jgeada

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by jgeada 2mo ago
And stop allowing people who view their house(s) as an investment from being able to veto any and all building. While that incentive is present, there will be massive hurdles to being able to build the amount of housing that is necessary.
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by jgeada 2mo ago
No sure I see that any different than the typical American behemoth truck/SUV blocking all lines of sight to everything other than a 12 wheeler. And to top it off, they can't take a corner and so they all seem to slam their brakes
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by jgeada 2mo ago
Curating ideas requires experience and taste. Can you really develop that without looking at code? Compare Steve Jobs vs Joni Ive curating as a prime example of how taste without practical experience and context can lead things astray. And
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by jgeada 2mo ago
"Apple" is a generic name, that does not actually really express anything particularly specific. Eating apple, cooking apple, cider apple, pig feed? Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Red Delicious? All apples, wildly different, all common
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by jgeada 2mo ago
Ideas are a dime a dozen. All of us have half a dozen of what appear to be good ideas every. Execution matters, testing and sanity checking matters, actual engagement with users and iteration matters. Sure, we're reducing the cost of i
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by jgeada 4mo ago
Maybe the problem is structural: there is an absurd amount of power to be gained by seniority in both houses. To a voter there is a significant advantage to choosing an incumbent as their power increase with seniority.
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by jgeada 4mo ago
What is the justification? Why can someone vote for a future they're not likely have to endure? We don't allow under 18s to vote, so clearly some age restrictions are legitimate.
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by jgeada 4mo ago
That is exactly the point: this burden should be placed on the software and its controls, not on the humans. Aviation learned this the hard way, that automation should be adapted to how humans actually work and not on how we wish we worked.
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by jgeada 4mo ago
Any set of rules that makes humans responsible and starts with "don't anthropomorphize <whatever>" is a broken set of rules. Humans will anthropomorphize anything and everything . Dolls, soccer balls with a crude drawi
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by jgeada 5mo ago
Except in this case the middleman added thousands of dollars to the cost without adding anything of value: not curation, not discovery, nothing. Without this middleman acquiring an expired domain would have been whatever the nominal registr
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by jgeada 5mo ago
What risk? They contributed nothing, they have performed no function. Their only claim on it is having been first on the dictionary attack and laid claim to a bunch of useful letter combinations without providing any value or service. If th
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by jgeada 5mo ago
Prediction markets and all the market manipulation are the symptom, not the cause. Our society used to have real consequences for breaching public trust, but with our mere decades old "money is speech" legal system, there have not
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by jgeada 5mo ago
Don't think I've ever read a properly produced ebook. Page breaks fall wherever and formatting is dictated more by my size/border/etc choices than by whomever "produced" then book. Nevertheless automatic typese
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by jgeada 5mo ago
If that is true, of which I remain highly skeptical, then it implies that books are wildly inefficient to produce. What on earth are all the middlemen between book being authored and it being sold to a customer that add so much overhead tha
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by jgeada 5mo ago
The issue is also one of agency: the public has absolutely no agency in this. There is nothing an ordinary member of the public can do to avoid having their data exposed, there is nothing they can do to cause corporations to have more robus
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by jgeada 6mo ago
There are presentations that you actually present to an audience, to which this point is valid. But lots of presentations, including this one I think, are merely used as a means of conveying information (yeah, not my favorite way of doing s
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by jgeada 7mo ago
If you have a fixed profit margin, the way to make more absolute money is to allow your costs to increase. Insurance companies have zero reason to negotiate prices down.
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by jgeada 7mo ago
Inflation has made prices higher, but people's purchasing power has been decreasing all this time. Salaries, benefits etc have all not been keeping up with inflation for decades. It is why young people are marrying later, not able to a
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by jgeada 7mo ago
| - Have leaders skilled in whatever their direct reports are doing. Use them as coaches normally and as spare workers in times of high demand. I think this is the biggest hurdle for US style management produced from the MBA cookie factorie
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by jgeada 7mo ago
Not the "West", obsessive single minded individualism is a US characteristic. All other western nations (read: Europe) realize that there is significant value to society and that to achieve things we need to work as a group.
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by jgeada 7mo ago
Well, those committed the only crime that matters in the US: they stole from the rich.
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by jgeada 7mo ago
And don't forget retroactive claw backs on any profits taken; otherwise they'd make sure the assets to be seized are of absolutely no value (and canonically, negative value: all the environmental disaster and other collateral dama
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by jgeada 7mo ago
I think their problem is that very few countries have refinery capacity to deal with crude oil, which is what these ships contain. So the crew have limited choices. It is a "someone else's problem", to quote the Hitchhiker&#x
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by jgeada 7mo ago
This seems like one of those problems that arise when we let rich people and corporations arbitrage for the lowest possible legal consequences, in this case flags of convenience that have no standards. There is always some poor or corrupt c
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by jgeada 8mo ago
Big scale fraud like this always has its origin and motive force in the executive suite and board. However, the consequences are always applied to everyone but the executives and board.
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by jgeada 8mo ago
At a previous company we used to joke that most of management was a "problem admiration society": They'd love to talk about problems, investigate them from all angles, make plans on how to plan to solve the problem, identify
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by jgeada 8mo ago
We own the consequences of our actions, our votes. Yes, we as a country, for whatever reasons, voted for someone who very clearly telegraphed he would be doing exactly what he's been doing. FAFO, and we're not even close to the fu
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by jgeada 9mo ago
All you did was changing the programming language from (say) Python to English. One is designed to be a programming language, with few ambiguities etc. The other is, well, English. Speed of typing code is not all that different than the spe
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by jgeada 9mo ago
All empirical evidence shows that single payer systems work better, producing far better outcomes at lower cost, than the US system. In fact, so much better that a single payer system is what Congress has chosen for itself! But seems some p
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by jgeada 9mo ago
Markets can remain irrational, or colluding, far longer than you can stay solvent (or even alive). For example, while the Phoebus cartel only really lasted from 1925 through to 1939, 1000hr incandescent light bulbs remain the standard offer

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