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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Workers do all that, not landlords. A carpenter does not fix a leaky toilet, nor does a plumber decide if a kitchen needs a new floor. Someone is responsible for ensuring that the right job is performed by the right expert at the right
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> I've seen 100 pound women make killer whales beg for treats Just like I have seen 3 pound kittens make 300 pounds women’s rush for treats
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Which is not a compliment, coming from me. But a compliment for anyone looking at the final results rather than focusing on an incomplete and external perception of the process.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
eu-west-1 is in Ireland. There are no currently open availability zone in Belgium. Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-re...
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Open source development has been running on remote work forever and it’s doing great. One bias is that most open source projects are people solving their own problems. They have a deep understanding of the issues at hand and the develo
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Please, I've worked on plenty of successful new projects with a fully onsite team. This remote bias is largely for people who don't know how to behave effectively around other people.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
His recklessness is exactly what got him results. He is basically saying "fuck it lets blow up rockets until it works". And it does end up working because he was able to surround himself with people that are able to integrate teac
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by IMTDb 3y ago
I have no idea of their exact numbers. But The CEO publicly said they generate tens of millions of profits every year [1]. This is for a company of around 30 to 40 employees. https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> If you use a password manager today, then you're already essentially using something you have, because you need to be in possession of your login database to retrieve passwords, and nobody can remember that in their head. Which is
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> if Shopify can deliver its software with less people, then with the same number of people they could deliver more That is assuming everyone contributes in a meaningful way. That might not be the case for various reasons: - Incompeten
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Are you living in the universe that had EDF with 0 debt until the greens prevented investments in nuclear (constructions & maintenance) to push for alternatives power sources (gas & wind/solar; mainly) which pushed a once world
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by IMTDb 3y ago
$15B combined since legalisation started; and revenues are dipping. For reference; Alcohol generates roughly $10B per year ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/248952/revenues-from-alc... ). Tobacco as well ( https
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> I still think that this decision was mindblowingly progressive and valuable at that time In light on what is the real-world consequences of that decision; I would qualify it more as mindblowingly mistaken. The road to hell is paved wit
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by IMTDb 3y ago
"I hope there isn't a time in the future when people see the current wave of anti-nude displays as just a silly fad we had in the early 17th century" Proceeds to destroy hundreds of paintings by adding poorly drawn fig leaves
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by IMTDb 3y ago
It is tech; it's just not just Silicon Valley "I Don't Know How To Count That Low" FAANG style tech.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Google indisputably has a monopoly over web search: ~93% market share. (I'll never understand why we've done nothing legally about this.) What do you suggest we do over this ? Forbid some people to search on Google ? Or give
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Creating you own company; hiring junior remotely and having a big success going that proves the article wrong and is another viable option.
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> I've never saw this water-cooler experience you mentioned. It's always small talk of the "Did you see the game yesterday?" sort Does not match my experience at all. Depending on how you approach the water cooler you
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> Repress your feelings of desire for your neighbor’s wife. Do not act on those feelings. Stay away from anything that could even slightly make you sinful or think of sinful desires. Why should you repress those feelings ? Unless they do
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by IMTDb 3y ago
> In Islam you're not hated or judged for what you call your true feelings. You are however instructed to gain mastery over those feelings and make them subordinate to you rather than the other way around To me, that sounds like a v
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by IMTDb 3y ago
Maybe... the need to have a map with some additional set of accessors and/or utility functions around it ? If you look at the code; it's literally just a map with some function around it. If you end up in a situation where you fee
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by IMTDb 4y ago
To be fair, the course is about designing beautiful UIs, not necessarily useful ones. Wether that is actually desirable is up to you.
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by IMTDb 4y ago
You forgot that anyone using it must click a button that says that he will not use it for evil purposes. You also must acknowledge that the AI will not track you. These must be separated disclaimers that need to be validated on every prompt
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Most of those individuals have absolutely nothing commercial to gain from stopping AI research. Most individual trying to stop vaccine research and rollout have nothing to gain from it; that does not mean they are right. Do not conflat
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by IMTDb 4y ago
From the twitter thread you linked: > Any depositor who could read the WSJ or watch the stock ticker could understand that there was no upside in waiting to see what would happen next. The whole point of regulations is precisely that I d
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by IMTDb 4y ago
And the good middle manager (yes, they exist ! and yes, they are useful !) thinks "the not very useful part of my job can be automated, yay more time for the actually interesting/useful thing !"
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> will likely only cause your A players (who are probably still very much in demand) to look elsewhere. As other have said: is there such a high demand right now ? And if you know and feel that you are an "A" player; and so far
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Keep on keepin' on ignoring the ever present boys' club and widespread reports that diversified teams produce better results The amazing thing with these results is that you should thus not have the need to create any rules a
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by IMTDb 4y ago
I personally love them; because when something is broken according to my standards, I ask them to fix it and they try ! "Ethics guys" insist of fixing stuff when it's broken according to their standards, even if I don&#x2
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by IMTDb 4y ago
> Someone demonstrated that the leading system flagged multiple members of Congress as dangerous fugitives and that was the end of that. That's not a question of ethics, it's a question of the model performance.

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