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by RickS 7y ago
Meh. Flipped another way, "90% of people in the US with twitter accounts don't post much if ever, and that long tail makes up 20% of twitter's US content" Sounds about right, and not very alarming. Unless you're on
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> using automated methods that allow others to post tweets on their behalf This is so vague that it includes effectively all integrations with anything. Setting instagram to post to your twitter feed, for example. Spam is a possibility,
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It's for buying and selling carbon offsets. Which in the grand scheme of "crypto for X" is not bad, since it's at least a thing that's actually exchanged in an existing market. Farmers can sell their carbon credits
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by RickS 7y ago
I feel the same way, and recently rolled my own chrome extension for adblock on pinterest. It currently removes ads in the main grid view, and the little white dots for "buy me" things that overlay images of single pins. https:&#
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https://outline.com/HwrgJ4
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> 12% of the population will find themselves in the top 1% of the income distribution for at least one year That is just wild. I wish they dove deeper into the data here. The top 1% of earning, based on a quick google, is 1.3m/yr. T
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by RickS 7y ago
> median tech salary of $300k Mean is probably better than median here, right? Because salary isn't quite a normal distribution. The high end is super high. 300k is normal for FAANG, but that class of tech employee is in the top 10%
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by RickS 7y ago
Paywall bypass: https://outline.com/bLtYCK ------- > MORE THAN half of American millennials, the generation of people born between 1981 and 1996, believe that they will one day be millionaires; one in five think they wil
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Sometimes I feel that it can be a lucrative trap to become invested in a single person, and then accumulate expectations that far outweigh the responsible obligations of any friendship. As I have gotten older, a pattern that is working much
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Yes. Absolutely. Not only that, but just living in accordance with their own preferences prepares them for future jobs, since future jobs are second-order effects of changing cultural preferences. I didn't set out to work in software.
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by RickS 8y ago
I'm okay with this being mandated for people with DUIs, but the idea of it becoming a standard feature is disheartening. It's bad enough that internet connectivity is trending towards becoming mandatory. To also mandate that a per
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by RickS 8y ago
Individually, mostly valueless. But in aggregate, the emergent patterns are hugely valuable. Just as a litterer is fractionally culpable for worsening the earth, our data is fractionally responsible for the wealth of these companies, and fo
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by RickS 8y ago
I was never an evernote power user, but I find Notion to be much more intuitive and preferable with two exceptions: Evernote's inline audio tool is really excellent. Being able to capture snippets lightning fast inline is crucial to my
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by RickS 8y ago
As somebody that's in JS all day but rarely touches backend, hearing about go, rust, kubernetes, docker, etc make it feel like backend is similarly fast-changing. The difference seems to be in the narrative about the older tech. The &q
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Was there any feedback on the reason or mechanism for blocking?
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Because you have to give them money if you want to read it.
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How'd you source the VA? Did you use them for anything other than staying on task?
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Apt timing. I was just revisiting a voice not from after Christmas vacation where I noticed the same thing in myself. I "take vacation" all the time, in that I'm fucking off from some kind of work for a couple days straight.
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by RickS 8y ago
> I've never done graffiti in my life I think maybe you adopted the voice of someone else in your post, then, and it didn't read in an obvious way. > I'm sorry you think that what I did to your stuff trashed it, but I t
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by RickS 8y ago
I did a good bit of graffiti when I was younger. 10 years later, I'm still in the creative industry and I still love graffiti. But I'm mostly very ashamed, now that I'm old enough to have property of my own and skin in the ga
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by RickS 8y ago
Great to see research coming to a conclusion I think most metalheads intuitively know. I love walls of sound, I love intensity that feels like it takes a surplus of cognitive bandwidth (ADHD) and gives it a little bit of resistance to tug a
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by RickS 8y ago
I just politely say no to these. Being asked is awkward, but I rarely feel obligated.
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Preachiness and statistical weasel-language aside, the author is correct. I have a beat-up longbed ram 1500, and my usage statistics look pretty close to the ones cited. I bought this truck because I work on cars, and a handful of times I&#
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by RickS 8y ago
Difficult to implement, by way of being difficult to agree with in some places. It advocates a level of self-blame that feels like it would be effective from a self-motivation perspective but is not necessarily always reflective of reality.
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I think this is an impractical first step, but for the downvoters, executive coaching – including specifically ex-mil coaching – is a real thing that people do and get value from. If you want to get such experience without sourcing and payi
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There's not enough info here about whether your actual language is the issue, or if it's your ability to think or communicate more broadly. I'll try to touch on both. Language as signal - jargon: I'm going to steal a cou
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That's really pretty. The syntax highlighting is the cherry on top. Visually pleasing, but forced by a ruleset, which is neat.
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Great point. I think you're right. ET leans into a "dialect" that sometimes assumes you're ramped up on the existing writing, in a way that I can't imagine SSC doing. I don't fault them for this – it adds somet
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The "nose plucking" is a recurring thing with Epsilon Theory, and yes – directed pretty evenhandedly at ridiculousness on both sides of the political spectrum. You're dead on about breaking out of the "us vs them" d
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Epsilon Theory is one of those pieces of writing that remains rewarding across multiple readings. I find myself revisiting their entire catalog often. I'm shocked that every post they have doesn't do well here, the way say Patio11

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