philipov

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by philipov 7mo ago
You may demand that of yourself, but for others we must design around the fact that they are stupid. You do not have the power to change their stupidity, only your response to it.
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by philipov 7mo ago
> some country that has a shot at remaining a stable and predictable geopolitical entity over the next century. Which country do you believe could possibly qualify for such an impossible task?
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by philipov 7mo ago
Who are you to quote laws to those carrying swords?
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by philipov 8mo ago
In the business, even the appearance of impropriety is damaging. People who work in finance aren't allowed to trade the same stocks as their company is trading, whether they have any inside info or not. The assumption is that simply by
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by philipov 8mo ago
I'm curious just how wrong they're going to be about the ages of people who work from home or use a mobile device at work.
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by philipov 10mo ago
What kind of founding ethos doesn't allow tracking internal latency? Is their founding ethos "Never Admit Responsibility?"; "Never Leave A Paper Trail?" This company's official ethical foundation is "Don&#
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by philipov 10mo ago
The availability of exclusive content should not be the point over which streaming services compete. The same content should be available on all streaming services, and they should compete on the quality of their delivery and discoverabilit
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by philipov 11mo ago
You might not be surprised, but you should still be shocked. Being struck by a heavy weight will shock you even if you expected it. We are allowed to be shocked by things that we abhor even when we understand their causes and probability di
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by philipov 11mo ago
A related meta-technique is "starting at both ends and meeting in the middle". It's kind of like the inverse of binary search in some sense, isn't it?
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by philipov 11mo ago
For me, it's tracing code/pipelines to figure out how a result was produced, typically in the context of that result being wrong somehow. Go To Definition is the most useful function in any editor. I'm always surprised by how
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by philipov 11mo ago
Your supply chain is superficially fewer, but not smaller. The way you're counting the number of suppliers is heterogeneous: ChatGPT has a bigger surface area than 20 individuals.
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by philipov 11mo ago
They told us TV would rot our brains, but AI actually does.
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by philipov 11mo ago
Simple means not complex, means not composed of even simpler parts. A twelve step plan is literally a list of simpler parts, making it not simple. Most things are complex, since there are so many ways to combine simples. It is an ironic t
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by philipov 1y ago
Does linux count? 99% of linux use-cases don't include xwindows.
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by philipov 1y ago
if you're already committing to generic names, what's wrong with a name like `processed_result`?
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by philipov 1y ago
"... but those who do learn from history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it."
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by philipov 1y ago
On the forefront of regulatory capture.
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by philipov 1y ago
No, it's very much used to express the sentiment "I don't care about this, and wish people would stop talking about it."
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by philipov 1y ago
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by philipov 1y ago
> and if it was reasoned well enough he'd have changed his mind. In my experience, motivated reasoning rules the day. People have an agenda beyond their reasoning, and if your proposal goes against that agenda, you'll never c
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by philipov 1y ago
Most people have their taxes withheld directly from their pay by their employer, and don't get the option to not pay their taxes, because the government gets the money before they do.
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by philipov 1y ago
And in Pareto, there's a rule like that built in because you're only allowed to make moves that increase utility. You're not allowed to move backwards, which can lead to getting trapped in a local maximum.
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by philipov 1y ago
"do_not_crash()" was a prophetic joke.
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by philipov 1y ago
Can I get a suit that simulates being 20 years old again?
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by philipov 1y ago
"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch everyone around them repeat it."
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by philipov 1y ago
this language is popular with me.
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by philipov 1y ago
No, 'missile' means ' something that is sent ' or ' suitable for throwing '
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by philipov 1y ago
Except that there are limits on fiduciary duty. It should not be confused for a right to earn money. Losing money on a bad investment is part of the game. The duty that they have is to carry out the terms of the investment prospectus and no
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by philipov 1y ago
If you don't like how a company is being managed, your recourse is to pull your investment.
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by philipov 1y ago
Surely they could have worded that better. What they mean to say is that most games that get bought don't get played.

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