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by woofie11 6y ago
Most of those are solved problems, technically. What's not solved are, as you put it "the politics of it." Business models don't align with good models. Markets are highly inefficient, timescales are long, and transparen
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by woofie11 6y ago
A lot of devices on Aliexpress advertise false specs. I'm batting about 50/50 for web cams. Half of the ones I got had 640x480 resolution, despite advertising 720p, 1080p, or even 4k.... The other half are awesome. Two even look i
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by woofie11 6y ago
I was annoyed at many of the moves Ubuntu made and voiced that, but at the end of the day, I kept using it. When 20.04 came out, I uninstalled snap. If I'm forced to use snap, I'm gone. There's no comparison. The recent I ran
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by woofie11 6y ago
We have plenty of promising prototypes. The original MITx / 6.002x had in the nineties rate it as being as-good-as or better than in-person. OLI before that had good prototypes too. The low-quality junk came in scaling. Part of that ha
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by woofie11 6y ago
I made a dumb joke. It wasn't sarcasm, satire, snark, or any sort of point. It was a bit of wordplay. That's all. People liked it, and it got a few upvotes. Someone asked a question, and I posted a response. Then everything got do
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by woofie11 6y ago
Well, I think it's definitely not satire. Satire generally has <article>an</article> "intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement." (source: Wikipedia). In othe
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by woofie11 6y ago
It's actually much more because the DSLR companies, for the most part, are technologically-backwards, and don't get things like platforms, APIs, or similar. It's nineties-style closed thinking. It's a big part of why cel
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think <article>the</article> right way to do it is to have <article>the</article> parser figure out which words are articles rather than explicitly tagging them. There are only three of them in English, a
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by woofie11 6y ago
Back in the early '00s, I designed a social network architecture which was fully decentralized. The only people whose information I'd have would be my friends', and vice-versa. I never built it, mind you, it was all a thought
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by woofie11 6y ago
Fine art was available to more of the population than you'd think. The world population doubled in the past 45 years. In contrast, during the Roman period, the world population took about 500 years to double. Wealth accumulated over ge
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'd actually like infrastructure to be at home. When I was in college, my "infrastructure" consisted of a PC running Linux in my dorm room, a good bit slower than a Raspberry Pi. It was fine for managing my documents, email,
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by woofie11 6y ago
I apologize if they come off as offensive. That was not the intent. I wasn't trying to attack him -- it's not personal. I'm criticizing a system he has in place, which this incident highlighted. I'm also suggesting an al
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by woofie11 6y ago
I like decentralized in some places, and centralized in others. I think decentralized can and should replace Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs, and similar. On the other hand, there are a lot of places where centralized, with proper checks-and-bala
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by woofie11 6y ago
That would be terrific! I would encourage you to not go it alone. 1) There are people who have been thinking about this problem long and hard for a long time. Most are pretty accessible, and would be excited to see something strong here. Th
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Removed.
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by woofie11 6y ago
I'm not sure it matters. TripleByte is asking for super-sensitive information. 10 years down the line, Ammon won't be CEO anymore. No matter how much of a jerk Ammon is, I'm willing to trust-and-verify, so long as they get th
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by woofie11 6y ago
Hi Ammon, 1. There is an opportunity. 2. You did lose a lot of trust. 3. You didn't have enough trust in the first place to really take advantage of this opportunity. I would encourage you to think about how you can earn that trust. Th
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by woofie11 6y ago
It depends on what the parachutes are used for. If I'm airdropping food, and I can airdrop with 100% reliability for $1000 per unit food, or with 80% reliability for $100 per unit food, guess which I'll take? There's a market
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by woofie11 6y ago
Yes. ETS, ACT, College Board, etc. are all not-for-profits. The not-for-profits means individuals can't get limitlessly rich off of it, and there is no fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. They're not perfect -- plenty of
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by woofie11 6y ago
In between. They're run by not-for-profits.
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Both are well-grounded in reality. Admin salaries aren't enough to raise tuition much for everyone. If a university president makes a megabuck, and the school has 5000 students, that's $200/student. If it's a dozen admin
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by woofie11 6y ago
I don't think so. This is criticizing no one. Right tool for the right job. I write web apps which need real frameworks. I also write basic text pages, and something like this is very nice. It's a dying art (university professors
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by woofie11 6y ago
I have plenty of friends at FAANGs, and I've visited plenty of times. I am not sure why you'd presume I have a weird impression. I'm also not sure why you're presume autonomy brings fulfillment. All job offers I had gave
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by woofie11 6y ago
Fulfilling life. Half the salary of FAANG is more than enough to live on, and I love my job, and I love my family, and I get plenty of time for both. Alternative would be twice the salary, retire early, I guess. And I think if I did that, I
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by woofie11 6y ago
I think the key question is what happens to Taiwan in a US<->China war: 1) Does the US have a base-of-operations off of China's coast? If it independent? Is it Chinese? 2) who gets Taiwan's manufacturing and technology? Does
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by woofie11 6y ago
You're confusing two things: laxness <--> strictness scale carefulness/competence <--> carelessness / incompetence scale Google tries to do this with automated processes and minimum wage drones, which re
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by woofie11 6y ago
And he says with current events, meaning a massive number of recently-laid-off-developers Google could have cheap, things will continue to move slowly.
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by woofie11 6y ago
Hi Luna Team, Seems like you're facing some tough choices. You have a few choices: 1) Accept the company is going to shrink, and do so cleanly. Engineer the product to be maintainable by a small team. Acquihire away some of your engine
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Do you know the breakpoint? What's a short dose, and when does it become chronic?
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... And that seems to be more-or-less a random die role influenced by corruption. Odds are, though, that CEO will be more than 5% different, and some people will /predict/ they will be more than 5% better (probably incorrectly). T

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