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by takinola 3y ago
The steelman argument for this type of instruction is that employees routinely make legal pronouncements that they are not competent to make. Imagine a scenario where a PM or engineer writes down in a memo something like "Option #1 is
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by takinola 3y ago
I use bob@smith.com for any service that insists on an email address when they have no business doing so (eg public WiFi portals). I used to use bob@example.com to avoid spamming poor Bob but many services now disallow example.com as a dom
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by takinola 3y ago
It seems to me that a law based on technical specifications is going to be hard to define and harder still to enforce. Perhaps, it may be easier to employ market forces to incentivize the manufacturers to secure (and continue to secure) th
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by takinola 3y ago
This adds even more convenience to the scenario I proposed. The user can "pre-verify" their attributes and then reveal them as requested. The verifying authority has no knowledge of who is requesting the attributes and even when
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by takinola 3y ago
How about this scenario - There is a site A that wants me to prove my age. Site A generates a one-time key for this request. This key is completely random and does not include any information about the identity of A or myself. The key d
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by takinola 3y ago
I wonder if this is a problem that can be solved with zero-knowledge proofs. The website needs to verify that I am a part of a certain group (over a certain age, particular gender, have a certain net worth, whatever) but I don't want
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How to Win the Lottery(toluakinola.substack.com)
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I once saw the movie Armageddon in the movie theatre onboard a drilling rig. The heads of everyone in the audience collectively exploded watching the drilling scenes (both on earth and in space). Fun fact: In the DVD commentary, there&#x27
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by takinola 3y ago
I built a logistics SaaS for ecommerce and the issue of timezones almost drove me insane. Finally, I discovered the 3-step solution to preserve my sanity. 1. Store all dates/times in UTC. This way, you know at least know exactly what
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by takinola 3y ago
After I moved states, I discovered a pretty effective anti-spam call heuristic. If the call is coming from the same area code as my phone number, it is most likely spam. It seems spam callers assume most calls will likely be from a local n
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by takinola 3y ago
The point I am making is not a rebuttal to this specific proposal but that any such change will have an attack vector. Hell, the reason we are having this discussion is because of the (unfortunate) case of someone not being served by the c
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by takinola 3y ago
I love the innovative thinking here but I can easily think of a way to game this system. Snake Oil LLC mounts a PR campaign claiming the governmen is trying to shut them down by delaying approvals so they can't get their money so they
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by takinola 3y ago
But that's an issue with how the OKRs are derived rather than if the OKRs are required. If the teams come up with OKRs with bottoms-up involvement then the issue you mention is mitigated. The fact that a thing can be done badly is not
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by takinola 3y ago
I share the frustration you express based on my experience working at large companies. However, there is a strong steelman explanation for why this is required. In a 5 person company, it is easy to sit around the table and decide what need
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by takinola 3y ago
I am skeptical about this take. I have lived abroad before and experienced the phenomenon of having the majority of pop culture come from the US. I don't think the United States will support this model (ie majority of pop culture com
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by takinola 3y ago
I feel like the story of the scorpion and the frog applies here. My solution is to try very, very hard not to engage with people I do not trust. My mantra is "good people do good things, bad people do bad things". If you don&#x2
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by takinola 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the specific steps you took towards becoming more earnest? Also, how do you define "earnestness"?
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by takinola 3y ago
SEO. Each movie added to the site programatically created a new page. The long tail of pages generated enough organic traffic.
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by takinola 3y ago
First $100: I built a site that allows people to list their favorite movies and TV shows and then get notifications when they became available to stream on Netflix. Monetization was through referral links (to Amazon or iTunes I think) Firs
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The only thing that makes sense to me about this outcome is that the Wagner commander realized that his push to Moscow was doomed (for reasons) and the only non-suicidal approach was to negotiate some kind of deal that preserves his control
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by takinola 3y ago
Imagine a box that is made up of materials worth $10. However, the box has the very peculiar property that a $100 appears in it on the first Monday of each month. Ask yourself how much you would pay to own this box? Most rational people wil
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by takinola 3y ago
IANAL but my understanding is the contains your wishes about the distribution of your assets. However, the process of actually operating the will (ie probate) can take a while. Hence, you are better off moving your assets into a trust so
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by takinola 3y ago
For those of us who don't/won't watch the documentary, can you please summarize the other perspective?
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OpenAI's plans according to Sam Altman(website-754fwhahs-humanloopml.vercel.app)
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I implemented a message queue in MySQL too and it worked pretty well. Incoming messages would be written to the table and the workers would poll the database each cron period and process whatever rows were in the queue. To avoid race cond
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by takinola 3y ago
Interestingly, it just occurred to me that VC is the exact opposite of this. Many VCs have called 176 of the last 8 unicorns. You can still make bank doing this though.
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by takinola 3y ago
It's a crime to have unprotected sex with people if you know you have an STI and do not disclose it to your partner. The essence of this crime is that by purposefully exposing your partner to a serious illness, you are "assaultin
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by takinola 3y ago
I found that I spent more time on Reddit and Twitter than I wanted to. Scrolling on those apps was becoming a coping mechanism for avoiding unpleasant tasks. So I decided that I could only use those apps on a certain day of the week. On
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference(boredreading.com)
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There's also the false choice where you think you're making a choice but it's really being made for you. The classic example is a magician asking you to pick one of two cards. If you pick the one they want, they will proceed

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