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by mLuby 6y ago
> its a flawed expectation to get it right the first time. If your toilet overflows when you push the lever down and flushes when you pull the lever up, you'll learn pretty quickly how to use it. And other users will too, after they
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by mLuby 6y ago
Reminds me of "The Hustle" by the same guy who did "Microservices." https://youtu.be/_o7qjN3KF8U (2 minutes long)
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by mLuby 6y ago
> The whole point of personal responsbility [sic] is that it ends at the people responsible, in this case the parents who left their children unsupservised [sic] near a high powered electric device. That's an understandable view, bu
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by mLuby 6y ago
> When people know that there's no assurance that the things…are "safe", … they tend to be a lot more careful. This is a good thing. No, it's not. I shouldn't have to check the piping of my gas heating system for
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by mLuby 6y ago
One of only two Independent senators in Congress shouted "tax billionaires" for years, then when he didn't win the presidency, the billionaires just carried on unmolested.
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by mLuby 6y ago
> I'm going to get downvoted into the the ground for this, but I think it has to be said: Ditto! All in good fun. 0:) > it's a mess, it's unprincipled, it's grown organically, it's driven by fashion and immedi
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by mLuby 6y ago
No, it's never been done.* While factories are built all the time, they have never been built entirely from their own products and without human labor as an essential ingredient (a "closed" manufacturing process). There&#x2
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by mLuby 6y ago
I hope whatever comes out of this doesn't end up creating a regulatory moat around big incumbents that start-ups can't muster the resources to cross. Only government regulation is powerful enough to counteract capitalism's na
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by mLuby 6y ago
(If you know a way to reliably detect "honest" people, it'll make you enough money to stop caring about all this and probably win you a Nobel peace prize too.) How to detect these crimes? By doing what the article describes:
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by mLuby 6y ago
> half of the US is below average intelligence That is what average means. (Looks like we two are keeping it balanced!)
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by mLuby 6y ago
Yeah, it gets harder to believe there's "smart money" when your friend Alice made bank following some meme stock and Bob down the road became crypto-rich off Dogecoin.
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by mLuby 6y ago
"Democratize" has joined "revolutionize" and "disrupt" on the list of buzzwords that make my eyes roll so far they glaze over. The words may be apt, but they need a fallow decade before being meaningful again.
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by mLuby 6y ago
Small world! There's another rising cryptocurrency startup founded by someone from that town. Something in the water maybe? Message me on Twitter (same username) if you want to know more. (I'm being cryptic in public just to be po
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by mLuby 6y ago
That unnecessary secrecy/deception angle I've never heard before, but it's a really good one; totally agree!
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by mLuby 6y ago
> A productive investment in infrastructure [must]: > 1. cover the costs of the infrastructure investment, > 2. pay for the ongoing operations and maintenance of that infrastructure, > 3. create enough wealth to ultimately pay f
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by mLuby 6y ago
Institutions, like laws, solidify existing power structures, whatever they may be. Though ideologically antipathetic toward each other, the bureaucracies of the U.S. Library of Congress and IngSoc's Ministry of Truth would be more si
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by mLuby 6y ago
> [Charity] doesn't preclude [political influence]. Unless you're a Scott Alexander, how much political influence can you wield through charity? When you're rich (or famous) enough that your donations get media attention,
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by mLuby 6y ago
> We start agitating and take down vital institutions in the name of change. Our movement gets hijacked by a military strongman who happens to be charismatic and liked by the people, and now we're under a brutal military dictatorshi
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by mLuby 6y ago
How much time can pass before it's unethical for a guardian not to know where their ward is? 1 hour is fine, but 1 day would be concerning, and definitely 1 week is too long. (It may be related to how long the ward might survive with
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by mLuby 6y ago
You're right, chat apps have evolved. That's the problem; Signal is good, but it's not the best. I wish it'd focus on matching or overtaking WhatsApp feature-wise rather than getting distracted 10 meters from the finish
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by mLuby 6y ago
Like animal sacrifice, worker surveillance is a lever the manager can pull to feel and appear in control. Okay that's a little harsh. It's more like drilling into someone's skull: it might work, but probably not the reaso
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by mLuby 6y ago
Economics aside, let's not forget that personal relationships are inherently unscalable . Sure we can get "5 personalized minutes" with that superstar doctor or fitness instructor, but maybe we're missing out on more hu
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by mLuby 6y ago
You the individual have no power to make Facebook, or any large organization, change its behavior. To it, you are like an ant is to a human. There is no "at the expense of the few" when you have nothing. But just as a colony of an
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by mLuby 6y ago
No, societies recognize that everyone shouldn't need to be a doctor/engineer/financial analyst to avoid harm in daily activities, so we collectively empower regulators like the FDA/FAA/SEC to protect us from unfette
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by mLuby 6y ago
> And the fact is that humans can't reliably identify emotions from photographs, so there's zero chance for AI. The second doesn't necessarily follow from the first—there are plenty of things humans are bad at that compute
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by mLuby 6y ago
I haven't heard anyone talk about "mandatory WFH forever" but lots of companies are talking about mandatory RTO forever. Time and money spent on commuting is mostly just lost. In contract, investing in a comfortable chair,
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by mLuby 6y ago
I hear you, but remember this is pandemic -enforced WFH, it's not normal. Non-pandemic remote work gives you more time to socialize out and about with friends and family, travel (and maybe even work there), and do all sorts of fun thi
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by mLuby 6y ago
Is this bizarre feature actually some kind of warrant canary? I thought Signal was already financially secure.
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by mLuby 6y ago
I've found that visceral defensiveness is a reliable signal to introspect more deeply, since the surface trigger is rarely the same as the reaction's root cause. I don't think people using motorized wheelchairs devalues the h
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by mLuby 6y ago
What we're missing in front-end development is more abstracting away solved problems so you don't have to think about them ever again. Shared frameworks and libraries do help significantly with this but the fact that they still

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