Few writers manage to make poignant and trenchant observations *anywhere* as frequently as @ByrneHobart manages in *his footnotes.* Image
The one about the realities of competition in environments where there is a brutal genetics and diligence filter to compete at all is good, too.
One of the reasons people who believe success is a lot about luck and people who believe their success is earned don’t see eye to eye is the first have a point and the second remember the 15+ years of hard work and hoop jumping.
And so the luckists don’t see that the workists could have fallen off the golden path for 10% less effort 8 years ago (and some did!) and the workists may not acknowledge power law in outcomes even among those who put in effectively equivalent levels of work.

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4 Oct
The corollary of this is that with notable internal transparency, highly motivated and large teams of professionals, and well-know evidence-of-everything systems available, all whistles blown are consistently about hard problems and political disagreements not actual criminality.
That should update one’s priors if one thinks that it is probable that AppAmaGooFaceSoft are simmering hives of fraud and malfeasance.
“We sent thousands of spies into the target org and all we can find is dissatisfaction over the perf process and long debates over society-scale issues which there is no easy answer to. Clearly, must send more spies.”
Read 6 tweets
2 Oct
If you enjoy graphically minimalist classic roguelikes, Rift Wizard is pretty amazing.

It has *amazingly* tuned learning curve as the sole method of progression. The only way to get better at the game is to get better.

Sessions are short (15 minutes for me… when I’m smart).
It has been interesting as I’ve aged within this hobby to note that the set of things which pushes my buttons changes rather little but the form factor of them has changed a lot as e.g. life factors impose constraints on play sessions / etc.
“Give me an immersive fantasy themed world where I can spend 16 hours on a Saturday progressing in a 100 hour plus journey!”

*25 years later*

“Kids are finally in bed; can I get a dopamine hit in 25 minutes or so without feeling like a mouse in a lab experiment please?”
Read 5 tweets
2 Oct
Interesting law I just hit: STOP Act, which (to combat, explicitly, fentanyl deliveries from China to the U.S. via postal service) requires Post Office to block all international mail that doesn't have information submitted in advance with sender/recipient/etc electronically.
On the one hand "Let's just ban handwritten address and customs labels and get everyone on the electronic platform" has some pretty obvious efficiency gains.

On the other hand, sigh, sigh, sigh.
"How'd you hit this?"

If you walk into any Post Office in Japan with a handwritten address label for the U.S., containing say tax forms, it will be refused.

(There's a recovery process in place because, go figure, Japan Post thinks sending mail is a fairly core activity.)
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1 Oct
More and more effective treatments for covid is wonderful news, particularly because they're often less supply constrained than the vaccine is on a worldwide basis.
Fluvoxamine has also shown a lot of promise in several clinical trials, and it is an abundantly available anti-depressant which costs less than ~$1 for a full course of treatment.

(VaccinateCA was honored to be able to help out with patient recruitment for one of those trials.)
"What did you do?"

Conversion optimized the patient intake flow, mostly, because the faster they could intake patients the quicker they'd get results and thus the faster they'd publish.
Read 4 tweets
1 Oct
Checking in on how code-is-the-only-law, be-your-own-bank, lets-be-ungovernable world of DeFi is doing.

Oh, Compound had a $70 million bug this week? I suppose we'll go down the crypto governance flowchart to:
"What would the grown-up financial economy do if it lost $70 million?"

It is difficult to answer this question because it should be nearly impossible to lose it to anonymous counterparties. Everybody you're connected to has a name, an address, a phone number, etc.
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29 Sep
Quoted for endorsement.

An interesting level to aim at is “What would I teach new employees working here on this.”
That’s probably not “Rails create” but very well could be “Here’s how we deploy on Rails and why we made these choices.”

Or in banking not “Here’s what net interest is” but “Let’s talk about funding sources available to banks and the relative costs and limitations of them.”
Hmm *writes note to self.*
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