sirclueless

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I don't think it's absurd at all. I think it is a practical principle that shows up all the time in collective action problems. For example, suppose hypothetically there were a bunch of business owners who operated under an authoritarian government which they believed was bad for business, but felt obliged to publicly support it anyways because opposing it could lead to retaliation, thus increasing its ability to stay in power.

sirclueless

há 3 anosdiscuss

Like every other decision SBF would prefer you not examine: It fits because the ends justify the means.

It's important for the business that the insurance fund is safe. If you look closely you will find that it is unsafe. But if people believe it is safe you won't need the insurance fund, so do whatever you need to to inspire confidence in the insurance fund.

sirclueless

há 3 anosdiscuss

I don't really understand the analogy. Mechanical watches have created an industry of skilled practitioners trained to fix them because they often need diagnosis and repair. NASA has a room full of oncall personnel available for many hours any time they launch anything, and they launch things much less frequently than your average tech company.

Oncall rotations are part of defense-in-depth against bugs and unforeseen circumstances: Most of the companies that survive without a formal one only do so by outsourcing this for the most common cases; to Cloudflare, to Amazon, etc. -- if there's an opportunity cost to being down someone needs to be able to pick up the phone when there's an outage or critical issue.

sirclueless

há 3 anosdiscuss

It's especially hard because the stdlib changes quite a lot still. Examples go out of date so adding documentation like this is not just one-time work. I am working my way through learning the language and it's not uncommon to find blog posts or news snippets from 4 months ago introducing features, and they already don't compile.

sirclueless

há 3 anosdiscuss

> E.g. if A patents X and some large company B wants to use X and A refuses, then B cannot use X even if they offer millions.

How does this situation improve in any way if X is a trade secret? Under what circumstance would company A be willing to accept payment to make X open, but not willing to license X as a protected patent?

It sounds like you'd be in exactly the same situation except that there would be a massive collective action problem trying to figure out how much the world should pay A to make the invention open and who should pay it, and also A and B would have multi-million-dollar incentives to engage in corporate espionage and counter-espionage that achieves no progress.

sirclueless

há 4 anosdiscuss

That may be true but people here aren't talking about firing the bottom 10% of ICs, they're talking about firing "50% of Google".

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