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>Effective teamwork against threats requires not hierarchy, but egalitarianism; not centralized power, but a culture in which all voices count.

>An organization that doesn’t face external threat...should function perfectly well with a bureaucratic and hierarchical structure. In a highly competitive market, though, egalitarian tendencies may support employee cooperation and, consequently, performance.

Interesting, let's take a look at a meaningful example...

>Navy SEALS exemplify this idea. Strict hierarchy dominates out in the field: When a leader says go left, they go left. But when the team returns for debrief, “they literally leave their stripes at the door,” says Greer. The hierarchy disappears; nobody is a leader, nobody a follower.

Heh, ok then. So when everyone has skin in a real game of existential threats, hierarchy prevails and leaders lead with direct commands and followers follow. When they come home and the threat is gone, more relaxed egalitarian structures take over.

It's weird to use the military as some prototypical example of flatness over hierarchy, when it is the epitome throughout history of hierarchical structure, rank, clear leadership etc.

This whole discussion sounds to me like advice for leaders in a hierarchy, with responsibility and authority, how to best use that authority to run their organization successfully which will inevitably include delegation, taking advice from lower levels, having open debate and critique etc. Not to flatten everything into egalitarian chaos and mass "Bystander effect" where no one is accountable and decisions don't get made when needed.
SaaS Control Plane? I can write one in a weekend
> Where are you getting millions from?

We have deliberately initiated containment failures for military purposes -- we know what this looks like.

After Chernobyl we were told that it was a design failure compounded by human failure, etc., etc., and that in a modern reactor, meltdown was simply not possible.

Then Fukushima melted down.

So my priors right now are that we can not place a good bound on the total odds of a meltdown. How confident are you that with a modern reactor a meltdown is impossible? How confident are you that in a meltdown scenario the impact will be small?
Is this ex-post facto? Its not like the law is new or that its suddenly illegal, people just weren't sure before if it was violating the law, which is really different from creating a new law.
Period-tracking apps face intense data privacy scrutiny in wake of Roe reversal
Funny, i was once in a project where i was asked to build some software. They asked if I can do it in a year. When I asked for requirements they deflected to scrum.

Probably the shittiest job I've ever had. Asked to build a system in a year with no pre-defined scope or requirements (which I complained about in advance). Told them I can build something in a year.

Of course they weren't happy about something because they wanted more. Told them to go fuck themselves.

Frankly, I should have seen it coming before the project started. Fixed budget, no requirements or scope should have been a giant red flag in hindsight.

I wonder what happened to that.
Yeah and there was also Carrhae.

But those cases either involved a brilliant general (Hannibal was probably top 10 of all time generals) or else ambushes in unfamiliar territory far from their home base.

I think the original point still stands.
How about cherry picking (which peer review can't easily catch)?
> Whether that is democratic or not, well... if they don't trust their own head of state, I reckon their democratic system has bigger problems than some text messages.

Then the proper quest is if you trust 27 heads of state, only 1 of which you have any political influence over.
Hypothesizing that graphs could lead to AGI is tantamount to equating part of the neocortex to the whole body. A model does not make reality, especially when the two are designed to work in a permanent feedback tandem.

Since writing A Thousand Brains, Jeff Hawkins has revealed fascinating structures within the brain, a finite set of structure 'types' so to speak (families of similarly architectured brain parts).

Graphs are definitely part of the biological design, but in taking inspiration from nature to build our own beings, we should take notice that the real thing is vastly more complex, and investigate more exhaustively the ins and outs of real brain structures.
I propose Betteridge's law of internet comments:

Any question at the start of a reply can be answered with, "No, that's obviously not what they said, let's try to keep the drama to a minimum please."
How many people live in India alone?
Build a bubble machine that constantly replaces popped bubbles
It's part of YC's Startup School. Did you sign up for SUS?
Perhaps it's as simple as "blow another one" - since they propose constructing them in space one might keep the construction mechanism nearby to replace any that are prematurely popped
Chart for posterity: https://i.imgur.com/ufn0IZ4.png

Interesting that C# surpassed and started gaining some margin over PHP this year according to that analysis.
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Very cool project! I’m curious how the magician would typically use this, would the scanner and an output monitor be hidden somewhere on stage or similar?
PTSD is also less common in soldiers than in other jobs. Many types of doctors (oncology, some branches of pediatrics) are pretty much expected to experience symptoms after a given number of years. It is also very very common amongst train engineers. And prison guards.
It's like a modern day Nintendo eReader for magicians! Neat.
Doesn't the content and the public speaking skills of the presenter play a role?
Has this limit (it’s the same in Excel) one you have or someone you know ever encountered or even come close to in practice?
If not then it’s a BS expectation.
He induced birth then killed the baby

That's not an abortion
I know of one person who does it right now (not in the tech field). It seems possible in certain positions in some fields but requires a lot of planning, some luck, and a lot of work.

