LiquidSky

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by LiquidSky 9mo ago
>When skiing in the US, people see it as an opportunity to use a hobby to gain an advantage, to network, to talk business, to flaunt, to compare, to use an escape as a entrance. I'd like to see any evidence of this because this has
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by LiquidSky 9mo ago
That's true, but he thought of himself as Dogbert, a superintelligent being superior to everyone around him.
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by LiquidSky 9mo ago
I don't recall any of his rightwing stuff, but I remember one of his 90s books had some stuff at the end about how quantum physics meant you could control reality by envisioning what you want and then you'd enter the universe with
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by LiquidSky 9mo ago
>How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. The key is that it seemed like he was Dilbert when he actually always thought of himself as Dogbert.
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by LiquidSky 9mo ago
This is premised on promotions and other work rewards having any kind of rational basis or connection to the work. It could simply be that spending time with your boss makes them know and like you more, and people tend to reward people they
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by LiquidSky 10mo ago
Isn't this just how the tech world has functioned for the last few decades? Silicon Valley had a great scene about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo
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by LiquidSky 10mo ago
>Like when CEOs openly salivate at the prospect of firing all workers and replacing them with AI. I saw a series of ads in a train station the other day for some company claiming to offer "AI employees" that had slogans like &q
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by LiquidSky 10mo ago
You’re not addressing the parent’s question about how any of this is about the “Chinese way of thinking”. In fact, in offering a purely material explanation for China’s success, that it simply has more people and resources, you’re actively
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
Does Musk still have sway with Trump? I thought they had a messy breakup earlier this year.
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
This article might help: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/27/1113782/scam-com... These scam centers are run by criminal organizations and staffed by basically slaves. They're often tricked i
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
Thank you!
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
I have a toddler, do you have any recommendations of things you did with a counting board with your kids for teaching basic math at a young age?
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
Progressive disclosure? If you know your audience, you probably know what most people want, and then the usual next step up for that "one extra thing". You could start with the ultra-simple basic thing, then have an option to enab
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
But the linked article addresses that. They're not advocating for removing the full-feature UI, they just advise having a simple version that does the one thing (or couple of things) most users want in a simple way. Users who want to d
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by LiquidSky 11mo ago
Nah, you just have to have some prompt that unknowingly reveals that the user has ever engaged with Roblox in any way, which leads to an instant block.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Oh good, here I was thinking they could only be explained by magic.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Jimmy King, "Pretzel King" of the South Bronx in the mid-70s. Weird guy, no one ever found out why he rode around town on a donkey.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
I think it’s the opposite: people with lots of technical knowledge and little legal knowledge (but who believe the former grants them mastery of the latter) trying to create “one weird trick” workarounds to avoid legal responsibility, not u
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
I'm not sure it's even at that level of rationality. People just don't think bad things will happen to them, either through naivety or a mistaken belief that they're so superior they'll never be caught. Jail is some
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
His response is absurd. This is no different than having a human associate draft a document for a partner and then the partner shrugging their shoulders when it's riddled with errors because they didn't bother to check it themselv
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
That's not a counter-example to the judgment reasoning you highlight: everyone entering a night club is there to enter a night club, not everyone entering a K-mart is there to get a refund.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Thank you!
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Two minutes hardly seems enough time to do the story justice.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
This is a classic case of “STEM types please learn the tiniest bit about the humanities before expounding on them”.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
As you say, it's obvious to pretty much anyone who's ever worked a day in their life but, at the same time, culturally we pretend otherwise. Guys like Musk or Bloomberg talk about working 90 hour weeks and sleeping under their des
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
Hype is the difference between the buzz around something and what it can actually deliver, and lasts as long as those selling the hype can convince people that difference is small or zero.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
It only happened after WW2 because the US came out of that war as the only untouched developed economy. A WW3 isn't going to leave anyone unscathed and would probably mean all-out nuclear war.
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
> isn't suitable for any sane, good-faith actor I think this is the parent’s point: this is the POV of the rich and powerful who lead the organization. They can’t imagine someone in a different position seeing these franchises as a
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
>Remote has allowed us to adopt meeting policies that would never exist in-person: giant, long, back-to-back sessions with no purpose, plan or opportunity to pee. Oh, if only that had been true, but pointless, aimless meetings have been
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by LiquidSky 1y ago
These are the same executives/managers who lost their minds at the idea of butts not being in the physical seats at the office, so yeah.

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