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by vannevar 7y ago
True, but the Microsoft Surface came three years before the Pro. And even if the iPad Pro were dominant, the iPhone and iPad are so closely related as products that counting the iPad 'innovation' is double-dipping a bit.
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by vannevar 7y ago
Fair, but the Apple Watch has largely been an iPhone accessory rather than a standalone product. You could also point to AirPods. They sold a lot of them because a lot of people had iPhones. But neither is anything like the iPhone or the Ma
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by vannevar 7y ago
Still, the company hasn't released an innovative hardware product since 2008. That's a long time for them. If Apple can't innovate anymore, regardless of whether they have continued financial success, are they still really Ap
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by vannevar 7y ago
I would quibble with the implication that composition isn't OOP---mixins have been part of many OOP languages for a long time. Whether you create a new object via inheritance or via composition, it's still an object, typically wit
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by vannevar 7y ago
I see no other way. You're not looking very hard. As I suggested above, we can pursue government policies (largely independent of government size) that favor decentralization. We don't have to throw up our hands in defeatism. We
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by vannevar 7y ago
You confuse cause for effect. Emerging monopolies gain the power to warp regulations in their favor by virtue of the concentration of wealth and power. That concentration is an inevitable consequence of the wealth-income feedback loop. With
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by vannevar 7y ago
I'd agree that risk capacity (or element of ruin, as it's known in gambling circles) is a big factor in rising inequality. But there are many other advantages that the wealthy enjoy that may also explain the divergence. The wealth
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by vannevar 7y ago
What would stop the sites themselves from operating those bots? They wouldn't even need AI, just deal favorable "cards" to their own player.
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by vannevar 7y ago
How do we know that online poker has ever been a fair game? Has anyone ever done a statistical study of verified real players to determine whether their collective historical winnings match what would be expected in a fair game? It seems li
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by vannevar 7y ago
Yes, you have only to look at the images generated by GANs to see that it's not inherent in the algorithm: images generated by GANs are not just a patchwork of textures, they have coherent shapes. They 'needed' shape in order
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by vannevar 7y ago
The author has the right idea, but the wrong target. The problem is not that we have top-down planning; as he notes, that goes back as far as the beginnings of civilization itself. The problem is that, due to technology and the increasing c
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by vannevar 7y ago
"Squalor" is a bit of a stretch; the article seemed more focused on the existence of two economies in the US, which in my experience is not far off the mark. And the use of after tax income in the article you cite is disingenuous:
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by vannevar 7y ago
There is an attempt to popularize the idea that in the US it’s the top breaking away from everyone else, and that doesn’t happen in Europe. The idea that the top is breaking away is being popularized because it is irrefutably true, as the
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by vannevar 7y ago
They attempted to do it as far back as Windows NT, which was originally supposed to support multiple shells, including OS/2.
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by vannevar 7y ago
This is a great argument in favor of higher taxes on large enterprises and wealthy individuals. Small businesses aren't being victimized by government, they're being victimized by large companies that compete with them for custome
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by vannevar 8y ago
This article is spot on. Engineers increasingly define the course of our daily lives, and they've been taught, almost universally, that efficiency is not only a value in and of itself, it is the highest value we can pursue. But we&#x
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by vannevar 8y ago
A day rate can certainly work against you, in the same way that salary can work against you, if there's more work to be done than can be fit into X number of days at 8 hrs/day. You may end up working 12 hour days for the duration.
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by vannevar 8y ago
I think you've answered your own question. Between working one hour out of the day, or ten minutes out of each hour, which is actually more feasible and likely? In a day rate situation, if you're blocked by client inaction, they&#
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by vannevar 8y ago
I stand by the range. There are certainly gigs where you can charge more, and it's undoubtedly also location dependent. But those are on the edges of the bell curve. Most people in the field will encounter rates comparable to what I&#x
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by vannevar 8y ago
You're probably going to get significant selection bias here. Few people are going to admit to a rate they're afraid is low, and other people who respond may be doing a bit of humble bragging. In my experience both contracting and
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by vannevar 8y ago
You're assuming that in order to bill one day, you have to work 8 hours, which is more or less how hourly billing works, particularly in the cases you cite where the actual billing unit is 15 minutes. But a day rate works differently;
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by vannevar 8y ago
If it was based on one article, which in turn was based on one tweet, then no, I wouldn't expect her to report that it was a "much lauded performance." And ten articles also based on the same self-serving tweet wouldn't
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by vannevar 8y ago
A really key piece of information missing from that algorithm is your relationship with the people posting. Sure, an algorithm could infer that, but right now they're terrible at it. Why not just let people specify their relationship a
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by vannevar 8y ago
I agree, I think Circles was great. Between family and actual friends, most people have probably less than 100 contacts to manage. The rest could be lumped into Followers. Even for those, over time, machine learning models could suggest cir
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by vannevar 8y ago
The study in question does not link fish oil supplements to cancer. It correlates (with no clear evidence of causality) high blood levels of fatty acids with actual cases of prostate cancer. It is speculated that for at least some of
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by vannevar 8y ago
The use of "high-carb" is also misleading. As described in the article, the Okinawan diet is mostly vegetarian, and calorie-restricted, not really what comes to mind when you hear the phrase "high-carb," though it might
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by vannevar 8y ago
It's harder to grow a large economy for all the same reasons it's harder to grow a large business (percentage-wise) than it is to grow a small one. Sure, there are some economies of scale. But in the end, there are always fixed co
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by vannevar 8y ago
That doesn't make it any harder to grow the economy further. Nonsense. Economic growth depends on a complex web of law, culture and resources. Large economies are systematically harder to grow than smaller ones. It's not simpl
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by vannevar 8y ago
I wouldn't call growing at about the same rate as Iowa and Tennessee as being particularly exceptional, even if it's technically in the top 10. I would. Iowa and Tennessee are much, much smaller economies. It's truly remark
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by vannevar 8y ago
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis at the US Department of Commerce, California is in the top ten US states for per-capita GDP growth since 2009. Not 'middling' at all, particularly considering it was the country's

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