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by pfraze 6y ago
Sure, my counter is just that the Drake equation uses conservative probabilities on those questions. Even pessimistic answers to those questions turn into optimistic projections given the scale of the universe. We’re obviously discussing a
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by pfraze 6y ago
Star Trek posits that warp drive is the technology which merits contact from other civilizations. I would expect the technology to actually be access to interstellar communication. A planet joins the universe when it first logs in.
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by pfraze 6y ago
It’s not a question of intuition. The Drake equation tries to make a conservative calculation of the factors involved in the formation of life. As you might imagine, those odds are extremely low. It then multiplies those odds against the nu
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by pfraze 6y ago
Well, look at the economic reality of rural America. They've been on the losing end of policy for the last 30-50 years. They don't want handouts that lead them to subsist as an underclass; they want a thriving economic base which
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by pfraze 6y ago
The difference in resources between the companies obviously factors into product quality as well. The four-way focus of speed, security, compatibility with an evolving web spec, and extensibility is demanding to say the least.
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by pfraze 6y ago
Centralized servers are just as hard to run, if not harder. You just don't experience those ops yourself without working there.
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by pfraze 6y ago
I hear that kind of thing from two types of people: nontechnical people who are looking for a contrarian hot-take, and technical people who subscribe to the "credibility hierarchy" that's correlated to how close you work to t
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by pfraze 6y ago
That’s a bit of a unique case; they had very publicly visible family issues.
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by pfraze 6y ago
It’s like Thiel’s point about how monopolies always talk about the open market and small fish talk about being a monopoly. In this case, if you’re actually stepping down to spend time with family, you say “I’m looking for my next challenge.
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by pfraze 6y ago
Why.... why would there be a no button
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by pfraze 6y ago
Also, caching layers. Presumably a service uses SQLite to simplify their ops. So long as the caching layer is equally simple to maintain, then SQLite continues to make sense to me
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by pfraze 6y ago
I've dealt with this kind of thing before, it's unpleasant, and I wish you the best.
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by pfraze 6y ago
That's up there with describing your Wordpress as "a globally-connected information transfer system"
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by pfraze 6y ago
Something which people don't always recognize about open source is how "value-capture" works for creators. FOSS eschews direct monetization (selling licenses to the core product) based on an ethical premise (it's unfairl
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by pfraze 6y ago
There's a difference between using open-source in your work and doing a superficial fork & rebrand. The latter is clearly trying to steal the upside from the creator of the code.
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by pfraze 6y ago
You want to do both. If you only play good hands then other players will fold any time you play.
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by pfraze 6y ago
I suspect they’re referring to how some blockchains (eg ethereum) are using sharing and lightning to scale
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by pfraze 6y ago
I once sat down to a $2/$4 limit poker game in Vegas. The limit was so low that you knew a maxed pot was unlikely to ever bankrupt you. It’s meant to be for amateurs without much cash for gambling (me). Some guy at the table had figur
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by pfraze 6y ago
Just to add some dimension to that observation (but not diminish it) at least some of those words are better described as "credited as first used" rather than invented. He did invent many words, however, and I think more impressiv
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by pfraze 6y ago
Russian interference covers at least 4 behaviors: manufactured consent online, hacking the dnc/rnc, hacking voting equipment, and the compromise of the president. All of those are serious, all of them are credible, and none of them can
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by pfraze 6y ago
The way to handle something like this is to turn the "surprised and driven away" into "prepared and motivated to solve it," which is what the anecdote conveyed^1. You give players tools to counter-act negative outcomes,
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by pfraze 6y ago
Too bad that story isn't quite right, but a few tweaks and it's still a good anecdote.
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by pfraze 6y ago
Solid blogpost material there. It's often said that product designers should learn from economics, but competitive games have just as much to offer. Eugene Wei's "Status as a Service" [1] deserves a mention here; it&#x27
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by pfraze 6y ago
That's not giving the Russia situation the nuance it deserves. The controversy is about the ability for motivated & funded actors to manufacture consent by exploiting weaknesses in the design of social media. That's a credible
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by pfraze 6y ago
Going to reshare a comment I made 3 days ago Authenticity is dependent on the rules of social-media. You believe the information is authentic if you believe the rules of the game are being followed. These controversies are related to breakd
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by pfraze 6y ago
What up, Craig!
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by pfraze 6y ago
It’s really common for decisions to be made for more than one reason, even if some of those reasons are just advantages brought up during the planning discussions. I can easily see the defense motives as being one of the many factors involv
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by pfraze 6y ago
Houston is by far one of the most diverse areas I’ve ever visited in the US, up there with NYC.
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by pfraze 6y ago
It's connected to the same reason we only allow US citizens to be involved in US politics. You at least assume that a citizen has a direct interest in the country's domestic well-being. We talk about russian bots nationally becaus
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by pfraze 6y ago
This is what my googling pulled up, which matches my memory of it: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-23... It was an interesting situation because in some ways, I prefer the transparen

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