As long as it’s a salaried position and you’re getting the job done at/above expectations, the company shouldn’t care as much as some of them seem to.
Let me guess: you had a brexiter strawman to throw out?

EU is going to fail, it was never a good idea to begin with as it was dishonest from the start.

Also European cultures are not unified in anyway from what I can tell, I seriously doubt the EU, as it stands today, will survive past 2030
You finished in a better place than you started there. Roles are not the answer. As Bateson once said, a role is only a half-assed relationship.

What quickly flattens the hierarchy is to allow the parts to which you refer to overlap, with meaningful participation not only inside them but in the intersections, people participating therefore in multiple parts – relationships between parts implemented via relationships between people. That's how you build networks not only of value delivery (trendy but missing the point) but of strategy and rapid insight/intelligence sharing. It doesn't take much of that to halve the network distance across the organisation.
I can't not mention Christopher Alexander's "The City is not a Tree":

http://en.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexan...

While you're correct that fully connected graphs are an extremely inefficient structure for communication or other resource flows, trees are also problematic and not as common in nature as you suggest. One clear problem with tree like structures is that they have zero redundancy. There is only one path between any two nodes. That implies that severing any edge will separate the tree into two unreachable sections. Sever the wrong single edge and you can render large regions completely disconnected from each other.

That's not a recipe for a resilient system, and we see the same problems in organizational hierarchies. In strictly top-down companies, you often hear "I can't do that right now because X is on vacation." There is no way to route around the absense (or poor performance) of a single member.

And, in fact, vascular systems are not entirely tree-like. Veins and arteries generally are, but where they meet at the capillaries, you see a more unstructured interconnected graph. Likewise, the leaves on a tree are not themselves tree-like. Their vasculature is graph-like and semi-redundant.

I think a better way to look at it is as a continuum. On one end, you have trees which have the minimum number of edges to reach all nodes. This minimizes the total cost of building the edges, but also minimizes redundancy and resilience. On the other end, you have a fully-connected (or even multiply-connected) graph where there are many paths between each pair of nodes. That graph is maximally resilient, but expensive to maintain. The particular needs for minimizing edge cost versus handling edge failure will lead you to pick different points on that continuum.

Also, when it comes to biological systems, the evolutionary need to actually build the thing shouldn't be understated. It is very likely that non-tree-like structures would be better but there isn't an easy evolutionary path to reach them. Phenotype essentially arises from "executing" the genotype, and trees are much simpler to procedurally generate than more complex graphs.
> how you would build a blockchain based business

What problems does a "blockchain based business" solve? That's what I don't understand.

Most businesses out there derive value by interacting with off-chain, real-world state.

If you wanted to use a blockchain in this case you'd need some trusted party to sync the blockchain state with the state of the real world, which then nullifies most/all of the advantages of using a blockchain over just letting this trusted party run an old school database.
Go test it out. Come back and report your findings.
Lean/Stoichiometric is one thing, you still can (in theory) have perfect combustion on that part of the axis. Running very rich will increase both NOx and CO, for example.
Space debris, solar flares, and rogue states are issues that would impact other solar-shield type solutions (unlike popping).

What the bubbles do address immediately is the manufacture of something in space with a high planar surface area compared to the volume and density (for getting it into space).
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We’ll they can, but the trick is to not add new debt and pay the old debt with inflated dollars. Welcome to austerity 2.0
> Somewhat off topic, but I’ll bring it up anyway, it must have been better to have lived in a Gallic or Germanic or Iberian tribe than to have lived as a Roman citizen if they were willing to die than submit.

Peoples conquered by Rome did not become Roman citizens with the rights and privileges associated with that, generally.

In the graded levels of rights in Roman law, depending on whether they were just conquered or had treaty status, they were two or three steps below citizens of Rome.
It's part of SUS
Are you implying that it's unreasonable to want to participate in Startup school and have a usable calendar?

