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by daenz 4y ago
There's "knowing that there are bots" and then there's "knowing that a significant amount of engagement is bots." I think most people hear Twitter's "less than 5%" and think bullshit.
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Ask HN: Has anyone used CharaChorder for software dev?
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I agree with the lottery ticket analogy, and I also use it in another comment below. However, I think the other points that you (and others) mention can be satisfied at more stable companies. And in fact, those same points are also sometime
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You can get all of those things at a non-startup. Having worked at a handful of startups and non-startups, I am skeptical that a startup offers those things at above-average rate the justifies the downsides, which are, from my experience:
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by daenz 4y ago
>Do not join startups for the equity. If you're not a founding member, what reasons does that leave?
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by daenz 4y ago
I've asked some of these questions before, but always got the answers in person or over video chat. What happens when what I was told doesn't square with what actually happens (for example: acceleration if the company is acquired)
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by daenz 4y ago
Something with scopes? "Scoped resources" ?
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If Rust does decide to continue with async, they should really look into investing in improved docs and education around it. When I was looking at it a few years ago (maybe it has improved since then), I really did feel stupid for not getti
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by daenz 4y ago
I learned Rust by writing a (fuse-based) filesystem [0]...about 30k lines iirc. Rust was challenging, but not crazy difficult (it helps that I have a C++ background). I loved it. Development was slower than a dynamic language, but faster th
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by daenz 4y ago
Sometimes people support the candidate that happens to protect their interests more, and the color of their party doesn't really mean a lot. Am I imagining that Trump and Elon were portrayed in the media as having a good relationship?
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by daenz 4y ago
>Most people don't change their political ideology based on sexual assault accusations That's not the ordering of events I'm suggesting. People have commented over time how Elon has been "moving right" for some t
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by daenz 4y ago
People are not independent coin tosses. They coordinate, manage, overrule, scheme, discuss, and process information in strategic ways that render these kinds of extremely simplified models impossible.
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Again, in order to think it's slimy, you have to make assumptions about what is true. In the instance you just described, you still have to assume that the "hit piece" isn't because he was starting to lean more Republi
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by daenz 4y ago
The BI story thing is only a slimy tactic if you assume the sexual assault accusation to be true. If Elon knows its false and a tactic to paint him in a specific light, how could he be blamed for getting out in front of the narrative? Sho
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by daenz 4y ago
Yeah, I think Hanlon's Razor was intended to apply to individuals, not organizations. Often the "stupidity" of an organization is a shield for malice or greed.
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I've never understood this either. It's like they only want it to happen if its forced on everyone, which is the opposite of the social altruism that they are claiming to advocate for.
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by daenz 4y ago
I watched the whole thing. I think he gets a few critical points wrong, for example, the idea that the economy is a zero sum game (9:10), and someone can only have more if everyone else has less. I could make the whole "increasing the
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by daenz 4y ago
>think they’ll be Jeff Bezos one day. I see that phrase thrown around a lot. It's a variant of "you're never going to be a billionaire (so you shouldn't be against X)." Why do people assume that you have to think
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by daenz 4y ago
Do you think being an alcoholic is a valid defense if you murder someone while drunk?
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by daenz 4y ago
Only 92 people were sentenced for marijuana possession in the federal system in 2017, out of a total of nearly 20,000 drug convictions. That's about 0.5% 0. https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf&#x
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by daenz 4y ago
Are you making the case that a person with numerous DUIs doesn't have a choice in the decision to drive drunk, and therefore isn't a scumbag?
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by daenz 4y ago
I think you meant they would mistreat Group A more, if they are more heavily weighted, but I do see your point. I agree that this is a danger. Fortunately, with additional data available, data scientists will be able to show any biases more
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by daenz 4y ago
You make a good point. I believe the idea with a rating system of police is that you tie the departments funding to the average rating of your officers. So while officers can abuse their power, if there is a reliable signal of this (reflect
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by daenz 4y ago
The very same argument could be made about rating police officers. Also, we shouldn't pretend that scumbags don't exist, they do, as both citizens and police. If you're going to cast doubt on the existence of scumbags in citi
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by daenz 4y ago
My suggestion has nothing to do with how the officer views the person they're interacting with for a given interaction. Whether the officer thinks they're a "scumbag" or an "upstanding" person is completely ind
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Which is why their rating is still counted, but its biased by what society thinks of the person doing the rating. Perfect shouldn't be the enemy of better here. If ratings are something people want to do, you have to bias ratings with
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by daenz 4y ago
I think their heart is in the right place (officers should have direct and transparent reputations to people). But in order to implement this "correctly", you need to go one step further into a dangerous territory: the ratings tha
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by daenz 4y ago
It's not "the townsfolk" who would give the officer a rating in that situation, it's the person getting pulled over for a dangerous vehicle. "The townsfolk" very likely want dangerous cars stopped, but that lik
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Elon Musk tells Tesla staff: return to office or leave(reuters.com)
8 points by daenz 4y ago|3 comments
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by daenz 4y ago
>And despite an original valuation of around $186,000, it just sold for $1.8 million at auction. Somebody almost got away with something there.

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