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I have worked on a combination of Time boxed and CD. The timeboxed ones had a overarching timeframe defined but we had lot of leeway within that to go and do our thing - sometimes we would spend more time thinking about how to solve it more efficiently - do PoCs, brainstorms and that saved us implementation time. We would have weekly status update meetings and more if needed - it was mostly self organizing and so long as we had people that cared and knew what they were doing it really worked well.

The CD ones were ones that actually needed continuous work - lots of new code needing routine bug fixes, Security fixes, artifact updates, incremental devops/automation for legacy projects etc.
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Usually the contract cover the bandwidth on last mile.
The bandwidth for the internet is shared between all customers.
Surely as long as social conventions such as “don’t ask women for their age” persist, such topics should be considered fair game for jokes?

Otherwise, we enter the field of “elective equality” - “equality where it benefits me, favoritism elsewhere”.
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They're nothing at all like baseball cards. Very few baseball cards are worth anything at all, and the ones that are don't promise to be rare in some hypothetical future. They're cards that were created decades ago and are actually rare and can't possibly be recreated. If you have a rookie Willie Mays in mint condition, it took half a century for that to become valuable, as all but maybe one or two in the world disappeared and you have the only one left. Nobody mints a brand new baseball card right now, pinky swears it will remain the only of its kind forever, and then sells it for millions immediately.
I've used NOAA data to investigate how weather effects production and energy consumption in manufacturing environments.

I found the data to be of good quality, free, and a simple interface to interact with.

One day I went to export data from their web portal and it never seemed to be ready. I shot an email off with no expectation of a response, but a little while later I got a nice response from their system administrator that they were doing an upgrade and some jobs got backed up in the queue. My limited experience with them has been all positive.
Maybe this was specifically done for Chinese but other cultures have the same or similar definitions.
In Indian culture, your mother’s sister’s children are like your siblings and not cousins.
Whereas your mother’s brother’s children are considered cousins (ie,one step removed).

I know that South Korea also has similar distinctions.

Uncle/Aunt/Cousin is fairly imprecise in many cultures.
Great article for sure. I think the conclusion of traditional IB being a bartender and investors no longer wanting to be restricted by the bartender a very interesting conclusion.

It does beg the question who is there to take away the keys at the end of the night?

It’s probably 50/50 that IBs actually played this role as opposed to regulators.

It also helps to explain absurd valuations. In the absence of a set of rules, valuations can be anything as long as the story is good enough. As the legend grows, so does the treasure contained in the chest.
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NFT always felt ridiculous to me, but I though I understood the mechanism: "it's like baseball cards but in the blockchain".

This week I learned it's not.

NFT are Non Fungible Tokens, which means tokens that can't be divided, unlike crypto currencies like Bitcoin that can be divided in Satoshis. So you exchange the totality of it, or not. Basically it's a unique number in the blockchain you change ownership by applying cryptographic signatures during a transaction. Most of the time it's an ethereum smart contract address + a token id.

But wait, where are the pics ? The gifs ? The videos ?

I mean, opensea.io does allow you to mint (the term for magically turning a media into an official NFT backed by the blockchain) up to 100MB of content.

So where is it? Not in the blockchain, obviously, it's already fat enough with tiny transaction data.

Well, it's just stored in the centralized platforms like opensea, rarible, etc.

Basically, the NFT is not even that piece of art, baseball card or whatever, it's just the number linked to the proprietary, centralized, privately own trading platform that hosts the content.

The platform disappears, or bans you, or changes policy, or is blocked, or whatever, and your NFT is back to being a bare-bone blockchain contract number and a token id.

It's even more bullshit that I though! You don't even have control on whatever you make believe to virtually own. It's madness.

But you know what, the week I spent in this weird universe was also so much fun. There is an atmosphere of creative WTF, a mix of scams, community bonding, money laundering and genuine experimentation all bathed in some frenetic craziness that reminds me of the early days of the internet.

Despite all that crap, I kinda like it.
I think that's mostly US corporation thing, all five jobs I've had in EU - including two in current fintech unicorns - had at most 2 rounds of technical interviews, then one with manager/director of department.

Unless you count 15 minute call with recruiter at the beginning as "interview round", there was nothing more.
I'm in a distributed team where the daily standups are optional. Almost everyone join every day and say it is good to see the others at least for a short while every day
Its more like, there is a new stadium in town. Then the stadium holds a game with a team from a nearby town, everyone in that town wants to drive to see it, so all the streets in that town are now clogged.

