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by csallen 2y ago
I get your point, but I think this is overly cynical. The fact of the matter is that simply creating a product/service (or in this case, a song) is valuable, sure, but is typically only of limited value. Millions of people sing and wri
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by csallen 2y ago
When I'm explaining game rules to someone new, my goal is to teach them without overwhelming them with irrelevant info, and without boring them into zoning out. I've found the most important thing to be the order in which I pres
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by csallen 2y ago
> The book dedicates a considerable amount of pages running you through a walkthrough game. Every time I open it I’m reminded that a large portion of the rule book is, in fact, not rules. What's wrong with that? Genuinely asking.
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by csallen 2y ago
> They failed. Full stop. It's not full stop. There are reasons why they failed, and for many it's useful and entertaining to dissect them. This is not "making excuses" and does not get in the way of you, apparent
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by csallen 2y ago
For the same reason companies shouldn't be able to band together with other companies to not allow raises. They're anti-competitive practices, which eats away at the entire point of having a market, which is for competition to for
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by csallen 2y ago
I literally run the biggest website for people trying to bootstrap independent businesses, and I haven't seen anyone complain about being heavily punished for trying to do so. Founders are the most employable people I know, and they ty
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by csallen 2y ago
There is not some guaranteed power dynamic. Business is not all huge companies with infinite redundancy. There are 30M small businesses in America that employ 60M people. For the vast majority of businesses and teams, losing an employee hur
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by csallen 2y ago
It's not black and white. It's a sliding scale. Society already does a ton to look out for the individual worker. It's more a question of where things should fall on that scale. Coddling workers by expecting corporations to b
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by csallen 2y ago
Yes, and it's an employee's responsibility to not depend on a single job, and to be prepared for the possibility that it might go away. That's the mindset we should be teaching people, because it's REALITY. Plenty of peo
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by csallen 2y ago
Why is that extreme? If you own a company, why shouldn't you be able to fire someone at any time? If you work a job, why shouldn't you be able to quit at any time? I don't think it's great that our society tries to treat
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by csallen 2y ago
The average person enjoys villainizing those who they see as somehow "above" them in standing, whether that's social, financial, or otherwise. They are of course incensed when the people "below" them do the same thi
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by csallen 2y ago
Chocolate nearly killed my pet dog. Factual, but misleading in an article about health risks to humans.
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by csallen 2y ago
People enjoy having a purpose and a mission in life. Leading a team of people that you put together, in order to improve a project you started, and knowing that doing so will improve both your lives and theirs, is incredibly fulfilling. Eve
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by csallen 2y ago
If someone tells me 2+2=4 or even 2+2=5, it won't matter to me what their vested interests are, unless I don't know arithmetic.
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by csallen 2y ago
So your method of assessing the veracity of information has nothing to do with the information itself, but is entirely based upon who it's from?
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by csallen 2y ago
Response from some blue zone demographers to the paper you linked: https://www.bluezones.com/news/are-supercentenarian-claims-b... It begins, "The pre-print is not new data, research, or a study. It is a theory –
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by csallen 2y ago
The idea that the rich in America, as a class, want the destruction of democracy, is laughable. Few people want to overturn a system that's making them millions.
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by csallen 2y ago
Agreed, but that's just them voting for their interests, not voting to end democracy.
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by csallen 2y ago
By my math, six 9's is 30 seconds, not 30 minutes? (1 - 0.999999) * (60 * 24 * 365) EDIT: This chart agrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...
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by csallen 2y ago
Whether you like Facebook or not, what they do at scale (tracking the online metadata of billions of people in order to generate ad revenue) is different in both subtle and obvious ways than following a single individual around in the real
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by csallen 2y ago
Their answer to #14 is wrong. They crossed out "m" and should've crossed out "l".
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by csallen 2y ago
I've never been a fan of this "your brain changes" terminology that news outlets are so fond of, as if a mere change in your brain is somehow meaningful. Obviously, everything you think or experience changes your brain in s
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by csallen 2y ago
It's saying the company itself is worth $150B, not Sam Altman's net worth
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by csallen 2y ago
AI is an impediment to learning high-level programming languages. High-level programming languages are an impediment to learning assembly. Assembly is an impediment to learning machine code. Machine code is an impediment to learning binary.
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by csallen 2y ago
Even worse. It's not that they want to make things better for themselves, but that they want to make things worse for others. Why?
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by csallen 2y ago
> I don’t want companies profiting off of my posts I despise this attitude. It's so entitled. Our history of forever extending copyrights and protecting "intellectual property" has run amok, to the point where the averag
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by csallen 2y ago
Agree that setting a volume limit on the speaker is the best solution. It gives the person operating the speaker immediate feedback: "It doesn't get any louder than this." A program that turns the volume down once a speaker g
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by csallen 2y ago
> Finally, two years in prison is not a picnic. See if you want to do it. Seriously. I'm shocked how cavalier people are about the lengths of prison sentences. Two years in prison is a LOOONNNNGG time. I was once detained for an h
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by csallen 2y ago
I signed into Zapier yesterday for the first time in a while. You can seemingly run their entire UI right now via AI. I typed a simple idea into their AI box, and it created a multi-step "zap" for me that was more-or-less what I w
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by csallen 2y ago
> not a corporate behemoth vacuuming people's personal information so they can sell them to the highest bidder to put you under surveillance the next time you attempt to switch a job or send you more ads I genuinely don't see

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