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by GuiA 7y ago
Facebook cares about “your” data, but that doesn’t really mean your painstakingly edited review of the new avengers movie. It’s more what you spend time looking at, what you click on, etc.
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by GuiA 7y ago
But on the other hand, given that fedoras are (within that context) the most tip-friendly hat, wouldn’t that mean that the author is a natural writer?...
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by GuiA 7y ago
As a manager, if you see a poor bastard having the worst day of their career because of something similar, it means you have inadequate safeguards in place and you’re not doing your job correctly.
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by GuiA 7y ago
These were not available in their entirety online before. That is because the only copy was held by the Ambrosian Library, and presumably they have had other priorities than digitizing those 1200 pages.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Letting MySpace rot is fine. As the article points out, a more concerning issue is that “universities, governments and scientific societies are struggling to preserve scientific data”.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Fresh from farm food is actually a great way to save money and eat healthier! Search for a local CSA and support it!
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by GuiA 7y ago
It’s crazy how accurate the “$100 gas $800 rent $400 food $2000 $impulse_expense please someone help me budget my family is dying” meme is. At the risk of repeating what gets said every time this topic comes up, basic financial education sh
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by GuiA 7y ago
> “I interviewed at Uber before they launched” > “I’ve been a software engineer at Uber since 2015” Perhaps they need to test reading comprehension in their interviews!
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by GuiA 7y ago
Similar phenomenon in Silicon Valley with Israeli engineers.
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by GuiA 7y ago
I’ve always been taller than average. In school, in a class of ~30 students, I was probably in the tallest 3-4 students. After joining a large company with a certain cachet of exclusivity, I was surprised to notice that I feel about of aver
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Cooking as a Service(alexdanco.com)
160 points by GuiA 7y ago|118 comments
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by GuiA 7y ago
At least in grandparent’s testimony, it sounds like the article still ended up on the front page after the second try. That’s pretty great! If articles of quality always made it to the front page on the second submission at most, we’d be li
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by GuiA 7y ago
It’s interesting to see how differently first aid is taught across countries. Eg the last training I did in the US (California), I was surprised by two things that I had not encountered when I was trained in France: - a big concern around p
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by GuiA 7y ago
I don’t understand how it is a point of contention for people arguing for intelligent design. Wouldn’t it fall in the same category as questions like “if God is so good why are there wars and poverty”, where the answer is “to your feeble hu
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by GuiA 7y ago
Oh absolutely. For the more egregious example of it, “______” is “felon”. Not many countries fare better, to be fair.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Fully agreed. One side effect of that is that while modeling has always been very hard to pierce into, at least there are modeling opportunities for non celebrities. As the practice of using AI to generate models for all but higher end stuf
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by GuiA 7y ago
That's fair. But perhaps you'd agree with me that there's a line between a company making products like cameras - which can certainly be used to cruel ends, but typically easily replaced by any of your competitor's produ
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by GuiA 7y ago
You buy the supplements, get on the company’s mailing lists, go to the lectures, join Facebook groups with people following the same thing to share experiences, attend meetups, etc. Of course it’s a social, shared experience first and forem
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by GuiA 7y ago
Being pro/anti specific companies in a very binary way, like you point out, is a false path. However, placing all companies in the same bucket is committing a similar mistake. There is definitely a “gradient of morality” amongst compan
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by GuiA 7y ago
I’d put it even further than “just” attempting to undo the damages of stress. The local community, where you’d buy your meat from your local butcher that had been in your neighborhood for 15 years, vegetables from the farmers’ market where
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by GuiA 7y ago
The feudal era in Japan is considered to have ended with the shogunate, ie the Meiji restoration (1868).
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The Critical Engineering Manifesto(criticalengineering.org)
2 points by GuiA 7y ago|0 comments
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by GuiA 7y ago
Because living from your art is a personal choice that, while nice to encourage in modern civilized society, should not be incentivized and protected at the same level as eg contributing to healthcare, education, food production, core infra
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by GuiA 7y ago
Artists are not really the ones we need to worry the most about. Amongst my artist circles, there are some who find ways to make it work in SF (cheap roomshares can still be found in the sunset etc), others who have been able to leverage th
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by GuiA 8y ago
4a. Acknowledge that some companies have too many "lucky streaks" for them to be "lucky streaks" (e.g. Pixar, Valve, Nintendo, etc.). Attempt to build a work environment conducive to great creative work such that if ther
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by GuiA 8y ago
A sign of the privileged, to be able to move to a foreign country and categorically refuse to attempt to integrate. The 7/11 clerk from Sri Lanka or janitor from the Philippines who emigrated to Japan for a better life certainly don’t
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Notes on AI Bias(ben-evans.com)
3 points by GuiA 8y ago|0 comments
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by GuiA 8y ago
People don’t know what they want. Or rather, they conflate what they want with real things that are close to, but not quite exactly, what they had in their mind. They then get frustrated because it doesn’t match what they imagined the whole
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by GuiA 8y ago
Like many “classic” camera companies (Polaroid, Voigtländer, etc), “Leica” today is a name controlled by various holding entities and private equity firms. While it might bear the same name, it has very little in common with the original co
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by GuiA 8y ago
This is one of many cases that UBI could “solve”. If you can house and feed your family, don’t have to worry about healthcare/education costs, etc, you are freed to work on projects like that (either on your own, or associating with ot

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