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by samlevine 7y ago
That's my childhood you're making fun of! ;) I wish more games look terrible in a 1995 kind of a way. Mostly for the sake of nostalgia, I loved playing crappy shareware games and terrible demos from floppy/CD magazines when I
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by samlevine 7y ago
The space program was dual-use for getting better at making ICBMs, and we desperately wanted to keep up with the Soviets in our capacity to eliminate all human life on the planet. It's great that we did something amazing in the process
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by samlevine 7y ago
I feel like being r-x to the world is fairly extroverted.
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by samlevine 7y ago
If my email provider decides to stop delivering my email because the person emailing me is a crank I'm going to get another email provider. Because they're a platform for email, not a publisher of email. I don't want a YouTub
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by samlevine 7y ago
This isn't the right question. Cars help the police to move much more quickly than they could on foot, for example, and properly used can be part of a system that values justice and human rights. A better question might be: "given
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by samlevine 7y ago
My understanding is that the French offered to build out HSR along I-5 between SF and LA during the Great Recession and California said they could do a better job for less money.
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by samlevine 7y ago
> When did America stop doing 'hard' things? Basically the 70s. We never really recovered, even if the economy did.
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by samlevine 7y ago
China has a lot of retail politics, it's just in the context of a single-party system. They're able to do a lot of things quickly, but principal–agent problems remain and there is a ton of corruption. Local party cadres are under
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by samlevine 7y ago
Be yourself. Unless you're an asshole, then figure out how to not be an asshole, then be yourself.
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by samlevine 7y ago
For reasonably complex documents PDF/A is a pretty good choice for long-term archival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A That said, the comparison I was trying to make was the pre webapp web to the current
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by samlevine 7y ago
You're using a web app now. Is this bad for the long term preservation of knowledge? Sure. But it's the world we made.
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by samlevine 8y ago
This mostly just means that Lyft did a good job in pricing their IPO to get the most money they could from it.
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by samlevine 8y ago
They're not stifling innovation. Their successes have had massive spillover effects helping other companies to innovate. The Golden Goose is still laying eggs. This isn't Standard Oil. It's not Ma Bell. When they stop innovat
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by samlevine 8y ago
There's zero net benefit in breaking up large companies that are driving innovation and improving consumer experiences. If you don't like the economic result, redistribute some of the growth. Walmart doesn't deserve to be sav
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by samlevine 8y ago
It isn't in Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Which don't exactly have laissez-faire approaches to folks renting out their properties, but the larger issue is that Japanese cities are just generally better about building enough hou
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by samlevine 8y ago
I use it to follow and post news, as well as what academics are interested in posting/sharing. Microblogging is great, and Twitter remains the least worst solution for this.
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by samlevine 8y ago
Threats of violence already violate Gab's ToS: "Users are prohibited from calling for the acts of violence against others, promoting or engaging in self-harm, and/or acts of cruelty, threatening language or behaviour that cle
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by samlevine 8y ago
New Chinese (non-STEM) grads have it worse, amazingly enough. The central government demanded more graduates at any cost, threw money at the problem and they ended up with corruption, very expensive facilities and many times more graduates
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by samlevine 8y ago
It won't be annoying, because the other person is going to want to have an AI screen their phone calls and the two systems can just figure out the most likely time the humans want to hang out and then get them to confirm. Employing an
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by samlevine 8y ago
If employers valued the labor of remote workers as much as local workers, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Tech isn't a monopsony. They'd all be competing for the same national pool of workers, and anyone that wanted
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by samlevine 8y ago
Ad-supported websites are about as pure of an example of revealed preference as you can get. Advertisers target eyeballs that spend money, and the sites that capture the attention of said eyeballs get ad revenue. The golden age of journalis
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by samlevine 8y ago
IANAL, but my non-expert understanding is that exercising editorial control (as opposed to just having site standards and censoring content that violates them) makes websites liable for content infringement.
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by samlevine 8y ago
> The phrase "affordable housing" has come to mean "cheap housing for poor people." From a policy perspective, "affordable housing" refers to programs which through some incentive or another, get developers
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by samlevine 8y ago
The entire West could do this, and in 10 years time either the Russians or the Chinese would have filled the gap. So then you've got a bunch of authoritarian regimes that are censoring the Internet, and the stability (perceived or othe
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by samlevine 8y ago
In the context of real estate, what the remaining potential buyers are willing to pay after Bill Gates spends ten million on a hundred thousand dollar property.
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by samlevine 8y ago
Climate change is an existential threat. This is the language of someone who takes this seriously.
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by samlevine 8y ago
Serverless is the new hotness.
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by samlevine 8y ago
The labor market is tight, near full employment. In very constrained locations (like SF) wages for kitchen staff have gone up significantly. Other places it's just hard to find people to do the job for what the market will bear. We&#x2
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by samlevine 8y ago
It's hard to make something you don't like. For example, Ready Player One focused on movies in large part because Spielberg really loves movies . You can tell they move him, whereas the video game parts are largely gags.
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by samlevine 9y ago
> What really is unnerving about this? It reminds the middle-class strivers that "MAKE MONEY FA$T!" isn't that far from themselves, despite all their scrambling efforts.

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