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by Traster 6y ago
You wonder if your comparison of people's argument to the slogan that sat above the gates of Auschwitz could have been interpreted as offensive? I'm sure you had some internal logic as to how you got from some modern slogan to the
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by Traster 6y ago
Other people have talked about skin in the game or whether you’re ignoring valid criticism. I think the thing that’s been bothering me recently is the asymmetry of some ‘commenters’. My job is hard, we’re under water in terms of critical th
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by Traster 6y ago
It’s more complicated than that. Stage 1 - you can’t do subjects they don’t think you’ll do well in. Stage 2 you won’t be “offered” a place studying for GCSEs if you didn’t do well in the previous year. Stage 3, If you get bad GCSEs you won
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by Traster 6y ago
In some ways though inflation is on/off. There have been a number of events in US history where inflation went from “ off” (sub 5%) to “on” (>10%). No one is worried inflation will rise to 2% they’re worried it’ll rise to 20% (or
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by Traster 6y ago
That’s because running a good logistics operation using simple central rules such as if (f_rate>0.1) {ban} is obviously going to work on a “good enough” works most of the time level of success. Which, when you’re affecting people’s livel
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by Traster 6y ago
It’s literally called clubhouse, they decided to start a company with the most transparently petty toxic name. You’re not allowed in the clubhouse you’re not part of our cool club! Said Andreesen Horowitz, either a massive VC firm or a 12 y
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by Traster 6y ago
Yeah, it's a great way of burning respect in the team, take on projects you don't have the time or expertise to deliver. There's a special kind of management veto - where an important project gets completely stalled because t
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by Traster 6y ago
It's absolutely hilarious to watch a Prime Minister, who has previously given £100k in Tech funding to his mistress, now establishing an even bigger tech fund without the FOIA requirements so that he can... get away with giving £100k i
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by Traster 6y ago
I would like to hear the refutation because I've witnessed this myself in corporate environments. Corporate HR are difficult to deal with, they're very process orientated and risk averse, getting rid of someone reflects poorly on
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by Traster 6y ago
Ok first,I’m impressed someone is monetising their HN comments. But this entire argument is ridiculous, Comma AI’s transparency isn’t a positive compared to traditional car companies. Traditional car companies aren’t transparent because the
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by Traster 6y ago
It's kind of strange to watch the prevalence of this victim mentality amongst the 'Rationalists'. The article starts by quoting 5 paragraphs that include calling the blog erudite and funny, interviewing legal scholars about i
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by Traster 6y ago
It's going to be very interesting to see how clubhouse manages the toxic environment that gets created on all social media. It's one thing to go on reddit and post neo-nazi content - it's text based and it's fairly easy
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by Traster 6y ago
This ridiculous assertion any self-driving == better than humna is just ridiculous too. This is a website selling a self-driving devkit with a big "buy it now" sign that also has a disclaimer saying "Well you're not real
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by Traster 6y ago
One point to note is that the debt you'd get from buying GME on leverage is way better than the debt you incurred from that higher education you couldn't afford and didn't pay off.
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by Traster 6y ago
I don't see anything the NYT could have done to give this author the level of anonymity he wanted. He wasn't anonymous to start with, and the standard of "I don't mind being known, I just don't want to be mentioned
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by Traster 6y ago
>EDIT: And I just don't get why on earth they have to reveal his name if he does not want the NYT to reveal it? What does it add to the story? It's a persons life they are playing with. I recommend you read the NYT peice then,
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by Traster 6y ago
So I may have come at this backwards- I read Scott's rebuttal and then read the NYT peice. No offence to Scott but I think he's got this all wrong. The NYT piece isn't about Scott, it's just a writing gimmick. The articl
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by Traster 6y ago
Interesting to see the intersection of the right wing anti-media agenda with a new appreciation for cancel culture. If you don’t like something don’t buy it, but starting a campaign against it makes me think your not interested in a free an
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by Traster 6y ago
I wonder if some of the developers are feeling a bit uneasy "What happens if senior management realises that we've not realised anything on iOS for a month and no one cares?" What exactly are Google paying the people writing
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by Traster 6y ago
We see this all the time right, the next big ML company is going to come from some scrappy startup with a precise focus on what to do (either because they're geniuses or because they're just the lucky idiot amongst 10,000 ML start
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by Traster 6y ago
>I predict that one day, we'll see a C somewhere in "FAANGM". Honestly, this is such a stupid game. The original acronym was FANG. It included Netflix which at the time it was coined was orders of magnitude smaller than Ap
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by Traster 6y ago
I'm not sure many people are particularly happy with it, but it's a fundamental problem. If you give different levels of government the ability to tax people, then private corporations are going to have the ability to shop around
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by Traster 6y ago
> The crowd looking for small form factors are looking for phone-essentialism/minimalism. My phone broke this weak and I had a choice of what to buy...I bought the iPhone 12 mini. I was not looking for minimalism. I'm an adult
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by Traster 6y ago
"It's their money they can do what they want" is a bad argument. I can buy a sandwich in front of a homeless person begging for food and I can break it into pieces and feed it to the birds in front of him. It's my money
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by Traster 6y ago
No they're not that stupid. This is going to be to monetize people who make revenue from social media. So for example, all UK journalists are on twitter because twitter drives good amounts of traffic to it. Why is twitter not monetizin
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by Traster 6y ago
This really seems like yet another failure in governence. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for a car company to be investing in crypto currency other than their CEO's personal interest in the technology. If you have someth
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by Traster 6y ago
There are two issues here though. The first issue there is that you have a negotiation between a private entity for whom costs are directly associated, negotiating with a public entity where costs are opaquely passed on to taxpayers, but fo
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by Traster 6y ago
There's a difference between having fun at work, and having fun allocated by work. What most companies have is enforced fun - once or twice a year you'll go to an offsite location with free booze and try some ridiculous forced act
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by Traster 6y ago
That is quite literally unimaginable at a company like Google.
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by Traster 6y ago
If your job is HR in Google the correct response is to say "Hey, hiring managers! Here are the things we see you incorrectly identifying as corollaries to competence" not "Hey, prospective employees, here's how to trick

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