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by vannevar 6y ago
I think this essay conflates the notion of privacy and property and goes off the rails from there. I get what he's trying to say, but I don't think it has much to do with the the ordinary sense of the word privacy. If he's sa
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by vannevar 6y ago
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. This seems like a restatement of the explore and exploit cycle in evolution. You start off with very littl
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by vannevar 6y ago
I'm not sure what the message is here. Is the author suggesting that we shouldn't seek further progress, now that these solutions to old problems exist? I think he overlooks the fairly obvious fact that today's solutions are
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by vannevar 6y ago
Why compare sweden only to it's neighbors? Because to fairly assess the impact of policy, you have to control for underlying genetic, economic, and environmental factors. The best way to do that in this case is to compare Sweden with
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by vannevar 6y ago
I keep seeing stories like this, and they continue to mystify me. Sweden had TEN TIMES as many deaths per capita as their Nordic neighbors. It's also not at all clear that their economy has fared particularly better, as they also have
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by vannevar 6y ago
It represents projected long term growth. My point was that the long term employment outlook seems pretty bleak (e.g., https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56442#:~:text=CBO%20projects... , https://www.reuters.c
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by vannevar 6y ago
They may not rely directly on consumers, but they almost certainly rely indirectly on consumers. People are very bad about reasoning about feedback loops, especially so when there are delays in the loop.
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by vannevar 6y ago
"...as long as the stock market works." If the stock market truly works, it will reflect the underlying economy and its prospects. Right now, it is being propped up by the Fed (and other actors, like SoftBank), and does not reflec
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by vannevar 6y ago
It's still early to talk about recovery while the pandemic is ongoing. And even if the virus were extinguished tomorrow, much of the initial damage from the pandemic's first surge is still working its way through the economy (e.g.
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by vannevar 6y ago
So you'll trade the lasagna for a bag of Doritos and some Slim Jims? If you think there is something "authentic" about people like Alex Jones, you're delusional. They are media creations, just as surely as Dan Rather. Ju
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by vannevar 6y ago
So in your mind, the ideal show would be one where the guests are chosen at random? Otherwise, there is always the possibility that pernicious orthodoxy would play a role in setting the agenda. And of course it couldn't be on Spotify;
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by vannevar 6y ago
Yeah, the "we stopped having standups!" is good click-bait, but simply letting people work on their own projects is always going to improve morale and productivity (if you assume the fun projects are aligned with the organization)
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by vannevar 6y ago
Fortunately for all of us, another minority reads the research and actually understands the seriousness of the situation.
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by vannevar 6y ago
No doubt, you can draw the line at different points. And obviously, in terms of audience and profit, Joe has found a sweet spot, with enough crazy people to be interesting but not so crazy as to make it a nonstop freak show. My point was th
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by vannevar 6y ago
This is a straw man argument. There's a big difference between simply vetting your guests to weed out quacks, and pushing some single-minded idea of orthodoxy.
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by vannevar 6y ago
I can tell you that, as a consumer who has wired a lot of small office and home Ethernet, I've never seen a failure like that. On the other hand, I've seen lots of unexpected behavior with USB. I don't doubt your sincerity,
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by vannevar 6y ago
You're absolutely right, I stand corrected. But the author's complaint is still legitimate: in the context of billions of consumer devices, the diversity of behaviors is a problem. With RJ45, as long as the cable wasn't defec
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by vannevar 6y ago
I hear you, but RJ45 never pretended to be anything other than a physical standard. USB-C, on the other hand, is the latest successor to the USB standard, which from the beginning was both a physical specification and a protocol specificati
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by vannevar 6y ago
(Needless to say, pretty much all the problems with false positives, inadequate technology, the diffculty of scaling up, etc would have been much bigger problems in the US a few months ago given the much larger population and the improveme
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by vannevar 6y ago
Well, other than having ten times as many deaths as the other Nordic countries: https://www.statista.com/topics/6123/coronavirus-covid-19-in... I feel like lives lost is perhaps the better metric of success.
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by vannevar 6y ago
This should be regarded as a breach of fiduciary duty, a kind of legalized embezzlement. Shouldn't shareholders or creditors have standing to claw those bonuses back in bankruptcy?
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by vannevar 6y ago
Agreed, I've always thought these sorts of "Atlas Shrugged" arguments were ironic coming from free-market thinkers. In a free market, if one person refuses to work for less than $100 million, there's always someone right
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by vannevar 6y ago
I think ID is an essential core function of government. Without it, for instance, there could be no justice system. I don't know that an ID system not grounded in the physical world is workable. Jurisdiction is ultimately determined
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by vannevar 6y ago
Without a functioning trust network, reviews are meaningless. You cannot have both anonymity and healthy e-commerce. We're in a race to the bottom, and there is no "invisible hand" to right the ship. Government will ultimatel
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by vannevar 6y ago
Yes, the article admits as much, noting that Autopilot is much more likely to be used on the highway where the accident rate per mile is much lower.
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by vannevar 6y ago
The article acknowledges what the title does not: "First of all, Autopilot is more commonly used on longer freeway trips than in city driving, and accidents are much more common in urban driving than on the freeway, especially per mile
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by vannevar 6y ago
...FLOSS is about the power dynamic between users and developers. Developers rarely own the rights to their own code. It's actually about the power dynamic between capital and users. The Golden Rule ("He who has the gold, make
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by vannevar 6y ago
You see people trying to use it that way, while wading through a morass of paid advertising and promoted memes. I can use a brick as a hammer, too, but that doesn't make the brick a hammer.
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by vannevar 6y ago
Facebook is not a "social network" in any meaningful sense of that word. It's a largely unmoderated narrowcast platform accessible to anyone willing to put down the money to use it, regardless of motivation, as long as it isn
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by vannevar 6y ago
That was my thought as well. It has a lot of the idiosyncrasies I've noticed in other GPT-3-generated articles: coherent, but meandering, with a lot of cliches and rhetorical questions that don't really add to the article. Of cour

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