When the U.S. Department of Justice proved victorious in its historic antitrust suit against AT&T, breaking up what had been the world’s largest corporation in 1984, the feds promised a report every three years to document changes in telecommunications. The first was due in 1987.
But in 1986, with only a year to the deadline, the DOJ was stuck: no team in the U.S. government had the expertise to understand the complexity of this enormous, changing marketplace. A slew of consulting firms was there for hire, but they had all worked for AT&T. So the DOJ gave up on the experts and hired one man who had never studied the communications sector.
Peter Huber had no conflicts and started from scratch. The Geodesic Network: 1987 Report on Competition in the Telephone Industry, later cited widely as “the massive Huber report,” became a runaway bestseller for the Government Printing Office. The report brilliantly detailed how technologies of freedom were primed to crush old monopolies with disruptions at the network’s “edge”—personal computers, software, devices—if policymakers would lean back. The 450-page, data-dense thesis was delivered to the DOJ in 11 months; weeks early, as that was all the time Huber needed to go from zero to the world’s leading authority on perhaps the most complicated public policy issue yet invented.
QOTD 2021 01 17 James Clear: “A brief guide to leadership:
Always know the answer to, “What are we optimizing for?”
Recruit. Recruit. Recruit.
Never ask someone to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself.
Give away the credit. Take the blame.”
James Clear: “A brief guide to leadership:
Always know the answer to, “What are we optimizing for?”
Recruit. Recruit. Recruit.
Never ask someone to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself.
Give away the credit. Take the blame.”
Twenty Years Ago
Analysis and Opinion By Irineo B. R. Salazar Twenty Years Ago 20 years ago, Filipinos massed along EDSA again, nearly 15 years after they had gathered on that avenue to oust a dictator. This time it was to oust a populist who later became Mayor of Manila. Erap or Joseph Estrada was Mayor of San […]
Twenty Years Ago
Musings 2021 01 07 0839
Was about to sleep. Seeing American Democracy like this moves me to tears. Need to walk.
Musing 2021 01 06
Madaling tumulo ang luha ko lately.
I got overly emotional while reading One Piece’s Chapter 1000.
And i was in tears when I saw that warnock won a senate seat. The power of one. Thank you Georgia. Thank you Stacey Abrams and team.
rePost: How to think for yourself
The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert: fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in your brain, and curiosity finds new ideas to fill it.
Interestingly, the three components can substitute for one another in much the same way muscles can. If you’re sufficiently fastidious about truth, you don’t need to be as resistant to being told what to think, because fastidiousness alone will create sufficient gaps in your knowledge. And either one can compensate for curiosity, because if you create enough space in your brain, your discomfort at the resulting vacuum will add force to your curiosity. Or curiosity can compensate for them: if you’re sufficiently curious, you don’t need to clear space in your brain, because the new ideas you discover will push out the conventional ones you acquired by default.
A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations – Simple Programmer
A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations
An important part of the planning phase of the software development life cycle is understanding what regulations will apply to your software. If you are an independent programmer looking to build your own startup, you need to understand these regulations so you can avoid heavy fines, criminal lawsuits, or a potential suspension of your business.
If you work for a company, this will help you to build applications that are compliant by design. This way, you and your supervisors will save a significant amount of time, because you won’t have to go back and make as many changes to your first version of the application.
Remember, you are working as part of a business, so having an understanding of the business requirements of the software you write will help make you a more valuable programmer. Depending on where in the world you are, where your customers are, and the industry that your application will be used in, this will affect the regulations that govern how your application must handle consumer information.
Source: A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations – Simple Programmer
Short Film Idea 2020 12 30
May bata na naka costume ng wolf
Biglang binaril tapos ni litson
Nung nakita ng tao na tao din yung wolf
Kinain pa din nila
Thought about this while thinking of Rizal, and the I don’t care 4 fatal shots while listening to the David Chang and CL podcast episode.
A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations – Simple Programmer
There are three components to HIPAA compliance: a privacy rule to protect consumers’ rights, a security rule to mandate how companies must protect consumers’ information, and enforcement rules that mandate consequences for noncompliance. To be compliant with this regulation, it’s important to get consent from the users if you are going to use their information for anything other than treatment, payment, or health care operations.
Source: A Programmer’s Guide to Compliance Regulations – Simple Programmer
Work From Home: Tech Companies Cut Pay of Workers Moving Out of Big Cities – Bloomberg
This potential shift could have devastating consequences for extremely expensive places, but it could also spread wealth more evenly. Before the pandemic, “America had become less mobile than almost at any point in our history,” Kelman says. “No matter what the economic cost of being in San Francisco, people would pay it.” Having more remote workers means “wages in Texas are going up,” he says. So are housing prices. “You can’t have a $2 million, 2,000-square-foot house in San Francisco and a $200,000 house in Dallas that are basically the same for very long when there are airplanes and internet connections and Zoom.”
None of this makes the decisions employees have to make over the next several months any easier, especially for those who relocated in a hurry. Musiker, the Redfin communications director, has until May to figure out whether she’s staying in Rochester permanently and taking the pay cut. She’s still not sure—and the decision will depend partly on whether her husband is allowed to work remotely after the pandemic—but she’s more open to living upstate than she ever thought she’d be. “We were making a lot of sacrifices in Brooklyn,” Musiker says. In Rochester, “we get so much more for our money.”
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Source: Work From Home: Tech Companies Cut Pay of Workers Moving Out of Big Cities – Bloomberg