Not every action you take involving a large company should sign you up for endless and unlimited bullshit which requires time to manage away.
I would think it would mostly be for practice and rehearsal, to see if you've gone wrong before you reach the end of the trick.
I was thinking Tennessee, though they are probably pretty similar nowadays.
And the water! Storing ash in ponds
and in the ground seemed like a great idea; and it's still not cleaned up.
> it's just that more blood goes through them so they have to be constructed a certain way

I agree but the same could be said about decision-making.
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Please route all feedback to the engineering service desk :^)

But seriously, I would if I could. I just don't have time
Do they look like Fukushima or Chernobyl?
It is similar to how many environmental activism funding in Europe was traced to Russia. Really difficult to keep tiptoeing around sacred cows
That is an excellent response, thank you.
> And this will happen increasingly as liberals become further out numbered because they do not have the fertility rates that religious conservatives have.

While your argument is intuitively correct it seems like there are forces working against it. Religiosity has been declining in America. I wonder if there's sort of a cultural inequality that can occur. Religions have as strong cultural influence, but most pop culture is dominated by a secular liberalism. I imagine that secular libertal pop culture has a strong impact in religious communities. Either you choose to give up your religion, or you just realize you just don't want to live in whatever limited small town way that your religious upbringing necessitates. The stronger the progressive cultural forces, the more people born into religion that don't end up being conservative or religious long term. That along with liberal immigration policies may outweigh the birthrate impacts.
Germany gets 75% of its energy from fossil fuels. Of course its electricity price went up.

British Columbia gets 99% of its energy from renewables. It's electricity price decreased in 2022.
No but they clearly state you will get invites to the live lectures every week.
Lightning Network is a layer 2 network on top of Bitcoin that is governed by smart contracts at the base layer and has transaction speed of seconds. It's increasingly used in place of base layer transactions for small to medium sized amounts (e.g. US$1 - $1000). Anything on the order of US$10k+ can reasonably transacted on the base layer, and when I am spending that much I don't mind a 10 minute confirmation time.
> I wonder how many successful businesses this guy founded, created a culture of success, and handed it off to other people to see the company continue to grow.

I'm pretty sure zero percent of marine biologists are actually sharks, but we still consider them qualified to study and understand sharks.
It’s weird how Apple is part of the title when they’re barely mentioned.
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> Fixed budget, no requirements or scope

Their requirements were pretty clear to me: they want to have a cake and eat it.
This is the fallacy of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Sometimes, maybe even most of the time, adversity reduces strength rather than increasing it, especially if it happens too frequently and too severely. Evolution/adaptation works over long periods of gradual change, which is why the effort needed to survive, say, a global climate apocalypse varies widely based on whether the same amount of warming happens over 10 years, or 100 years, or 1000 years.
Yeah one problem is my corp employer doesnt let us use docker.
When I talk to Hashicorp or AWS they provide tooling specifically for GitHub Actions. I don't see the same level of vendor commitment when it comes to GitLab. If I'm not going to get vendor commitment I might as well run buildkite which is awesome or even look to something like Tekton for Kubernetes if I'm just doing Kubernetes anyways.
There is a history of it in the institution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer_Commission
They are proposing putting the bubbles out at the Earth-Sun L1 point which is far outside where most of our current satellites are. Space debris is not really a concern there and I wouldn't put projectiles launched by a rogue state up there (there's plenty of closer things they would want to hit first).

There are plenty of inflatable space-based structures that have been proposed and some number of them tested (large inflatable antennas, inflatable elements to increase drag and bring space debris in, inflatable space habitats).

Granted, nothing is even within a few orders of magnitude of what they are proposing building so there are certainly still technical challenges.

Edit: Another technical challenge is the L1 lagrange point is not a stable point, so the bubbles will require some sort of control system (i.e. thrusters) to perform small orbit adjustments and remain in that spot.
NASA’s Capstone Mission Launches to the Moon
A Commission President without the support of the Council would see all her proposals shot down immediately and all her commissioners resigning. It would be untenable and she would have to resign.

There is the law and there is the spirit of the law. After all, for centuries, UK parliaments didn't even technically have to hold regular elections if they didn't feel like doing it.
Dropping the M2 into the same entry level Macbook Pro they sold last year gains you a couple of hours of battery life as well as a performance increase.

https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/macbook-pro-2022-battery-l...

That's pretty impressive for staying on the same process node.
Not fully buying it doesn't have to do with not believing the feasibility of GP's story. Rather, stories tend to be more complex than any given individual tends to represent them, and I'd like to give a full team of 19 developers the benefit of the doubt they didn't run around like headless chickens. Case in point, if you mention managers and communication outside those 19 developers, that already changes things quite a bit.

