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by awillen 4y ago
That sounds like it's roughly on the level of Steven A. Smith.
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by awillen 4y ago
I wonder how this will change when warehouses are designed around robots. Right now robots are working in warehouses that were built to be optimally efficient for human workers, but if they're built from the ground up for robots, you&#
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Twins were accused of cheating in an exam by signaling. They won $1.5M(insider.com)
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by awillen 4y ago
I played TW2002 on The Cave! That was a genuinely formative experience in my becoming a nerd. I was probably about the same age as the author, too. Man, what an article to read.
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by awillen 4y ago
You're not forced to buy any products, though. And in this case they specifically allow you to pay $3/month and not have ads. I'd wager virtually no one will take that option, though, since folks tend to be very vocally oppos
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by awillen 4y ago
That would require even more land since a given amount of land can grow fewer calories of grass than soy.
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by awillen 4y ago
Olympians are a combination of both - they have the natural talents/endowment, but they also put in the maximum amount of work. Michael Phelps has an enormous wingspan, but he also trained 5-6 hours a day. If he dropped that to 3 hours
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by awillen 4y ago
I think the other part of it is that even if you can be the best at something, there's an enormous opportunity cost to that. We look up to Olympians, but it's tough to fully grasp the amount of sacrifice it takes to win an Olympic
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by awillen 4y ago
Sure, I get that part, but in this case it seems like curation (at least to a degree that would avoid the problems that arose) is fairly trivial - just train it on high-quality scientific journals/textbooks/etc., instead of lettin
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by awillen 4y ago
Here's what I (a person with a fairly superficial understanding of how AI works, for context) can't understand - why wouldn't it have been trivial to prevent the kinds of issues that arose by just training the thing to only p
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by awillen 4y ago
That seems like the whole point of this - from the perspective of the reader, you can't actually tell whether you've actually just been taken out of a cult for deprogramming or if this is a cult indoctrinating you by convincing yo
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by awillen 4y ago
I think that's true for fungible goods - it's a pain when you search for something generic like dish soap on Amazon and get 10000 kinds - but not for non-fungible goods. When it comes to books, I want Amazon to have as wide a sele
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by awillen 4y ago
Listen, I'm sorry that you have apparently been burned by friends who didn't call you enough in the past and now feel compelled to pass judgement upon other people's friendships, but you don't get to tell me, somebody yo
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by awillen 4y ago
> When you haven't connected to a friend in months, you're a shitty friend. Needlessly harsh overgeneralization, I think. I hate phone calls for the sake of catching up, and I have plenty of friends who are the same. We'll
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by awillen 4y ago
It's absolutely appropriate in the workplace. I'm not going to be mean or snide, but if I'm asking you a reasonable question and you're not answering it, I'm going to be increasingly direct. If I need information fr
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by awillen 4y ago
Or just keep hammering away with the same question until you get an answer. "What's 2+2"? In response, the person explains how addition is. "Okay, thanks for that context, but I don't think we ever actually got to t
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by awillen 4y ago
> Although the efficacy of the treatment was low, the researchers used relatively small doses of T cells to establish the safety of the approach, says Ribas. “We just need to hit it stronger the next time,” he says.
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by awillen 4y ago
You're clearly correct that this would be one other thing that could theoretically tank the market, but I disagree when you say "Many people made an investment decision on the assumption that their equity will only increase and ar
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by awillen 4y ago
I really have my doubts about a meaningful drop in home prices. The issue now is that there's a drastic affordability gap between those who own a home and those who are looking to buy a home. Because the vast majority of mortgages have
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by awillen 4y ago
Hah, yeah, in the US I feel like a marijuana smoker is likely to find a tobacco habit disgusting and unhealthy.
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by awillen 4y ago
But the title of the study is misleading as a result - marijuana users is a larger population than people who are dependent on marijuana, which is a subset of the larger population. It's incorrect to draw conclusions about the broader
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by awillen 4y ago
First, determine exactly what the goal of your demo is. There are lots of reasons to show someone an MVP - maybe your product has a fair deal of complexity, so you believe that a demo of functionality will help people understand. In turn, t
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by awillen 4y ago
This is obviously a bigger-picture solution that may be tough for some, but if you can find a job that's WFH and flexible on time, then you can just avoid the problem entirely. My best work hours are from when I get up in the morning (
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by awillen 4y ago
Probably 3-4 times a year being screamed at. Not all threats of violence, sometimes just strings of profanity. One woman called my dog a fa**. Though she did also say she'd kill me. Also called the cops twice on people shooting up in f
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by awillen 4y ago
If Stripe refunds the payments, he can have the clients pay again via a different method. If I were a client, I would wait until receiving the funds before paying again. Thus he's probably stuck in a situation where he now needs to del
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by awillen 4y ago
Does being screamed at by a homeless person that they're going to murder you count as being threatened? Actual question... I didn't really think they were seriously going to try to murder me (particularly since these were usually
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by awillen 4y ago
But again, this isn't going to be the case among people who know each other well. My family and I are interrupters, and we've been at it for decades now - none of the issues you're raising would apply. In terms of knowing whe
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by awillen 4y ago
The post you're responding to this qualified it with "as long as both participants are willing to yield to interrupt-denies and counter-interrupts when interrupting" - that addresses your point. This doesn't necessarily
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by awillen 4y ago
Honestly you might be right about the 2-3 seconds. It's one of those things that happens pretty quickly and naturally, so it's very plausible I'm judging the timing wrong. But yeah, 100% agree with what you're saying, bu
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, I'm an interrupter and it's a tough urge to suppress. That said, I can and absolutely do suppress it, especially in meetings with people who I know are not interrupters, so it definitely frustrates me when there are interrup

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