smitty1e

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A Galt's Gulch for Talent(marginalrevolution.com)
2 points by smitty1e 2y ago|0 comments
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Sweden Goes Back to Books and Handwriting(irreal.org)
9 points by smitty1e 2y ago|2 comments
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John Deere faces U.S. lawsuit over farmers' ability to repair tractors(npr.org)
3 points by smitty1e 2y ago|2 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
As with Trump, one is amused with Musk, but also mildly concerned. How many of these world-historical figures have done the Full Solomon without stating to believe their own press releases? Conservatives have been moaning (perhaps with some
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by smitty1e 2y ago
As a voting officer for the last dozen years or so, I find these theoretical discussions interesting. However, like Euclid tacitly asserting a plane, they are all predicated upon an assertion: informed voters. Broadly enfranchising the popu
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Or have I just fed you a “working-class done good” tale, because that’s how I attempt to justify my own exceedingly privileged position? Oh just get over yourself with the materialism-breeding-guilt nonsense. Live modestly; eschew debt
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Furthermore, while human nature is relatively stable, the technology has increased in every way. The Edenic simplicity of HTTP has been supplanted by TLS and tracking goop and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> who don't earn their living by cons and grift. This may prove true, but the observation is considered to apply to the current pack of louts, as well.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Worth a try.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Have a go at this => https://t.co/KXRE5XvuoP I used the https://publish.twitter.com thing against the Xeet, then lifted the first HREF out of the embed goo.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
What is the counter-example? We recycle known good stuff to avoid getting bogged down and introducing fresh flaws. The admonition to know what we're doing and act deliberately applies to so much in life, but flies in the face of Milton
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I've heard this paraphrased as "...descending on the Right, yet lands only on the Left". The Left/Right dichotomy being a pleasant smokescreen for the elitist/populist friction that is simply the human experience.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
At what point are you just doing async and coroutines?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
These rational arguments stipulate that all reality fall within the scope of human rationality. This is seems both a necessary pre-condition--what else are we really using?--but it invites the question: what if there is something beyond tha
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> One benefit of existing processes is that there is usually at least some degree of visibility or accountability in the legacy procurement processes that would make their efforts visible. "...at least some..." is a fine fig le
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Any amount of interpersonal friction, external job offers, whatever.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Applying the logic of the article to itself, what existing vendor with cozy arrangements would want to let someone with Extensive Monetary assets anywhere near the prize? The article makes a good point about healthy skepticism; let that be
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Thanks.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
PoC means "point of care" in this context?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Yet no constituency hated Abba more than their own countryfolk, whose cultural elites were repelled by their success – anathema to the Swedish model, which prized fairness and hated commercialism. Abba were the thin end of the wedge: e
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Neither do I. One always suspects this is a "straw breaking camel's back" moment, and that much has led up to the decision.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Over the years I have watched my overseas colleagues risk their livelihoods and sometimes even their lives to expose injustices and hold their countries’ leaders accountable. I think that this is true as far as it goes. What is increas
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Given that most examples are relatives small, one could leverage org-babel[1] and write the tutorial with executable code, and go straight to .PDF! [1] https://org-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> no one buys any of it is real anymore. I submit that everyone has an operating system; the question is how explicit they are about it, with joy being proportional to the degree of explicitness.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
If only there were some...other object...in the model between the paternalistic government and the child that could offer support and guidance to help children navigate their __init__() process. To be effective, such an object would have to
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by smitty1e 2y ago
...some ultra-short story fragment about AI & trust protocols so hoovering up all the resources that Usenet & text-only email make a comeback, as nothing more sophisticated functions any longer.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The title refers to a 1729 Jonathan Swift essay, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick"[1]. As with the subjec
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by smitty1e 2y ago
We can label the service 'Free', for "17 layers of indirection in paying for it" values of 'Free'. Not much above emotional attachment is free here under the sun.
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Converging on something useful is implicit in the iterative approach.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
One of the things I love about python its informal Second Mover[1] approach. Features like enum and async were added after they were fully wrung out elsewhere, and generally fit well. Is python tooling a flaming dumpster fire at the moment?

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