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The best ads I got were on Facebook, and based on something to do with my history, although in what way exactly, I cannot be sure. I got an ad about Triplebyte (got numerous job offers from that); ads for concerts that I was interested in;
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Does WFH imply a much better work life balance for investment bankers? Or is the sheer amount of work they can be assigned make it possible to have just as bad work life balance as in the office?
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Apple CEO staged a virtual talk show with a 22-year-old Chinese influencer(scmp.com)
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I have been on SO for over 10 years (not a community moderator; just have the standard moderation powers auto-enabled based on 25k+ rep). I have seen many community moderators who are extremely disrespectful to helpful users, and exhibit th
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Well he does say: > Perhaps I missed something, but most of my friends have been on the lookout and I have had a number of games referred to me; none of them came close to Balance of Power in algorithmic sophistication. So it's not
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You can't even sue them for libel. It's the kind of article that's perfectly legal, and yet does tremendous damage. Yes, HN and Reddit comments can point out the flaws, but that's not going to make a dent on the public o
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Yeah, brainwashing carries a negative connotation. I'm not sure what the right verb would be. "Persuading" is too weak, since we're talking about changing the person's fundamental value system away from being too am
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So basically the book is teaching people to accept their mediocrity and be happy? Kinda like brainwashing people into being less ambitious, to counteract the brainwashing they experienced that made them too ambitious relative to their poten
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Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds(mainichi.jp)
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Anyone knows of research that compares trust across companies? (Perhaps it's more interesting to look at trust separately for between-peers, and employee-manager; as well as at different seniority levels; but I suppose it would be too
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France attemtps to prevent alcoholics from driving. It doesn't actually prevent it. The very first result on Google search: https://www.statista.com/statistics/767979/deaths-road-accid... : "Drunk drivi
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Your point is unclear. If someone (non-violent and intelligent though he may be) regularly puts many people at risk of death, and likely will cause many more deaths if left unchecked, what do you propose to do? There is no tool available in
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Ah thanks for clarifying. I actually didn't know that. So IIUC, UK liberals are kinda like US libertarians?
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He self identifies as a liberal in this interview https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-who-s-real... . He also supports the Occupy movement, which I suspect is not a right of center movement.
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Ah interesting. If you get a chance could you share a link to the story about the skin update made by Tencent without consulting with Riot? Also, what is CRP?
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Ah you essentially answered my question about summarizing his views. It's quite scary that what seems like a conspiracy club lite is getting such a huge amount respect from the highly educated HN audience. It seems the near future is c
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> I’m a long time fan of Don’t Starve Together and this news is just disappointing What makes it disappointing? Do you mean Tencent will mess up the quality of the game, etc?
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Could someone please summarize Curtis' opinions and claims, aggregated across his documentaries?
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We accept that any complex software, even well-designed and well-tested, can malfunction -- often spectacularly. What, then, can we expect from humans? Consider that virtually no effort went into the design; and the test framework is horrif
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement
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No American administration ever thought "let's placate Beijing because we are too scared of them getting angry". Every time the decision to compromise with Beijing was made based on a certain trade-off. This is no different t
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> because there would be second order effects - including job losses, business failures, panic buying and food shortages, possible civil unrest Could you elaborate on that? Why would there be more of these without a lockdown than with a
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Hmm, perhaps the main explanatory factor for ossified opinions is not the passage of time, but individual personality / circsumstances. If so, it is fortunate: once you discover an unbiased person, you can put greater weight on their o
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By "penalized", I meant the opinions they offer should be weighted lower (i.e., a penalty should be applied to the weight). Committed people do offer insights. However, for every valuable insight, there are a lot of confidently pr
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> it penalises expertise and commitment When weighing people's opinions, expertise should be rewarded but commitment should be penalized. Committed people have a psychological need to prove themselves right and to discount contrary
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Much as I like TWiV, they often present incorrect viewpoints. What you describe is one such example. TWiV suggests that anything short of convincing proof should be ignored. However, every bit of evidence updates our individual confidence t
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Could you clarify your main point? Are you saying Triplebyte promised to change the interview game, but in reality, interviewing with them is the same as going through a regular interview process? It seems quite different though: you interv
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If you only predict that the stock is overvalued, it may indeed be difficult to exploit that information. However, in this case, the author predicted the downfall of a huge company. If its business starts failing by any reasonable metric,
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Anyone who can successfully predict downfall of large publicly traded companies can work for a hedge fund and make tens of millions of dollars a year. Anyone who cannot predict such events can write articles for a magazine claiming otherwis
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The Long March was in the 1930s. In itself, it was not particularly horrific -- just a successful retreat of the communists to preserve their forces for future fighting. 25 years later the disasters of Great Leap Forward and the cultural re

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