That individuals can truly develop amazing things which most teams could only hope to reach shouldn't be doubted. Plenty of solo projects with absolutely astounding results exist to prove the opposite. Enough that one could argue they fall outside the realm of 'they are geniuses with a rare talent'. Management types like to pretend developers are idiot savants capable of programming, but good developers are far more than that.
if BAYC is a killer app then web3 is doomed.

Using NFTs to enforce digital scarcity and 'ownership' of content can be cool.

but the idea of a exclusive social club where you can only get into by buying a million dollar avatar is a little ridiculous. IF they actually had good content in the group that would make sense but it seems to be mostly an MMO

the pictures dont even have any taste and the whole thing feels overly commercial and reeks of group-think.
They have a comparison tool:

https://www.jetbrains.com/products/compare/?product=clion&pr...

But yes, it's simultaneously weird and great that the most cross-application languages (Python/Javascript) are supported in every IDE.
> 2) a cost effective mechanism for smoothing over wind and solar's inconsistency.

> Coal and natural gas are incredibly effective in these respects. [...] Nuclear power is a drop in replacement for these attributes that can supplement renewables in a low emission way today.

If I understand you right, you're saying that nuclear would be a feasible "drop-in" solution for coal/gas to solve the inconsistency problem of renewables. This is precisely /not/ the case, as nuclear power plants are extremely slow to adapt to sudden changes in the power grid
(to get a feeling, a short research suggests that the shutdown time for a Pressurized Water Reactor, common e.g. in France, is about 90h [1]).
Since crucially nuclear power cannot address the shortcomings of renewables, you still need a way to deal with high-frequency supply/demand changes (gas/coal/hydrogen/batteries/connected grid). Then you can decide whether you prefer covering the baseline with nuclear or renewables.

You can choose to use both, but you could also argue that why bother with nuclear in the first place if you can "usually" cover all your needs with renewables + some dynamic technology and then cover the gaps (no wind no sun) by maxing out your dynamic technologies. This might have high CO2 emissions in the moment, but is still amortized small.

Finally, electricitymap.org[2] gives a great overview of how the energy is composed in different countries.

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6944254B2/en

[2]: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE
“Laid off from my dream job at Tesla without warning”
Oh, your privacy rights are perfectly safe. You just don't know what those rights are going to be from one day to the next. I have great respect for judges, but altering decades-old precedents under the claim that such rights never actually existed boarders on gaslighting.
Jo Freeman's famous "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" seems relevant:

https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

Overly rigid hierarchies can be bad, but hidden hierarchies which arise without formal consent or guidance can often be worse.
I have done SUS before and this had never happened to me. Did they change something recently that I am not aware of? There is also no mention of SUS anywhere inside the invite.
Simple: React Native
A claim like this was also the reason behind Howey Test being a thing.
fyi, the Game Genie was actually rom patches not memory writing. But knowing the ram address would definitely make finding the rom to patch in disassembly much easier.

Game Shark on later systems did "freeze" ram and the Pro models on psx/n64 had really nice code searching features like you're describing.
Bitcoin has a single popular client. There are people who work on that client.

Ethereum has five execution clients, developed by independent teams, and another five proof-of-stake clients, also developed by independent teams, plus an open community of researchers where anyone can participate. The Ethereum Foundation funds some of this, but not all of it.

If the various teams don't agree to do something, it won't get done. You can verify for yourself that no one party is in charge, simply by listening to the public dev calls.
There needs to be a line somewhere that says, "if you use a widely permissive license, we will use your IP to make money for ourselves" or something like that, then, right?

That's what I want. To find that line.
> also the entire point of a wall calendar is that you can make notes on specific days, isn't it?

Which is still doable for this design, provided the backing is a whiteboard.
Seems like the key consideration is the mass of the bubbles. If they are light enough then this could be feasible.
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1002/ML100280691.pdf

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
The European polecat (same species as the domestic ferret), inhabits a territory that goes from Finland to Spain. They live in western Russia and also in Morocco. They are adapted to a wide range of temperatures and climates. If you think that an animal living in Moscow can't survive temperatures below 18 Celsius, well, think again.

In particular they feel pretty at home in the Mediterranean, so would survive perfectly in the Mediterranean weather of California as long as they find something to eat. There is little doubt about it.

And, as is close genetically to the American polecat, and as ferrets need to breed when in heat, there is a danger of genetic contamination or displacement of the ultra-rare American polecat.

I agree that most mammals will boil and turn delicious at 100 degrees