As I've said before, you'll have to ban me then, if you really believe I'm a negative contribution. I'm not going to stop responding in reasonable, human, and direct ways to comments. I'm also going to note, yet again,…
Could you tell me what personal attack that would be?
I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely stand by as inappropriate) -- so yes,…
Firstly, shut your mouth -- you have no business telling me that my computers "suck" when they serve my needs. It doesn't suck and is one of the most pleasant machines I own due to small size and low upkeep of the OS.…
The second part of your example is a statement of opinion, not fact -- so it's not really the same thing at all.
I run full Windows 10 on a tablet (dual core, 2GB RAM), and it's pretty amazing to me how many websites that have no reason to run slow completely fail on it. I can only imagine it works fine on dev machines with much…
Sure, if you force people to behave a certain way, the conflict can be avoided. The problem stems from the fundamental fact that a very small percentage of people are assholes, a faction of people are intent on forcibly…
> [Subordinates] are used to being dominated and condescended. If you talk to them as respected individuals, you usually get respect back. It also gives more weight to the times you have to be more assertive. This is…
I agree, but poking holes in why they're excluded is important, because it let's you have this exchange -- "You can't argue with the math!" "Well, hold on now, I think you left a whole bunch of things out!" If you don't…
I think it takes less than most of us imagine -- but more than most of us are capable of organizing. If you wanted to build complexes to stimulate the economy, you'd probably need on the order of... $100M in buildings,…
> Integrity is always an option, but it's definitely not always an easy option. Here's some anecdata: I've been that shitbag without integrity, it's not actually any easier. (I actually think it's much harder.) Whatever…
> We frequently receive reports from community activists and other social media users who were blocked from commenting on an agency’s Facebook page, or prevented from contributing to a community discussion prompted by…
> If you were correct, then women should have economic parity with men. They don't. Every statistic I've seen seems to indicate that modulo life choices that seem correlated with gender (ie, on average women prefer…
Late reply, but I think there's a second harm to throwing out generalists in addition to what you outline: Specialists aren't as good as generalists at integrating the work of specialists across domains (almost by…
If you look at per energy expenditure, I'd argue that "webcams for pets" or "delivery for X" are probably delivering more value per unit energy used, because of relative efficiency.
So Google deployed malware against... tens of millions of people?... in order to steal confidential data for profit, by bypassing security mechanisms on those devices as they interacted with Google servers, exceeding…
That was connecting on to the previous paragraph, and contrasting with pre-authorization through a payment network -- I meant a direct transfer of currency from customer to merchant, instead of using a financial…
How accurate does that need to be...? 100ms? 10ms? 1ms? 100us?
I run one as a malware blocker, because if I don't then my computers get attacked at least once a day, often by reputable sites. It's probably more important than an antivirus for stopping malware.
It's precisely the N that I was talking about: I discuss how seeing 100 steps of a sequence with regular behavior gives you a better sense of its asymptotics than seeing 3 steps, and then how you can generate some steps…
> It's because we think in 3D, so we only really see three steps of exponential growth. > If we thought in 100D, we might have a better sense for it, because we'd be able to see a hundred of them. This is pretty clearly…
Honestly, it's just a mash-up of a few Buddhist ideas and a few math ideas: You can model what you're doing as a phase space, which is the product space of the state of each thing you control. This generally has a lot…
It's because we think in 3D, so we only really see three steps of exponential growth. If we thought in 100D, we might have a better sense for it, because we'd be able to see a hundred of them. Hypervolume grows…
It's not: There's just a massive failure of leadership in tech companies (well, in general), so rather than deal with real challenges, they smother themselves in carbon-monoxide statistics -- things that don't set off…
One could even argue what was so enraging about Clippy (and MS's recent foray into helpbots instead of actual support) was the personality-sans-utility. No, I don't want to forcibly converse with a brick wall that…
As I've said before, you'll have to ban me then, if you really believe I'm a negative contribution. I'm not going to stop responding in reasonable, human, and direct ways to comments. I'm also going to note, yet again,…
Could you tell me what personal attack that would be?
