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Nah. Most often a16z, as other VC's, invest in platforms.

What do platforms often do: take an industry, served by many businesses, often small ones, and concentrate it.

Than, the platform does most of the repetitive, scalable, work, while leaving entrepreneurs with doing all risky work, and little place for hiring employees.

As for the employees, their work is commoditized, they get ton of competition which to leads to really deteriorating pay and work conditions, and labor laws are often broken right and left.
I mean, fundamentally the spy thriller spy does anything a given country needs done in another country that would otherwise be considered illegal or an act of war, if the provenance of the order was known.
Most of the time those are determined locally, not at the state or national level. Usually by a city council and zoning board heavily informed by its wealthiest citizens.
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We have a system to filter "real" information from "fake" information where distributing fake information is a lucrative business. It is called peer review, and it can be applied to news as well as science, and doesn't require some nefarious government czar.
If we kill the 5000 wealthiest people in the world we could provide unemployment money for 90% of the world for over 2 years and keep them safe at that. What's your opinion on that?
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There is no free lunch, so either the service went down, or prices went way up, or there are no competitors anymore, or all of those.
https://archive.is/IMPLP
This is what I think of when I hear "reading comprehension is going downhill. Most people are functionally illiterate these days."
Insurance is not meant to cover routine purchases, it's meant to cover purchases that are unexpected and too large to cover.

We have a publicly paid health system in Norway, but we still have:
* Copays until you reach €200
* No dental coverage for routine operations (only major surgeries)
* No eyewear coverage (I assume if you have some eye illness requiring surgery or similar it will be covered)

Seems to work fine, and that France should change what insurance does cover
Vine was killed, it didn't die.

Also, Vines felt really standalone. TikTok manages to feel both like a community and like cable TV: you can choose to interact with replies and remixes, or you can just passively sit back and let it serve you an endless array of amusing 15-second clips, with a stream that quickly learns what you like and shows you more of it.
Formula 1 racing is similar.

Drivers become aś good as they every can in pure pure driving skill in karting when they are still teenagers. All skills needed for driving fast are developed early.

Rest of the career in F3/F2/GP2 feeder series to F1 is just maturing psychologically, getting experience and learning stuff you need outside the track. Ultimate skill level is already there or not. Drivers will eventually fade out when their physical performance declines in late 30's.

(actual career performance depends on cars, teams, money, business and marketing)
Does anyone else feel like this has been a long time coming for seniors’ care homes and retirement centres? For years, I have heard many outrageous stories of elderly abuse and neglect at these types of places. I’m sure some of them aren’t terrible, but I’ve always felt they were essentially warehousing elderly people so that their families didn’t have to look after them.

All of this is of course because their offspring, the present working-age demographic, are busier than ever at work. It used to be (and perhaps still is in some countries) that people would live in multigenerational homes. Grandparents would participate in the rearing of their grandchildren and in turn receive care and support from their offspring. Houses were never empty during the day, as they so often are in the suburbs we occupy these days. Perhaps it’s time we reconsider our ideas around the nuclear family and revisit the traditional way of life.
> I build tech enabled, innovative physical infrastructure solutions

Can you explain what it is you do without copying and pasting a line from your pitch deck? This sentence could literally mean any of at least a dozen completely different things.
I've been thinking quite a bit about the topic, and I still think having tech debt issues documented as code comments is better than in an issue tracker. You will get more contact with the issues than if they're buried in a backlog

I wrote a bit about what was going on in my head here, if you're interested: https://isidoro.io/writing/tech-debt-broken-windows/
This was about 8 years ago, and all my edits were anonymous. They actually relate to this article because it was from an IP registered to a previous employer. Only a handful of people used that particular address, so when I looked at the history they were all mine. So I dont have anything to send, but If I had to guess I'd say it was less than 10 edits spread over 2 years, and all of the edits were less than 30 characters. I later learned about the talk page and the internal politics, and I decided it wasnt for me.
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I can already host my own blog and have it safe from the whims of a central service.

I'd like to hear more about how this is tied to identify, but the immutability is my main concern with regard to illegal activity. Once your daughters nudes are leaked on scuttlebutt how do you get them taken down?
I can see the attraction in making rules/regulation as code. But there is a downside we should be cautious of. Making law into code doesn't necessarily make it more readable/understandable or clearer for humans. In fact, making it into code will make it scalable to add lots of rules (very prescriptive, not derivable from a set of core principles) making them hard to comprehend for anyone but a rules evaluation engine. Anyone who has implemented a business rules engine and operated it in a complex workflow domain (like say e-commerce or banking) knows what I'm talking about. Then, when the machine renders judgement, we will need technical engineers to debug/explain/interpret why the machine evaluated all the rules to this particular judgement. There will also be potential for modeling the legal context of a particular case incorrectly while feeding it to the machine which can make the machine render incorrect judgment. Now, how will you appeal this decision?
The issue is that the price is paid by a set of people who are different from the people who benefit from this.

