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by lkrubner 5y ago
Your question amounts to "Why does an article about history have to address what is currently seen as the cutting edge of historiography?" Presumably a historian is interested in the interests of their own profession, and therefor
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I strongly agree. When I wrote "How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps" I hired Natalie Sidner as my editor and she re-wrote the book to such an extent that I also offered her a writing credit: https://www.am
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by lkrubner 5y ago
On a related note, see "Don’t waste $1 million on devops infrastructure that you’ll never need": http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/high-availability-is-... This is a true story about an entrepreneur who
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by lkrubner 5y ago
A pathogen's needs will, over time, converge with the needs of its host, but only if the pathogen is only able to survive in one species. When a pathogen is able to feed off of many species, its needs never converge with the needs of a
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by lkrubner 5y ago
This is a point that the economist Paul Krugman has made in his NYT columns.
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In my essay "The worst project manager ever" I talk about some of these same flaws, but I also talk about the best project manager that I ever worked with, Sonia Bramwell, and I recount some of the lessons she taught me about grea
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Strongly agree, and furthermore the phrase "a bubble" only works as a metaphor if we associate debt with empty air, and therefore the metaphor only works if we are talking about debt. But the article says that people's saving
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This is a point I've been making for awhile: the NFTs don't give you freedom from normal copyright law. And any infringements of the NFT contract would have be defended in the courts, using the normal legal process. But that norma
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Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino over Planned ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs(nytimes.com)
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The one strategy that the article doesn't cover, but which I see often, is where the top leadership says "We need to keep headcount down, but we need to get more software development done, so how can we do it without any extra peo
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by lkrubner 5y ago
It seems like the period when this idea hit its peak was in the late 1980s and early 1990s. That's when there were a lot of apps built to maximize what non-programmers could do, and which also offered the easiest possible on-ramp for p
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Learning Lisp gave me perspective on the other computer programming languages that I worked with. Having done a few major projects with Clojure gave me some practical sense of what the advantages might be, especially when combined with Java
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"f cannot be a factor of n+1 or n-1" You are mostly just restating Euclid's proof that there are an infinite number of primes.
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Hello, I'm writing about this issue now and I'd like to quote you. What name should I use to quote you? Feel free to reach me at: lawrence@krubner.com 434 825 7694
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The article says they didn't post to the status page for 24 hours.
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This happened in the USA. The details are in the book.
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In 2019, in a very different situation, I was worried about the hospital bureaucracy that almost killed my mom. My mom was struggling with pneumonia and the antibiotics were not yet having any effect, but they scheduled her for surgery on h
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Most of us did vote for quantitative easing. Certainly after 2008, for many years, in the USA and in Europe, people were voting any kind of stimulus they could get, and when it was impossible to get enough fiscal stimulus, most of us were w
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Thank you for your comments regarding the material about the Soviet Union.
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I think you might be the type who regards themselves as very intelligent, but who then undermines that intelligence by arguing in circles. I could pick apart what you wrote, but I think you could also pick apart what you wrote, if you were
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I don't think you read what I wrote. I never mentioned global warming. If we continue at current rates of fossil fuel use for another 200 years, the acidification of the ocean will start to endanger phytoplankton, which makes much of t
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Given long enough to adapt (perhaps a million years? Perhaps two million?) then there would be no negative effects to the current changes. The dangers are entirely to do with the speed of the current change. The increasing acidity of the oc
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by lkrubner 5y ago
As Fernand Braudel said, populations in Europe, China and and North America seems to roughly mirror one another for most of the last 5,000 years. The only possible explanation is the climate. Some centuries were good in the northern hemisph
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by lkrubner 5y ago
As a point of comparison, look at https://fundthatflip.com/ (real estate lending) and then compare them to most of the crypto platforms. It's not the crypto that is the problem, it is the populist "robinhood"
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No, you're putting too much emphasis on Hadley cells. The air patterns are only one part of a very much more complex cycle. As the poster above you noted, for any given amount of water, the amount going into the air in a particular pla
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It was added as an amendment, therefore it is an extra constitutional protection. Some people (a broad coalition that included both Federalists and anti-Federalists) were concerned that the Constitution, as originally written, did not ensur
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I live in the USA. My friend Kristin is from Germany. She got her driver's license in Germany when she was 28. She trained awhile for it and then took 3 tests: city driving, highway driving, and nighttime driving. From how she describe
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My cell phone number hasn't changed since March of 2001 and I've had it listed on my personal weblog since April of 2001. I also list it in my Twitter bio: https://twitter.com/krubner In 20 years I've never h
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I've said this before on Hacker News, and now I wish to repeat, if you live in New York City, I host a once-a-month party, mostly for tech people. Very informal. You can get the vibe from the photos here: http://www.smashcom
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by lkrubner 5y ago
The rate of technological growth has slowed down by any measure that historians and economists know how to use. The book does a much better job making this argument than I can in this short Hacker News comment, but here is a summary of the

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