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by woofie11 6y ago
It's nearly impossible for a foundation like Gates to survive a loss of visionary leadership. If it were handed to me with no checks-and-balances, and I were given absolute control, I'm pretty sure I could run Gates Foundation as
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by woofie11 6y ago
I care less about national-level conspiracies and the deep government as I do about my alma mater. Harvard, as far as I can tell, was pretty straightforward. MIT lied and covered up. Whatever dynamics apply to MIT certainly apply to Harvard
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by woofie11 6y ago
Dunno. A possible set of steps: 1) Being able to connect and discuss openly. Probably the largest community mailing list at MIT -- the ancient csail-related mailing list, whose roots date back to the AI Lab days is gone after a thread title
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, Joi Ito came forward, apologized, and showed remorse, so he got canned. Seth Lloyd came forward, apologized, and showed extreme remorse, so he got severely disciplined. All the folks who went to Epstein's island and partook of th
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by woofie11 6y ago
And that's fine. The question at hand isn't whether people will pay for GoT, but whether they'll be used as an argument to pass laws like the DMCA, which says I'm not allowed to reverse-engineer technologies in my home,
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by woofie11 6y ago
The world my child grows up in is increasingly controlled by technology. You can't really understand your toaster, your car, your printer, or your democracy without understanding the software which power them. When my parents were grow
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I could live with that if you didn't try to impose their values on me. I want to be free to write whatever code I want in the privacy of my own bedroom. I want to be free to understand my democratic government institutions. I want to b
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by woofie11 6y ago
I already don't enjoy many big-budget productions. I find niche Youtubers catering to my interests to be a better use of my time -- recently, we've been binging on 3Blue1Brown. I'm also finding very little relation between pr
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by woofie11 6y ago
There's a difference of scale. EU, US, China, Korea, Japan, etc. have some of this, but also successfully have long-running projects. Things build up over time. You have major institutions and infrastructure maintained over multiple ad
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by woofie11 6y ago
That's common in the region. You announce major new projects, start them, and don't finish them. New leadership comes in, ignores the old projects, and starts a new set. You don't fix or finish old things started by your pred
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by woofie11 6y ago
It seems to be at least a few percent of all cases. A majority of cases which are hospitalized have long-term effects too. It's also common enough that anecdotally -- I'm in a city hit hard and early by COVID. I can't tell yo
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by woofie11 6y ago
It also depends on how one defines danger. Would you rather die a few years earlier in your old age? Or live with reduced lung capacity for many years? And how common is that with COVID19? We're still waiting to see the fall-out of lon
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by woofie11 6y ago
Fair enough. Fortunately, if you don't like me, you're welcome to take my code, and hire someone else to host it for you. There's a whole ecosystem of folks who will do that for you too, and quite a few of them are quite comp
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by woofie11 6y ago
I've always been curious as to what did compel him to wear a sackcloth and live as a pauper... He's also got the MacArthur back when a megabuck was real money.
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by woofie11 6y ago
No. I'm not free to pay nothing. I'm free to pay: * My IT guy $200 per hour. If maintaining a technology takes a day a month -- which is wildly optimistic -- that's $1600 per month * The organization which developed the tool
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by woofie11 6y ago
I've spent most of my career writing free software, and I pay a mortgage in one of the highest-cost-of-living cities in the world. Go figure.
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by woofie11 6y ago
"Free-as-in-beer" only makes sense if the customer is e.g. a student. Now that I have a real job and manage people, it's "free as in $200/hour employee time instead." It's like providing the ingredients fo
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by woofie11 6y ago
My Micro:bit is also more powerful than my first DOS PC: * It has an ARM Cortex m4 processor (Nordic Semiconductor nRF52833), which is about as fast as my first Windows 95 computer. * It has 512MB flash, which is better than my 5.25" f
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by woofie11 6y ago
Processor: Micro:bit has a 32 bit Arm processor, which is an entry-level 32 bit processor. Arduino Uno has an Atmega328P, which is an 8-bit processor. Arduino has 32k flash, 2k RAM, while Micro:bit has 512KB flash and 128kb RAM. That makes
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by woofie11 6y ago
Not how I'd choose a microcontroller. I would pick ... a BBC Micro:bit. Why? Three reasons: * Ecosystem * Ecosystem * Standardization Having the same microcontroller (or small set of microcontrollers) in my house makes maintenance a lo
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by woofie11 6y ago
Let's toss some real numbers here. * Last death of Diamond Princess occurred after more than 2 months. * Over the past two months, the number of known cases in the US roughly doubled from 8 million to 16 million. This means there are a
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by woofie11 6y ago
I never worked for Google. They wanted to hire me after the first set of interviews, but I took a different opportunity at the time. Interview process was an intense, and the interviewers were sharp. I came out even more impressed with Goog
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by woofie11 6y ago
I interviewed for Google many years ago and recently. The expectations fell through the floor. I've see plots of number of employees too. I'm not sure how Google will dig itself out of that one.
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Helps Google meet a 99.999% SLA!
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by woofie11 6y ago
The arrogance. If you want, an exert from an epidemiology text: "A CFR can only be considered final when all the cases have been resolved (either died or recovered). The preliminary CFR, for example, during an outbreak with a high dail
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by woofie11 6y ago
Yes. It is raw data. I believe Massachusetts comes as close to capturing 100% of infections as anyone at this point, although that wasn't always the case. There is a lot of test infrastructure. CFR can overestimate or underestimate I
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by woofie11 6y ago
Massachusetts, which has good test infrastructure, had 280k cases, and 11k deaths. That's 3.9%, excluding people who have yet to die. That was also WHO's first estimate (3.4%). I'm now seeing WHO is estimating 0.5-1.0%, which
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Maybe. There are two ways this goes: 1) 3.4% of people who catch it die every year, and life changes 2) It mutates, and gets worse. Unlikely, but not impossible. Or it leads to long-term disability which we don't know about yet (not un
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Supposed? The white flag was literally the national standard of France for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flag#Ancien_R%C3%A9gime_... France's second-greatest or third-greatest national hero literall
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by woofie11 6y ago
First results on DDG: https://www.confortolaw.com/non-competition-agreements.html https://www.huffpost.com/entry/understanding-californias-ban...

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