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by vannevar 6y ago
If it truly represents the people trying to buy your service, it sounds like a great sign. But you should check that there isn't some UX issue causing you to lose customers trying to sign up for the monthly option. It might also reflec
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by vannevar 6y ago
The dictionary begs to differ, see tolbish's link.
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by vannevar 6y ago
The amount of waste by those empowered but unaccountable, to distribute wealth to purposes of their choosing, is also flabbergasting. The assumption that tyranny and waste are limited to government is erroneous. The reality is that unregula
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by vannevar 6y ago
Not quite, just that it's not strictly a military reference. Local police are not military organizations either, but they often refer to ordinary citizens as civilians. A lot of people (some even in these comments) think of NASA as a q
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by vannevar 6y ago
I think "civilian" in this context just means none of the crew are professional astronauts. It's still very much a test flight, though, so basically they're facing all of the danger as any previous astronaut or cosmonaut
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by vannevar 6y ago
I would argue that socialism and libertarianism are not forms of government, or even philosophies of government, but values that are brought to government. All government essentially involves balancing security and liberty, and the social
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by vannevar 6y ago
The question is if giving money to a politician's son is bribery since they indirectly benefit. If that were true, every politician's close relatives would have to stay in some kind of economic suspended animation while they ser
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by vannevar 6y ago
AFAIK, only a single email was verified this way, and it is innocuous, only suggesting that a Burisma executive met Joe Biden sometime through Hunter. https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim Graham notes upfro
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by vannevar 6y ago
...I was talking about social cohesion. War isn't evidence of a lack of social cohesion? You'd have to have a very peculiar definition of inequality to say that it has gone up. Measuring inequality by the ratio of the richest
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by vannevar 6y ago
It seems overly convenient to gerrymander the definition of strife so that it excludes anything that might contradict your thesis. One can argue that as the arrow of time moves forward, technological progress has been increasing overall an
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by vannevar 6y ago
What actually seems to happen is people, with all the extra free time, and lack of conflict... Whether true or not, that argument pertains to wealth, not equality. Everyone could be poor, with very little free time and lots of ordinary da
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by vannevar 6y ago
I disagree that distributing wealth would reduce division and strife. It would only increase it. History would seem to contradict you---periods of high wealth inequality do in fact seem to be historically correlated with division and stri
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by vannevar 6y ago
Or it will create enough wealth to pay the wealthiest 1% $1.3M a year, which seems the more likely outcome given that most AI infrastructure will be owned by a small fraction of the population. FTA: "However, if the government collects
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by vannevar 6y ago
With the competitive landscape transformed in the past few years, user growth is going to be much harder to come by for Netflix. Monetizing existing users is going to be much more important than it was five years ago. This is a signal that
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by vannevar 6y ago
Or a high class form of pump and dump. "Sell" a worthless digital asset to an accomplice for a crazy sum of money, refund the money under the table, and use the resulting press to sell more worthless digital assets to gullible mar
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by vannevar 6y ago
Then you are using Scrum to obfuscate a core communications problem in your company. No, they're using scrum to guarantee a minimum level of effective communication. Business people don't have to be "clueless" to be co
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by vannevar 6y ago
That difference seems small enough that child abuse (and specifically sexual abuse) could conceivably account for all of it. Girls are 4x more likely to experience childhood sexual abuse than boys.
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by vannevar 6y ago
Yes, the author is assuming for the sake of argument that salary is dictated by talent. But if talent is distributed on a normal distribution and compensation is fat-tailed, that might mean that there is a non-linear relation between tale
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by vannevar 6y ago
"Worthless" is an exaggeration: any significant body of code running a critical business process would be missed---and expensive to recreate---if it were lost. But I think the article does make a good point about the value to othe
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by vannevar 6y ago
NASA pegs the risk of loss of crew for the Dragon at 1 in 276 ( https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-spacex-crew-dragon-loss... the demonstrated risk on the Shuttle over the lifetime of the program ended up being 1 in 68 (2
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by vannevar 6y ago
In the US, socialism is a pejorative term arbitrarily applied to some government services, but not to others. For instance, if the government pays doctors or social workers, that is socialism, but if it pays police or soldiers, that is not
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by vannevar 6y ago
A largely empty rant that contradicts its own premise by pointing out that reasoning about code is the same as thinking about code, and that different people think about code differently. Not exactly an epiphany. If "reasoning about co
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by vannevar 6y ago
How sure are we that this is really being driven by "amateurs" and not by scammers running a pump and dump scheme under cover of a grassroots phenomenon?
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by vannevar 6y ago
Tech that blew me away, and the year I first tried/saw them: - Battle Zone (3D vector graphics arcade game), early 1980s - The Mosaic browser and World Wide Web, 1993. - CGI (Jurassic Park), 1993. - Virtual Reality, SIGGRAPH 1994. - CU
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by vannevar 6y ago
The title is somewhat misleading: the actual quote is $30B to "creators, artists, and media organizations." I suspect that the vast majority of that money went to already established music artists and big media organizations.
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by vannevar 6y ago
This is essentially a crowd-sourced Ponzi scheme. But is it really so different from the market at large right now? It's more clearly identifiable in that there are explicit signals in the message board. But the primary signal is proba
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by vannevar 6y ago
I've not only considered it, I actively do it on a regular basis. My point was not to suggest argument mapping is useless, it was only to observe that it's never caught on as a social way to resolve political disputes, and to offe
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by vannevar 6y ago
Argument mapping is a pretty well-established genre ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_map ), and over the years there have been many software incarnations of it. I think one reason that it hasn't caught on as
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by vannevar 6y ago
Eric Reis' "The Lean Startup" covers this topic in detail, and makes a useful distinction between "vanity" metrics and "actionable" metrics. Aside from the book, you can read a blog post by him on the subj
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by vannevar 6y ago
... I am guilty of downvoting and moving on a couple of times. Guilty, guilty, guilty! :-) Seriously, I think all of us have done it. But for most it's an occasional thing and we wouldn't miss it if downvoting went away, since m

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