And the people who benefit are the ones in power, whereas the ones who suffer are the ones without power.

So the trade offs are largely not accepted because they are acceptable to society at large, but because the people who have the power to make the decisions are insulated from it.

In the US wealth is a decent proxy for power, so this claim can actually easily be quantified.

Simply draw maps correlating the wealth of a neighborhood with the adverse effect being discussed. Whether it’s air pollution levels, or it’s deaths due to car accidents, or mercury in water, or lead in walls, it will invariably be the case the problem correlated strongly with the wealth of the area.
> but our government is stuck in 1776

so it is. Democracy is not broken, but it really needs a modern remake. The problems we face today are more complex than ever, and we should be pushing out solutions based on the best crowd-sourced thinking, for the 99% of the people out there.

Also we need to start codifying the "meta" of government, the same way we have codified the "meta" of software development. Government and society at large should have regular mechanisms to counteract or at least slow the spread of red tape, legislative capture, and other systemic rots.

In particular there are issues that have little to do with government and more with the interaction between people and institutions. For example, it worries me to no end that in the middle of a pandemy the current news cycles centers on finger-pointing and gossip about Trump and the governors, while virology, epidemiology and the intricacies of vaccine development get very little coverage. When was the last time that you saw an explanatory diagram in a wide-circulation newspaper?

At an age where science and technology are more accessible than ever, our media divests attention and citizen time to gossip, instead of motivating people to learn and build more. Admitedly, provoking rage sells more than educating. But isn't social unity and development more important than the bottom line of media organizations? Maybe we should have mechanisms in place to subsidize social utility, and some taxes for toxic content, the same way we tax alcohol and tobacco.
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If you're really interested in this there are large vanlifer/vandweller communities all over specifically so that people don't get lonely and to help one another out and establish that sense of community. /r/vandwelling /r/vanlife there are discords, etc.

The slow/internet is my problem. I'm pretty close to living in the mountains apart from that.
Great work.

You might be interested in checking out the implementations of pbrt in rust too

https://github.com/wahn/rs_pbrt
>to protect potentially as low as 1% of the population who are well past the good years of their life
Bold statement. Should it be my mother who deserves to be left to die or yours?
Assuming for a minute that most of those affected would be the oldest, there are plenty of people with immunocompromised systems who deserve to live just as anyone else.

The other difficult issue is that an order of magnitude more people end-up in hospital, many in intensive care, for at least 2 weeks.

That's an enormous amount, even if you were to spread out that effect, assuming we lift all restrictions and let the virus loose, we would be talking -at the very least- about more than a million people requiring beds at any given time, in the US alone, just for COVID-19...

Imagine the economic effect of that on medical costs and the economy at large...

A year-long confinement is not workable and no nation can afford it, western or otherwise. However, strong social distancing and hygiene measures, as well as travel restrictions, could/should be implemented until we have a universal solution for this.
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> About security fixes, yes, between end of 2019 and today, new problems emerged in Chromium (not specific to Kiwi though), and there is some work to backport. Should it have been done earlier ? Certainly.

I am talking about telling users that they should not use a browser which is potentially vulnerable. Clear communication about the current status is not the same as planning an update.

> I see you have StartPage, DuckDuckGo, AdGuard, already in partners, and if they don't pay you, I encourage you to contact them, as they should.

There is no partnership with anyone. DuckDuckGo is a search engine already in upstream Chromium. StartPage search engine was removed months ago and some filters from AdGuard are used used in the combined Bromite filter.

There is no partnership and no payments of any kind because then there would be a conflict of interest to remove a search engine from the default choices while it is also a source of income.

> Also, thanks for the kind words at the end, you really pushed onto open-sourcing Kiwi too. Though sometimes you are a bit extreme for me :)

I am glad you are willing to be more open about these topics, these are I believe at the core of open source. I also wish you to make the project sustainable and fun to maintain.
Also erosion of various civil liberties. Terrorism is like a pathogen causing an auto-immune disorder; pretty much all of its damage comes from reaction to it.

