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811.
by madrox 5y ago
I'm curious how new tax schemes like the proposal Sweeney is criticizing get vetted. It's probably impossible to determine actual economic effects of radical tax reform in advance. Further, from a rational perspective there's
812.
by madrox 5y ago
If you think that’s bad, let me talk to you about backend development and the reinvention of CRUD over the same time period…
813.
by madrox 5y ago
I haven't been able to find a clip of it, but Biden recently brought up that democracies are having a hard time keeping up socially with the pace of innovation, and that autocracies are reacting quicker. He wasn't advocating for a
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by madrox 5y ago
This is fair. I was familiar with methods of evaluating causality, but didn't think it applied here since it hadn't occurred to me to design the study that way. Yet another lesson in "just because I can't think of it doe
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by madrox 5y ago
hRecipe is over 10 years old, and the point of microformats is to extract semantic data from HTML. It's not really solving the same problem as CookLang in the way HTML and JSON aren't solving the same thing. While I don't kno
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by madrox 5y ago
You can’t establish causation in an observational study like this one. You’d have to conduct an experiment to do that, and people don’t usually want to leave their careers up to double-blind. There’s still value in measuring the correlation
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by madrox 5y ago
If there is, I don't know of it. A little googling suggests Gnu Dap, but I haven't tried it. SAS is a query language, so it has a lot in common with SQL, though it's much more powerful.
818.
by madrox 5y ago
Yeah, you've summed up the pains of SAS. The query language itself is quite lovely.
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by madrox 5y ago
This is super interesting to me, and I wonder how long before someone intentionally gives themselves TP before founding a company. Considering the threads I saw on HN about homebrewing covid vaccines, I can't imagine it'll be long
820.
by madrox 5y ago
This is a very systems-engineering way of talking about over-engineering, and possibility a better way of talking about over-engineering in a world where it's just as easy to spin up MySQL as it is to spin up DynamoDB on AWS. Quite oft
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm a huge SAS fan, but after college it fell out of my toolkit for the same reason as the author: license fees. It's a shame, because I found SAS far and away to be the best tool for data cleaning and querying. Plus, it's go
822.
by madrox 5y ago
World of Warcraft, a $15/month sub also has to invest heavily in anti-cheat to the point Bruce Schneier has weighed in on it [1]. I'm sure it reduces cheating more than it would free-to-play, but I don't think what you'r
823.
by madrox 5y ago
I think it's impossible to make an anti-cheat system that is both effective and palatable to security-minded individuals. Game cheating is an arms race, and it can quickly poison an online community. If you want to see examples of what
824.
by madrox 5y ago
Agreed. Tangentially, seems likely to me is that blockchain makes it impossible for Steam to police fraud. There's consumer expectations around refundability that Steam simply won't be able to meet in this world, and people will b
825.
by madrox 5y ago
As someone who played video games a lot during their hospital stays, this has the ring of truth. I have a lot of intrusive memories but surprisingly 14 childhood surgeries aren’t among them now that I think on it.
826.
by madrox 5y ago
I'm actually very happy to hear they finally added a flag for payout access. It's been years since I was there and my eyes bugged out when I saw what I had access to without needing it.
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by madrox 5y ago
By secrets, I mean salts, password hashes, etc.
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by madrox 5y ago
There were no encrypted password dumps. No production secrets were leaked (according to the article). What's here is no more than what your average Twitch engineer has access to. Yes, that included payout data. Anyone with "staff&
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by madrox 5y ago
I led engineering for a product in a similar position. Short answer is that it's about who owns the consumer. When you relinquish control of the browse experience, you lose the ability to control where your users go. For example, say N
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by madrox 5y ago
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” - Frank Herbert in his intro to distributed systems programming class
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by madrox 5y ago
What you're asking is a whole other topic, and one I'm not familiar enough with to weigh in on. I don't have any data on how effective such an organization is...only its role, and I'm not aware of any organization fillin
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by madrox 5y ago
While I think you make good points, my reasoning is far more simple: people just enjoy communities that feel smaller, more intimate, and police themselves. This is a human nature thing regardless of whether we're talking digital or phy
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by madrox 5y ago
Yes, as an EM, I'm inclined to think of managers as people and not mustache-twirling villains who think of nothing but their 10%-30% bonus. Most of the ones I worked with are. Ad hominem attacks aside, though, is it not important to ha
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by madrox 5y ago
I considered doing a moderation as a service startup a couple years ago. I didn't end up doing it because came to the conclusion that global communities aren't the future. I think platforms supporting more silo'd communities
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by madrox 5y ago
What sucks about stories like this is, while my heart breaks for what this guy went through, managers don't have the same luxury of defending their side of the story to Mother Jones. I worked as an EM at Amazon. I went into this ready
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by madrox 5y ago
I have a hunch -- and it's no more than a hunch -- that this has nothing to do with anything except the Metaverse. I think Facebook believes children won't grow up socializing on Instagrams and Tiktoks...they'll socialize in
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by madrox 5y ago
Congrats to Imgur on its exit, I suppose. Honestly, this is probably the best outcome they could hope for. I suspect their growth has stagnated and are losing mindshare in the meme economy to Reddit and Discord. Imgur was started in a very
838.
by madrox 5y ago
This could be more benign than the article makes it out to be. Growing a content business in 2021 requires you to understand Facebook's algorithms and what will get your post amplified. Instagram famously only shows your posts to 10% o
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by madrox 5y ago
These do get shared, but usually in meme form where you turn your birthday into your "Werewolf name" and are encouraged to share in the comments. Because you're sharing in an altered, amusing form, you don't stop to cons
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by madrox 5y ago
I can't speak to other fields that require more extrinsic motivation, but as an engineering manager, cameras are pointless for teams. It's yet another one of those performative things like making your employees show up by 8am. It&

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