myownpetard

11 ms·

61.
by myownpetard 4y ago
I don't think we're in disagreement; I'm more or less agnostic on the points I brought up, just thinking out loud. My original intent was to explain what I think the ethos is behind, 'code is law', which was in resp
62.
by myownpetard 4y ago
Washington has one of the cleanest electrical grids in the states, about 90% comes from renewables. 66% of their energy generation is from hydro. No need to import sunshine, well at least for energy purposes.
63.
by myownpetard 4y ago
Does participation in a smart contract imply any kind of legal agreement? You're essentially interacting with an api/bot that's being hosted by whatever blockchain community at large. Anybody can publish anything, and any unr
64.
by myownpetard 4y ago
A judge is supposed to read the smart contract source code and determine the intent? The parties are frequently anonymous and have never interacted outside of the publication the smart contract to the blockchain and another party interactin
65.
by myownpetard 4y ago
With smart contracts there is only the code. There is no external trusted documentation that says what the intention of the code is. If the contract allows for an action to occur, then that action is permissible. It's the old quote tak
66.
by myownpetard 5y ago
That's the basis of this fun short story that was posted to HN a days ago. https://www.gwern.net/Clippy
67.
by myownpetard 5y ago
The more your family's healthcare is dependent on your employer the less it a voluntary arrangement.
68.
by myownpetard 5y ago
They kind of make that joke in 'Have a Cigar' on Wish You Were Here. Well I've always had a deep respect And I mean that most sincere The band is just fantastic That is really what I think Oh by the way, which one
69.
by myownpetard 5y ago
But it sounds like they didn't do great by their reports: "I was a manager for over 25 years. I feel that I was a good one. My employees seemed to agree. I kept many of them on board for decades, and these were folks that could wa
70.
by myownpetard 5y ago
The only way to know the price of your labor is to interview and see what the market says. Companies are happy to have a non-competitive monopoly on your labor where they can unilaterally set the price. I think engineers (or anybody really)
71.
by myownpetard 5y ago
Reminds me of my favorite Key and Peele sketch. "Perchance good sir, could you point me in the direction of the nearest apothecary?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbq6Wfh9fi4&ab_channel=Key%2...
72.
by myownpetard 5y ago
I think that the original idea behind crypto is still the most interesting. It's programmable money. Large swaths of the finance industry exist to make money programmable. Why not build it into the monetary system directly? The general
73.
by myownpetard 5y ago
If you want to compel an industry to fundamentally change its compensation structure, history indicates that you do need to organize and negotiate collectively and explicitly. See the 8 hour workday and the 5 day workweek as examples.
74.
by myownpetard 5y ago
Paid OT is not something an individual can negotiate for when it is unprecedented in the industry. It also wouldn't surprise me if major game studios have a handshake agreement to never offer paid OT. It would probably be easier to avo
75.
by myownpetard 5y ago
I don't think they are talking about the cost of running an open source project. They are talking about the cost of creating and deploying a robust application. In that sense the cost has absolutely gone down. It's trivial to crea
76.
by myownpetard 5y ago
I'm with you. I was confused by that term. Why not 'browser based remote desktop'? I've never heard anything happening in a browser called clientless before. In fact it is usually explicitly called a client, e.g. client
77.
by myownpetard 5y ago
I think it's a reasonable assumption that US fusion companies would have the same patent policy as SpaceX. Elon is quoted in HBR, “We have essentially no patents. Our primary long-term competition is China. If we published patents, it
78.
by myownpetard 5y ago
There are so many ways you can accidentally systematize racism in software like automated lending. In the past there were explicitly racist policies like redlining. This leads to a historical data set of loan denials to people in specific r
79.
by myownpetard 5y ago
> It's predicting whether a company is going to do well or not, which has nothing to do with randomness. You're right that that has little to do with randomness. But it also has little to do with investing.
80.
by myownpetard 5y ago
When investing in something like the FAANG index or Google you're not betting on how the companies will do. Predictions like "Google is going to do well in the future and continue to grow" are not useful for making investment
81.
by myownpetard 6y ago
My point wasn't to compare specific atrocities. You can find plenty of high death count (thousands, tens of thousands) religious massacres in Europe during this period. My point was to show that the claim, "they had a civilization
82.
by myownpetard 6y ago
The Spanish Inquisition was executing people up until 1826. The last 2itch was executed in England in 1716. Both hundreds of years after the fall of the Aztec Empire. Oxford is a strange callout. It was founded in 1096. About 700 years befo
83.
by myownpetard 6y ago
As an amateur chess player (2000/rapid/lichess) I wouldn't say the speed or amount of thinking I do has changed as I've gotten better in terms of the number of moves I evaluate. In fact it feels like I frequently think l
84.
by myownpetard 6y ago
What is the relationship between casinos and wisdom of the crowd? Just about all casino games I am familiar with have known and controlled odds. There is no need for a 'wisdom of the crowd' to compute the probability distribution.
85.
by myownpetard 6y ago
I didn't know anything about WWII until I attended Adolf Hitler Art Academy. Thank goodness they weren't forced to change their name.
86.
by myownpetard 6y ago
They said SF != The Bay Area, not SF ∉ The Bay Area. Your point agrees with him. The Bay Area includes Oakland, Richmond etc. which are pretty different than SF. It is probably not accurate to extrapolate the author's experience in SF
87.
by myownpetard 6y ago
> what's stopping them from doing it again tomorrow? Giving medical help to a drug addict is more likely to reduce the likelihood that they commit another crime than giving them a criminal record.
88.
by myownpetard 6y ago
The health care professionals of the STAR program are also not dealing with violent individuals.
89.
by myownpetard 6y ago
I agree. There are many comments here saying, "what if they turn violent?" as though that is a deal breaker for this kind of program. I think EMTs are a good model for this. If the situation escalates then the health professionals
90.
by myownpetard 6y ago
Unless you're making your money on private prisons this program seems like a win for every actor in the system: the police, the distressed person, tax payers, society as a whole.

More ›