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by chasing 2y ago
Sounds like actual damages to me. If you break my door lock I'm pretty sure I can't just leave my door wide open for months and then sue you for all of my stuff that got stolen. I need to fix the lock. And ask you to pay for that.
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by chasing 2y ago
Doesn't matter. It's a propaganda tool. Go look at Twitter: It's full of right-wingers latching onto obviously false information "proving" some sort of Trump/Musk narrative. Which then gets sanitized into news
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by chasing 2y ago
Not a government agency.
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by chasing 2y ago
If they were actually trying to eliminate waste, they’d be working in tandem with these departments instead of just trashing them. More broadly: People who care about improving things move carefully and deliberately and involve all stakehol
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by chasing 2y ago
I was about to call this "Gulf of America" fiasco the stupidest f---ing thing, but then I remembered everything else that's been going on...
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by chasing 2y ago
> Are these even well thought out economic strategies? Have any of Trump/Musk's actions in the past month seemed particularly well thought-out? It's sharp-elbowed bullying by people who will never see any consequences for
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by chasing 2y ago
Americans in general need to get very used to having conversations only on secure channels.
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by chasing 2y ago
The founder of a health tech company is currently helming a likely-illegal effort to “delete” consumer safety regulations and government-provided health services that will directly lead to possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths. Given tha
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by chasing 2y ago
From a certain perspective Allied warfare was simply a extremely vociferous insistence on the rule of law. That aside, an argument could be made that if the rule of law had been more forcefully adhered to in their early days, Hitler and the
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by chasing 2y ago
> I'm beginning to think that the best way to approach a problem is by either not being aware of or disregarding most of the similar efforts that came before. Both Danny Trejo and Tim Allen spent time in prison before becoming famou
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by chasing 2y ago
AI's great, but so often when I hear people in power speak about it I feel like what they're really saying is: "I wish I could have the expertise to do whatever I wanted with impunity without having the hassle of all of these
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by chasing 2y ago
> ...unless you believe your fellow “white” population harbors literal beliefs of a.) racial identity and b.) racial superiority, that c.) the “white” people making hiring decisions are actively excluding candidates based on these belief
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by chasing 2y ago
> What is a better test? Exactly. A true objective test doesn't exist. As far as the SAT: You can take prep classes, hire a tutor, and do all sorts of resource-intensive things that will boost your SAT without really contributing to
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by chasing 2y ago
> If we intend to admit students on the basis of ability, an SAT score is just about the fairest way to do that. (Bashes head on table.) Intelligence, aptitude, and potential are incredibly hard to measure and judge in a purely objective
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by chasing 2y ago
> And now it is not. Um. Racism and sexism have not been eliminated in our country. I mean, just look at who's running the executive branch of the government at the moment. We need initiatives to lift up traditionally underrepresent
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by chasing 2y ago
(Psst: There's no such thing as purely merit-based hiring. And DEI's mostly just about just making sure perfectly capable individuals aren't passed over or alienated because they're not white men. Because that's wha
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by chasing 2y ago
Unethical race-based preferences is what those policies have been trying to fix. Not sure you’re aware of this, but academia used to be basically off-limits to anyone not white and male.
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by chasing 2y ago
Refactor. Ha. This is just randomly and mindlessly deleting large chunks of code because you think it's woke. Not a single personal alive thinks these institutions are perfect. But only morons think haphazardly defunding shit without u
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by chasing 2y ago
Incompetence. Mixed in with a fair amount of malevolence. Mixed in with that rich guy thing of really hating smart people because why do they always keep telling me I'm wrong and embarrassing me in front of people if they were really s
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by chasing 2y ago
Executives have always used decision-making tools. That’s not the point. The point is that the executive can’t point to the computer and say “I just did what it said!” The executive is the responsible party. She or he makes the choice to fo
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by chasing 2y ago
You’ve set up an either-or here that fails to take into account a wide spectrum of thought around accountability and punishment. When it comes to computers, the computer is a tool. It can be improved, but it can’t be held any more accountab
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by chasing 2y ago
Certainly this sort of data isn't disappearing because it makes Trump look good. Anyway, he's pissed about COVID-19 and instead of working to prevent future epidemics he's working to retaliate against those who embarrassed hi
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by chasing 2y ago
Would you be willing to pay 50% more for tix per flight? I think that’s the issue. And airlines have realized that, no: By-and-large people prefer low price over saving a few hours.
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by chasing 2y ago
I think there has been a ton of improvement in commercial flight — think safety, for example — but my understanding is that there has simply been no incentive to improve flight times. Customers aren’t willing to pay for it. Which sort of ma
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by chasing 2y ago
Also at the Intrepid Museum in NYC.
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by chasing 2y ago
Well, when “quiet working” gets overlooked and unrewarded, what’s an employee supposed to do?
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by chasing 2y ago
Sure, but as long as he's giving the crypto industry exactly what they want, it's all worth it, right? Anyway, he's kicking over sand castles. Not because it's going to improve anything, but because he can. Purest expres
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by chasing 2y ago
Also remember that your fail state might be someone else’s success state. Like being part of an IPO that lets you spend the majority of the rest of your career working in your own ideas.
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by chasing 2y ago
Making a friendly interface that doesn’t require the user to have to install a new tool is a value-add. Maybe the average power-user doesn’t need it, but it doesn’t seem entirely sinister.
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by chasing 2y ago
This does add some validity to my belief that DOGE is full of wealthy mid-brains trying to convince one another they’re smart boys. If you had tens of millions of dollars and wanted to help the world, there are a million legitimate paths. T

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