bkirkby

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by bkirkby 3mo ago
get grok on it and I'm in
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by bkirkby 6mo ago
this is a poignant example of rent seeking
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by bkirkby 2y ago
why is it three logicians? wouldn't it work with just two?
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by bkirkby 2y ago
there are parts of the American market that are free and there are parts that are not. We'd have to get into specific details to classify said parts. While I don't think the existing economy is so binary (bicameral?), you are free
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by bkirkby 2y ago
indeed but sometimes abstractions are useful. i would argue that in this case the binary is useful because of the PP's use of the word "totalitarian" (as in "totalitarian neofeudalist"). i am arguing that the word w
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by bkirkby 2y ago
i don't think anyone has a clear answer for "winning the argument" since definitions can be endlessly debated. i think a more useful question is "what about the existing US economy is what makes it work/effective?&q
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by bkirkby 2y ago
i see control and influence as being two separate things. mainly, control is forced by the controller while influence is granted from the influenced.
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by bkirkby 2y ago
the "control" of a "weighted control economy" is usually enforced through government (including those politicians you reference). so when we bring in more government then it's less free market. how close we are gett
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by bkirkby 2y ago
did you mean to use a different word than "aristocracy?" and what is "equality of condition" and how do you achieve it?
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by bkirkby 2y ago
how totalitarian? you have free markets (which the manifesto supports) or planned economies and planned economies are where totalitarianism works.
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by bkirkby 3y ago
there appears to be no effort by cpj to determine if the journalists were killed by palestinians or israelis. is that accurate?
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by bkirkby 3y ago
In the article they are talking with students who haven't graduated yet, a couple of PMs, and one software engineer who took a three month break between gigs and has been looking for a month.
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by bkirkby 3y ago
Ten years into my self-taught software engineer career I ran across a statement "if you aren't seeing problems in your work that can be solved by graphs (or any advanced algorithms really), then you are likely avoiding those probl
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by bkirkby 3y ago
"money doesn't grow on trees and runways are very real and scary, so without deadlines companies fundamentally cannot function." Runways being real doesn't mean you need deadlines. Deadlines are useful to motivate the un
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by bkirkby 3y ago
inference , object detection for one.
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by bkirkby 3y ago
With tax credit the cheapest Tesla is $30k. With default interest and loan terms, the Tesla would cost about $4500 / year. Median annual household income in the US is $71k, so the cheapest Tesla would be ~6.3% of median household incom
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by bkirkby 4y ago
Curious what you can find about IT bands? I used to run triathlons. Stopped when I had a long recovery from a cracked foot. 10 years later I have chronic IT band tightening that pulls my knee out of alignment and causes constant pain. When
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by bkirkby 4y ago
Ianal, but I think ddg could come back and claim that their service doesn't copy the content or that their abstract is fair use, so a dmca wouldn't apply to them. If that happens I'd use language about the exclusive "pub
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by bkirkby 4y ago
I use the "safe enough to try" test. If I can't convince my coworker or employee that my idea has better tradeoffs (using my 30+ years of experience), I'm humble enough to know that maybe I'm wrong. I then ask mysel
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by bkirkby 4y ago
I stick with regular vi for a very long time because of this. I was a systems consultant way back when and I'd have to work on several variants of unix that had a mich-too-long lag time on getting vim ports. Iirc, sparc was the unix th
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by bkirkby 4y ago
That not every plane used by musk technically applied, or is able to apply, for a PIA kinda misses the main point. Sweeney )the jet tracker) has proudly claimed himself that he has cracked the PIA and will continue to post musk's locat
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by bkirkby 4y ago
i'm not sure i would call it _completely_ sad. i would say the sad was mixed in with awe. in an instant i felt both incredibly small and incredibly important. it was very surreal.
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by bkirkby 4y ago
Fwiw I had something akin to the overview effect when I attended a full solar eclipse. I thought I was prepared. I had read up on what to expect because I wanted to make the most of the experience for the kids. I wanted to make sure we obse
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by bkirkby 4y ago
What you describe is the exact reason we should question your very premise. "For example, let's say that to do some specific the law says a degree is required." Why is the government in the business of requiring degrees for f
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by bkirkby 4y ago
Can you offer examples at different levels of government where red tape accurately predicted the cost of the red tape? Not hypotheticals, but actual rules. An adjacent question is when governments predict the cost of a particular program. I
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by bkirkby 4y ago
i've taken a clue from Jessica Livingston. she responded once to bad faith communicators by saying (not a quote): "i'm not inclined to engage with people who are purposefully trying to misunderstand me." it both disengag
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by bkirkby 5y ago
fwiw, we are seeing errors when trying to publish to SNS although the aws status pages say nothing about SNS.
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by bkirkby 5y ago
not to be too critical, but you should read the article before commenting on the content of the article. to be clear, they spoke to two people who had offers rescinded and a former recruiter at Stripe who talked about general turmoil in the
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by bkirkby 5y ago
it's very similar to working in a corporation and seeing someone get fired. the company is bound by legal concerns to not reveal why the person was fired, which leaves everyone else wondering if the person had done something fireable o
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by bkirkby 5y ago
i've heard business leaders express the suspicion that sw eng teams are trying to avoid accountability by claiming estimating is too hard. and every time i've seen people try to correct for this it results in different layers of m

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