kristjansson

Yes, with the payoffs constructed they’re zero unless the players cooperate.

I'd suppose the maxis would argue that services would spring up to take a small fee, post the collateral, negotiate fair resolution to disputes, etc ... but then they're halfway to reinventi…

It's not unclever - but you might misjudge the value of codifying social relationships if you're not targeting trust-less relationships. If you were to really dispassionately analyze the tra…

You're definitely not crazy. The only miss here is that there's no money changing hands between the parties - the contract is 3rd party. So it's more like, to borrow my car, you have t…

This controls reasonably well for the risk of theft, but fails to provide any security for damage/loss/failure to deliver/etc. It's nice to know that your counterparty is incentivi…

That one got me good, so my future at College Board is as bright as yours. However, I don't think the argument by demonstration in that video is particularly convincing. Instead, I think's …

Borrow a million dollars from the bank, you have a problem. Borrow a billion dollars from the bank, you and the bank have a problem. Why should it be a surprise that a partner in a stronger negotiati…

I think that complaint applies to the (vast, essential) ecosystem, not to the language and standard library. AFAIK, there aren't serious performance potholes to hit in the language and standard …

I have trouble understanding what you'd prefer. Should this analysis be more concerned with (non-financial) human impacts? More concerned with impacts on the most affected/least privileged?…

The pricing page (after you log in) redirects to Stripe for checkout, as one would expect.

It's hilarious, and befitting what appears to be basically a personal project that accepts money and provides services as part of its schtick. Not everything on the internet has to be glossy and…

s/weekly/per unit time/g But to the broader point, perhaps I misread. I fixated on the ‘cannot be kept up with’ bit which I read as implying a change in expected future consumption, but…

> which you can't keep up with under any circumstances What? This is a stocks and flows problem. If everyone filled up to the brim every time, but followed the same pattern of use otherwise…

Of course Tufte's body of work a whole, and VDQI in particular address those issues, but chartjunk is, in my reading, a specific and limited complaint. His leading two examples are unintended mo…

Seems like you have to adapt that threat model for your actual coworkers though? If they weren’t jerks beforehand, the physical separation and privacy of remote work only makes them marginally more li…

Seems like the same absurd misunderstanding of remote work as office-simulation that leads to those silly iPad-on-a-stick telepresence robots. Coupled with the sort of management culture I can’t imag…

Like a lot of corporate policies, this is a reasonable sentiment made absurd by universal application and coercion. Is it nice to see coworkers? Yes, IMO. Nice enough to set a general expectation tha…

Nope, and yup respectively. All the discussion over corporate tax (and unrealized capital gains) seems rooted in pathos, not practical policy. It seems unfair that some corporation pays zero income ta…

Conversely, why does it make sense that the people we ask to make decisions governing the disposition of literally trillions of dollars get paid as much as a 24 year old starting at Sidley?

Of all the ways for a congressperson to transform her access and power into personal wealth, trading on inside information is close to socially optimal. It’s basically victimless (unlike graft), does…

_Anything_ that one could get central banks or nation states to agree to use would be valuable. The LOE the technical system (SWIFT, Bitcoin, whatever) is absolutely infinitesimal compared to negotia…

Doesn't your indie developer still have to acquire both licenses and assets for all those items, since NFTs (a) don't actually convey a recognizable legal ownership or right of any kind and …

3rd-grade photoshop and weapons-grade marketing

I didn't mean to imply that the answer to either question was 'can't be done', but that the analogy might extend to the the points of friction as well.

(from the sibling archive link) > Roll Your Own Chat Server > Implement a simple standalone TCP-based chat server, using the following protocol: > ... > When implementing the ser…

Separating the internet-connected (and therefore low life-expectancy) bits from the analog sound-reproduction (and therefore expensive and high life-expectancy) bits is a great way to build a solid sy…

Those machines came and went a bit before my time, but I do recognize the sense of excitement and power I feel in notebooks in the recollections I’ve read. Similarly, comments about ‘how do I distribu…

Right, that’s interactive computing. Notebooks are a strict improvement over a standard REPL-in-terminal for those use cases. The problem come when you want to make that process reusable for other CSV…

Notebooks are the out-of-order log of a fancy terminal. That can be great! But trying to use them for anything more than interaction or the most basic scripting is a fool’s errand. Build software in…

To save those looking it up: medical loss ratio is the fraction of premiums an insurer spends on actual healthcare expenses. 10% means 90 cents of every dollar paid in premium goes to admin/prof…