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811.
by mcculley 4y ago
I have been seeing this prediction for a while. What makes you so confident?
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by mcculley 4y ago
I did not ask about vaccine mandates.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Excess deaths per capita show us where cultures are better than others at policy. Yes, some of those cultures have healthier people. e.g., Those countries that paid only the sick to stay home were smarter than those who locked down everyone
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by mcculley 4y ago
Not all policy decisions would necessarily result in "upend[ing] everyone's lives". Many person years were lost: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm I sat in the I
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by mcculley 4y ago
> only the extremely elderly or obese are in any significant danger of dieing of COVID We should not make policy decisions as long as only the elderly and otherwise vulnerable are at risk?
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by mcculley 4y ago
Some people want more income than they currently make.
817.
by mcculley 4y ago
What if you want to be promoted?
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by mcculley 4y ago
Have publishers even considered selling a subscription without ads? I realize it would cost more. I would really like to subscribe to a newspaper that has readers as its only customers.
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by mcculley 4y ago
Run overlapping projects/experiments concurrently.
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by mcculley 4y ago
No, that would be silly. I am aware of the risk of bedbugs. I know they are less likely in facilities regulated by local health departments.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am aware that Rome’s population decreased. My reasoning is that a population that was larger and denser in the past is carrying around more parasites. Rome is just one example. By 1492, Europe had many large cities and lots of travel betw
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by mcculley 4y ago
Amazon’s framing? I haven’t yet seen the Amazon adaptation, but when I read Peripheral, I thought it was clear the region Gibson was describing.
823.
by mcculley 4y ago
Most of Alabama is unlike Huntsville.
824.
by mcculley 4y ago
I prefer my linens to be sterile.
825.
by mcculley 4y ago
According to Wikipedia, Teotihuacan had an estimated population of 125,000 or more, "making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch at its zenith", which is thought to be no later than 550 CE. Rome is esti
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by mcculley 4y ago
I am not asking about the founders. I agree we should be generous when considering their experience. I am asking about the investors. They put money in at some estimation of total addressable market.
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by mcculley 4y ago
It started as being intended for VC, right? I remember YC being an investor and Paul Graham saying great things about the founders. Certainly they must have been counting on growth. Did they plan to just capture every airbed? Or to do to ho
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by mcculley 4y ago
This is a useful way to think about how markets/platforms evolve. I have yet to use Airbnb. But it seems that the target customer has changed. I have been aware of them since they first showed up on Hacker News. They were pitched as re
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by mcculley 4y ago
Yeah, the article does not make clear what it means by “good”. What is good for the U.S. is not necessarily good for global humanity or the promotion of liberal democracy.
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by mcculley 4y ago
I responded to the blanket assertion. I wouldn't want people in civilized places to think that public toilets should only be "for the people who have nowhere else".
831.
by mcculley 4y ago
This may be true in San Francisco and certainly is in many other parts of the U.S. It is not true in places with functioning government.
832.
by mcculley 4y ago
This yields just a list of terms, not the relationships between them.
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by mcculley 4y ago
This is great! I have been working on something related, a tool to watch over my own writing and suggest better words: https://github.com/mcculley/WordWhittler Would you consider making an API or an export of your thes
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by mcculley 4y ago
There should be a set of VFS hooks so that a filesystem can offer up pages of swap to the kernel without an explicit swap file. I remember tinkering with this around 2000, but I didn’t get very far. I would love to see this explored.
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by mcculley 4y ago
You need to work on the copywriting. There are grammar errors. (e.g., “and much more save time and more done”, “access things you in faster than ever before”)
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by mcculley 4y ago
I have been in peer groups of small and medium sized businesses. Many of these smaller organizations have only one person in the role of Controller or Comptroller and are vulnerable to embezzling. One interesting policy I have seen implemen
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by mcculley 4y ago
I did not entirely quit drinking, but I reduced quite a lot. It is important to note age when describing alcohol consumption. I am 50. What worked for me at 20 does not work at all at 50. This is generally true for most. I have been regular
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by mcculley 4y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_bribery
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by mcculley 4y ago
This is not my understanding at all. The U.S. has laws against non-public entities taking and paying bribes (e.g. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act).
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by mcculley 4y ago
My first professional job was working as a DoD contractor. Having the anti-bribery training beaten into me did not prepare me well for doing business with the private sector and in other countries. I had to learn that there are completely d

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