EFreethought

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by EFreethought 3y ago
It happened to me recently on a list where I post under my real name, and yes, it's irritating, especially if it is someone you never met, and they are disagreeing with you.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Not everyone likes JS. I am not a Lisp genius, but once you get the concept it's not that hard. If you want to use JS, there are plenty of places to do it. Some of us just want to avoid that dumpster fire. And if JS is so wonderful, wh
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Every time I read "court of chancery", for a second I think it says "court of chicanery".
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by EFreethought 3y ago
We don't necessarily need to do that. We just need less anti-intellectualism and to reduce the power/influence of the religious right in the US.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
According to the Wikipedia page on Masayoshi Son, Softbank invested $20M in Alibaba, which grew to $50B, a return of 2,500%. But it looks like he has been wrong about everything since then.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
A lot of people used to rave about the look and design of Tesla vehicles. That seemed to stop once the Cybertruck was unveiled. I think a lot of people thought it was a joke, and then slowly people realized Tesla was serious about making a
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by EFreethought 3y ago
If MBAs have any skills at all, they seem hell-bent on convincing the rest of the world otherwise.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
But what if you have to use an LLM at your new job?
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by EFreethought 3y ago
> remote work isn't working for us It is working out. I looked at a few financial statements for a few companies pushing RTO (Amazon and a couple of Wall Street firms). Granted, it wasn't comprehensive or scientific, but: They
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by EFreethought 3y ago
I do not like teasing from friends either. The world needs more signal and less noise.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
They invested in Alibaba about 20 years ago, made something like 2000x their investment ($20M to $50B), and have been wrong about everything since. They were an early investor in WeWork, and paid Adam Neumann to go away instead of throwing
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Don't forget rounded corners.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
I think SPACs are a bit different. They have been around since the 1990s, and for a long time there were maybe a dozen SPACs in a year. In 2021 there were about 600. I think they will stick around and go back to their previous volume. Grift
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by EFreethought 3y ago
A lot of the relevant Java projects either started there or got brought in pretty early.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
What style of meditation do you do?
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by EFreethought 3y ago
A guy in my local Emacs meetup has presented at two EmacsConfs in a row, and he said there were a LOT of participants under 30.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
His first solo album is one of my favorites.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
I wish they would get rid of infinite scroll. If a channel has a lot of videos, "Oldest" is no better than "Latest".
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by EFreethought 3y ago
WRT travel: I think if you are willing to travel, you can make a lot in any industry (except maybe being a truck driver).
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by EFreethought 3y ago
It is different than the others mentioned, but I am fascinated by "Sitting And Smiling". https://www.youtube.com/@BenjaminBennetttt/featured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_and_Smil
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by EFreethought 3y ago
I have an account that is still active, and I get an email from twitter with some tweets every day. And every single day, the first tweet is from right-wing nutjob named Lara Logan. I do not follow her. I looked at her stream once (which wa
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by EFreethought 3y ago
I think the problem is that a lot of people in America want America to be more like Russia.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Or is it nadir a16z?
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by EFreethought 3y ago
> resorted to deference to authority by saying the founders they invest in went to the right schools and nobody else could understand because "they weren't in the room." Marc Andreeson tried to defend Groupon's use of
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Honestly, if a genie in a bottle gave me three wishes, one would be that all women speak with Australian accents.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Per Wikipedia, about 5% of people in Australia were born in NZ.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Honestly, "no Emacs" is one rule that would make me quit.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
I have not used ChatGPT, so I need to ask: What is the default? Most people do not change most default options. And companies know this.
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by EFreethought 3y ago
The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act exempted banks with less than $250 billion in assets from most of the Dodd-Frank Act. They no longer had to have stress tests and it lowered liquidity levels. Under Dodd-Fr
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by EFreethought 3y ago
Some of the AI predictions make me think about a quote from "Dune": Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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