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   by specialist 6y ago

   To simplify the bookkeeping. When all data about me is mine, everything else falls into place.
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   by specialist 6y ago

   Privacy is real simple: Control over my public persona. Property rights is real simple: Pay me. If you're making a buck off my data, I want my cut.
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   by specialist 6y ago

   Maybe start your own clubs. I've always been more Groucho Marx than not, eg wouldn't be a member of a club that would have me as a member. A more positive phrasing: Find your own tribe. I started a design patterns book study group
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   by specialist 6y ago

   That sucks. I'm sorry. The only semi-constructive thing I can say is "This too shall pass." In 1998, at 18 years old, I was literally the boy in the bubble, living in forced isolation for over a year. Atypically, I was also v
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   by specialist 6y ago

   Ya, I felt truly stupid once I realized Gore-Tex is Teflon. REI is gonna need a makeover once this catches on. Since learning about micro plastics from fabrics polluting our waterways, I'm keen to find alternatives. I had an Australi
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   by specialist 6y ago

   In the spirit of "Yes, and...": I've been chewing on an alternate narrative. Firstly, I don't think any of us anticipated preferential attachment. Even despite the popularity of "six degrees of separation" and
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   by specialist 6y ago

   FWIW, Horace on Critical Path says that large M&A is just something Apple doesn't do. It's a recurring topic and he goes over the rationale in this episode. #249: A Sane Amount of Cash http://5by5.tv/criticalpa
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   by specialist 6y ago

   Further, Bork was nominated knowing that he wouldn't be confirmed. A gambit that worked. The electoral backlash has served Republicans quite well since.
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   by specialist 6y ago

   Independent of energy production, I support any nuclear program that reduces our stockpiles, on any time scale. Bonus yay if we also manage to get some economic benefit.
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    by specialist 6y ago

    FWIW, highest recommendation for Philosophy Tube and ContraPoints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_Tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContraPoints If you want to learn about something, go
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Love Jill Lepore. There was a state change. When these systems changed from primarily identifying the demographics to driving the demographics. Sometime between 1960s and 2010s. My hunch is the social mediums accelerated the autonomous sort
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Quoting Craig Murray TFA: "The Washington Post, the New York Times, and all the “great liberal media” of the USA are not in court to hear it and do not report it... Are they really so stupid as not to understand that they are next? Er
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    by specialist 6y ago

    The problem with metaprogramming, multiparadigm, and so forth, is other people. I kid! My bro is a C++ partisan. We've been arguing about this for 25+ years. Every time I'm about to use my crushing grip of reason to submit him, he
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    by specialist 6y ago

    I really liked Ron Pressler's [1] presentation on his work. The details from the Q&A really helped me. https://youtu.be/23HjZBOIshY?t=152 This is good too. https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/sched
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    by specialist 6y ago

    "ASAP memory management" Do you mean this? ASAP: As Static As Possible memory management https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-908.pdf
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    by specialist 6y ago

    I haven't been this excited about Java since JDK 1.2. Especially Project Loom. Virtual threads will be a game changer. A return to original Java's rallying cry of programmer productivity. There's always been steady progress,
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Okay. I quickly scanned the linked graphcommons presentation (?). Instead of responding to that directly, I'll share the thesis I've been chewing for a while. I worked on election integrity stuff for about a decade. Opposing the t
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Same. My personal theory is the predictability allows you to tune it out, making it invisible to your conscious brain. Based on my half-baked understanding of Jeff Hawkin's theory that our brains are wired to notice differences. https
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    by specialist 6y ago

    That's among the least of my criticisms. But it's easy to criticize. One unintuitive thing I wish was more easily explained: Any given move to gain votes will lose other votes. It's a wicked hard optimization problem.
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Thanks, I somehow missed this, will read shortly. Meanwhile, one aspect of the 2016 presidential coverage that drives me nuts is the omission that HRC's voter file was stolen and likely used by GOP, Trump, Russia. Meaning they knew ex
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Batting practice. We'd all be better off if plebes grew their skills by reimplementing common tools.
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Please say more. I would LOVE to hear how Wiener might interpret today's world. As a total noob, I'm often delighted by the insights of earlier commentators. The people who lived thru great transformations, so can remember the bef
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    by specialist 6y ago

    A gamer buddy really liked the Distant Origin scenario (Star Trek Voyager episode). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Origin TLDR: Ancient non-human civilization, prior inhabitant of earth, now long gone. "Whe
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    by specialist 6y ago

    There's a lot more to elections than just the tabulators. Maps, databases, candidate filings, calendars, ballot production, voter guides, signature management, poll books, reports, ballot tracking, translation services, etc. Since the
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    by specialist 6y ago

    I was staff (vs faculty) for a public uni. It was understood that all state funding would eventually go away, effectively making it a private uni. I'd have to look up the numbers, but state funding went from 80% in the 1970s down to 10
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Asymmetrical warfare. Truth can never win. Fact checking is akin to boiling the ocean. Just require attribution and real names. Then ban algorithmic newsfeeds, targeted advertising, and bots. Sure, let the Freedom Speeches™ trolls keep thei
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    by specialist 6y ago

    I've seen no evidence that most interviewers would be any better at coding.
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    by specialist 6y ago

    Just that you're asking this question strongly suggests you should not. I worry about the horde of people who never ask. How do we cull their numbers?
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    by specialist 6y ago

    "Citizen owned software." Phrasing I used on the stump, both campaigning and as an activist. Overwhelming support. One of those 90/10 issues. People just get it. Resolutions, petitions, platforms practically write themselves.
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    by specialist 6y ago

    "...then I would agree it's anti-competitive." Using dominance in one market to muscle into another is bog standard monopolistic practice, and nominally prohibited. Conflating bundling with other anti-competitive strategies