adocracy

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by adocracy 10y ago
Fuck that noise. I'm building big and WSJ can suck it.
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by adocracy 10y ago
Intellectually, you're on the entrepreneurial path, with a purpose. How you emotionally defend yourself is also part of the entrepreneurial path - we work more hours for less money (on average) because we "control our own destiny
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by adocracy 10y ago
I hope this takedown isn't reflecting the emergence of an ad tech cabal...
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by adocracy 10y ago
"What is Aleppo?" = throwaway vote.
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by adocracy 10y ago
it's a tough problem. we're using the county-by-district database at US Census for our localization. https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/kml/kml_couwithinc... but we're not doing s
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by adocracy 10y ago
you show up, take your ballot which registers a receipt, and abstain on that particular office/issue. but at least showing up to register your abstention IS your vote.
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by adocracy 10y ago
Sure it is - but it's universal to citizens participating in that society. if you're outside the system, YOU'RE OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM, including UBI. Doesn't mean you have to pick one candidate - you can abstain, as long
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by adocracy 10y ago
Voting should be the single required act to trigger your Universal Basic Income for the year.
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by adocracy 10y ago
Looks like it's a county-by-county lookup function, crossed with state voting laws. We're building something county-by-county too - difficult locality matching issues.
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by adocracy 10y ago
Not everything is about earning money. Sometimes it's (hopefully) about empowering more direct democracy.
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by adocracy 10y ago
The Marissa Mayer effect still lingering? And a culture of data proofs over creative experimentation? So it's not that the UI is bad - is just stereotypically "Google" and has been homogenized to emphasize technical features
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by adocracy 10y ago
Note a specific lack of discussion about Uber's losses, or Theranos's potential fraud, or valuation trends, or...
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by adocracy 10y ago
(2) is untenable. A company could theoretically widely distribute a drug with unknown effects/consequences, only to find after the fact that it negatively affects >10% of patients causing death and disability in major numbers. File
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by adocracy 10y ago
the power efficiency is a good achievement, and the hashrate is great, but it's hard to see how US/Brazil/German home miners can compete against the energy costs (both pure hashing power, but also cooling costs) of regional c
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by adocracy 10y ago
I don't agree here. It's both. It's a market failure when the price point (or transparency around the prices) doesn't convince new entrants to persevere through the existing regulatory process. It's market failur
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by adocracy 10y ago
It's an interesting concept to suggest an effective put option for the government, based perhaps on the auditable costs of successful R&D. But this would probably have to work both ways - also including a put option in favor of pha
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by adocracy 10y ago
It feels like the "maturing process" has waned over the decades. It feels like people in the past were older, at younger age. This can't be due to the educational system - we have access to more quality information than ever
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by adocracy 10y ago
It's unfortunate the NYT story doesn't get into the billings process as part of the dysfunction. It makes me wonder how the pricing is then negotiated with the insurance companies. Did they set the retail price so high because t
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by adocracy 12y ago
Liquid dynamics sounds like an interesting hypothesis, but I agree with the critics that entanglement presents a tough analogy. If Pilot Wave theory suggests that the particle-wave duality is actually two distinct actors - a wave and a par
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by adocracy 12y ago
See my comment above - I think even "low sleepers" recognize the value of sleep for clear thinking and emotional balance. I totally value napping.
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by adocracy 12y ago
I use the Jawbone UP24 to monitor my sleep, and apparently, whether I'm getting 4 hours or 6.5 hours, I constantly get ~ 3:50:00 of REM sleep. Yes, I'm one of those founders who can get by on less than 8 hours, but I totally reco