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by wwweston 7mo ago
How good is your model at picking good data structures? There’s several orders of magnitude less available discussion of selecting data structures for problem domains than there is code. If the underlying information is implicit in high v
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by wwweston 7mo ago
It also doesn't have enough "not" contrasts. "Not to remember what we say here, but to remember what was done here." Then again maybe the quality of Lincoln's literacy defies it.
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by wwweston 7mo ago
That's an interesting question. And to the extent that we're shifting discussion from "taxes are terrible mistreatment of the hyperwealthy" to "taxes might make national business/economic development less robus
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by wwweston 7mo ago
It's almost like positions are created and managed by law as well as leadership, and even leadership is supposed to follow law. Fractional direct appointments are the usual case in any large organization. If you're the chief execu
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by wwweston 7mo ago
Elected officials have significant influence they can bring to bear on specific decisions, general operations, and in many cases personnel decisions. That’s true at the level of individual house members and can be more true for other office
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by wwweston 7mo ago
> And 60x the population. OK, let's assume that oil is the only relevant resource, and population is the other relevant factor, and there's no efficiencies of scale or exceptional American ingenuity that can be discovered. 30
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by wwweston 7mo ago
The "Nordic model" refers to the socioeconomics common in Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), not just to Norway. It's about how you approach commons and common wealth. Any commons will do. It do
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by wwweston 7mo ago
The Nordic model does a great job of providing a poor-raising floor (which also launches entrepreneurs at a higher success rate than in the US). And Norway in particular seems to have figured out how to take commons resources and turn them
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by wwweston 7mo ago
The rent on a literal 1980s apartment (let alone SFH mortgage) in every area that I’ve lived in has scaled up faster than average income. This is the trend for essentials. Consumer electronics are cheaper; this is the trend for substitutab
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by wwweston 8mo ago
There’s no one in the world that creating an alternate “real” identity would be easier for than someone who can influence or even determine military or covert actions. It’s probably even legal for them to do so.
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by wwweston 8mo ago
I'd guess this is a bet on which market is more lucrative: * domain experts paying for tooling that will enhance their productivity * capital/management class hoping to significantly replace domain experts Software devs have been
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by wwweston 8mo ago
Not much faith required on this one: either a given priest will have both strong familiarity with congregational context and the ability to articulate it as instructions to an LLM or they’ll be missing one of those two. If they’re missing
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by wwweston 8mo ago
I haven't read _Who is Government_ yet (in spite of the fact that it has a better title!) but _The Fifth Risk_ was a fantastically illuminating paradigm-shifting read for me. "What roads would any dare to tread, what safety would
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by wwweston 8mo ago
"politically impossible" is giving up on Americans ability to perceive the national advantage as well as the moral good. Similarly, the deficit probably has solutions if the electorate is willing to approach thoughtfully and consi
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by wwweston 8mo ago
If anything the culture of the last 30 years has made people dismissive and stupid about copyright — and no one has been more obtuse than an average tech libertarian. You can spot the worst by really thoughtless ideas like “it’s so easy to
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by wwweston 8mo ago
This is really interesting. Do you think it’s possible server-deployed software could also get similar efficiencies with adequate testing?
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by wwweston 8mo ago
The bigger problem is that our digital gilded age is founded in an entrenched culture organizing and framing support for it. It’s one that has been carefully created with several tracks of effort going back decades (some even a century). Co
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by wwweston 8mo ago
Love this. There's a sense in which this isn't the most practical choice -- general purpose synths (software or hardware) and libraries available for most runtimes give you all the power you need to create the bleeps and bloops. B
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by wwweston 8mo ago
This... does not seem like separation of concerns. Not to mention that the data layer seems like the one where you want to keep things most deterministic.
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by wwweston 8mo ago
I am so glad to hear there are working PMs who are aware of this (and if you’re hiring it makes me more interested in considering your employer).
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by wwweston 8mo ago
You either win big enough under the current system, with its system problems, or you never win to improve it. Imagining better systems before doing that is just a form of xkcd’s nerd sniping. And the biggest challenge to representative gove
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by wwweston 9mo ago
The 13th century seems like a late stoic tributary to focus on — some stoicism seems present in the gospels.
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by wwweston 9mo ago
It sounds like you’re referring a proof. Where can one find it, and what background prepares one for it?
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by wwweston 9mo ago
Don’t forget the practical ability to dissipate waste heat on top of producing energy. That’s an upper limit to all energy use unless we decide boiling ourselves is fine, or find a way to successfully ignore thermodynamics, as you say.
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by wwweston 9mo ago
It’s a test. There’s really no crisis at a certain level; it’s great to be able to drive a car to the trailhead and great to be able to hike up the mountain. At another level, we have worked to make sure our culture barely has any conceptio
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by wwweston 9mo ago
What’s the opposite of bootstrapping? Stakebooting?
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by wwweston 9mo ago
I’m acquainted with people who act and speak like they’re flipping a Hitler-Pope coin. Which more closely fits Solzhnetsin’s observation about the line between good and evil running down the center of every heart. And people objecting to cl
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by wwweston 9mo ago
The core issue is that the current US leadership has abandoned its status as a former trustworthy leader that accepted cooperation and responsibility as key operating tenets. If anyone threatened to take your home by force if you didn’t se
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by wwweston 9mo ago
Telemetry in the hands of software craftsmen with a supporting business model will probably support improved software. Telemetry in the hands of stakeholders whose stakes are business/career KPMs will probably serve those, and the soft
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by wwweston 9mo ago
> I disagree You're aware that at this point "I disagree" is becoming famous for headlining responses that have some posture of argument without real substance, right? Responses that are often the work of a bot? Ignore a

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