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by zamfi 26d ago
I wondered the same. ff and fi are common ligature letter pairs, maybe the original is in an encoding where those are represented with separate characters, which then correspond to § and Ö in whatever encoding we find here?
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by zamfi 4mo ago
On its face this sounds like an indictment of an electorate. But I think it's actually a much deeper indictment of the incumbents who couldn't present a vision more appealing than the "madness on television".
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by zamfi 6mo ago
> The biggest evidence against collaborative editing working and being useful is that programmers don't use it. We go through the pain of having git branches and manual merges. Hmm -- this seems a bit apples and oranges to me: colla
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by zamfi 8mo ago
Yes, and yes. The sibling comment here about liquidation preferences is correct, and these separate incentives are usually structured as retention incentives — eg, compensation for future work with the acquiring company. Shareholders are of
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by zamfi 8mo ago
These days, most employees getting nothing out of the deal is par for the course for acquisitions, unfortunately. The acquisition price is almost never exchanged directly for shares in the company as implied, often a chunk of it is kept for
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by zamfi 1y ago
Huh, which process was doing this grinding on your MacBook?
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by zamfi 1y ago
Why would the transactional nature favor students now though? What’s the mechanism for that, that’s internal to the system? In other words it sounds like you’re arguing that the root cause is “the transactional nature” but that’s the one th
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by zamfi 1y ago
Wait, but the point of the piece is that although college has always been transactional, behavior has changed . If so, why would transactional-ism be the cause? Read on: > The average student has seen college as basically transactional
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by zamfi 1y ago
As a counterpoint, Postel's Law as implemented in other domains has been spectacularly successful. One classic example is in transistor networks: each node in a network (think interconnected logic gates, but at the analog level) accept
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by zamfi 1y ago
> The $/sqft of housing tends to go up as density increases This is only true generally, not within a specific neighborhood, and it's because of correlations between demand and density. If you look at a neighborhood with mixed
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by zamfi 1y ago
> there is a highly lucrative business in simply buying low-density zoned land and going through the entitlements to turn it into a high-density zone Sure, but this is only a lucrative business because despite the land getting more exp
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by zamfi 1y ago
> This is not the case with land. Not with that attitude! Kidding aside, most people looking for housing aren’t buying land, they’re buying housing — which absolutely does not have elastic supply by policy , not by natural law.
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by zamfi 1y ago
Why doesn't it feed through to the price of food? Of vehicles? Of energy? It only feeds through to the price of certain classes of goods: housing, healthcare, education. Those are also "markets" that are artificially supply-c
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by zamfi 1y ago
> Gentrification actually only affects a very small percentage of people who end up refusing to sell and holding out until they cannot afford anymore. Not quite just those who refuse to sell — because housing costs impact the cost of eve
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by zamfi 2y ago
Actually, in many cases they cannot. Take a look at the EPA "exception" that California has needed in order to impose more stringent fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. Many forms of commerce or communication that are relev
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by zamfi 2y ago
"Securing the funding" is much closer to the work than "providing roads and sewage". In most sciences, to actually secure the funding, you need to argue for why the problem is important, why the team has a shot at solvin
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by zamfi 2y ago
Why on earth was that post flagged/killed??
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by zamfi 2y ago
With apologies to Bill Buxton: "Every interface is best at something and worst at something else." Chat is a great UI pattern for ephemeral conversation. It's why we get on the phone or on DM to talk with people while collabo
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by zamfi 2y ago
Yeah, and in fact this is about the best-case scenario in many ways: "good defaults" that get you approximately where you want to be, with a way to update when those defaults aren't what you want. Right now we have a ton of A
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by zamfi 2y ago
> It's a pretty crappy life By human standards, sure. Weird take I know, but since only one female bee in the hive passes along her genes (which are shared with the other bees), it's a very different incentive structure.
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by zamfi 2y ago
> China built enough homes to house its population twice over, yet it's not reflected in the prices. All because everyone and their grandma is investing in real estate. Yes, but this is reflected in China's vacancy rate: 22% by
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by zamfi 2y ago
I suspect any other "hook" would work just as well, a comment with a nonce--and could serve as block boundaries to make changes more likely to be complete? Graphologue used a version of this too: https://hci.ucsd.edu&#x
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by zamfi 2y ago
Oh that is super interesting! I wonder if they track how often it succeeds in matching and replacing, I'd love to see those numbers in aggregate. Total anecdote, but I worked on this for a bit for a research-level-code code editor (sys
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by zamfi 2y ago
> That is not what we were sold by the media / peer pressure mRNA producing COVID spike proteins that the body then recognizes as foreign is exactly the mechanism of action for this class of vaccine, this was not hidden from anyone.
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by zamfi 2y ago
Hi Steve! Super cool implementation. Any chance you’ll make the source available? There are about 50 extensions I’d make to it if I could! (And I’m sure I’m not alone.)
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by zamfi 2y ago
Hmm, alright, sure: Pick a field. What would the shift you are proposing look like in that field? What’s the ratio now between qualitative work and quantitative work, and what ratio would you like it to be, post-correction? What will be the
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by zamfi 2y ago
I'm sorry, but the thrust of your earlier post was absolutely that the social sciences "have taken a pretty hard turn" and "might benefit from a renewed emphasis on methods that can result in generalizable findings"
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by zamfi 2y ago
Hmm. Are you familiar enough with research in economics, or the hard sciences, to say that all the work in those disciplines lack an emphasis on “generalizable findings”? It feels like epistemic weaksauce to claim that entire fields explici
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by zamfi 2y ago
I've been wondering about this. They'll still get that hard-won engineering wisdom that comes from watching AI agents code badly, deploy it, and have it fail---as much as we'd like it to be otherwise, engineering wisdom often
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by zamfi 2y ago
Often they have sound damping foam, and try to be more efficient.

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