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Underneath that high-level hand-waving there’s still a pretty simple concept. If I buy T—Bonds, I bloody well expect them to be cashed at maturity. Otherwise, who’d buy them? And I…

Oh, but dear sir, you forgot about the AI!

Yes, exactly. The gender-driven questions have been replaced by a general (and imho more important) question of how to be a good person. That question, however, is also much more a…

Read Nancy Levesons work on system safety and you’ll see things are not necessarily so

A very interesting case where the design of the system stems directly from the design of the team designing and building it.

What Thiel is describing is a feedback loop: more people of x in a region means more people of x in a region simply because they will feel more comfortable among like people. These…

Let’s see what the classics say about this. Mr Conway says, that an organization creates a system in its image. Thus, if the system needs to be very distributed, so does the organi…

Ah, the old shaman argument. The dude living in an essentially black-and-white wasteland up north with months of darkness. He strongly believes in the need to go consult the ancest…

You did not, in fact, stumble upon information. You stumbled on a person making statements. There’s a difference, especially when lives are at stake.

People consistently fail to properly assess the system architecture aspects of things. Iphone is not a standalone device but part of a complex system including hardware, software, …

Architecture is not about technology. It’s about how to structure a system to best aid a given organization to achieve its strategic goals.

And then there’s guys like mr. Rainger ( https://www.raingerfx.com/shop/p/minibar ) just casually inserting an actual pod of liquid into the signal chain to replace a resistor and …

Former head of IT at a tax authority of a small EU nation here. We get 95+ percent of online filing for private income tax (and have for 20 years), of course there is no fee, and y…

FSD is not happening in the sense I mean it but it might in the sense you mean it. I mean “single-lane three-dimensionally-twisty-motorcycles-do-40mph roads covered in literal ice …

Firstly. The range does not work for me. I need the car for long drives in the cold winter or hot summer. In the latter case, I need to have a bike on the roof and there is unlikel…

I had a really bad chronic headache. Had it for most of my life. Came with bouts of over-eating, sensory overload. In the end there were months with few days below 5 on the pain sc…

Nope, not at all. Your hardware wallet is useless without the bitcoin trust frameworks and the implicit agreement among many people that these particular bits on your hardware deno…

This is not what happens. Trust is moved from institutions to code and math. General public has no chance to evaluate the trustworthiness of either while there is a mechanism to ce…

Wait, what? The problem to ve solved is giving people money without PayPal being involved? You guys need SWIFT…

Ask yourself two questions. Why is it that the things are the way they are? What can I realistically change? Then determine the overlap in these. If there is none, walk away. It ma…

Yes, battery life is good on Garmins. But, amazingly, the UX is even better. The Apple watch does many things well while a Fenix does the sports thing very well. I don’t think I’ve…

Back in the 90s I enjoyed Nethack and Perl sources, had a hard copy of both. Both looked somehow human, with witty remarks and outright quotations from holy texts in case of Nethac…

Exactly. Anything novel is, by definition, risky. Therefore any and all research has the potential to harm people. What the article says is, that there is an apparently all-knowing…

Managing complexity is the job of an architect. Possibly the only job. Who is the architect of Google? The CEO. Thus, this is a really bad sign: shop-level complexity he is after c…

Plus, they miss a key point of architecture: sustainability. You might take the 30’ somewhere and draw a high-level model like the ones depicted in the article, but who has time to…