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by topkai22 6y ago
A news article linked by U. Chicago gives some more context: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/mapping-tech-could-formaliz... It looks like the creators are focused on detecting issues with property rights more tha
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by topkai22 6y ago
To validate your concerns- yes, there are some companies that have traditionally been horrible snobs about their dev roles. However, even the chronic cases (I'm looking at you Google) have gotten better since the early teens. In my obs
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by topkai22 6y ago
Yes, it was a conscious choice for me. I’d always believed that becoming a parent was important to me, even when I was too young to really understand what that meant. Parenting also aligns toward an important personal belief of mine that th
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by topkai22 6y ago
Not surprising to me, but its really too bad. The consumer side was always hopeless, but I thought the stores provided a great hook into the small business, education, and non-profit sectors- orgs too small to have anything resembling a dec
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by topkai22 6y ago
While I do believe the Facebook boycott is real, Verizon has a fairly large advertising/media business of their own and so is competitor to Facebook. Not mentioning this as part of reporting isn't great journalism.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Always be cautious of a technological solution to an organizational problem. A distributed file system would build robustness into the system and keep the data from getting deleted, but only at appropriate scale. Even assuming enough scale,
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by topkai22 6y ago
Power Apps is Microsoft's version of this. It is actually quite popular.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Good article. I find the reaction of the “private citizen” symptomatic of a larger rejection of the idea that people can be multi-faceted, and that different facets can be valued while others not.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Personal geographic mobility has been declining for a long time in the us: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/... It’s reasonable to believe that an overall declining mobility ra
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by topkai22 6y ago
Do you have a source for the statement about “the North has remained the industrial powerhouse?” A brief, unscientific look at data from https://www.nam.org/state-manufacturing-data/ suggests that northern manufacturin
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by topkai22 6y ago
Don’t let people pin it to their home screen and push an alternative that does distribute through the App Store. That will effectively kill the business.
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I think that is part of the problem the author is getting it- the assumption that the government, especially the federal government, is the sole institution that can execute things. Historically, the argument goes, that didn't used to
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by topkai22 6y ago
Total (federal) receipts are also relatively unchanged as a percentage of GDP since 1955. On top of that there is A LOT more GDP to go around. The real differences are source of revenue (Payroll taxes massively up, corporate income tax down
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by topkai22 6y ago
I’ll pile onto this- your security process also has to be user friendly. No security tooling in the world is going to protect you if it’s so hard to get a new product out the door that business users actively start subverting the system. I
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by topkai22 6y ago
I'm generally against pre-employment tests, but a short writing test is quite possibly the best I've heard of. The biggest problem I can think of is that making it non-discriminatory might be difficult.
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by topkai22 6y ago
Sounds like the set up in your state is to have branch campuses try to serve many of the needs that community colleges serve (or used to serve) in my state. Whatever the setup, I think it is access to higher education at as local level is i
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by topkai22 6y ago
If that was happening in my state I’d definitely be writing my representatives to take action and change that- transferability to a university while being able to live at home and pay less was quite explicitly one of the points of having a
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by topkai22 6y ago
I suspect we need standards/protocals defined at layers above the crypto-layer. For the certificate warning date, a yellow lock rather then giant red screens browsers show me now would be good, so at least in some cases users can do th
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by topkai22 6y ago
Certificates suck. They are monumentally user unfriendly and complex. How many major internet properties have had outages driven by certificate renewal in the last several years? Half? I know that enterprises I work with seem to have some s
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by topkai22 6y ago
One of the best lessons I've learned in life is we as individuals are a lot less important in others lives than we think we are (immediate family excluded.) Leaving is likely to be a lot less devastating to others than you think. While
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by topkai22 6y ago
Not if they were required to allow content creators to utilize alternate ad platforms to inject ads before or after the run. Sure they'd still have the option to kick the creators out of search or off the platform entirely, but that po
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by topkai22 6y ago
There used to be a pretty strong belief in the separation of media production and distribution, originating in the break up of the studio system. I'm not a historian or legal expert here by any stretch, but at some of the arguments sup
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by topkai22 6y ago
He (Ballmer rather than Gates) was in that position largely BECAUSE of the consent decree. I think Ballmer gets a bad rap- for all the complaints about relevance Microsoft grew its business from $23B in 2000 to $86B in 2014 and greatly incr
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by topkai22 6y ago
Back when I was college (and that was a while ago now), the 2nd or 3rd year CS students would grade the 1st year CS class (which was required curriculum for all 180 students across all of our technical majors). While we did get paid to do s
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by topkai22 6y ago
I think one of them ended up teaching at the college :)
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by topkai22 6y ago
Unless I completely misremember that article, the article says nothing about not going to college at all. I don't think I'd use that paper to conclude that highly talented individuals will have similiar income outcomes regardless
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by topkai22 6y ago
Assuming that's remotely feasible. My alma mater only had 7 students graduate with a 4.0 ... In 60 years of existence. I went to a top tier school and struggled with various parts of the curriculum (CHEM52, I'm looking at you). I
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by topkai22 6y ago
That's one of the biggest flaws of the Trump administration's thinking - that everything is always about money. In my limited experience, people join NGOs like the WHO because they seek influence, recognition, or personal "mi
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by topkai22 6y ago
As much as a technology or retailer company, Amazon is a logisitics company and they are buying a logistics technology that may drive down their delivery costs in an extreme way.
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The noise of US roads and aircraft on a map(transportation.gov)
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