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by wwweston 3y ago
But we're not talking about "using the financial system to target people." We're talking about whether it's worthwhile to say something like "hey, maybe we will not allow legal markets for some things (say, mur
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Would you feel differently for someone hired to break into your home and retrieve valuables or information? Or perhaps hired to perform a hit on the life of someone you care about? Transactional sex might not be something you want people dr
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I can attest that _Mountain_ has an aspirational/hopeful side (along with some conflict, and confrontation with some bleakness).
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Yay! Glad to hear there's others in the audience for it. And yeah, the communication and nature of language stuff was good -- along with the general reflection on accounting for the "Other."
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Huh. Something just a bit beyond this plus some significant AI developments is the bulk of milieu for _The Mountain In The Sea_: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374605957/themountaininth...
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Rural voters as a bloc seem determined to vote in support of laissez-faire socioeconomic approaches which incentivize this result. I suppose it’s possible that they don’t intend this and merely are thoughtless about it from a policy standpo
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> getting grief from your mortgage lender or insurer, paying early termination fees on rent and services A lot could be included in this, but let's make some specifics explicit: if you locked in housing costs in 2020, it's enti
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> When government understands these issues at all, they only want more control and restriction CHIPS Act of 2022 allocated money to support US semiconductor manufacturing. Right-to-repair laws have been gaining traction even though it ca
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by wwweston 3y ago
> In my experience at least, most of the best content is not produced due to financial incentives. The best content is produced with a vision in mind that goes well-beyond financial incentives and may even be produced in spite of no appa
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Is Silicon Valley VC Still a Societal Asset?(braddelong.substack.com)
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> Use tools, of course "Tools are the subtlest of traps. We become reliant upon them and in their absence we are vulnerable, weak, defenseless..."
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> the concept that PP may be trying to get across is scarcity: It's pretty mysterious that you think you need to introduce this to the conversation at this point given how prominently scarcity dynamics figure into the comment you&#x
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> think you are just hating on LLMs because its a new thing. Along with your "old man" dig, the fact that you have to attribute hidden motives to someone who's got specific concerns elaborated in their comment doesn'
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> Ethereum, which are designed to resist centralization https://cryptoslate.com/research-ethereum-is-neither-decentr... > permissionlessness The existing internet is sufficiently permissionless for the vast majority o
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by wwweston 3y ago
I don't see hate for protocols or cryptography on HN. But I do see (a) skepticism about the actual decentralized (vs distributed) nature in practice (especially where the topic is financialized tech or even an end run around all the
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by wwweston 3y ago
> The thing I somewhat struggle with is that after 20-30 years of calls for shorter copyright terms, lesser restrictions on content you access publicly, and what you can do with it, we are now in the situation where the arguments are qui
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by wwweston 3y ago
> "Creative expression" is not finite It absolutely is. Doing it at all requires time & attentive focus, which is a finite resource for anybody mortal, and moreover a resource that's scarce and has to be spent in mul
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by wwweston 3y ago
> "DO NOT USE YOUR BROWSER BACK BUTTON"? Yeah, state mutation triggered by GET requests is going to make for a bad time, SPA or MPA. Fortunately enough of the web application world picked up enough of the concepts behind REST (
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by wwweston 3y ago
> the declarativization of the UI Yes! There's always going to be some range of client behavior that's difficult to reduce to declarations, but so much of what we do is common that if it isn't declarative we're repeat
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by wwweston 3y ago
While there's a variation in how clever/complex pluralization code can be, there's only one class-table correspondence convention that doesn't end with codepaths trying some level of automatically changing the names of
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by wwweston 3y ago
> Singular models, plural table names. Built in rules to pluralize, or override the defaults and add your own table name. Why spend a single cycle of computing time on this? There's nothing objectively necessary about it, singular-o
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> Generic and formulaicness, comes from having TOO MANY PEOPLE. You know what else comes from the output of many people? What AIs produce. > They love drawing, but not art. They love socializing with artists, but not art. They love re
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by wwweston 4y ago
Yeah, it seems you could be able to substitute thoughtful schema design avoiding updates/deletes for time-travel as a feature. I wonder if anyone has made a collection of reference examples implemented this way (and in general think th
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by wwweston 4y ago
> You hardly ever see all the rules thrown out in favor of a new system. It takes more buy in than you will ever get. Probably for the same reason that it's rare to see entire codebases scrapped and rebuilt from scratch (and that wh
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by wwweston 4y ago
Some of those who would pirate aren't going to pay regardless. This is unremarkable economically -- we're all used to the ideas of price points and elasticity. Every market for a good or service will segment into people whose de
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by wwweston 4y ago
> the only reason everyone thinks the company is doomed is because it is being shorted by bad people. > If they just buy and 'hodl', the shooters will get squeezed, and all the holders will make infinity dollars. If there is
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by wwweston 4y ago
Still working on most of the devices I've got that were made in the 80s/90s, meanwhile I have machines with USB ports less than a decade old where how you seat the cable matters or the port just outright doesn't work anymore.
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by wwweston 4y ago
> 3.5mm headphones? Yes. For over 30 years, consumer electronics had a Just Works™ standard for stereo audio. No pairing issues. No charging issues. No dongles for different devices. For some situations (jogging, gym, housework, etc) I g
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by wwweston 4y ago
Jobs figured out how to collect and amplify the efforts of talented people into a industrial organization with products that have had a world-changing impact. I don't know how much of that is his talents and efforts and how much of tha
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Nothing in the link you provided contradicts anything I've claimed. Some of it contradicts your claims, though. It confirms that Toyota has been working on EVs, plugin, and hybrid simultaneously over the last 25-30 years but they tho

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