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by notShabu 4y ago
Many economic systems around the world rely on various kinds of "demand sponges" to soak up excess spending. This keeps inflation in check b/c excess spending can be directed towards a "Better Future" nest egg as th
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IMO interviews are designed solely to maximize team size. This requires filtering for individuals for fit well into a hierarchy without disrupting the structures above and below them. Being "good at the job" is actually bad becaus
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by notShabu 4y ago
"How to Produce Code" on a spectrum of efficiency -> abstraction Binary Assembly ... ... C++ ... ... Python ... ... Product Manager speaking with words: "Can you make it have more pizazz?
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by notShabu 4y ago
A lone developer within a strong engineering org probably creates better code b/c they'd would need to have the street cred to solo a project. The opposite would happen in orgs where one person who happens to be the most technical
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IMO technology overall increases the ambient "responsibility" pressure for everyone, including children. This artificially ages everyone so now younger and younger people have to learn to cross reference research papers, manage tr
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A major cost of technology is responsibility. E.g Facebook's cost w/ moderators, Google's cost w/ customer support for user's life data, etc... Companies are more profitable whenever they can shift that responsibili
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Same, even though a lot of syntax is theoretically unnecessary, they chunk the code into patterns that help navigate the complexity. Otherwise it's like improving the efficiency of a closet by ripping out the shelves, drawers, dividers
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by notShabu 4y ago
It's pretty useful as a lookup, but these tools are similar to a knife that auto-magically orients itself to help with cutting. Some tools should be as dumb as possible so that act as extensions of the user with zero tolerance. Play an
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Why Does Loss Porn All Look the Same?(theorya.substack.com)
2 points by notShabu 4y ago|1 comments
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by notShabu 4y ago
Sturgeon's Law rephrased "90% of all work processes are crap but labelled with whatever is popular" With "X is the problem", X is always a valid pointer to that 90% regardless of the actual merits or demerits of X i
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by notShabu 4y ago
FYI vgr of Ribbonfarm has a significant body of work expanding on the OODA loop, including a book "Tempo". https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-use-and-misuse-of-the-oo... If I were to summarize it to a 5 year
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by notShabu 4y ago
There's actually a whole subculture around hardcore spirituality through Jed McKenna books. Sample: https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1329310154630696960...
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Yep, copying the external surface behavior of exceptionalism misses how a lot of exceptionalism is due to compounding internal motivation and meaning making. A way of being that constantly re-emphasizes that way of being. Super-linear growt
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by notShabu 4y ago
This problem is actually somewhat similar to (or a result of) the inflation problem. Normally the market distributes demand in a continuous and predictable fashion so it's easier to plan for the future. This includes demand for toilet
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by notShabu 4y ago
Officers should understand that they're casting crucio, not expelliarmus
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Inequality Is a “Feature” of Exponential Growth(theory-a.com)
1 points by notShabu 4y ago|1 comments
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I have a theory that company growth is due to inability to extend the "family" of core shareholders. E.g. an early employee gets a lot less stock than an early founder despite everyone at this stage doing a lot of work. There is a
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by notShabu 4y ago
The compression & blur analogy also applies to human minds as well. If you focus on fidelity, you have to increase storage and specialize in a narrow domain. If you want a bit of everything, then blurring and destructive compression is
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by notShabu 4y ago
It might have different effects over time. E.g. in the intermediate term it emphasizes certain topics/regions which leads to embodied mastery but over the long term it ossifies into stubbornness and broken record repetition. Similar to
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Profiting from Efficient Market Hypothesis(theorya.substack.com)
1 points by notShabu 4y ago|0 comments
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IMO any sort of change will eventually become assimilated into The Loop. The trick I think is to do things/hobbies/work in a way where you are always in the process becoming someone else vs incremental improvements on on an existi
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by notShabu 4y ago
A digital central bank currency seems more like a refactoring of an existing setup rather than something radically new. Since the policies of 2008, bank IOUs and central bank IOUs are basically the same since the central bank backs up all t
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by notShabu 4y ago
Theory A: [ https://www.theory-a.com](https://www.theory-a.com) Premise: Plotting market cap rather than price allows fundamentals like earnings & cash flow to be compared against the market valuation on the same Y