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by awillen 4y ago
I think there's a subtle system that interrupters use (and for context I am definitely an interrupter, though I very consciously work to not be one when I'm with non-interrupters). If I'm speaking and you interrupt, if my exp
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by awillen 4y ago
That depends what stage of the interview you're at - you can perfectly reasonably start the process with as many as 15 or 20 and just plan to winnow them down. You definitely wouldn't want that many on site interviews, but if you
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by awillen 4y ago
Just advertise your availability for a new job as broadly as possible. Post on LinkedIn saying you were laid off, message every recruiter whose emails you've ignored and ping anybody who you've ever worked with who you'd like
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by awillen 4y ago
I think the best answer to this is postal banking - let people open up basic bank accounts and get other simple financial services at the post office. Do it as a public service, fee free (with charges for anything beyond basic accounts to h
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by awillen 4y ago
It's a whole lot harder to defend yourself from hacking attacks than to hack. The US government has been hacked as of a couple of years ago, and you better believe they can hack you.
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by awillen 4y ago
A hyperloop is a much, much harder problem. Not technically, but practically. Just look at California's high speed rail and how that's gone - with that history, the idea that we could introduce hyperloops in US cities is, to put i
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by awillen 4y ago
The way you say this implies that there's some easy way to move your kids from a bad public school to a good public school. This is of course laughably wrong, since moving schools requires buying a home in a nicer/more expensive a
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by awillen 4y ago
Oh, c'mon now - this is just the way fine dining is. Go to many Michelin-starred restaurants, and the second you're up from your chair someone will walk you to the bathroom. As soon as you're out of sight of your table, your
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem is even if we stop polluting it on any reasonably possible timeline, we'll still see continued heating of the planet (and even if we didn't, it's already hot enough to be seriously affecting natural disasters like
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by awillen 4y ago
PM at early stage startups (mostly <50 people when I join, current company is ~25) - this is 100% correct not only for engineering, but also every other department in my experience. I can think of a handful of weeks in my career when thi
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by awillen 4y ago
And Apple uses forced labor in Xinjiang - one could make the case that that's worse than dark patterns.
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by awillen 4y ago
The next company acquisition? Who do you think is going to buy Meta?
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by awillen 4y ago
And now I understand why it doesn't just read, "I tweeted something then edited the tweet to quote itself."
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by awillen 4y ago
Yeah, but the solution to this is to proactively communicate the status of bags to customers. If you're getting weird inquiries because you're being opaque about something important to a customer, who is confused, it's your o
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by awillen 4y ago
Several responses to this, but nobody's asking the obvious question... there are anti-dryer meetups? Do people just spend an hour talking about how bad dryers are? Also, why did line drying improve your sleep and reduce fatigue? This p
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by awillen 4y ago
My understanding of the Russian sub captain that I'm aware of is that he was able to explain it clearly - it appeared that only one missile had been fired, and he knew it made absolutely no sense that the US would start a nuclear war b
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by awillen 4y ago
I would disagree - the value is about what you're optimizing for. When you say "No individual is required to live an optimal life, and many purposely and self-righteously shun one." it feels like you're assuming some val
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by awillen 4y ago
Sure, examining value systems is good and we should certainly do that. That's not really relevant to the article or my response, though.
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by awillen 4y ago
This doesn't feel particularly insightful to me. "We have to realise that rationality, particularly in the form of scientific thought, cannot provide us with a value system." Yeah, that's true, but it's not the poin
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by awillen 4y ago
Feels to me like a boiling frog situation - they probably started with something reasonable and made a series of incremental changes, each of which didn't make it drastically worse, but by the end it looked nothing like how it started.
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by awillen 4y ago
The dates and signatures bit is nonsense, but it does help to have things in writing to ensure everyone's on the same page. That just means that when you're discussing things not in writing, you send a written follow up to everyon
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by awillen 4y ago
Russian roulette usually has one bullet in six chambers, so based on a 1/6 likelihood of death, 200M is pretty close to your 900M for 50/50.
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by awillen 4y ago
The problem with patenting AI is that you have to describe how something works in order to patent it. The issue presently is that you can describe relatively obvious things (e.g. one click checkout) and patent those. AI is really a black bo
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by awillen 4y ago
No. I didn't say anywhere that it's impossible that someone could want to die and change their mind. You're really missing a basic understanding of logic here.
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by awillen 4y ago
In your initial post, you said: "As for "voluntary" euthanasia: don't even start. There is no such thing." That means that you're wrong to say anecdotes aren't data. An anecdote is a single data point, but
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by awillen 4y ago
I'm a PM, and I've had to live through a fair number of god awful engineers. It's miserable to work with them, too. I don't malign the profession because I've had bad experiences. Engineers should be smart enough to
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by awillen 4y ago
Right, so sounds like I understood the meaning there. The point still stands, though - it's a grammatically ambiguous phrase, which is a bad quality when you're looking for a shorthand way to communicate an idea.
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by awillen 4y ago
Except labor was the group that came up with the term "quiet quitting." Also, I'd say "work to rule" is also pretty bad from a branding/comprehension perspective, given the multiple meanings of the word rule. I
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by awillen 4y ago
It's not entirely sunk cost - there's reputational effects for a lot of people involved. Politicians who supported it look much worse if all this work (and money) has gone into it, only to have it not launch. How bad they will loo
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by awillen 4y ago
> Taken in isolation, the optimal amount is clearly zero. The post makes it clear that the discussion is not about theory or taking anything in isolation - it's about fraud in the real world. In that context, the way it's state

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