mherdeg

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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   Hmm, re: > how startups tend to go bankrupt and their tech dies with them I have this mental model, which may not be entirely accurate, that the original Iridium corporation successfully launched satellites into orbit, erased the multi-b
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   I took what is probably the same all-day training course with my extended team at Microsoft about 10 years ago. I had some deep qualms about this -- "this cannot possibly have any scientific basis, right? What is the point of this? How
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   Is this different from the phenomenon described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming ? Honestly it seems like a pretty great career -- you get to spend your time indoors, probably somewhere climate controlled w
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   I've seen this! When the toddler plays an iPad game he likes to start by "failing" (choosing the wrong option, deliberately crashing a toy car, doing nothing at all) and watching what happens. It looks to me like he's ba
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   Was there a science fiction story with a plot point that involves aliens traveling to Earth to hand over a bunch of stuff to a human who was listed in the International Star Registry as the owner of a distant and cosmic-politically-importan
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   My low-information view is that the Chinese government is an extraordinarily effective communications agency who very clearly understands the role that university students play in transmitting culture, especially when studying abroad, and
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   Looking forward to seeing the PDF that implements FizzBuzz in the NSO JBIG2 instruction set.
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   So I mean, the very first antivaccine movement involved firebombs ( https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/13/1/82 ) not to mention some questionable research ethics; maybe none of this is really new. Your comme
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   by mherdeg 5y ago

   Reading this gave me a kind of horrifying idea that goes something like: You know about a deadly disease whose most serious outcomes can be avoided by getting a shot. Many members of a group in your society have decided they don't want
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I thought I understood this until: > the parts are shipped to Digikey as blanks, and they have a machine that can program the parts on-site What is going on here? Is the thing that there is a picture of earlier in the blog post (the two
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Hmm this is an interesting anecdote to compare against the view ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29459245 ) that: > In the Earnings Call in July of this year, they said they now employe 950,000 warehouse workers. T
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    usepath.com (YC S19) kinda has this feel too, I think I get it.
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    My one firmly held view about reporting on lawsuits is that it should be stigmatized to publish an article that doesn't also publish the docket number. It's just cruel and shortsighted for the reporter to have the complaint right
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    A couple decades ago the version of this was -- "Someday you will drive your Sony to the sony to pick up some more Sony" ( https://everything2.com/title/Someday+you+will+drive+your+So... ).
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Thanks very much for adding this context! I have not read the full docs and based on what I've read so far I don't feel like I'm thoroughly qualified to answer "is California removing Algebra from middle school?" Wh
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I don't understand how you can remove algebra from middle-school curricula without exacerbating inequality. Supplementary math education in our area costs about $1500-$2500/year (looking at Russian School of Math list prices). The
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Seeing the no-ghosts button reminded me that it's very likely my young kids are never going to have the fun of pushing the "degauss" button on a CRT.
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Huh, some of this may have to do with the medium? Where I've done the most graphic design, offset printing, you get 4 colors (CMYK), and you can pay a little extra to run another plate of a spot color. In that environment, if you use r
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I guess you could buy a refurbished Mac Mini on apple.com for $589?
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    There's a very particular kind of writing style happening here that I think I attribute to Matt Levine: > If that customer switches their $1M/year budget to Snowflake, then about $400k7 goes back to AWS, making AWS about $200k
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    > Could you imagine a news report about how the much touted vaccine efficacy of 95% didn't really pan out? It's true. Do you mean like "Efficacy of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine slips to 84% after six months, data sho
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Oh yeah the text is charming: > Bluetooth® range: 15 feet; Fun: unlimited
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    It's funny how my bugbears from interacting with distributed async messaging (Kafka) are like 90 degrees orthogonal from the things described here: (1) Occasionally have wanted to wonder what the actual traffic is . This takes extra s
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Yeah this is interesting - street photography has historically not involved a lot of consent, and photographers who professionally shoot in public have generally defended their right to do so. Consider e.g. every photo in https:/&#x2F
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Maybe only some images get flagged with the metadata that say that they work with Twitter, and OpenSea pays Twitter a 10% cut of any works-with-Twitter image rights they sell?
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    My favorite options for Twitter to make money are * Early access to tweets -- send an API call with Elon Musk's latest tweets 1000ms before they are public to algorithmic traders for $1M/month * Blue checkmark next to profile pict
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    I've been reading a Neil Gaiman book to the youngest kid every now and then which goes like: > Ladies of Light & Ladies of Darkness, > & Ladies of Never-You-Mind, > this is a prayer for a Blueberry Girl. > First, Ma
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    What I've tried to do while parenting is focus on relative risks and mitigate the worst ones. For kids the major mortality risk is "unintentional injury" ( https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCa
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    Gosh I've really enjoyed using the Shop Pay checkout experience on an increasingly large number of ecommerce sites this past few months. It didn't really click until recently that this was all Shopify backed! Makes me think it mig
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    by mherdeg 5y ago

    In the US they are mailed to members of Congress.