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by magpi3 2mo ago
There is an excellent "This American Life" episode on rats. The first act is about a guy who keeps rats as pets. It's a sweet story. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/801/transcript
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by magpi3 3mo ago
There is something to be said for how the technology stack keeps growing for businesses and what this might mean for the future. Thirty years ago, you had an OS and you installed applications. No problem. Later, you had to build and use app
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by magpi3 3mo ago
It takes the view that anyone in an administrative position will put the survival of the organization as their primary goal, while lower-level employees (who are far less invested in the organization) can remain invested in the organization
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by magpi3 3mo ago
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy absolutely applies here: https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html "Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization
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by magpi3 3mo ago
Yeah, Karateka deserves more than a simple aside here. It's amazing that he made that on his own as a college student. I loved that game.
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by magpi3 3mo ago
I've thought this for a while: a day will come when the anonymous internet becomes a thing of the past. It really feels like we are already there but not everyone realizes it yet. What's the point of conversing with someone on the
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by magpi3 4mo ago
I don't really have a stance one way or the other, but I don't think people just produce content for ad revenue. A lot of people produce content just to get their name out there/increase their branding, an incentive that AI s
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by magpi3 4mo ago
The issue is that people produce content because they want visitors to their sites. If ChatGPT and Google just vacuum up content for AI summaries, people may stop producing that content. It really is, in the long-term, an existential issue
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by magpi3 4mo ago
He may have meant abdicated
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by magpi3 5mo ago
There are always creative ways to present data. Dismissing the needs of a minority of people just because we don't share their visual impairment is lazy, and we can do better.
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by magpi3 5mo ago
White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.
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by magpi3 6mo ago
He mentioned in the article that his Kindle is not connected to the internet (didn't explain why), so this is a no-go for him.
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by magpi3 6mo ago
> Even if they found the culprits, what's a judge's verdict against a presidential pardon? This is bad logic. A presidential pardon at least exposes the corruption, and exposing the corruption is more important than a prison se
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by magpi3 6mo ago
Maybe because the rot runs so deep in Washington that nobody really wants this to be a big deal. A little like the Epstein files: so many people would be caught up in the web if insider trading in DC were properly investigated that nobody w
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by magpi3 6mo ago
Yes
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by magpi3 6mo ago
The bill also prevents senior government officials from betting on prediction markets if they are participating personally in the event on which they are betting. https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/E
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by magpi3 7mo ago
But what happens when the bill comes in? That's my biggest fear. I heard on a recent podcast that it is a great time to be a micro-entrepreneur, and I think that's true right now because AI is so cheap. But AI companies are hemorr
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by magpi3 7mo ago
Or it could be an awful lot of productivity. We have to think bigger. What would the world look like if every programmer were a 10x (or whatever) programmer?
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by magpi3 7mo ago
In the 90s, you would have said the exact same thing about linux on the PC. Free software ultimately has time on its side. As long as a project has enough mindshare to keep its momentum, it really is unstoppable in the long run.
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by magpi3 8mo ago
As you noted, fan fiction is legal. You just can't make a profit from it, which I think is fair. Also, IP laws force people to come up with their own characters and their own twists on old stories. I would argue this is a good thing. I
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by magpi3 8mo ago
> Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo. I am not sure if I am off-topic, but I am having a lot of trouble with
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by magpi3 9mo ago
Healthcare, schools, roads, generative AI. One of these things is not like the others.
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by magpi3 11mo ago
It's someone asking to open up a communication channel after they (Mozilla) had already overwritten another person's work to the point that person is no longer willing to participate in the organization. What is there to talk abou
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by magpi3 1y ago
https://archive.is/NIBMJ
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We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse(nytimes.com)
9 points by magpi3 1y ago|1 comments
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by magpi3 2y ago
https://htdp.org/ How to design programs (mentioned in the article).
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by magpi3 2y ago
The only difference is that the money given is laundered through donors. I am an American, and I am very cynical.
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by magpi3 2y ago
> Do you think Trump's being paid by ByteDance to lift the ban? There is never a need to be that direct. Republican and Democrat donors tell politicians what positions to take. Trump doesn't need to take money directly from a c
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by magpi3 2y ago
Honest question: wouldn't it be simpler for text-only email readers to have plugins that runs HTML-only emails through a command that converts the HTML to text?
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by magpi3 2y ago
I'm a teacher, and Google Classroom is ubiquitous in American schools. I was not tricked into using Chrome. It is without a doubt the best browser for Google Apps. Mozilla is laggy when editing documents and doesn't have an extens

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