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Ivan Albright!
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This is also true of software engineering.
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Add-on thought:
Isnât this a fantastic problem to have?!?
Remember when âLinux gamingâ meant exclusively the bsd-games package, NetHack, or MUDs?!?
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Seems like Valve needs to refine the categories a bit. Totally agreed that if you wanted to play multiplayer, âPlayableâ is a mislabeling.
Still, for a growing number of people, anything not marked Playable is summarily ignored, so likely pressure in both directionsâŠ
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_a_Pa...
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We donât have that environment today. We donât have a plurality that agrees on what âbetterâ looks like, and so rather than collaborating, people are pushing at every boundary to figure out how they can meet their ends.
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Unrealized gains are problematic as a tax strategy because the act of realizing the on-paper gain changes the value.
Look, it wasnât just the taxes that led to the benefits. The public (and leaders) *believed* that government could do a better job in the circumstances, and stood up to robber barons
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Commonly, wealthy people have far less than $3m in wages. They receive much of their income in stock or options, and thus only pay capital gains on the part they actually sell in a given year. Or they sell off losing investments to offset the gains.
Once you have wealth, you have tons of options.
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I think SteamOS is demonstrating the potential for âapplianceâ-like applications, and to be pedantic, Android is Linux.
I think professional UX/design is incredibly hard to achieve absent a product mindset, and such a mindset benefits greatly from top-down constraints on time/budget/priority.
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Prediction: This cycle will continue.
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Method Man! Classic
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Part of the challenge is that free software by nature embraces choice, while the best way to help people operate a device is to strip down the choices to base abstractions, with no possible way to get to a state you canât easily return from.
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On it
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It wonât try to kill us, it just wonât try to help us. Which means that we will stupidly hand it control of our well-being and then scream about how it doesnât care about helping us until weâre dead.
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Part of the collection at artic.edu (www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...)! I remember being astonished by how meticulously he rendered things, almost as if he couldnât bear to leave a detail unrepresented. And yet painted MASSIVE canvases.
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Now I have the Ludacris song stuck in my head
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Couldnât happen to a nicer fella, amirite??
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It doesnât hurt politicians in general anymore, because objective truth is increasingly difficult to discern in a âtrust no one, do your own researchâ information environment. Unclear how to escape this conundrum.
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The winners always claim a mandate, and this particular person would have claimed a mandate even if he lost the popular vote.
Opportunistic people care about what they can get away with, and the last 8 years have proven that he can get away with basically anything.
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Thatâs the power of social media: leveraging the manipulative might of morons worldwide.
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Google owns Waze.
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Isnât that what just happened?
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âSmells Musk-y in here.â
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Nope, you can still do that, Iâm told.
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They realized no such thing. âSecretaries of Interiors canât make money like my app that helps millions count to 100. We donât need Secretaries anyhow, we can train an AI for that.â