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by BoxFour 3y ago
Yeah I'm thoroughly confused by OP because AMAs are a noticeable bungled opportunity on Reddit's part: They were attracting extremely high-profile people (Obama did one at one point), and now it's far less a preeminent part o
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by BoxFour 3y ago
If that’s the number of people who participated in the previous poll, why would a new one have a different population of voters? If we’re going by this idea that “only power users vote” it’s similarly hard for me to imagine a casual viewer
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by BoxFour 3y ago
In this particular context, the connotation of "dumb" does not pertain to a complete lack of knowledge. Even individuals regarded as intelligent may find themselves in situations where their knowledge is limited. Rather, it pertai
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The article delineates a course of action: Shoot them. Clearly, not in the literal sense, but rather suggesting that "dumb and energetic" ought to be dismissed if they can't rectify it.
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by BoxFour 3y ago
In this context, I think the term 'ignorant' seems likely to be employed to convey a repugnant belief rather than a state of overall lack of knowledge. Replace 'ignorant' with 'climate change denialism' or what
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by BoxFour 3y ago
I have indeed encountered numerous individuals proclaiming the mantra of "any action is better than inaction," leading inevitably to the notion that "more actions equate to greater efficacy." In reality, countless establ
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by BoxFour 3y ago
In the author's defense, he specifically points out that he's not debating Perot's platform or accolades. It's about the fixation on "gets things done" without seeming to care about what it is that gets done.
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by BoxFour 3y ago
> There are so many edge-cases, free-speech and moral implications that shouldn't be left for the courts to decide and overturn and a whim. At least in the US this is kinda what the courts do, and some of these are even intended aim
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by BoxFour 3y ago
The joke is a thinly-veiled retort, basically: > Reddit: Apollo costs us $20m a year > Apollo: Well that's a silly number that doesn't add up and you're basically comparing me to a DDOS, if I'm just a botnet I gues
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by BoxFour 3y ago
I think this is actually a more astute analogy than you realize, because the only reason a coach would be asked that question in the first place is because there are questions about the player’s ability to perform—-as the sibling comment he
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by BoxFour 3y ago
This just seems like it’ll end up the exact same way every AI without safeguards ends up: Trolled into eventual obscurity
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by BoxFour 3y ago
> So why bother? Well, here's why it bothers me but obviously that doesn't have to be your reason: Because there's a woman named Lynne in the story who seems likely to be the one behind a lot of it, and a man is taking cre
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by BoxFour 3y ago
Misremembering some really critical parts like "I pitched it to the CEO Roger Enrico and that's how the product got launched" is pretty suspect. Getting the year wrong: Forgivable. Getting some minor details wrong: Understand
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by BoxFour 3y ago
I dunno, this one seems pretty clear-cut. His story heavily focuses on pitching to a CEO who wasn't running the company when the product was already out on the market.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
> Correlation is not causation lol I see, the man who crusaded for vehicle safety and helped force a bunch of legislation mandating vehicle safety regulations has nothing to do with vehicles becoming safer following said regulations. See
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by BoxFour 4y ago
I did, you apparently didn't because you missed the huge increase in fatalities from the mid 60s to mid 70s. Look up when "Unsafe At Any Speed" was written and think about what might've reversed that trend.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Vehicles became a lot safer because of Ralph Nader. Google “unsafe at any speed”.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Highly likely a lot of it is simply older cars without safety features we consider basic these days (like side air bags) being phased out. Very few people driving cars from the 80s or earlier these days. You can probably thank Ralph Nader f
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Birth rates are not the same thing as gender disparity, obviously.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
probably close to zero? There’s considerable debate over whether even China’s “One Child” policy had any direct effect or it just happened to coincide with a natural decline in birth rates that would’ve happened in China regardless. If it’s
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Idk I kinda doubt that his dad is doing anything other than frantically telling him to shut up. Look at how the CEO of Alameda is handling this whole thing, for example.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Lol no, the "news report" Musk linked explicitly accused Paul Pelosi's attacker of being a spurned lover. Even the report you linked was apparently retracted because of some weird minor details about how the encounter with po
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Off the top of my head: He was peddling the conspiracy that Paul Pelosi was attacked by a spurned lover. He had to quickly walk that one back by deleting the reply and pretending it never happened.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
HR actually calls/emails to verify employment dates/eligible for rehire, though I wouldn't be surprised if some of it was automated (like the other poster noted) through payroll data to catch the omitted company B. For most c
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by BoxFour 4y ago
FWIW, I've noticed candidates have started catching onto this and will do some sneaky resume adjustments involving leaving off some short stints. It gets explained as: 1. I just took some time off between Job A and C (when really there
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by BoxFour 4y ago
A factor in my judgement about whether the people I’ve met who dwarfed me with their intelligence were actually intelligent? Yeah I’d say it’s a factor :). Is this some kind of nihilistic moral relativism thing you’re playing at here? Other
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Sure, everyone in existence has a bias of some variety. I don’t think that needs stating.
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Well that’s silly, by that logic no one is ever qualified to ever be skeptical about anything because every single person in existence lives in a bubble of their own variety. I mean you’re in your own bubble making this judgement right now
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by BoxFour 4y ago
The response to me was that I must be in a bubble where I can’t imagine someone being significantly smarter and more productive than myself or my cohort. My response was that I’ve met plenty of people far smarter than myself, but productivi
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by BoxFour 4y ago
Yes, I thought about putting this down but thought it was a bit uncharitable. It is a thing that’s happened obviously though.

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