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by adamsb6 4y ago
I'd say it's more a cultural echo of a time when it felt like anything was possible, and you were making stupid money to work on whatever you felt like working on, and everyone you interacted with was super competent and happy to
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I joined back in 2014 and left this year. I feel like I got to enjoy a couple of years before the company started to lose its nimbleness. Feedback groups used to get responses from the people that actually built the things instead of contra
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by adamsb6 4y ago
The evidence is pretty mixed, and even the studies showing the strongest effects have mask wearing yielding something like a 50% reduction in transmission. I haven't seen anyone model what this looks like on longer timescales. Does thi
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In the northern hemisphere the winter solstice is five days from today. Where I am, in Seattle, the sun will be above the horizon for only about 8.5 hours. It will also likely be cloudy. Contrast this with the summer solstice, where we get
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Your terms are agreeable.
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Yeah, I conflated the Post story suppression and the takedown requests. I'm also not making any claim about the contents of taken down tweets aside from the ones I was able to see on archive.org. Those are just 3 tweets of 5 that were
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Who is providing this information on the content of the tweets that were asked to be removed? We don't have a comprehensive list of tweets the campaign and the DNC forwarded. I looked at archive.org for the tweets linked here: https:&
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Can you link me to anything showing the New York Post published pictures of Hunter's dick? I can't find any. The closest I can find is reporting from this year on a sex tape published by Radar Online that shows some non-full-front
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With narrow exceptions, all speech is protected. I used religion because I think it makes it easier to set aside partisan instincts. Change it to a knitting forum that bans crochet posting, the principle is the same. Is it government censor
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by adamsb6 4y ago
> The Biden family tried to get what is effectively revenge porn taken down from Twitter before he was elected. I don't understand why this gets so oft repeated. The Post article ( https://nypost.com/2020/10&#x2F
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I think it's likely that this was reported and actioned without looping in Elon, and it will end up getting undone when raised to Elon.
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The noteworthiests bits are government entities directing censorship of private speech. Yes, Twitter is a private platform. But is it legal for the government to aid them in their censorship effort? Suppose Twitter had a policy against reli
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That's just what I could find quickly on Google, accessible by all. A few years back I read David McCullough's biography of the Wright Brothers which told the same story: https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-Davi
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In the case of the Wright Brothers, most people didn't even believe it. One factor at work was that they'd been primed by years of Respected Scientists saying that it was physically impossible. The newspapers didn't cover it
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With a service of this size creating a copy of prod is a non-trivial problem, and there are classes of bugs that will only manifest against prod data. A pristine, miniature pretend-prod just isn't that useful. What I've seen work
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Some of the messages in the Twitter Files are Twitter employees blocking content at the request of the DNC.
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That looks a lot like a compression artifact, especially given how it seems to blip out of existence between frames.
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There might be such skeletons. But even bones decompose, especially on these time scales. That any time in history was not a violent time is itself an extraordinary claim. Additionally, thousands of men, 100% of a genetic line, opting to no
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Atlantis legends predate racism.
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They do. Feature flags are part of the culture, you'll typically gate in a very small set of objects that could initially receive any new treatment.
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Serious Academics are not much better in their use of conjecture and motivated reasoning. Consider this article in the New York Times in which a Real Archaeologist dismisses the idea that there was any violence involved in a large group of
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by adamsb6 4y ago
The way that things work at this particular company is that you typically test changes in this codebase on your dev machine, but usually the dev machine talks to a prod database. The prod database is too large to practically have a second c
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Is this guerilla marketing for the new King of the Hill series?
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Wild that they would go to press even with a single intelligence source. We know the CIA has used journalists to spread lies in the past, why wouldn't they be doing it now? For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Currently software has to be built to accommodate leap seconds. They happen frequently enough that you'll find out within a few years whether your software breaks when time suddenly skips forward or backward. If we kick the can down th
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This can be ridden through as well, the bumpers are consumables that will slide on pavement. This is what I'll typically do if I push the board too far, though I have pitched the front into a sidewalk crack where it stopped dead and I
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Reason has a bias for the stories it chooses to cover, but I can't find any examples of it misreporting a story. Can you provide any?
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We do get some information from the other side. The giant delta between the possible prison sentence and the consequences in the plea deal is a signal that the prosecution thought they would do poorly at trial.
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Like just about everything, I would expect myocarditis to have some distribution such that there's a group of people who feel bad, but not bad enough to see a doctor. For the vaccines I would expect that people would be less likely to
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by adamsb6 4y ago
> You don't get a choice about COVID getting into your body, and that is far worse than whatever possible long term effects of the vaccine might be. You seem certain of this, but the vaccines are new enough that we can't possib

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