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   by s1gnp0st 4y ago

   The SV utopians are firmly in control of technology with the most leverage to define the future.
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   by s1gnp0st 4y ago

   Business must accomodate humanity, and not the other way around. Silicon Valley utopians would like everyone to be a fungible unit of productivity. If your culture does not produce healthy children, your culture is going away.
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   by s1gnp0st 4y ago

   If you're having enough outages that postmortems are burdensome, I don't think the problem is the number of postmortems.
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   by s1gnp0st 4y ago

   After the first dot-com bubble it would've been very easy to dismiss all web businesses as scams intended to pump some coin^Wstock. The dust will settle on this round of severe malinvestment in crypto, and there will be things which re
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   by s1gnp0st 4y ago

   I also find this "gene for X" idea troubling. Suppose there are genetic factors that drive increased susceptibility to an environmental factor, for example. Biology is a complex interaction not easily reduced to single-step causal
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   by s1gnp0st 4y ago

   When faced with a sinusoid, humans seem to extrapolate exponentials in both directions. Take the business cycle, where the good times appear to approach a "new paradigm!" just before a large correction, and the bad times seem like