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by alecbz 5y ago
What do you mean? I voluntarily go to my company's office every day because I hate WFH. What's hypocritical or contradictory?
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by alecbz 5y ago
A) I think there's a lot of confounders here (like the global pandemic and such) that make it to difficult to infer anything from correlations B) Engineering work is pretty inherently long-term in its impact I think, especially at big
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by alecbz 5y ago
> it was the way to push Chrome to dominance. How did YT push Chrome?
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by alecbz 5y ago
This thread feels like it's getting pretty far-removed from the original topic but: I wish we wouldn't equate "free speech" with the first amendment. IMO "free speech" is a much broader concept than the specifi
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm actually not sure this is a question of scale at all? The amount of revenue and the amount of moderation needed both scale with the amount of content. If anything, YouTube's scale gives it a better chance of being able to addr
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by alecbz 5y ago
The question is would it be so costly that YouTube's profitability would look significantly different, and at that point would Google want to keep running YouTube? I'm not sure, but I don't think the answer is that it obvious
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by alecbz 5y ago
They meant they don't see the issue with the ban.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I don't think you can really consider it crowd-funding unless people are individually choosing to contribute to the specific cause.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think people are implying "obviously we'd like to avoid direct military conflict with Russia if possible", so given that there's nothing strongly compelling us to intervene directly (like Ukraine being in NATO), we&#x2
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by alecbz 5y ago
That seems like a very plausible non-causal link? Or, fair, if the thing being caused is the diagnoses then this is technically causal. :P
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by alecbz 5y ago
> whatever is at stake in questions of advertising, surely it isn't moral Wait what? No, of course it is, almost everything effects morality in some way. > But you're also claiming there are definitely desires that are worse
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by alecbz 5y ago
> has caused erectile dysfunction diagnosis to explode Is there really a documented causal link here?
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by alecbz 5y ago
Something something slippery slope. I mean look, if you believe in abstractions at all, then sometimes (or always) interfaces need to hide things. Interfaces can be made too small for sure, but without a more principled argument on why an
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by alecbz 5y ago
It won't be "non-functional", just not as functional as they would have otherwise liked.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I guess it was more like that I got burnt out from other things and ended up only being able to get myself to work 2-3 hours. That said, I wasn't working especially long hours before, either. Maybe not 2-3 hours but still sub-8. The bu
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Somewhat ironically you are falling into that same model of thinking. This is called 'disagreeing'.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I lived in a dorm for 2 years in college. Not only did I not have a private bathroom, but I also had a roommate, so really I had no reliably private place at all. It was fine. I mean occasionally privacy would be nice, but I also enjoyed th
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by alecbz 5y ago
As you imply towards the end, I think things like numbers of hours worked are generally not relevant for stuff like this. I've been incredibly engaged working 12+ hour days and I've been burnt out barely getting 2-3 hours of real
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by alecbz 5y ago
Can you say more? What specifically is exhausting? Exhaustion/burnout isn't uncommon but without more context it's hard to say if it's a product of the type of work or your specific work environment.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I mean, making a channel less noise and more signal involves making some data invisible, yeah.
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by alecbz 5y ago
Do the LPs themselves make it clear when they're supposed to be applied?
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by alecbz 5y ago
There are some reasonable explanations though: * The actual values have changed over time but the value statement hadn't been updated in a while * Different parts of the company genuinely have different values I don't think either
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by alecbz 5y ago
IMO the only way to have aspirational values is to make them part of perf/the job ladder. Most typical "value statements" ought to be descriptive.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'm not a fan of this headline style but it's not really telling you how to interpret the story any more than "It's fine that ideas get forgotten in notes apps" or any other normative sentence would be. It's ju
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by alecbz 5y ago
+1, my gut reaction is definitely to cringe at stuff like this but I can't deny that I think it's actually really helpful. Like I wish I was good enough at being social naturally that I wouldn't need something like this, but
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by alecbz 5y ago
I was responding to your straw man ("if you think that sometimes people can be influenced into having different genuine desires, then you must think this is true any time someone is manipulated, even in the case of spousal abuse&qu
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by alecbz 5y ago
It's a good analogy to think about, but surely you wouldn't say something like "we should never take people at their word, we have to decide what we think they feel and then assume that's how they're feeling, regard
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Through the various replies here, there's more than enough evidence of harm. It seems you are, at this point, merely defending your prior statement and not addressing the issue in any way. What's the original statement you th
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by alecbz 5y ago
> the USA knew Japan was willing to surrender, but dropped the bomb anyway? This is the opposite of what I usually hear? I've heard things about how Japan was getting ready to fight to the last man, starting to arm civilians. I have
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by alecbz 5y ago
> I think the idea that our preferences are transient, that none are really more right than any other, and that therefore there's nothing really at stake in letting your interests be swapped out for different interests, is what I re

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