Should the stadium pay the other town money to hold a game because lots of people there drive to watch it? Or should the other town build their roads to meet the demand of their citizens? I think the second option is more reasonable, the problem was that there wasn't enough road for the citizens in general, not that there wasn't enough road for them to watch this particular game.
Thanks for your post, I understand these issues better now. But I think there still can be some middle ground solution. I struggle with memory, I cant remember what was said on the meeting a few minutes ago. I often have to chase people even if I was there for the note taking because they often lack some context. For the few meetings we did record, I was able to go through it while working to keep the context fresh in my mind constantly. But of course, I would not want to create a situation where that can be abused.

A recorded video can be transcribed and deleted, and the transcript can be anonymised and potentially summarised by an algorithm. I think this could at least lead to better (although much longer) notes, while protecting the participants. What would you think about such tool, if it existed?
NFT's are not like Baseball Cards, they are more like Pet Rocks.

A Baseball Card has some underlying value and fun, kids get baseball cards. They cannot be diluted as 'reprints' would never be accepted as substitutes.

If some people want to trade those things on the margins, fine.

A 'number' i.e. digital signature is not a collectible.

Digital signatures of any creative work are meaningless, nobody will derive satisfaction out of owning them and they'll probably just lose value over time.

It's an obvious money grab populist grift that really doesn't create net value for anyone.
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Sure and I can agree with that. My point being is that not everyone sees it that way, if someone said it and meant it negatively towards me I still wouldn’t care. They want you to care and be offended, don’t give them that. Does it stop them from doing it in the future? No. Will anything stop them? Who knows. There’s a fine line on these sometimes, I don’t want to ruin the life of someone who maybe made a bad joke one time, because not everyone is bad.
The ISP could drop or throttle the traffic, assuming that's allowable under the ToS with their customers. But then of course their customers will quit and find an ISP that doesn't throttle/drop.

Regardless, Netflix is not pushing content. The consumer is pulling it.

As a one-off, issues like the Squid-Game aren't so bad, but if it's a chronic problem for the ISP then it's because their model of consumer consumption was wrong.
> A business model almost wholly reliant on female low-self esteem is not the company’s only issue.

> This kind of sweeping generalization feels kind of gross to me. I wonder how the women who've had this procedure would feel about the author telling them they only got it done because of their low self-esteem.

I too share your distaste for the sentiments in this article.

Many of us our fortunate to have been blessed with a normal appearance, symmetry, and attractiveness.

There are also many people that have various congenital issues, or massive skin changes after carrying a baby, or weight loss. A list of breast issues include:

Ptosis (severe breast drooping)

Significant Breast Asymmetry

Tubular Breasts

Hypomastia

Hypermastia, Hypetrophia

Poland Syndrome [1]

Pectus Excavatum [2]

Pectus Carinatum [3]

Not to mention things like accident, cancer, or injury related reconstruction needs.

[1] https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7412/poland-syndr...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pectus-excava...

[3] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pectus-carina...
It's called currency for a reason... it likes to flow.
> Open source contributions are resume line items, like education. If you want people to take that serious be very explicit about the value of your open source contributions on your resume. Even then be prepared to treat open source as a new business pitch deck if asked.

Do you have any good articles/recommendations on this?
People do this because it is the most fun thing to do.
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It's also very simplistic. In subject matter, in character archetypes, sometimes in acting, and most annoyingly, in editing (how it never trusts the viewer to remember what happened 25 minutes ago, so they show flashbacks to remind you).
Scrum in of itself is not so much a deal, if it just provides a light framework/training wheels for companies transitioning to Agile. Start with 15 minute daily standups and 2 week sprints, for example, but if you work better with a twice-weekly standup and a 6 week sprint, fine.

Where it becomes a problem is where it's used to enforce underlying pathologies like micromanagement. But if your shop has a micromanagement problem, you'll be miserable, Scrum or no Scrum.
If you and your buddy use the same ISP, no it is not unreasonable.
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"Surely the baseball card’s value does not come from the fact that you can hold a piece of cardboard in your hand"

Yes, the value of the Baseball Card is derived from the fact that it actually exists.

The fact that someone is arguing that 'The Baseball Card' is not materially different from 'a number' is really an interesting cultural phenom.
Especially with the still recent insurrection/coupe attempt by a fascist leaning politician on American soil. It's actually pretty scary. Democracy is not as assured as some people seem to think and shouldn't be taken for granted.
Not sure if it's just the cheap Russian mustard that I ate, but it always seemed different than others.

It has a strong initial "kick" then the taste is pretty mild.

