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by lkrubner 5y ago
While Dunbar's number is useful, keep in mind that the average person is aware of several thousand other people, and it is that larger number that really makes human society different from ape society. As a test, I once spent a day wri
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I've been writing about tech and entrepreneurship, and occasionally politics, since 2006: http://www.smashcompany.com
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by lkrubner 5y ago
About this: "I could have left Airbnb before things got so bad. But despite all that I observed and experienced, I truly loved my job." If I love a job, I hesitate to quit just because some of the management is terrible. As a poin
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What work can be done from home? What work needs to be done at an office?(smashcompany.com)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I took it to my weblog, to broaden the conversation beyond Hacker News.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Matt, I've been in a few conversations on this topic, so I finally wrote up a complete answer, and I quote your questions in my essay, which I've posted here: http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-work-can
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I've never written a file with 11,000 lines of code, but I have often built Clojure projects like this, with everything in one file. I think I might have once had a file with 4,000 lines of code. Maybe 5,000? A complete system might be
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Regarding this: “ As an example of the detrimental effects of bugs in physically hard to reach systems: the [NASA] Deep Impact spacecraft [DEEPIMPACT] was rendered inoperable due to a fault in the fault-protection software, which in turn tr
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by lkrubner 5y ago
It’s a restatement of Bentham’s dictum from 1776: the law should do the greatest good for the greatest many. Churchill obviously knew of Bentham, but I think Churchill often put things more elegantly than some of the famous philosophers.
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I’m curious why this was downvotes?
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Bitcoin started in 2008, 14 years ago. The Internet was opened to commercial use, in 1993. That is 29 years ago. Bitcoin is half the age of the commercial Internet, so Bitcoin is no longer new. 14 years after the opening of the Internet to
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Based on personal experience, my sense is that much back pain is caused by bacteria. Obviously some people have a specific injury that causes their back pain, but I think doctors have an easier time finding the problem, when there was a spe
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I followed MongoDB and Jespen in detail for years and I think "struggle to pass" is a correct characterization, which I believe even Kyle Kingsbury used it at one point. There was a long stretch where MongoDB treated Kingsbury as
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by lkrubner 5y ago
"the complete lack of enforcement of what goes in supplements" This is because of the oddly libertarian 1994 DSHEA act: https://ods.od.nih.gov/About/dshea_Wording.aspx From 1904 to 1994 the FDA was fairly str
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by lkrubner 5y ago
> Why do you recommend against using a modern distributed database? Call me maybe. This is a newer technology and the growing pains have been dramatic. I assume you've followed Jespen? https://aphyr.com/tags/jep
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Your comment is less a criticism of monetary policy and more a review of the reality of life in a small, weak nation. No monetary decision can change the more fundamental reality of belonging to a small, weak nation. Reality must be confron
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by lkrubner 5y ago
> Because without multi-region or multi-AZ durability, Wave could lose balances. For example, in the event of a DC fire. I think you are making a bunch of assumptions that you haven't written down, so it is hard for me to guess what
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by lkrubner 5y ago
> multi-region durability Why is this important? Why can't they get by with a traditional main server plus some backups with a sync, plus failover when the main server goes down? It seems to me that all of your questions are issues
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Permanent disequilibrium models will alter the way we see history(demodexio.substack.com)
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Over the last 20 years I've consulted with maybe 30 entrepreneurs, and what I find is that some of them get too caught up in the dream of some day being rich and famous. The ones who are successful are the ones who remain pragmatic and
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by lkrubner 5y ago
My favorite book on this, the history of money in modern times, and the growing use of debt to create an economy, is covered by the French historian Fernand Braudel, in his book, The Wheels Of Commerce: https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by lkrubner 5y ago
> It's kind of amazing to think that the system that underpins an awful lot of human activity is a collective delusion. This could apply to religion, politics, nation hood, loyalty, or money. A few other things as well. Arguably, se
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by lkrubner 5y ago
> What evidence is there for this supposition? To develop evidence, you would need to generate examples of vague, intangible but fundamentally valuable work. Since that is difficult, research on this subject is going to proceed slowly. S
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A mathematical fact: for a politician to win, they must support unpopular ideas(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I think perhaps you are still viewing this issue from the point of view of the worker?
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I think this sentence misstates the viewpoint: "Therefore you should work in the office, to avoid that competition." The problem here is the word "you". That's a misleading word, in this context. What I wrote was in
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by lkrubner 5y ago
A basic overview is available on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm I devoted a chapter of my book to this subject, especially regarding when and how entrepreneurs should think about the trade-
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by lkrubner 5y ago
This is a complex issue, but if we were to try to simplify it a bit, we could say: "Any job that can be done from home can also be done from India or Brazil." Sometimes I say this and people say "India is a different culture
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by lkrubner 5y ago
For me the choice is really about the JVM, rather than going with Microsoft and .NET. I work mostly in Clojure, which runs on the JVM. But I have the whole universe of Java libraries available to me. Whatever flavor of language you are into
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Certainly both were shaped by Eastern European circumstances, Slavic cultures, and some shared affinities.

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