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by cirgue 5y ago
Depends on your definition of winning. Is your goal to get the other side to capitulate, or is your goal for the onlookers and interested parties to come away with a view of the world that’s actually useful? If you’re a public intellectual
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by cirgue 5y ago
“ Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see. It’s almost always a disappointment.” Had you done this two decades ago using the equivalent (blockbuster), you probably wo
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by cirgue 6y ago
The utter absence of self awareness on the part of Twitter is really impressive. Like it took either enormous brass balls, monumental stupidity, or enthusiastic self deception to write and stand behind that press release. Twitter exists to
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by cirgue 6y ago
> January of this year I think this has been going on longer, but the players are different now. It looks like it used to be a forum for smaller players and well capitalized individuals to pump small volume options positions, because you
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by cirgue 6y ago
This is a cool guide, but knots are max 50% of the ball game when doing anything useful with rope. If you want to learn knots, a better place to start is picking a task like “set up a ridge line for a tarp” or “hang a bear bag” or “set a to
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by cirgue 6y ago
You really don’t. What are they going to do? Raise prices? The only reason we’re not swimming in US oil right now is that a huge chunk of the permian basin is profitable at 80 but not at 65.
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by cirgue 6y ago
I feel like Reddit is evolving toward convergence with a chum box. It seems as though it was intentionally designed to be vulnerable to bad faith commercial activity, and its popularity is sort of sickening. Watching a bunch of kids sink t
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by cirgue 6y ago
Because Muslim countries by and large are not in geopolitical or economic positions to act unilaterally in any way that is a)remotely effective, and b) not massively costly in economic and political terms.
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by cirgue 6y ago
It was due to an escalating addiction, not impurities.
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by cirgue 6y ago
> The funny thing I've been reading the article and the tone of it reminded me of heroin addicts who was not hit by their addiction heavily yet. Having known someone who was a responsible, highly educated adult with a fantastic care
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by cirgue 6y ago
I still have yet to hear a compelling argument for this not being a pretty transparent pump and dump by some whales, institutional investors, or some mix of the two using WSB and associated social media as a mechanism to a) jack up the pric
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by cirgue 6y ago
So am I crazy, or is WSB a fairly transparent ploy for larger investors to get more stupid money into the market? Like the people making out here are the ones that sold the short positions before everyone hopped on the bandwagon. Am I missi
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by cirgue 6y ago
Someone else got downvoted to oblivion for this, though it deserves to be higher because it’s a classic: “I know a UDP joke, but I’m not sure you’ll get it”.
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by cirgue 6y ago
Uuuuuuuum, that is emphatically not the parallel you want to draw here. We did fuck all to prevent extremism from metastasizing and set the Middle East on a course to be a shatter belt for our lifetimes and likely that of our kids. We also
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by cirgue 6y ago
Wrong analogy. A better one is that we’re trying to combat knife murders by restricting the sale of knives instead of prosecuting murderers. In order to have any real impact, you’re going to have to get pretty extreme.
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by cirgue 6y ago
> Twitter should just wear their bias on their sleave and stop pretending to be an open platform. This is kind of what I was getting at.
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by cirgue 6y ago
Hot take: they should do more of this, not less. As a medium it’s fundamentally distortionary, what is popular on Twitter is as much a function of the peculiarities of its ranking algorithm as it is of the material significance of the infor
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by cirgue 6y ago
I go for a run when I’m done with work for the day, and anything after is my time. Normally that’s enough to clear my head.
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by cirgue 6y ago
I am 100% ok grunting through a lockdown if it shortens the duration of this awful fucking pandemic. The current soft restrictions with no clear endgame is 1000 times more shitty than having to hole up in your apartment knowing that it will
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by cirgue 6y ago
I have been doing ML engineering professionally for the 6 years and have been involved in about one hiring round per year for the last 4. If you filter resumes down to “has at least 1 year of professional experience on a deployed ML product
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by cirgue 6y ago
He’s also done a lot of work on dam removal/riparian ecosystem restoration
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by cirgue 6y ago
It’s kind of both. More people in smaller places means more of the amenities and lifestyle of bigger cities without the cost and hassle. Will there be a massive outmigration? Probably not sufficiently to make NYC a ghost town, but it could
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by cirgue 7y ago
Can we get a title change? The actual title of the article is "Back-of-the-Envelope Estimates of Next Quarter’s Unemployment Rate", which is emphatically not the St. Louis Fed estimating anything.
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by cirgue 7y ago
> So when you feel like a noob, sort it out. I feel like this is exactly the point he's making: if you're not putting yourself in positions where you feel like a noob, you'er not engaging your skills to their fullest poten
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by cirgue 7y ago
I have never in my life regretted working out, but I regularly regret not working out. It is so weird to me that, despite hundreds of trials of this dynamic, by brain still hasn't totally internalized this lesson and I end up having
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by cirgue 7y ago
"What's the motivation to not do x?" is my personal favorite way to be asked this, because there typically is a reason, and it's typically where the thorniest parts of the project lie. It's a good softball question
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by cirgue 7y ago
Come to Atlanta. We have A super diverse gay culture and low cost of living.
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by cirgue 7y ago
One would think, no? Those pesky lawyers, IT governance people, and institutional inertia have a habit of spoiling everyone's fun.
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by cirgue 7y ago
This is fair if you're working in an environment where you can do that, but if you're designing stuff for anyone in a highly regulated industry, which is increasingly where ML is making the big bucks, doing mission-critical ML on
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by cirgue 7y ago
Netflix's nefarious end goal is clear: feature parity with early-2000s VLC Media Player. They must be stopped.

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