Like, English, French, German mustard taste and wasabi "sticks" for a longer time.
Just recommend the client you are using?
> e.g. there is no reason why there couldn't be a billion baseball cards of the most expensive kind (which would make them stop being the most expensive)

This is a hilarious contradiction. You are saying there can be a billion baseball cards of the most expensive kind that are at the same time not the most expensive kind.
This wouldn’t work, but my hot take is that anyone with potential insider information can only buy/sell index funds.
That must be hosted on my server, 6 points and the site is dead already :^)
Sarcastic? He is spot on. Or how do you explain Trump being banned from Twitter while the Taliban aren't?

(To be clear, I don't support banning either)
Your efficiency argument is ridiculously based on a Medium article.

Here's a quote from the Economist article citing two recent scientific studies: "It takes 33 plant calories to produce one calorie of beef."
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App Association is simply an Apple Association, not in app developers interests
> Is netflix super popular in Korea?

Yes, from the article:

> The popularity of the hit series "Squid Game" and other offerings have underscored Netflix's status as the country's second-largest data traffic generator after Google's YouTube
I think empirical evidence suggest there is no such eternal civilization and there were a lot of absolute autocrats, monarchs and whatnot. For one reason or another they came to an end.

Libya might be a better example. Gaddafi is still the most recently successful dictator if you measure time of ruling. Allegedly he had good instincts to sense coming revolutions and other dangers. But I have no doubts that he wouldn't have been toppled at some point. I also think he was so paranoid that he didn't really have potential successors.

There are some dynasties that survived falling civilizations, but their influence is limited.
Why brown mustard specifically?
> “The protocol can easily absorb a loss of $90 million and a lot of it will likely be returned, but the larger issue would be if people lose confidence in the system’s ability to function properly,” said Greenspan.

Why would anyone ever lose confidence in a system that sent $90 million to users as a result of a “one-letter bug” in an "upgrade gone epically wrong"?
Would be very interesting to see some of the ideas that they wanted to base improved infrastructure on with older ideas of the future of technology. The convoys always fascinated me, and the entrenchment of older technology makes progression much harder when the existing infrastructure is heavily depended on and long term planning has never been a strength of the US.
'Impossible to control'.

Born to a generation that has lost faith in governments, this is why i have crypto.
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> Who else do you think has more accurate and objective accounts of ancient history than ancient historians?

Modern historians who've synthesised the work of ancient historians and figured out, insofar as possible, what actually happened. Like, the sources are generally _contradictory_, and contain things which cannot possibly be true, and often supernatural elements.

> You really think that an internet rant is a better source for historical knowledge than ancient authors?

Unless you're willing to single-handledly reproduce a century or so of analysis, then, yes, reading this blog post (or a modern history text on Sparta) will give you more context on Sparta than reading the ancient sources. A _huge_ amount of work has been put into understanding ancient history, and ignoring it and just going for the ancient sources is nonsensical.
That big backing relational database of yours contains tables of "global mutable variables". The non local side effects are part of the point.
I saw that too. I used to run my own HN RSS feed that was just a pass-thru to HN's RSS feed, but with the comments as the primary link. No matter how often my feed reader fetched, I routinely saw links show up on HN Daily or HN Blogs that my pass-thru feed hadn't captured.

Eventually I learned that hnrss has a flag to make the comments the primary link. I switched to that, and no more problem.
looks surprisingly bad for feralhosting
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as long as it isn't downward
Ya, and I bet that supercut cut out all the context and key parts of what they said. I've seen one showing Kamala Harris saying she wouldn't take a vaccine that Trump told her to take. But they cut out the next sentence where she says, but if our health officials and doctors and scientists say it's safe to take it, then I will.
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If we are going to approach the issue through analogies, here's an alternative one: selling an NFT is like the old scam of selling a bill of goods (this is where the victim thinks he has bought a number of tangible things, but the contract actually says that all he has bought is the document listing the goods.)

The big difference with NFTs, of course, is that the true nature of the transaction is not being disguised. That makes it legal and even ethical, but whether that is enough for you to be a buyer is up to you.
This is exactly why very little art is valuable until the artist is dead, and even those rare artists who can sell while still alive see the value of their work skyrocket when they die. Andy Warhol definitely can't make a copy of anything you own that he created and he has verifiably been unable to since 1987.
The fact that some of my favorite games that I’ve paid for in the last 5 years have been built using browser technologies proves this completely unfounded.

