curiousllama

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by curiousllama 3y ago
This is a very interesting point. Tech-media companies (Google, Meta, Tik Tok) increasingly serve a similar gatekeeper function for public discourse that TV networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) did 50 years ago. This... actually is a hopeful insight to
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Should have? Yes, it would have been better. Is it reasonable to expect them to do so? Maybe. Probably not pre Me-Too, and especially if they didn't know about each other. Does it change my interpretation either way? Not really. Contem
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Not a lawyer (barrister?), but no. Generally, businesses are not obligated to do business with folks they dislike.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
> based solely on accusations This is not true. The independent corroborating evidence is also material. Contemporaneous records from a rape clinic is powerful evidence. More generally, innocent until proven guilty is a legal concept, no
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by curiousllama 3y ago
eh, this feels like a miscommunication/exaggeration. More realistic is that it took time for HR to communicate up the chain what was happening; they posted the jobs in the interim; the ads didn't get enough applicants to confident
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by curiousllama 3y ago
To be fair, boiling something down to a simple statement does indeed tend to produce simplistic statements
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by curiousllama 3y ago
And yet a few layers deeper, a lot has changed. The bill is dead, and anyone who wants to revive it knows they need significant political capital to do so. Politics ain't tech - a non-binding agreement that signals "we're not
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by curiousllama 3y ago
You're right most engineers are missing core concepts. You're wrong that it was ever different than it is today. I suspect your observation results from your improvement over time. Plus, your relative skill level monotonically inc
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Yea fair point, totally agree. Big selection bias. Still, I think a lot of folks could benefit from thinking through "how do I get into system B?" - because those skills are tremendously helpful in System A, too.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
The comment you're replying to is saying there's 2 processes, and it matters which one you're in. System A optimizes for min(p(hire|bad_candidate)). System B optimizes for max(p(hire|good_candidate)). System A has resume scre
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Business differentiator. Presumably, Europe simply wasn't very profitable for them until the parks opened up
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by curiousllama 3y ago
There was a 250M bond posted, IIRC - does this mean his guarantors lose the money?
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Most of those university clubs are kinda dumb anyway. It's a country club; you can just join a different one and get the exact same benefit.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
> But we agree on the ideal, right? In dreamworld, every kid would follow their own path. There would be no “advanced classes” or “tracks” because those concepts wouldn’t exist. If I grew up in this ideal, I'd be a bum. I was a lazy
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by curiousllama 3y ago
I’m very familiar with DC, and this article is largely accurate. That said, some context: - this is the whole DC area, not DC itself, which is quite expensive (think SF vs Bay Area). “DC” here is actually a collection of cities surrounding
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by curiousllama 3y ago
> the line between AI and consciousness would be pretty blurry at that point This is like saying the difference between Cillian Murphy and Oppenheimer is pretty blurry because, look, we can watch Murphy do do all the same things Oppenhei
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by curiousllama 3y ago
If I understand correctly, the DMA says you can’t leverage one social network to support another (ie, you can’t drive Threads signups via the IG Network). Meta chose quick growth over European users.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
> Obviously Sam has some street cred with the govt else they would have pulled him infront of congress like when zuck tried to launch Libre. Quite the opposite. Congress usually doesn’t give a shit until something is actually relevant to
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Anecdotally, I was able to negotiate a merit scholarship to a top college - not based on merit, totally, but based on alternative offers from other schools. The price discrimination approach is a really effective method for pricing, and I&#
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Opposite, actually. They said they're making Messenger and Instagram Direct e2ee.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
> will it still be worth the price of admission? Definitely. Will it still be the same value you're getting? Perhaps not. Notably, some schools like MIT already don't consider legacy, and are still worth the price.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Fight the good fight. Stick it to the man. Don't let anyone pull you down.
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Yea for sure, just not London yet
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by curiousllama 3y ago
Yea, but that comparison literally underpins the main point of the article (Britain becoming like Poland is bad). Been to Poland recently? It's... kinda nice! He says in 10 years Britain (currently nice) = Poland (up and coming?) = Ban
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by curiousllama 3y ago
London. London sans the UK is Singapore. This article is valid for UK-sans-London, but we shouldn't pretend that London is suddenly Warsaw
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by curiousllama 3y ago
I wonder if that's the next iteration of Wikipedia. Right now, the model is to summarize secondary sources. Once summarization becomes trivial via LLMs, the most valuable thing to do would be to assemble ever-expanding datasets of seco
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by curiousllama 3y ago
This'll come out in discovery, but I didn't see anything particularly crazy in the complaint. I didn't see any examples of economic posts at issue, despite it being in the summary. And the parody accounts seemed to be focused
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by curiousllama 3y ago
I love HN legal threads because engineers have great (logical) legal analysis, but with a terrible (practical) understanding of the law. And every so often a someone with legal training chimes in like "wtf guys" It's like wat
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by curiousllama 3y ago
I post on Twitter "I'm gonna beat up anyone who disagrees with the CDC about vaccines!" CDC views my post Now, the CDC can't say anything about vaccines, because they know it'll be violently enforced. The CDC ceases
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by curiousllama 3y ago
> there are other non first amendment protected speech that the government can indeed suppress This is a famously narrow category (eg CSAM). The gov often can't even suppress state secrets. I think most people are fine with this cat

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