mherdeg

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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   Kind of surprised the author didn't describe getting refunds -- the behavior here seems like it should have triggered European consumer protections.
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   When I was at MSFT a little over 10 years ago the norm was that to be that if you gave notice, and said where you were going, and it was a competitor in certain industries, you would be escorted out immediately or same-day. Our extended
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   I enjoyed his track "Sorry Katie I Spammed Your Smart Speaker".
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   I always wonder why folks with 9-figure net worth (or high 8) keep doing any job at all. People do not get very many quality-adjusted life years -- why would you spend 8+ hours per day doing CEO work when you could spend that time with fami
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   I'm a little surprised that the UK press is allowed to name Mr Kelly. Once he has completed his punishment and appropriately paid for his crimes against society and the late Captain Moore, why will Mr Kelly still be newsworthy? Won&#x2
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   > Isn't the obvious solution to also reverse the transfer from Bank B to Bank C? If multi-hop transfers are treated as irreversible, then it creates an incentive for fraudulent sellers to collect all payments through multiple hops.
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   One utilitarian perspective is that a world where you are at risk of your vital organs being reallocated at any time is such a bad world (deep anxiety for everyone all the time) that organ seizure would never be a reasonable policy choice.
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   The statistic I wonder about is -- self-driving cars will shrink the pool of available donor organs by about 20% ( https://futurism.com/neoscope/self-driving-cars-will-save-li... ). Is there an externality that should b
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   I'm currently reading through Johanna Rothman's "Manage Your Project Portfolio" and related literature and a bunch of this resonates: * Finishing work is more important than starting it * Teams working together on a sing
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Depends! If the first page of search engine results about a question contains the answer I wanted to hear (i.e. it confirms my existing biases), I won't often look at page 2. If the first page "feels wrong" -- like I have a h
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I've also seen similar behavior with thread-unsafe code (the time I saw something like this was very painful -- email messages were generated at about the same time in parallel, and most were sent to the wrong recipients.)
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Something I read[1] that resonated a few months ago: > Dying from Covid is more or less optional at this point. If you want to remove the risk of dying, get the vaccine. If you want to take the risk, don’t. https://news.ycombi
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    For the past few years I've held the view that choosing to live in a large metropolitan area (NYC, DC, SF, Boston) is basically choosing a fast, fairly low-pain death in the event of full-out nuclear war. Did I get that wrong? Is a bar
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Is this the Triplebyte model?
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    > And I also want it to be free from a cacophony of noise. OK in this case I think the dystopia you're living in is Neal Stephenson's Anathem, where a tribe of techno-priests professionally searches the Internet to try to find
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Hmm. There are some dystopias we're already in! Pynchon in "V" (1963) spells out the kind of everyone-sees-the-bad-news-daily future that I live every time I read a newspaper or, you know, get a NYT push notification: "&
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I've heard an opinion from people on Team Right that "it's just our bad luck that we got stuck with the antivaxxers and Capitol stormers this time around, this could just as easily have come from the other team". That&#x
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I liked Bob Wachter's story about how taking aspirin accidentally revealed early stomach cancer: https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1447972627956391941
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    > Every lawyer worth their salt in America knows that you can’t get an injunction to prevent someone from publishing something. That’s a prior restraint and is about as close as you can get to something absolutely forbidden under America
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I stopped reading this about four paragraphs in and did a bunch of web searches to try to find the phenomenon it reminded me of. Once I had successfully found it with my second search ([economics name for effect raises orchestra]) I came ba
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    This reddit post about rabies shows some of the lurking horror of the "something bad happened, and now it's much too late to avoid the consequences" scenario: https://np.reddit.com/r/aww/comments&#x2
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I'd be interested to see an illustration of how selective availability works -- if your goal is to ensure that a position cannot be determined accurately, how do you alter the signals produced by your satellites to correctly introduc
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    For the first time in about 10 years, I recently found myself with some physical DVDs I wanted to format-shift (show the kids some old movies on an iPad). It was surprisingly hard to do the homework on the "best" way to do this on
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Yeah the second blog post in this series has some examples of leaking, unexpired batteries: https://goughlui.com/2016/12/19/great-aa-alkaline-battery-te...
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Two sources I've been reading on the endgame here: (1) Circuit-breaker criteria for interventions (vax mandates, mask mandates, indoor gathering restrictions, etc): https://alexanderjxchen.github.io/circuitbreaker/
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Have you talked to a pediatrician about off-label vaccination? My understanding is that there are various barriers prohibiting this; this op-ed says there is a CDC vaccine provider agreement which forbids the practice - https://w
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I don't know if the calculator at seeyourfolks.com has guided any of my decisions differently but it guides some thinking.
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    The scene at the end of "To Sir, With Love" - where he decides how he wants to have an impact in his career - is always really moving for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXaEf4ktpPA
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Interesting, and is his birthday Sunday, June 13, 1965?
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    > If you must put something down in writing that you know has the potential to cause political heat to fall on your shoulders, and it's not something core to your life's work, it's perfectly fine to either a) use a semi-an