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by majormajor 4y ago
What prevents the committed stuff from going in the right direction? Is it that the business leaders keep changing the direction or that the from the business leaders direction is unclear? Or something lower-level? I was picturing the forme
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by majormajor 4y ago
Yeah, having running software forces you to prove a certain level of correctness and lets people test against it. You can call a spec done arbitrarily and it's much harder to test that spec against any number of edge cases; and harde
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by majormajor 4y ago
It's a similar version of "build vs buy" discussions that happen at every level, from "do we even build an engineering team vs outsource to contractors" to "do we include leftpad or write our own method,"
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by majormajor 4y ago
My opposition to waterfall is that building understanding through investigation and specifications is inferior as a way to get the finished product you need in the time you want, generally much inferior than building understanding through i
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by majormajor 4y ago
If the adjustments just keep coming you have a business problem and no "process" will save you.
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by majormajor 4y ago
While I wouldn't put things that could single-handedly grant access in there - since you likely won't be checking on if it's been compromised that frequently - I think it's still great for things like backup 2FA codes or
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by majormajor 4y ago
This feels like a circular - but also not fully correct - claim to me. Leadership issues and organization issues can feed on each other in a vicious cycle, but they can also exist separately. The CEO may not know how to effectively organize
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by majormajor 4y ago
Obviously the extremes are stupid, but hey... Think about it - that works just as well if you take it to the extreme as "rebuild the entire city denser" - once you knock down the entire city, that land is gonna be worth a lot less
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by majormajor 4y ago
The tipping point of concern for the anti-gentrification crowd isn't "is it profitable to upzone", it's "will upzoning make things cheaper" and those are VERY different questions. But just going on the numbers
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by majormajor 4y ago
As far as I can tell, the Manhattan case tells us that we aren't even close to the "building more will cause prices to fall" point anywhere in the US. And because of that, building more where it's cheaper is a better s
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by majormajor 4y ago
Sure, but we explicitly tried to counter those forces in the US, including through government policy to build industry in areas where it wasn't before. Moving the defense industry to be less-concentrated in Los Angeles was deliberate a
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by majormajor 4y ago
I don't think the demand is literally boundless, but I think the idea that we could easily outpace demand with construction to dramatically increase affordability is wildly optimistic. I'd rather build new Dallases, or denser Da
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by majormajor 4y ago
The "average" investor is in jobs less hit by typical recession/down market impacts, since the odds of a hospitality worker or barista having a retirement account in the first place is much lower than the odds of a white coll
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by majormajor 4y ago
> Which totally defies economic logic: there's only so much demand in the world for places like Manhattan! How much demand "in the world" to live in Manhattan do you think there is? The more the price drops, of course, the
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by majormajor 4y ago
> Unfortunately wealthy established homeowners don't want more people to near to them so they vote against any and all change. Sometimes poor established renters also don't want change. In the 20th century a lot of cities gre
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by majormajor 4y ago
> AI generated content will be immune to that because it’s amazing at matching the pattern of high value content. Life for curators is about to get a lot worse. I think you'll see that pattern change more quickly. Nothing makes perc
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by majormajor 4y ago
The post you're replying to appears to be trying to sidestep your "across the political spectrum" by blaming "elites" instead in a way that suggests they're party-agnostic. I think this is still inaccurate, &qu
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by majormajor 4y ago
Would the overall economy be worse off if companies hadn't gone nuts with hiring in 2020/2021? Does "more reluctant" here = "more thoughtful"? I'm sure you could take it too far, but I'm highly skepti
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by majormajor 4y ago
There's two angles here: * cable networks can get more revenue for a lot of types of sports than broadcast. ABC and their affiliates can make more in ad revenue from their regular programming than by showing random college basketball g
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by majormajor 4y ago
> If it's the latter, then reduction of 1 kWh delivered should save them the same amount of money. The "net metering" policy being changed isn't regarding "saving the grid the money by reducing the amount deliv
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by majormajor 4y ago
Only big events are still on broadcast. College football, for instance, is spread between: ABC, NBC, Fox, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, Big Ten Network, ACC Network, Bally/other RSNs... 7+ of those are cable-only. Local non-big pr
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by majormajor 4y ago
That's not what the "twitter shouldn't be able to remove anything that's not illegal" folks call it.
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by majormajor 4y ago
Things like "puffery" and other "I wasn't being serious" defenses. Good luck prosecuting those things when everyone can hide behind "speech alone is harmless." Note also that the comment I was originally r
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by majormajor 4y ago
The recent "pro-free speech" crusades are explicitly targeting the rights of private individuals to have non-legal recourse, such as the ability of social media platforms to have editorial control over their platforms. So... fight
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by majormajor 4y ago
Do we really have a great handle on things like swatting? The wave of ICO scams a few years back? Death threats to local government officials or public figures? I see more "grudging acceptance" than any sort of good control. And i
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by majormajor 4y ago
You talk about how categories that "seem like sensible" ones get "spun around" too much for politics. So are you promoting no restrictions whatsoever ? How close to violence do you want to allow? How allowable is a spec
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by majormajor 4y ago
The stochasticness probably gets you into trouble here. If you get different results each time you try to "figure out and rewrite" the legacy program... you're gonna need to be able to right some extremely thorough, perfect t
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by majormajor 4y ago
> Inherently both ASM and programming produce the same output, "programming" just traded the generality of ASM for verbose and diverse functions. I wouldn't say the output is that similar. You get wildly different bug type
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by majormajor 4y ago
That last sentence startles me. Are you proposing some people or companies have a legal obligation to make you aware of the existence of content you aren't aware of? That sounds like a big jump even beyond "they shouldn't be
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by majormajor 4y ago
> (in the last the past 20 yrs or so, an ad agency would be put through the ringer for the husband plays with cool devices wife does the dishes) Is this when we all feel old because that ad isn't even close to only 20 years old? It&

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