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by cwkoss 4y ago
A fun variation on this is to provide two bottles. Cover the labels with sheets of paper. Pour everyone a serving of each (different color cups works best), and tell them that one bottle costs less than $10, one costs $95. The group will ta
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It's certainly true at all EAs aren't bad people. I'm just arguing that self identifying EAs are disproportionately bad people due to the attraction they have towards being labeled as such. Good EAs are less likely to be vo
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think capital gains are not really 'earning' something, in the standard English use of the word.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
When people use moral identifiers, like 'altruist' or 'philanthropist' , etc. they are trying to shortcut past the normal societal repetitional mechanisms to be viewed as a moral person. The people who want to take these
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by cwkoss 4y ago
You gotta get the SV nerds who run instagram stories to stop bending the knee to ads and focus on UX and make a product users actually enjoy using to be a viable competitor. Instagram has like a 3% success rate at suggesting content from pe
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by cwkoss 4y ago
A lot of people in this thread don't seem to realize how they are starting down a path that will inevitably lead to McCarthyist fascism.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
You place a lot more faith in the federal government than I do. CCP can do very little to impact me directly. The feds could ruin my life if they wanted to - just fabricate a few charges.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Twitter's biggest risk at the moment, IMO, is that Musk's layoff process may have over-selected ass kissers to the detriment of focusing on aptitude.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
If you already have no respect for the new boss, calling him a petulant man child to his face and getting 3 months severance isnt the worst thing that could happen.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Elon recently tweeted about amphetamines and psychedelics. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591850617462738946
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by cwkoss 4y ago
People are reporting twitter has retained less than 10% of pre-Elon employees now. Certainly plausible that twitter could survive without significant downtime, but it seems unlikely at this point: it appears Elon has been taking big reckles
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The psuedojournalists you are referring to are worse than simple plagiarizers: they share content they lack the capacity to analyze, but still add their own spin. I think they have played a significant role in enabling many of the dumbest o
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Boquila trifoliolata can do it within a single generation. Most weeds don't have this capability currently, but a strong selective pressure could make it happen pretty quick with the right lucky mutations.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
If you only care about the dignity of your own job in the short term, maybe. If you care about the dignity of your coworkers and future workers in your industry generally, you would probably benefit from supporting a union.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm not talking about a labor union, im talking about a customer union
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by cwkoss 4y ago
What constitutes a 'good trader' is different for every market. Often (always?) it entails an understanding of that particular market that cannot be translated to other markets.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
A union for customers of monolithic tech companies who provide negligent support could be cool.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Skateboarders train themselves to run out early in their practice, in front of the garage when they hit a pebble at <5mph. And get frequent future practice. I imagine if your first skateboard fall was at 15+mph after a month of complace
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by cwkoss 4y ago
There is a plant that mimics the shapes of other leaves - even if the leaves are made out of plastic. Pretty fascinating, the same photoreceptors suspected to enable this have been found in other plants, but the others don't use it to
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Would be super cool to have an autonomous robot that could get a 'kill list' and destroy every invasive plant in an area while leaving everything else unharmed. Could be a fantastic diversity-enabling tool.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
"mannequins" are really three human-shaped sensor packages
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I can. It's a waste of time and easily defeated if anyone realizes. Once secret is known, its easy to frame innocent coworkers by twiddling spaces.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm hoping the defacement would be more contextual and sardonic, like devil horns on people or changing Coca Cola to Cloaca Privkey QRs would be a bit ugly
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Bit smaller and much less of a net-negative for society, IMO
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Would be pretty dank and cyberpunk if someone built an onion-service ADsassination market, where you could put bounties on ugly public-space ads and a decentralized network of spraypaint-drone operators could deface those ads to earn crypto
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Yet another example of how ads destroy culture. I hate that our society bends the knee to them everywhere.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
There is no reason this technology needs to rely on consumers sacrificing privacy. The big players are trying to create that perception in the public so consumers will willingly sacrifice their privacy regardless. The tech is there so some
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Ah, i've avoided them for over a decade now - but that does sound very concerning. Sounds even worse than the issues that made me abandon them originally (seizing on-paypal funds and preventing withdrawal via making verification proces
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Paypal has always loved keeping money they didn't earn. They should be treated like a crypto exchange: never keep your funds with them, only use them to transact then move funds away (if no other alternatives available).
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It has been a notable exchange for barely over a year.

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