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by pjmorris 2y ago
My 'trick' is to recommend his relatively short 'Working', which was the gateway drug to get me reading his longer works.
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Hear, hear. It's interesting to me how Moses, per Caro, moved from being idealistic to being pragmatic in ways that look like corruption to those outside the 'bubble' but look like appropriate means and measures for accomplis
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In an interview, Michael Lewis has said that he wrote 'Liar's Poker' as a cautionary tale, but it was taken as a 'How To' manual. Robert Caro has said (e.g. in 'Working') that he writes to expose how power
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I recently read 'The Power Broker', Robert Caro, which describes how Robert Moses came to acquire power over park, road, bridge, and tunnel construction in New York City and State for over 40 years. There are strong parallels with
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> Like, isn't this announcement a terrible indictment of how inexperienced their engineers are, or how trivial the problems they solve are, or both? Or maybe there's a KPI around lines of code or commits.
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> Them along absolutely everyone else. ChatGPT was an iPhone moment Nice analogy. My sense of things is that the iPhone was a win for all of its users. While ChatGPT may make some/many of its users more productive (see Ethan Mollick
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To my mind, I'd add the heat effects of the various forms of transportation involved, both in direct contribution and the CO2 increase as a result of their use.
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Not the GP, but I've moved from bi-weekly diving in South Florida and the Keys in the mid to late 90's, to once every couple of years for this reason, among others. Even then, you could see the difference in the John Pennekamp Sta
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I scrolled to find this and add my vote. 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' is a daunting read, but it does a great job of tackling the physics, politics, project management, the difficulties, triumphs, and consequences of the bomb.
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And so are you and the jack!+
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I lucked into this in my high school library, and need to re-read it. I've read a lot of books on Apollo, this is one of the best. FWIW, my other favorite is 'Apollo: Race to the Moon', Murray and Cox, which focuses on the en
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The original question was: > In what sense are you proposing pharma production is funded by tax dollars? I am proposing that the pharma strategy of capitalizing on Medicare and Medicaid tax dollars is a significant component of pharma pr
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> That's kind of like saying hamburger buyers are funding McDonalds. If Medicare and Medicaid cover hamburgers. I could be wrong, but it looks to me like the fact that there's a built-in government-funded ('tax dollars&#x2
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'Bristol Myers Squibb executives say most eligible patients are covered by Medicare or Medicaid and wouldn’t pay the list price.'
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> a price in line with expected clinical benefits to patients What would a price in line with recouping R&D and production costs and, say, a 20% profit margin be?
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At different times I've regretted staying too long and leaving too soon. It's a multi-dimensional problem and it's worth thinking through what you lose as well as what you gain. It sounds like you have a pretty good situation
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> I feel like there's a whole pedagogy on the philosophy and practice of 'data', and I wasn't aware of it. I think this is an important insight (or two.) I've got 'Seeing Like a State' and 'Data an
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The Acme Klein bottle and its packaging materials are among my prize possessions. And 'The Cuckoo's Egg' was a great read. Thank you for being you.
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I want to probe a couple of assumptions here... 1. Isn't it possible that there are some businesses that shouldn't succeed? I could give examples. 2. What if someone doesn't 'have' to ignore the law, they choose to
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FTA: “We are studying the past to understand and shape the present and future,” said Wang. I was of the persuasion that "History is written to say it wasn't our fault" - Sam Phillips, but it may play a more active role than t
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Perhaps corroborating your point, excerpted from Waldrop's 'The Dream Machine': "Why did ARPA build the network?” Lukasik asks. “There were actually two reasons. One was that the network would be good for computer scienc
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> For ambiguous cases, the court now independently reaches their own judicial finding of law, just as they would if deciding whether a statute passed by Congress is authorized by the Constitution. Does this mean that, in ambiguous cases,
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Tom DeMarco (co-author of 'Peopleware' and other SE classics) has argued that the market is a better selection mechanism than a certifying body, which tends toward seizure of power rather than societal good. I can't turn up t
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I loved the Manchester series on Churchill. The others you mention are all on the 'to read' list for me already. My favorite recent biography was on both JCR Licklider and the world he helped create; 'The Dream Machine',
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Agreed. It's a short read that demonstrates his writing skill, his methods, and his goal of explaining how political power is acquired and used. It inspired me to start on the LBJ biography.
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Yes, I agree with 'Working software over comprehensive documentation.' It's that 'working' part that sometimes depends on getting the requirements right.
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Warning in the article: > "Meeting requirements is treated as more important than getting something useful into the field as quickly as possible." I've got a bad feeling about this. It seems like the kind of attitude that
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I had the same question about touchstone from the same episode. I am becoming a Burke-ite after digging up the mention of 'The Trigger Effect' episode of the 70's 'Connections' from an HN Crowdstrike thread and am n
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> a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer? I think trading, say, small x (15 minutes, an hour?) time, to stage rather than blast might be an acceptable tradeo
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How does this analogy work: Producers and regulators (or, if you prefer, the market) play an important role in managing food safety but they are not a replacement for our immune systems. Both are necessary.

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