The V8 is an incredibly good VM. It has compute performance comparable with Rust in Debug mode for a single core, or comparable to the JVM with a single core. That’s plenty for a great many game genres, and for ALL of the game genres that I am personally interested in playing.
Yeah, let's ignore all the breathing related symptoms which are usually the most talked about and pretend people are just stressed.
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Interesting work that I'm ethically OK with is pretty much the only thing I care about. I have taken positions that involved a reduction in pay because the work itself is something I'm particularly interested in, and would do so again in the future.
I would love to work without these idiotic ceremonies. I get into fight with our agile coach because he insisted on making new features instead of fixing bugs because we didn't have anything new to present in demos. Stupid.
So code isn't the law? Why does anyone trust these systems that keep failing time after time? If they need to ask money back and really have poor recourse? Didn't current banking and legal system to develop just solve those issues?
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That isn't even an edge case; some countries have double-digit percentage of consanguineous marriage.
I always wondered how the seas looked inside the hurricane. Thanks to technology someone accomplished this.
Redditors: complain about alleged market manipulation by "hedgies". Coordinate between one another on subreddits like /r/WallStreetBets, /r/SuperStonk, and /r/GME. Encouraging thousands of others to "buy and hodl" a particular stock sounds like a coordinated scheme to me.

In a democracy that values free speech and the liberty of association, combined with the Internet, it was inevitable, but then the bar for what counts as market manipulation punishable under the law is raised considerably.
> the physical access.

Wouldn't that also include the bandwidth? Meaning, if the customer is already paying for the bandwidth they will consume, why wouldn't that cover bandwidth usage of Netflix content?
Mustard is made by adding liquids to mustard seeds or their powder, which activates the chemical reaction in them to make them spicy. How spicy a mustard becomes depends on the temperature and acidity of the liquids, and on how long the reaction is allowed to go on - heating or cooling the mustard significantly will stop it, keeping a mustard cool once it reaches the desired hotness will preserve it at that spiciness level. As it is, I wonder what the ratio of solids to liquid was and if it was a pure mustard (without other spices or additives) since I have never even heard of a semi-solid mustard...
Thing is, google doesn't want you to really use the term google because it makes creating a trademark ever so harder.

</Fun little side fact>

I'm sure they also have concerns about it being coming over as monopolistic behavior
Buffalo is a very obvious harm reduction option that would create less harmful externalities but it’s not at all suggested, only lab grown meats and removing all meats from diet.
It has been brought into conformance with the standards of corporate HR departments, whose job it is to shield the company from discrimination lawsuits, not really to foster a kinder community.

If there are any CoCs left that do not adopt these standards, they will be brought into conformance soon. Corporate sponsorship depends on it, and open source is nothing without corporate sponsorship.
> I mean, opensea.io does allow you to mint (the term for magically turning a media into an official NFT backed by the blockchain) up to 100MB of content.
So where is it? Not in the blockchain, obviously, it's already fat enough with tiny transaction data.
Well, it's just stored in the centralized platforms like opensea, rarible, etc.

You’re right that this is the way many have been created so far, but that will not be the case for long. Already people have pointed NFTs to IPFS/Filecoin which will give them much more staying power. And this can be done without using a centralized platform like opensea, check out nft.storage and metaplex (1) as starting points.

1. https://github.com/metaplex-foundation/metaplex
is not feralhosting. i tried on a home made web server. it failed. :) maybe ill get it right next time.
But in the case of the house, I've seen many completed houses before, so it's a bit of a false equivalence.
Yes, but even sticking with a selected amount of material - not in the direction of "simulating the full Beethoven person", but in that of "obtaining knowledge [as if tentative scientific laws - informational compression from observation to underlying structures which can be exported and productively reapplied] to be squeezed out of some material", there is a dramatic difference between identifying "apparent superficial patterns" and identifying "the foundations of such patterns". Those "laws" are meant to be "the structures of reality", not the "structures of phenomena": similarly for understanding, which is not "how this behaves" but (like in science) "why this behaves", using "how" (the observation) to deduce "why".

Any rambling may superficially make sense - and to get that superficial patterns are enough -, while underlying understanding (as a broad and powerful category) is required to actually build sense. To continue the example, one could impersonate Churchill by appropriating the terms and mannerism, or by deducing his ideas - "think like Churchill" is not "sound like Churchill".

The idea of "intelligence" is that "intus legere", which explicitly excludes reading the surface where there is no "into". Otherwise, identifying superficial patterns is "Artificial Skimming", AS.

It is far from impossible to deduce deep thought structures from limited material, but it must be the explicit goal.
"This is not to say Agile itself is bad"

But it is bad, no-good, horrible and sucky. If you do have the skill and diligence which are necessary to implement it (in a way that doesn't horribly suck), then you don't need to formally implement Agile.

The most productive teams I worked in invariably converged on something like this:

some kind of a backlog
+ a way to know who is working on what
+ informal but frequent and active communication

I think that if you look at the formal and semi-formal methods it's Kanban that is the closest to this model. If you need to placate people who insist on using "A Method", then at least try to convince them to use Kanban.
this has been "a few months away" or "later this year" for at least two years now