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by mLuby 7y ago
Law enforcement, tasked with catching the baddies, always wants more ability to complete their task: more surveillance, more laws, and more firepower. That's as it should be. The problem is the lack of heavy-weight counter-balance, alw
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by mLuby 7y ago
Germany seems to be moving in the other direction. I assume they can do this because unlike the US, Germans can point to their own history with secret police and authoritarian states as cautionary tales. Not that other countries couldn&#x27
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by mLuby 7y ago
The vagueness of your comment makes it difficult to understand what you mean. Can you rephrase with shorter words and sentences?
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by mLuby 7y ago
A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane. Accomplished its eponymous goal in a brief 110 pages, many of which are beautiful lithographic sketches.
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by mLuby 7y ago
On the consumer-dev side, more forks make discoverability much harder. It really helps when there's a canonical place to find a given piece of software. Having to follow comment threads across various platforms to find the most stable
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by mLuby 7y ago
Not every problem can be solved by new tech. But… are there ways forking could be made less aggressive (perhaps easy re-joining, community-based PR review and testing)? I remember this was a huge deal in the NodeJS community a few years bac
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by mLuby 7y ago
What you need are royalties, which happily enough come from creating art or inventing. The rest of passive income is exploiting an edge (like an install base in desktop software) or rent-seeking, both of which if left to be truly passive
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by mLuby 7y ago
Generosity is when you give something of value without expecting value in return. The subject was given things of no value and we don't know if it expected a reward. How do they know the animal wasn't just making the only move it
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by mLuby 7y ago
Asimov gave the world plenty of mind-expanding ideas, many that we take for granted today as staples of science fiction. I'm also amused and a bit humbled at reading his many stories featuring futures with "a world market for mayb
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by mLuby 7y ago
Exactly. Founder myths gloss over the starting details heavily (perhaps because then they seem merely lucky and hardworking). For example, a recent Musk biography spent maybe a page on the part where he became successful, and a Jobs one jus
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by mLuby 7y ago
Oh awesome, the one-liner was because I didn't see how to save/share a design.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Super cool! Anyone recognize what this makes? map=Array(7).fill(Array(7).fill(3)).map((a,i)=>a.map((x,n)=>[0,i>3&&n<3?1:3]));drawMap()
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by mLuby 7y ago
I'd expect Leibniz's language would count (except it wasn't completed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis
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by mLuby 7y ago
>biological intelligence works like a Turing machine We know it doesn't. There's no metaphorical linear tape in the brain; it's a network of neurons. But a Turing machine can simulate a network of neurons (see Machine Lear
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by mLuby 7y ago
This is good advice, but also keep in mind that they experienced highly unlikely outcomes (survivorship bias), what they say caused their success may not be what actually did, and the playing field may have changed since then.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Generally agreed. The major difference is whether someone has a regular work schedule or not. You don't have to be a millionaire to not work, nor are most millionaires on perpetual vacation. Nit-pick: There are plenty of cultures where
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by mLuby 7y ago
Tired: compensation = pay_per_job * jobs_completed Wired: compensation = pay_per_job * log(jobs_completed) Use those sweet sweet economic incentives.
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by mLuby 7y ago
"New keys. What do you think." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHt01D6rOLI (If American Psycho were about Programmers)
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by mLuby 7y ago
If we had a crowd-sourced database of cell towers (picture & coordinates) wouldn't it then be straightforward to know (and report) when your phone wasn't connecting to a legitimate tower? I for one want to make sure the cri
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by mLuby 7y ago
They mean for workplace problems, like complaints, harassment, etc. The line is "HR's job is to protect the company not you." HR's normal functions like hiring, compensation, benefits, transfers, etc are fine to talk a
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by mLuby 7y ago
This has a lot of explanatory power. Weakness, or more accurately one's perceived vulnerability (inability to weather momentary losses), leads to pre-emption and escalation. To use vitality as an example, a healthy person can handle th
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by mLuby 7y ago
Anyone can accept risk. Accurately evaluating and effectively mitigating it is the skill, plus predicting a profitable direction and setting it in motion, maintaining accountability, negotiation and fundraising; the list goes on and looks
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by mLuby 7y ago
Doctors, lawyers, and real engineers at least have similar or more broad domains they must be experts in, or people die. CEO is a hard role not because of domain area but because of risk and uncertainty, both of which tend to be low when
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by mLuby 7y ago
So you took a negative result (deadlock) and solved it in a mutually beneficial way (break deadlock + in-group reinforcement). That's awesome.
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I'm not sure I agree. Taking this quotation on free speech as a starting point: > "I'll never agree with what you say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" The key points are not agreeing, and defend
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by mLuby 7y ago
This TL;DR made me actually read the post, so thanks for the summary.
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by mLuby 7y ago
> secular laws have no particular business considering whether something was an act of god or not To be pedantic, you've almost certainly signed valid legal contracts that reference "Act of God" verbatim.
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> Given that we can't [live forever] It's not can't it's don't currently . That's the "hard problem to build a startup around."
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> Some people are bigger/stronger/faster than others. Yes, and smarter/more driven/more socially adept too. > They will naturally out-compete the others for resources Only if they feel it is necessary to compete.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Sounds like something Privacy.com could do without much trouble, though I don't think they actually have a CLI (yet).

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