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by vannevar 5y ago
Copyright hasn't been extended because anyone thought it was in the public interest; it's been extended because monied corporate interests paid to have it extended, and there just isn't much political will in the people at la
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by vannevar 5y ago
"Better" depends on your requirements of course, but Freenet predates the blockchain and its underlying encrypted distributed data store could serve as the basis for a distributed ledger. https://github.com/freenet
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by vannevar 5y ago
Yes. It's public knowledge, confirmed by the CDC itself for many months now, that vaccinated people can become infected and if so, can spread the virus. So there would be no reason for Twitter to punish people for saying so, and as far
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by vannevar 5y ago
Agreed that the line is poorly worded, but it's aimed at the myth that if you are vaccinated, you can spread COVID just by having received the vaccine. No one is going to get punished by saying infected, vaccinated people can spread
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by vannevar 5y ago
True, but the parents in the story are imaginary---their decision-making is not being tested. Rather, it's the observer who is being tested. But the story is so contrary to experience that is does not do what the premise of the article
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by vannevar 5y ago
I agree, i think it's far more likely that those favoring the disabled child are simply rejecting the artificial and abstract notion of utility described in the hypothetical, and going with their own experience. Which is that the real-
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by vannevar 5y ago
I don't actually see a legitimate rebuttal to argument #2 (passing the tax on). In the article, the author simply says "...no, because land is special in that it is scarce and nobody can make any more of it." It's not cl
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by vannevar 5y ago
I'm sure there's lots of room for improvement in DoD software development practices. But the F-35 presents a vastly more complex set of control problems than anything SpaceX builds. It doesn't at all surprise me that there ar
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by vannevar 5y ago
True, I can't disagree. But I think it's an important point that when the cartoon was made, the people who made it expected that their audience would approve of a message that presumed a civil duty for America's biggest busin
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by vannevar 5y ago
>Though many things have changed in the last 70 years, it seems as if the stock market still plays the same role and function today as it did back then. Does it, though? The cartoon (which was probably a little naive even back when it wa
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by vannevar 5y ago
No, but it's Donald Trump's fault that the fabrications seemed plausible based on his past behavior. And to be fair, many of the Steele dossier claims had some corroboration (eg, numerous meetings between the Trump campaign and th
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by vannevar 5y ago
You're confusing two ideas. One is the garden variety criticism that all candidates get when they are running for the Presidency. That's what Romney received. The dossier, on the other hand, contained specific allegations of wrong
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by vannevar 5y ago
Clearly Donald Trump influenced the degree to which the story got reported, even as unproven allegations. Had Mitt Romney been the subject, the media would probably have been more skeptical. But Trump had already said and done so many moral
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by vannevar 5y ago
Vaccinated people are significantly less likely to become infected, and once they do get infected, they are less infectious (see recent study results summarized at https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-l
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by vannevar 5y ago
I think you're probably right. And in order to bootstrap the necessary volume (and starve their competitors), they were willing to actually pay more than market (similar to Uber's investor-subsidized rides in their early years).
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by vannevar 5y ago
True, but that's not the reason for the vaccination requirement in public spaces. If it were, elderly people would be restricted from public spaces as well. The primary reason is to limit transmission.
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by vannevar 5y ago
You're confusing risk of infection with risk of severe illness. As far as I know, obesity is only a risk factor for severe illness, not infection.
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by vannevar 5y ago
The company would have to be fairly large (>100 employees) and long-lived (>10 years) to generate an amount of data with any hope of statistical significance. Employee "success" depends on many factors, and an employee who c
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by vannevar 5y ago
Why would I wait for some meeting the next morning? You wouldn't. Why are you under the impression that scrum prohibits communication outside standup? Daily scrum is a floor on communication, not a ceiling. It guarantees that focused
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by vannevar 5y ago
Almost always the best way to solve an issue or a blocker, is for the person to simply continue to work on the task, alone. No. There may be occasional cases where that's true, but it's almost always better to get another pair o
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by vannevar 5y ago
It does happen in reality. I've seen it many times, and it works.
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by vannevar 5y ago
It's a fair point that income inequality has been driven to great extent by the professional class. But the message behind the article is that everything's fine because labor's share of income has remained stable. The problem
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by vannevar 5y ago
>In the popular imagination workers’ share of the economic pie has room to grow at the expense of profits. But recent research suggests that labour’s share of the value created by firms has in fact been fairly stable in most rich countri
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by vannevar 5y ago
This is true of human nature as well, not just the search algorithms. As long as people have even a slight preference for the more popular option, you have the basic ingredient for a rich-get-richer market with power law distribution of sal
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by vannevar 5y ago
There is a simple, fairly obvious explanation for obesity: there is a staggering amount of advertising aimed at convincing people to purchase and eat junk food, compared to a relatively tiny (largely publicly-funded) campaign to get them to
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by vannevar 5y ago
>The 'network' of an elite MBA is diminished with democratized access to capital and executives (I.e. LinkedIn, Hunter/Snov.io, and Crunchbase) This is a hypothesis, not a fact that can be offered in support of the argumen
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by vannevar 5y ago
I think the author actually nails the primary reason in an aside: "As though that were not bad enough, in some organizations there's a separate compounding problem: limited resources. For an organization, attention resources are {
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by vannevar 5y ago
>Some tasks take 15 minutes of discussion (no, they aren't complex tasks) with people debating whether it is worth 5 points or 8. It is just tiring and pointless. If you're not personally responsible for deadlines on the projec
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by vannevar 5y ago
No, it wasn't. Excess mortality studies track well with Covid deaths, if anything Covid deaths have been under counted. (See e.g. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778361 ).
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by vannevar 5y ago
For all the sophistication claimed in the article, it feels like my recommendations could just as accurately be driven by simple keywords. I wonder how often, if ever, they compare their current solution to much simpler algorithms?

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