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by blast 7y ago
LBJ was a notorious case.
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by blast 7y ago
I'm touched at how you're able to focus on the positive.
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by blast 7y ago
Even if there was a tech bubble, what's the evidence of that bubble having affected the entire economy to that degree? This sounds exaggerated.
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by blast 7y ago
That reminds me of how the biggest thing that Airbnb did for growth in the early days was offer to send hosts a professional photographer to make their flat look more appealing. I bet you could do something similar.
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by blast 7y ago
I want to just post "Lol" but that will get flagged, so instead I will thank you for finding the optimal refutation.
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by blast 7y ago
That would depend on the contract would it not?
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by blast 7y ago
It looks to me like they've still won the lottery.
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by blast 7y ago
The point people are making is that it's subtler than that. They don't need GA for a surveillance machine. They've already got one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea8GyscSFaQ . It's more valuable to them
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by blast 7y ago
To me it reads more as passive-aggressive, not a serious offer to "keep them updated" but a weasly way of saying "I would prefer not to". Same with "Unfortunately, I’m not able to attend because of prior scheduling&
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by blast 7y ago
Oh indeed. That's part of what makes the timing of this release enigmatic. Do you have any favorites that were released this way? I've fallen off the bobwagon in recent decades.
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by blast 7y ago
When you put it that way it makes me more sympathetic to the idea, horrifying as it is. War has been one of the biggest things that led to progress, unfortunately. And we don't seem to have learned how to do without it. Walter Scheidel
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by blast 7y ago
I think I agree (assuming I understand your meaning). Individual experimentation and experience is the leading edge. Only much later does it get codified into institutionalized forms. This in fact is the history of what we call science, but
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by blast 7y ago
I've been cynical about liquidity arguments in general too, but actually there's nothing to be sarcastic about here, that's precisely what they're doing. I've used Getaround to avoid having to own a car or go to a c
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by blast 7y ago
I love how ever-enigmatic Bob releases this now even though it was "an unreleased song we recorded a while back".
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by blast 7y ago
There are two different kinds of empiricism, and they're in tension with each other. One kind is where specialists measure things and publish the measurements in journals. The other is where individuals try things for themselves and de
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by blast 7y ago
It might be because you use a bunch of different sites for your different writing, which means each one gets evaluated by first impressions and people's first impressions tend to be suspicious. If you had a single unified site/ide
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by blast 7y ago
I feel a lack of empathy in this comment, and, since empathy is the topic, a lack of self-awareness as well.
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by blast 7y ago
What are some of those general ideas that have served you well?
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by blast 7y ago
I think maybe a little. His point is that doing multiple small layoffs to avoid pain and failure ended up causing more pain and failure. He's not saying he should have cut more than needed, he's saying he needed to cut more, bec
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by blast 7y ago
That analogy doesn't hold. People aren't saying that you should just use GNU Screen instead, they're saying that the name creates confusion. Totally different.
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by blast 7y ago
One of the main audiences he's pitching this to is developers (for pair programming etc.) so it's more of an issue than it would be for a pure consumer tool.
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by blast 7y ago
I read it, and the first sentence says "The EARN IT Act intends to combat child exploitation online". That's the worst thing you could lead with. It makes it sound like to support you, I must be in favor of child exploitation
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by blast 7y ago
Did you ever read Roger Ebert's homage to AA? If not, you might enjoy it. https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/my-name-is-roger-a...
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by blast 7y ago
You can come up with an equivalent list of problems about going to offices.
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by blast 7y ago
The post itself seems tribalist.
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by blast 7y ago
Than most people who comment about gender issues on the internet. I find that once you have a few bits of information, you can nearly always predict where someone is going to come down on such matters. It's not common to run into someo
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by blast 7y ago
DoreenMichele is actually much less ideological than most. Maybe it's not obvious from this thread, but those of us who have read her in that past know that her thoughts on these topics are actually unpredictable (and in particular, no
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by blast 7y ago
Nor I, and yes, it is so obviously a joke that it makes the people complaining about it seem dumb.
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by blast 7y ago
Oh hey, you raise a good point here. When it was Trump vs. Hillary I remember thinking this was a great test of pg's charisma theory, since it predicted Trump while nearly everything and everyone else was predicting Hillary. (Alan Lich
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by blast 7y ago
Here's another one: https://thecritic.co.uk/remembering-george-steiner/

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