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knughit··on Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India
Competing and winning has no dependency on harvesting user data and giving it away to his friends for their own personal use.
knughit··on Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadblock in India
Why do you think many of us are not like 90s Bill Gates?
knughit··on How Paul Graham Gets It Wrong in “Economic Inequality”
[estate tax]

Bing it.

knughit··on Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
Hah, foiled by gas taxes!!
knughit··on Gas Theft Gangs Fuel Pump Skimming Scams
The signature is just a bit of evidence to check if you dispute a charge. It isn't a 99.99% key like in encryption.
knughit··on Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
Do you want to work somewhere who thnga that your non-work 10 years ago is more important than your recent work?
knughit··on Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
This is how DEC feuled Google, and Microsoft feuled Amazon, and Google fueled Facebook.
knughit··on Happy people don’t leave jobs they love
"I want to live in a different city" is a management challenge that belonga on the list. Managers have some measure of control over where they allow employees to work.
knughit··on The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over
Thanks again for your incredible work on SimCity.
knughit··on The Creepy Beauty of VCR Errors
Before digital cable, cable signals were scrambled in a similar way to prevent pirate receivers.
knughit··on What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living
Ate you saying that $20k/year is a good living? For how many people? You can't even get family health insurance for that.
knughit··on What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living
Is that true? They don't have mortgages?
knughit··on What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living
Why do you assume a random DuPont agriculturalist, who pushes papers all day, understands food better than a professional farmer our their in the empirical field?
knughit··on Re: Ian Murdock
What kind of person is considered too immoral to be a debian maintainer?
knughit··on The blue-eyed islanders puzzle (2008)
You aren't applying all possible logical reasoning about the situation (such as the characters recursive mental models of each other's mental models), unlike the hypothetical completely rational characters.
knughit··on The blue-eyed islanders puzzle (2008)
It isn't infinitely layered! It is N-layered, which is critical.
knughit··on The blue-eyed islanders puzzle (2008)
This problem is different from the surprise paradox, which relies on probability changing each day, and a possibility that either (a) the executioner will be proven a liar by randomly guessing Sunday, or (b) you confidently guessing Wednesday and being right.
knughit··on The blue-eyed islanders puzzle (2008)
This is a solved problem. When a proof is written, you should challenge the proof, not just reassert your intuition.

You are ignoring islander A's view of B's view of C's view of ... Z's view of situation.

Think about 3 islander's, where A thinks "if I have green eyes, then B and C are in a situation equivalent to me not being here, and B sees exactly 1 blue eyed person C, and B knows that 'C sees 0 or 1 blue eyed people, but then C learned that 0 is impossible'"

knughit··on People can read their manager's mind
How does shaving keep Marines moving forward?
knughit··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
I today's USA, I see no reason to assume the police story is more reliable than a potentially mentally ill citizen's story. When video evidence isn't destroyed, t tends to point to police brutality.
knughit··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
Can the coroner do anything with legal force, or only inspect the body and file a report?
knughit··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
USA doesn't have an independent coroner with legal power like that. Police and District Attorney (local prosecutor) investigate deaths, including investigating themselves.
knughit··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
Never call the cops. Police due two things: apply force and file paperwork. If you have a medical or person problem, the police are not who to call. Sadly, that meand you can't call 911 either, you have to find the phone number for MEDICAL support.
knughit··on In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
No matter what police or anytime does to you, once you get away from them, you have a community that will support.

You can always do better while you live than not.

knughit··on What I Learned from Losing $200M
You just figured out how the 2008 crash happened :-)
knughit··on What I Learned from Losing $200M
If the revolution comes, you lose regardless of your investment strategy.
knughit··on How MTV's “16 and Pregnant” May Have Reduced Teen Pregnancy
In practice, "teen" pregnancy refers to "women without stable economic or family situation that makes them likely to be able to raise a healthy baby"
knughit··on Top fantasy sports player uses software, analytics to reap millions
There was a recent news story about how some fantasy company employee made a fortune using questionable means (possibly abusing such data)
knughit··on Ford and Google Move Forward Together Towards Consumer Self-Driving Cars
Google open sourced TensorFlow
knughit··on Ford and Google Move Forward Together Towards Consumer Self-Driving Cars
Ignoring lanes and driving using an old map seems a great way to plow into oncoming traffic.
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