mulmen

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811.
by mulmen 2y ago
Not required. Also not the point. Genetic data allows bulk identification of traits that may not be outwardly visible. Or even invention of new traits. This information can be easily used to target large groups of individuals. What happe
812.
by mulmen 2y ago
Yep, exactly. Golden handcuffs.
813.
by mulmen 2y ago
I live in the US and my employer provides excellent healthcare. I broke my collarbone last spring and had surgery to repair it followed by months of physical therapy. Zero dollars out of pocket.
814.
by mulmen 2y ago
The RIO was literally only there to push buttons. The weapon systems were too complicated to operate while also flying the plane.
815.
by mulmen 2y ago
Isn’t this exactly why accelerators like Y Combinator exist? To provide all the necessary things that aren’t your startup?
816.
by mulmen 2y ago
Yes and business leaders ate it up. They only pushed back when it was rebranded as “work from home”.
817.
by mulmen 2y ago
AI lowers the bar. You can say Python makes developers dumb too. Or that canned food makes cooks dumb. That’s not really the point though. When something is easier more people can do it. That expansion is biased downward.
818.
by mulmen 2y ago
Having thought about this a bit more I think hobbies are recursive. I buy a motorcycle. I talk about the motorcycle. I ride the motorcycle. Riding motorcycles is a hobby now. The motorcycle needs maintenance. I talk about the maintenance
819.
by mulmen 2y ago
It’s not really an exception though. These are the same people who spent the last 20 years singing the praises of offshoring and follow-the-sun. It’s just trend chasing. Honestly I think the mistake we made was calling it “work from home”
820.
by mulmen 2y ago
This is brilliant and absolutely describes my personal experience. I think the “doing the thing” can also be broken down into subcategories of “doing the thing with the thing” and “keeping the thing working to do the thing”. My hobbies ar
821.
by mulmen 2y ago
Don’t we already do this with artificial reefs?
822.
by mulmen 2y ago
I just don’t buy these unsubstantiated claims. If you can’t find evidence why do you believe it? Why does it matter if people trust politicians who were actors more than politicians who weren’t actors? They’re all still politicians when t
823.
by mulmen 2y ago
> I literally had a young man confide in me day of election in 2016 that he was voting for Trump because he liked him on the TV show. That's your American voter, when they show up at all. I don’t find extrapolating a single anecdote
824.
by mulmen 2y ago
> Evidence suggests that (at least in modern times) the way to get Americans to vote is to so constrain them that they can't do anything else with their time on election day. In 2020 voting by mail was widely expanded because of the
825.
by mulmen 2y ago
Because it’s a lot easier to compromise one email provider instead of a million. I’m surprised I have to explain the benefits of federated over centralized systems here.
826.
by mulmen 2y ago
The Fourth Amendment seems like a more appropriate starting point. Most people call the “privacy movement” “the American revolution“.
827.
by mulmen 2y ago
> It's a disquietingly under-informed and apathetic electorate. The United States has elevated voter suppression to an art form. Last minute polling relocations, inadequate polling locations, unreasonable ID requirements, unreasona
828.
by mulmen 2y ago
> the problem of producing ammonia has already received the attention of several generations of the greatest minds humanity has. Sure but they were working with the constraints of the times. Renewable electricity generation doesn’t have
829.
by mulmen 2y ago
They’d have to be huge and also need to get out of the way of overhead cranes. There’s some work being done in that direction but it’s never going to be a complete solution.
830.
by mulmen 2y ago
We also need to bring back the principle of least surprise. Exploring modern UIs is dangerous because irreversible actions are not clearly identified.
831.
by mulmen 2y ago
You don't need to be an expert in the technology to ask a few relevant questions like "where is the information stored?" and "what temperature and humidity does it prefer?" Of course WB is famously bad at storing f
832.
by mulmen 2y ago
This is why we have regulations.
833.
by mulmen 2y ago
20 years ago is 7 years after the show ended. I looked it up.
834.
by mulmen 2y ago
Ok but preserving media seems like a thing Warner Brothers should be really good at. Why did Warner Brothers have an everyday uneducated person in charge of archival?
835.
by mulmen 2y ago
Yeah I extract a lot of data out of Dynamo. It’s still the easiest part. Change capture just isn’t complicated. You need some basic constructs and then you’re golden. The data mart design phase is orders of magnitude more effort.
836.
by mulmen 2y ago
> Extracting the data should be the most challenging aspect of an ETL pipeline. Why should this be difficult? It’s the easiest part. You run SELECT * and you’re done. The difficult part is transforming all the disparate upstream system
837.
by mulmen 2y ago
You’re still paying the premium for tabs.
838.
by mulmen 2y ago
So what if it does? Worst case you just go through the account recovery process at each institution. Password managers are a convenience. Data integrity isn’t critical but security is.
839.
by mulmen 2y ago
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.” You can dismiss any source by saying “nuh-uh” but you need to back it up to be taken seriously here.
840.
by mulmen 2y ago
I doubt everyone agrees on anything. If you have contrary numbers please just save all of us the time and share them.

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