john_moscow

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by john_moscow 8mo ago
Unpopular opinion: there has been a steady decline of standards in the research community in the past decade or two. First reproducibility crisis. Then, some topics becoming political taboo where the unorthodox opinion would get you fired a
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by john_moscow 10mo ago
If you know how to get stuff done yourself, start your own company, get stuff done, and enjoy the profits (or losses, depending on how good you are). It's your risk and your reward. If you are working for someone else, the unwritten ru
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by john_moscow 11mo ago
Surviving at BigCo is all about saying one thing, and often doing quite the opposite to advance your career. If you don't like it, working at a BigCo could be quite soul-draining.
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by john_moscow 1y ago
This looks like an additional incentive to channel owners to somehow convince their audience against the ad blocker use. Makes sense, better than trying to win an unwinnable arms race against the blocker maintainers.
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by john_moscow 1y ago
They probably got what got left of it in a cashless deal. Basically, the shareholders got to exchange X shares in a fatally wounded company into Y shares in a still-alive startup. The economic sense depends on the ratio between X and Y, but
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by john_moscow 1y ago
Space exists around things with mass. Also, above-absolute-zero temperatures cause particles to jump around randomly. Now if there is "more space" around particle A, particle B will have a slightly higher statistical chance of ran
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by john_moscow 1y ago
No point in setting yourself on fire to keep others warm though.
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by john_moscow 2y ago
The lie generator can very efficiently pull the relevant parts of the documentation and tutorials, and it's not that hard to programmatically ask it for a quote and compare it against the actual tutorial.
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Knowing how big corporations usually work, dropping the FreeDOS option completely due to incompatibility would require approvals from 7 layers of corporate management, while shipping a half-assed version that is not usable for any practical
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by john_moscow 4y ago
>You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law exp
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Not a crypto optimist at all, just trying to be objective. For both crypto and gold, the price is supported by the amount of people willing to buy it as a store of value (yes, gold is also used for jewelry and some manufacturing, but that&#
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by john_moscow 4y ago
This is a good point, but there is a counter-argument as well. America is currently divided into the rank-and-file class vs. the stockholder class. The governments' actions so far have been heavily benefitting the latter. Workers get a
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by john_moscow 4y ago
There's a third strategy of "index minus bullshit stocks" where you would include both INTC and AMD stocks for risk hedging, but would leave out things with questionable sustainability like Uber and Netflix that otherwise mad
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by john_moscow 4y ago
It's worth noting that the fixed-price unlimited support only works if you are charging north of $1000 per year. This limits your users to those who actually know what they are doing, and value their and your time. Try doing the same f
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by john_moscow 4y ago
You need to handle your PR better, dude. Whenever you speak out, always get a chance to acknowledge the help/ideas of others, unless they are your competitors. Make sure your work isn't understated though. Like "Turns out, ma
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by john_moscow 4y ago
They are likely using some fuzzy logic to detect people evading bans by creating multiple accounts. Could be some combination of IP address, OS, browser fingerprinting, etc. This approach inevitably results in some amount of false positives
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by john_moscow 4y ago
As an engineer running his own business, that had to learn all those skills the hard way, I can tell you - you can't. The job of a startup CEO is a 100% full-time hustling. Use observation and negotiation skills to strike deals that wi
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Easy. Having people change their ways on your demand is called power. And since our brave new economic order eliminated the constructive ways of gaining power, more and more people see this kind of behavior as the only outlet for their ambi
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by john_moscow 4y ago
>I argued that we are avoiding dealing with our economic challenges and are focusing on non-economic political problems. Well, yeah, since all major media companies and social networks are owned by the entities directly benefiting from t
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Economy and politics always go together. Optimizing the economy for the retirements funds (creating favorable conditions for existing big companies) has eliminated the paths to prosperity for the new generations (you cannot run your own sho
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by john_moscow 4y ago
This will probably get downvoted and flagged (who wouldn't like to shoot the messenger) but here's an example [0] of a person posting a long chain of twits that would almost certainly warrant a ban under the old management, and no
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by john_moscow 4y ago
This can be equally well explained by both software changes and the usual patterns of the public attention. When any kind of high-impact news breaks out, it immediately sparks peak interest lasting a few days, and then exponentially droppin
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Well, why do you think the elites are unanimously supporting the recent equity initiatives? Because in reality they penalize the potential contenders from the rank-and-file class, while the top ladder plays by their own playback.
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by john_moscow 4y ago
The trouble is, people that are actually productive usually suck at convincing the management that they belong to the "good" half.
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by john_moscow 4y ago
They could continue work in feature branches, it just won't be pushed into the production branch unless it's a critical fix approved higher up.
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Why would they? If there were many small banks competing with each other for the consumer's money, the free market mechanics would have quickly brought the interest rates up. But hey, who needs competition. Let the banking sector be ru
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Unfortunately, there is a very solid explanation for it and it doesn't yield a good prognosis: 1. There is a small minority of people who truly believed in it in the first place. 2. Then there are people who exploit the system by charg
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by john_moscow 4y ago
The items on the list are the problems relevant to most Americans. Except, the human brain has a limited capacity for "currently tracked" problems and tends to pick them proportionally to the amount of attention paid to them. So t
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by john_moscow 4y ago
Well, such things are always driven by demand. And unfortunately, there is a strong demand in our society for policing words, renaming formulas and issuing apologies all while: * Property ownership is becoming out of question for an increas
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by john_moscow 4y ago
These companies manage ETFs, so instead of purchasing shares from 500 companies tracked in S&P 500 (and paying 500x the commission), you can just purchase X shares of the VOO ETF. On paper, it looks like they own everybody else, but in

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