msellout

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by msellout 11y ago
I'm not concerned. I also walk around my neighborhood at night, even though some folks have told me that's not safe.
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by msellout 11y ago
I remember some years ago, Atlanta changed the law to ban alcohol sales a little earlier at night, except in one neighborhood downtown. Of course there was one guy and his business partners who happened to own everything in that neighborhoo
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by msellout 11y ago
I've seen this happen at a few companies organized as fiefdoms, each portion of the site under a different VP with a separate P&L report. Something good for one will get destroyed if it hurts another, whether or not the feature was
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by msellout 11y ago
That makes for an interesting interpretation of all those action movies where the protagonist seems to risk his life so frequently. We're only watching the most interesting one.
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by msellout 11y ago
And therefore you won't get out of your industry. Whatever you're doing now, you join a consultancy and do the same thing. You do get paid more, which is nice.
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by msellout 11y ago
It absolutely is the case. Why do you think Google has been providing such services as Google Voice, ReCaptcha, Street View, heck... Maps... and basically everything that's awesome and free? (other than the stuff that puts advertisemen
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by msellout 11y ago
Much of the busywork comes from a lack of comparison between ones' decision processes and randomness. Doing so would be temporarily depressing, but in the long run quite liberating.
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by msellout 11y ago
Yeah, those pesky geographical boundaries make things strange on the internet.
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by msellout 11y ago
This concept of "your data as if it is theirs" is strange to me. Deciding who owns what information is difficult and not so obvious. I once heard a man on the radio saying that he "owned his face" meaning his likeness. C
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by msellout 11y ago
And therefore one's mother's last name is even more public than a "maiden name".
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by msellout 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "self-redistribution". I at first assumed you meant economic "market forces" as opposed to government intervention. If that's true, then those market forces are almost entirely ric
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by msellout 11y ago
> If we just normalize everybody's wealth to 1, then all wealth inequality disappears. Problem solved. You misunderstood the use of the word "normalize". The point of normalization is to change the absolute magnitude but k
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by msellout 11y ago
Why should we think about one scenario but not the other?
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by msellout 11y ago
The non-zero-sum aspect you describe is commonly described as return-on-investment in a capitalist society. The redistribution is taxes and government spending. The power law is created by the preferential attachment of capital to existing
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by msellout 11y ago
What NYSE was doing seems to have increased frothiness of the markets. Your median individual investor might not pay a direct price for this, but it certainly could increase costs in subtle ways. Or simply make the market more frothy in the
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by msellout 11y ago
Or, there might end up being fewer cars on the road because it's so easy to jump on a self-driving bus, then transfer at the station (with no waiting time) to a small pooled ride...
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by msellout 11y ago
It's more difficult than you might expect to change industries after an MBA. Your internships and employers will still look for relevant experience. The best method would be to use the MBA to join a large consulting firm. You'll s
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by msellout 11y ago
"Jaywalking" was originally a marketing campaign by the motor vehicle industry before it became law. Your description sounds like a return to the way it ought to be. The bully is the human driver who threatens to kill a pedestrian
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by msellout 11y ago
And many countries have never had the the culture of changing family names on marriage.
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by msellout 11y ago
When I'm not in heavy traffic I give even more space. But unfortunately at a certain density of traffic the aggression caused by a safe distance actually makes it unsafe as people cut you off and try to "retaliate" for the im
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by msellout 11y ago
No, then you need to get meta. There's a checklist for identifying "novel" information and reacting. By checklist I mean algorithm. Sure, it can be tough to tease out the algorithm from the minds of current pilots. Luckily in
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by msellout 11y ago
I say "approximately as nutritious" in comparison to junk food. If all you eat is sugar, fat, and salt, then eating any reasonably nutritious diet will have approximately the same effects.
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by msellout 11y ago
And those decisions themselves could be easily automated, but people choose not to . There's a checklist for making those decisions. If you can write a checklist, you can write code. And for when there's not a checklist, then you
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by msellout 11y ago
I drive at a "correct" following distance. Way back when I took my driving test I was told to allow 1 car length for every 10 MPH speed. So on the highway I leave at least 6 car lengths. I constantly need to tap the brake and back
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by msellout 11y ago
Let me rephrase that for you: "While fresh food might be a factor, conventionally grown food would be approximately as nutritious as organic."
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by msellout 11y ago
Both "private" and "property" have changed meaning frequently over time, both legally and as social constructs. One American judicial philosophy is "pragmatism" -- that a judge should rule however is best for s
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by msellout 11y ago
> How does the software you build change when reading & writing data sequentially is really cheap, but accessing it randomly is expensive? I thought we were already in that situation. Cache is king.
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by msellout 11y ago
The Boston Big Dig was a great improvement -- buried the highway and revitalized downtown and Seaport. Maybe Austin should do something similar. It can narrow the streets and build some underground highways. Leave the above-ground for pedes
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by msellout 11y ago
Weird. I have never experienced anything like that with Amazon. The boxing appears totally irrelevant to me (as per what I pay Amazon).
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by msellout 11y ago
Because I can't imagine a policeman ever saying "he can kill you" except in a fictional setting where James Bond is licensed to kill and that policeman somehow knows about Bond.

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