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This is the bitter lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson

Yeah. And the penalties for wire fraud are steep. Up to 20 years in prison and $250k fine _per_ count.

Object Permanence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence

See Certificate of Need requirements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_need

I think the traffic cone robbery threat model also exists for non-Waymos (e.g. car jacking).

This is the classic precision versus recall discussion. The discussion centers around how you think about the cost of a false positive versus false negative. Some people think it's…

I think there is a tendency to project the modern era's speed of technological progress back in time, which isn't reasonable. We went from the Wright Brothers to Apollo 11 in 66 ye…

In my experience, you can weaponize processes like the Five Whys or the Amazon Leadership Principles. I don’t think that means they don’t have any value. That being said, in this c…

The problem is that these companies are locked into years long, multi-billion dollar contracts with the sports leagues. Those contracts are predicated on their existing monetizatio…

The government (and/or society?) have already deputized private organizations to enforce various types of controls either implicitly or explicitly. Banks (AML) and Payment Processo…

A French Drain has nothing to do with France! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain

Fully operational in 2030. I guess better late than never, but that’s a long time off.

Bainbridge Island (connected to Seattle by ferry) is like this. There is approximately one Uber driver, at least the last time I was there, and good luck if you get back to the isl…

At least in the US, you are going to run into problems with the First Amendment (eg Central Hudson Test).

Oh yeah? You don’t use your sense of hearing and your internal sense of direction, vertical elevation, etc.?

To play devil’s advocate, salt and milk aren’t pumped into your house by the government. You can also buy iodine-free salt and vitamin d-free milk if you choose.

Uh, it’s given you a lot in return. It abstracts away a lot of the human condition for a lot of people. Personally, I don’t want to go back to growing food to feed myself and barte…

Isn’t this the deal we’ve made? You can, legally, deny someone access to private property for any non-protected reason. On the other hand, if the private property was constructed w…

Honestly, do these people hear themselves? I guess the product echo chamber is too loud to hear the needs of actual customers (or what they don’t need).

Right. "The world's best cookie". I think the idea is that no reasonable person would understand that statement to mean that literally, of all the cookies in the world, this one ri…

Along with the reconnect solution already mentioned, you can also decouple your Websocket and business logic layers using something like Pushpin: https://pushpin.org/ . This allows…

Output metrics are things you can't control. For revenue, you can't force people to by your products. Inputs metrics are the things you can control. You can (to a degree) control p…

In the 2016 shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos wrote: It’s always worth asking, do we own the process or does the process own us?

Yup. If this isn't Congress' intent, all they have to do is pass a law saying so. "...when Congress addresses a question previously governed by a decision rested on federal common …