However, I don't think it's in any way like COVID-19 situation. In this pandemic, the economy was going to go down anyway, due to simple self-preservation of individuals. Without social distancing and lockdown measures, once you'd seen people around you getting sick and dying left and right, you'd too be reluctant to go to your work, or to run your plant.
In my view, we're great at building private wealth, but have lapsed at building public wealth. As a society, we can be as wealthy as before the COVID, but we should think about how our wealth is distributed.
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It’s very much conspiracy theorist stuff, but it’s definitely a thing.
Bob the fish theme gives me this and places it on the right hand side of the prompt: https://github.com/oh-my-fish/theme-bobthefish
What do you think of my proposals to fight regulatory capture? https://joelx.com/how-to-beat-regulatory-capture/15780/
Contact Tracing is an awesome way to use the technology in theory, however, while a bit conspiracy theory-ish, it can also be used as trojan policy to allow unfettered warrantless access to location data, mass surveillance, and anything else they'd like that could be exfiltrated from user devices.

Anything that has the ability to be exploited will be exploited for purposes.

We have a generally healthy level of distrust for our governments as well as big business, and given the consistent evidence, I feel that's generally warranted. (Government is supposed to serve the people, not the other way around).

I would never opt-in for this nor would I trust it.
Would you export them and upload that as a pastebin?
Education != ability to think critically. It is a problem of biology - we are hardwired to believe things in a certain way based on all kinds of cognitive biases, etc. I don't see a way around regulation, and I don't see a path towards effective regulation given the current system benefits those who would design the regulations.
Yep, if anything good comes from this open letter it will be from people in his own demographic (investors) reading, internalizing, and acting on it.
We don't know yet how much of a difference that makes. For example how many infected 80 year olds without medical treatment die compared to those that do get medical treatment. Medical treatment is certainly going to have a better mortality rate but not 100%.
> And they are not reliable in practice.

I'm curious what you mean by this. I agree that when a revolver experiences a mechanical malfunction it's usually serious and the gun is probably done until a gunsmith takes it apart. But that type of malfunction is extremely rare.
I think the analogy is a little short-sighted. Having a universal building code doesn't mean every building has to meet the same standard in every way. They can contain conditional logic. Flood-resistance would only be required if the building is in an area with a likelihood of flooding above some threshold.
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This thread changed my perspective on teaching my kids to code. I won’t.
> Not sure how to purge that psychology.

I think that's something most of us struggle with. That doesn't mean you're not a great person :-) I appreciate the humble reply.
> It is already the case that Google and Apple can push (more) surveillance into your device anytime. GACT does not change that.

It does legitimize it and that is a very important thing. Right now, pushing this kind of thing covertly would be disastrous if (when) it is discovered. With GACT, it's already there so it's presence alone is not suspicious and can be enabled surreptitiously.

> Or should we abjure smartphone-powered contact tracing?

Yes, in its present state, I think we should. We've done without smartphone-powered contact tracing before so it is clearly not essential. In its current form, it is worse than the alternative of traditional contact tracing.
my gosh... yes, just like torrents are only good for illegal stuff...

my goodness...
What happen if I receive message N+1 but not message N (due to gossiping)?

Can I still read message N+1?
Making a Self-Admitted list of personal deficiencies, and then mining that for self improvement, should be an app for that.
This is a very, very poor article with no real grasp of comparable threat vectors.

It seems to feel having two centralised vendors for this is worse than just having arbitrary third parties, without explaining how this would be facilitated without any controls over this on an OS level, so it would then just be entirely dependent on all of your third party applications. That's a much bigger threat model than the OS vendor, requiring you to trust dozens of different vendors with different motivations to behave.

The fact is really simple, if you don't trust your OS vendor that the APIs are as described then you're screwed and everything else is irrelevant. It is very clear the general public do not give a stuff.
Thing is, good regulation is extremely tough. A good regulator needs to deeply, deeply understand the industry, where it has been, where it is going, and what the problems are; they need to deeply understand the spirit of existing laws rather than the letter of the law and be ready to thoughtfully and creatively deal with edge cases; they need to have some risk tolerance to allow for growth while still protecting people; they need to be able to balance the interests of competing groups; they need to be able to be proactive / innovate rapidly in the face of changing conditions meaning they need to understand the bleeding edge and be consulting with the groups at it; they need to see big problems like pandemics coming and push people in the right direction; they need to resist the calls for deregulation for deregulation's sake from industry as well as resist the calls for regulation for regulation's sake from politicians who want to appear like they're doing something about a problem; they need to deeply care about the users they are charged with protecting; Finally, they have to have brass balls. They have to be unafraid of standing up to politicians / the public / industry and saying you are wrong or sorry, we were wrong.

