main language from 2000 to 2011. I liked PHP 4 very much. "Pass by value" was the default, so it accidentally introduced me to the Functional paradigm, even though it didn't have the memory management to allow for
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High profits and high inflation suggests an economy dominated by monopolies. You won’t get the combination of high profits and high inflation in eras when competition is running hot.
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These are two good books on the subject of corruption, I recommend both of them: Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107441099/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... The Quest for G
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Again, when a specific person lies, their personal trustworthiness is in doubt, but their lying does not raise systemic issues. Your attempt to generalize is not justified by any particular person lying.
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Competition has decreased throughout the economy. There are several ways to measure this. New firm creation in the USA has been in steady decline since the 1970s, and the explosion of software startups has not been enough to offset the rapi
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You are making a big jump from "one politician lied this specific time" to "the whole system is corrupt." The conclusion does not follow from initial incident. Specific cases of specific politicians lying does not sugges
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" I really don't see any way for the impact of a supply-side shock not to be passed on to consumers. " Assume a company has gross margins of 100%, then they face a price surge in supplies, a price surge of 50%. If they are fa
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by lkrubner 4y ago
If Republicans lie 3 times more often then Democrats, then PoltiFact is doing its job accurately.
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When there is a supply-side shock, it can be paid by corporations or by consumers. Who it is paid by depends on how much competition there is. When there is a lot of competition, then corporations have to pay. When there is little competiti
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NBER typically waits a year before declaring a recession. They want to make sure they have all the facts. Many economic statistics are revised several times, and don't settle to their final form till 6 months after they were announced
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Clearly, he is guilty. They have overwhelming evidence on him. His videos amount to a confession. It's also clear he is mentally ill. It is an open question whether he should go to jail or instead be sent to an institution that might b
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"if we had a protocol for a people directory social network" -- back around 2004, that's exactly what FOAF was for (Friend Of A Friend). I set up mine, a lot of people did, there was excitement around the blogosphere for this
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As John Maynard Keynes said, it doesn't matter what you as an investor think of a stock, or what you think other investors will do, or what other investors think you will do, or what other investors think other investors will do, what
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This is a good point. For a company this big, the difference between the 2nd derivative and the 1st derivative can be many years.
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At one point I realized that whenever I went on vacation I took pictures of wherever I went: Germany, France, Sweden, Costa Rica, Texas, Florida, etc. But then I realized most of the "traveling" that I do is the different places t

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