I actually outlined why I thought they were wrong, and shut your mouth is clearly attached to not making subjective statements about other people's belongings (which, I absolutely stand by as inappropriate) -- so yes,…
Firstly, shut your mouth -- you have no business telling me that my computers "suck" when they serve my needs. It doesn't suck and is one of the most pleasant machines I own due to small size and low upkeep of the OS.…
The second part of your example is a statement of opinion, not fact -- so it's not really the same thing at all.
I run full Windows 10 on a tablet (dual core, 2GB RAM), and it's pretty amazing to me how many websites that have no reason to run slow completely fail on it. I can only imagine it works fine on dev machines with much…
Sure, if you force people to behave a certain way, the conflict can be avoided. The problem stems from the fundamental fact that a very small percentage of people are assholes, a faction of people are intent on forcibly…
> [Subordinates] are used to being dominated and condescended. If you talk to them as respected individuals, you usually get respect back. It also gives more weight to the times you have to be more assertive. This is…
I agree, but poking holes in why they're excluded is important, because it let's you have this exchange -- "You can't argue with the math!" "Well, hold on now, I think you left a whole bunch of things out!" If you don't…
I think it takes less than most of us imagine -- but more than most of us are capable of organizing. If you wanted to build complexes to stimulate the economy, you'd probably need on the order of... $100M in buildings,…
> Integrity is always an option, but it's definitely not always an easy option. Here's some anecdata: I've been that shitbag without integrity, it's not actually any easier. (I actually think it's much harder.) Whatever…
> We frequently receive reports from community activists and other social media users who were blocked from commenting on an agency’s Facebook page, or prevented from contributing to a community discussion prompted by…
> If you were correct, then women should have economic parity with men. They don't. Every statistic I've seen seems to indicate that modulo life choices that seem correlated with gender (ie, on average women prefer…
Late reply, but I think there's a second harm to throwing out generalists in addition to what you outline: Specialists aren't as good as generalists at integrating the work of specialists across domains (almost by…
If you look at per energy expenditure, I'd argue that "webcams for pets" or "delivery for X" are probably delivering more value per unit energy used, because of relative efficiency.
So Google deployed malware against... tens of millions of people?... in order to steal confidential data for profit, by bypassing security mechanisms on those devices as they interacted with Google servers, exceeding…
That was connecting on to the previous paragraph, and contrasting with pre-authorization through a payment network -- I meant a direct transfer of currency from customer to merchant, instead of using a financial…
How accurate does that need to be...? 100ms? 10ms? 1ms? 100us?
I run one as a malware blocker, because if I don't then my computers get attacked at least once a day, often by reputable sites. It's probably more important than an antivirus for stopping malware.
It's precisely the N that I was talking about: I discuss how seeing 100 steps of a sequence with regular behavior gives you a better sense of its asymptotics than seeing 3 steps, and then how you can generate some steps…
> It's because we think in 3D, so we only really see three steps of exponential growth. > If we thought in 100D, we might have a better sense for it, because we'd be able to see a hundred of them. This is pretty clearly…
Honestly, it's just a mash-up of a few Buddhist ideas and a few math ideas: You can model what you're doing as a phase space, which is the product space of the state of each thing you control. This generally has a lot…
It's because we think in 3D, so we only really see three steps of exponential growth. If we thought in 100D, we might have a better sense for it, because we'd be able to see a hundred of them. Hypervolume grows…
It's not: There's just a massive failure of leadership in tech companies (well, in general), so rather than deal with real challenges, they smother themselves in carbon-monoxide statistics -- things that don't set off…
One could even argue what was so enraging about Clippy (and MS's recent foray into helpbots instead of actual support) was the personality-sans-utility. No, I don't want to forcibly converse with a brick wall that…