It's really tough to find lots of people who can do all that for not much money / acclaim potential.
I'm not a science person nor do I know how a virus kills a human body but this one is for sure something amazing. What we can't see can lead you to an absolute death destroying your whole body, it certainly is quite shocking. It's 2020 and we are still losing so many lives, yet we are still lucky to be alive because of the advancement in medicine and health care.
Lol okay. Thanks for the awesome work! I'll put down my email there.
I don't understand why they'd need to even tell us about it. Call it a security update and install on every phone.
If we're comparing smartphone vs bank cards, it's only fair to presume that the bank cards are equipped with EMV, because magstripe terminals won't be able to accept smartphone either. In that case, I fail to see any security advantage over smartphones.
This is cool although for practical purposes, I think most people who need such a tool will not be using Haskell. It is tempting me to add Haskell to my CI just because it looks so nice and easy to use.
He said that (jokingly) before his fabulous 2019 year.

Right now he's spending a lot of time promoting chess24 with banter blitz, hanging around on lichess playing 100 games bullet matches, commenting on chess24 and other things that would profoundly ruin anyone else's concentration.

So, no big deal if he very occasionally loses (online!) games.
Indeed. This feels like the final straw that would make me drop (conventional) smartphones for good.
Not to mention, if you expected to be with your spouse and kids 24/7 under the same roof for extended periods of time, you'd probably buy a larger apartment. Or perhaps a home with a garden. Even if it would cost significantly more than your current one.

Much like global supply chains, our decisions are optimized quite tightly to our individual lifestyles; what worked well in normal times suddenly doesn't when lifestyles are forced to change.
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> Therefore, any halfway intelligent capitalist understands it's a great idea to build apartment buildings in San Francisco

You don't mean "capitalist" here. You mean, "proponent of Free Markets."

An equally profitable "capitalist" play would be to find out what companies currently benefit from the shortages and to buy those companies, thus securing their revenue.

Capitalism is agnostic to free markets and in some cases even destructive to them.
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I found his essay on kids [0] a lot more insightful than this collection of short tweets. In particular, he admits that having kids may actually make you less ambitious
The fact is, once you have kids, you're probably going to care more about them than you do about yourself. And attention is a zero-sum game.

I've noticed this in myself. As usual though, he has a hack for this as well:
I have some hacks for sailing close to this wind. For example, when I write essays, I think about what I'd want my kids to know. That drives me to get things right. And when I was writing Bel, I told my kids that once I finished it I'd take them to Africa. When you say that sort of thing to a little kid, they treat it as a promise. Which meant I had to finish or I'd be taking away their trip to Africa. Maybe if I'm really lucky such tricks could put me net ahead. But the wind is there, no question.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/kids.html
"Shock" is a noun. You cannot shock somebody... Why is a foreigner correcting the grammar of a huge, English-speaking news source?
BT interference is much more common, and BT identifiers are much easier to reset.

Cell phone tracking data does not rely on line of sight to towers, and for most people there is no offline for this to be relevant.
This book has a section on "Why Scala" but not on "Why Functional Programming". What is interesting about Scala, if you already know Java (and most CS grads already do), is that Scala is a functional language.

Anyone know of a good book or article that gives an overview of functional programming and answers the question of "Why Functional Programming", without going into details any one functional language?
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Hey, I edited my comment. I did miss the part in http.py somehow :). Thank you for clarifying.
> ..What is at stake is the transfer of the world’s second largest registry to a for-profit private equity firm that, by design, exists to profit from millions of nonprofit and non-commercial organizations.

> In the event Ethos Capital — a new company without any track record that appears to have been formed for the purpose of taking control of the .ORG registry — makes any mistake, it will be at the expense of the .ORG community and will impact the broader Internet community.

> The cost will be felt downstream, affecting registrars, registrants, and the many individual users who make up the global Internet community.
That's neat. I never knew this existed. Unfortunately I mainly use Gitlab wherever I work.
Yes, but after the pandemic, wouldn't it be nice to be sure something like this is in place before we learn about a new virus? Wouldn't it be great if we kept this thing on forever, so it could be used retroactively after an outbreak has happened to trace it back and become even better at avoiding pandemics?

Oh, and maybe this could also be used to avoid certain crimes such as terrorism?

You know where this leads to.