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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Only if we assume companies can't measure employees' productivity and output, only their hours of butt-in-chair. Is that true?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
The graph shows a significant shift in behavior (not just on Fridays) in Q1 2023, i.e. when many many companies initiated mass layoffs. I'm not surprised, as this lines up with my own observations in personal life. After that, many rem
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Came here to say exactly this.
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Aren't they offshoring a lot of their roles to either India or eastern Europe? How'd that work out for IBM and others who tried this before them?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
As a total outsider to this area of research, why is AlphaFold's potential most notable specifically for psychedelics?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
"Diversity statements are akin to brainwashing techniques used by religious cults to out heretics." I would strengthen this statement to say that it is a brainwashing technique, and is employed by a religious cult.
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Yes, DEI is a religion in practice, even if not in name. It should remind you of Christianity as well. It has - Sinners, including "original sin," and a need for confession and atonement for these sins - Various sacrificial
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
This link seems broken.
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
They have done that before. But they have also laid off 12,000 employees without doing that as well. Do we know which today's announcement resembles?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
A good maxim is to employ people who are hired and promoted for their ability and not for extraneous reasons.
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
> Does "diverse" just mean "not white"? In many cases, yes, it basically just means this. That's even a reasonable de facto definition for that term as it's used today, in any appearance without further qual
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Yes, lots of truth by assertion in this article.
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Yeah, that felt entirely shoe-horned into this article. I couldn't find any further explanation within the article, or the parent article it references. Just pure assertion on the author's part. If true, we'd also expect to s
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
The currently-linked article seems like a poorly worded and edited synopsis of the article at https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/is-the-texas-boom-town-of-... . Should that be linked at the top instead?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
At roughly similar points in their lives, Microsoft and Google initiated video gaming platforms. Microsoft stuck with Xbox through seven years (iirc) of still-unprofitable growth to what it is today. Google abandoned Stadia after three year
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1211807851/omegle-shut-down-l... "The young woman, identified only as A.M., sought $22 million in damages in her lawsuit. Omegle was shut down days after the two sides
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
What would be a good way to test the author's hunch? Just instrument std::unordered_map and trace an execution until a crash occurs?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
It seems the real reason this lawsuit found traction while similar ones against much larger platforms is precisely because Omegle sounds like a fairly shoestring operation. Platforms with an army of lawyers can surely fend lawsuits like thi
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Yeah, it's even an option in the proto IDL to generate C++ code that uses arena allocation. So this is probably for protos, in particular. I believe ITA Software's QPX (which now forms a major part of Google Flights' backend)
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Borrowers with High Credit Scores Penalized Under New Federal Mortgage Fee Plan(reason.com)
47 points by PessimalDecimal 3y ago|52 comments
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Thank you!
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
Got a link? I'd like to read more. The theory is at least plausible given what we see. They'll kill many products that seem viable, and would help diversify their revenue stream. Does Google really place no premium at all on that?
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by PessimalDecimal 3y ago
> I would not be shocked to see these complaints more in minority heavy environments. This is almost surely factual. Why do you suppose that is?
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by PessimalDecimal 4y ago
Assuming from context that the socio-political stance you have in mind is something like American leftism, it's always had a strong religious element to it. The recent purity spiral is a difference only of quantity but not really one o
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by PessimalDecimal 4y ago
> People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am
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by PessimalDecimal 4y ago
Sundar's recent pay package tied more of his compensation to performance of GOOG relative to the rest of the S&P 100 [1, 2]. That could also be related. [1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/alphabet-links-mor
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by PessimalDecimal 4y ago
Years as in plural?