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by rtikulit 7y ago
I really wish that all markets worked like that. When they work, markets are an amazing mechanism for pricing, driving value creation, allocating capital, and searching the economic and technological solution space. But they don't work
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by rtikulit 7y ago
With respect to health care, you may be able to make such educated decisions, almost no one else can. There isn't enough signal, and almost no one has the ability to distinguish signal from noise, and correctly interpret it. What happe
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by rtikulit 7y ago
The costs vs. outcomes analysis across health care systems suggest that your personal lifetime expected return on investment (likelihood * (value/cost)) of a universal health care system with a single large national risk pool will be h
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by rtikulit 7y ago
I have worked in government (twice) and large and small companies, now working in the private sector for the last 20 years. There are structural inefficiencies and perverse incentives in both domains, though they are very different in style
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by rtikulit 7y ago
We are humans, living in a human society, with human values and purposes, and the associated processes and conflicts, at every point of social scale. Furthermore, we are a process, with a past and an unguessable future, at every point of so
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Neither Geertz nor Doctorow are making an assertion about distinguishing winks vs. twitches, and the assertion they are actually making is the opposite of stupid. They are pointing out that the system under observation, the system of intere
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Internet agency finds explicit photos on president’s computer, fires IT staff(thestar.com)
5 points by rtikulit 7y ago|0 comments
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Surveillance by corporations is also used for: - creating, maintaining and exploiting information asymmetry - manipulating markets, fostering rent-seeking - finding new ways of externalizing costs that escape easy detection - polluting hone
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Maybe even step back to first principles... “Can your company even recognize when someone does something exceptional?”
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by rtikulit 7y ago
Management does not want to hear that software development is a craft. They want it to be a trade, with fungible workers operating in a predictable process with fungible components. The great tragedy of Agile is that it was co-opted as the
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by rtikulit 7y ago
I have been working full time remote for 10 years, mostly remote for 5 years before that, all at the same SV company. I love it. It does take some discipline, and my work life is entirely separate from my home/social life. I have succe
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by rtikulit 8y ago
It is big, but I am the family sherpa. Agree on the esthetic.
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by rtikulit 8y ago
Tom Bihn Brain Bag. 7 years old, going strong. Love it, daughter loves hers.
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by rtikulit 8y ago
Several years ago I severed a tendon in my left index finger, as a result it is relatively immobile and sticks out. It brushes against that horrible touch bar all too often. I touch type, can handle real keys without looking, but the touch
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by rtikulit 8y ago
Your conclusion is entirely consistent with the facts. There is little in this world that we can control. It's really important to stop the bad actors from taking the little away from us.
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by rtikulit 8y ago
This isn't about ideology, it is about pragmatics. The accumulation and analysis of vast bodies of behavioural data by bad actors will inevitably lead them to develop and deploy increasingly indirect and long-term methods of subverting
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by rtikulit 8y ago
Her decision. She's been reading stuff on the Internet that says ADHD might be fake and over medicated. :-) Her main real issue is the appetite suppression, which she hates. Her mom and I can see the difference on/off, it isn&#x27
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by rtikulit 8y ago
I do software and system architecture, and I'm generally responsible for creating original content. In order to make any progress on deliverables, I have to be calm, have my memory loaded up with all the necessary context, and have jus
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by rtikulit 8y ago
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my 50's. Without meds I have to spend an enormous amount of energy managing my cognitive state. Imagine you had to spend 60% of your time creatively managing yourself into a mental state where you can do so
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by rtikulit 8y ago
Even if you abhor the remedies suggested in the article, it is still true that marketers in general are trying very hard to run ahead of the average person's cognitive defences against exploitation. Given that, much of the discussion i