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by digging 3y ago
> technically it's impressive, commercially and in terms of product market fit, it's a flop. I didn't know that. What parts are impressive? It seemed like VR Chat + Roblox to me, but I've barely seen anything.
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by digging 3y ago
> I'm wondering why you guys even have laws in the first place. In many cases, we have them for the specific purpose of criminalizing nonwhite people and political dissidents.
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by digging 3y ago
> all it takes is just uploading (SFTP) a single .html file onto a web server Yes, it's unfortunate that new developers don't know the basics. However, that's not an option for a multi-page site with complex user interacti
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by digging 3y ago
> But individual action has always been meaningless. What matters is collective action. I think this actually misses the key point. 1. Every person only has control of their individual action, and has to find a way for it to be meaningfu
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by digging 3y ago
> It's silly to condense down environmental landscape changes to one thing like "land-system change" and assign it a single axis of goodness vs. badness. Are you saying it's better not to measure and predict these thi
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by digging 3y ago
> Setting a boundary invites people to point out that nothing happened the second that boundary was crossed. This problem is unsolvable by changing terminology because it's rooted in denial and misinformation. > Maybe defining zo
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by digging 3y ago
> some people are caregivers, or have young kids Yes, there are many such reasons one would prefer to be at home that have nothing to do with the individual's physiology/neurology. But as you guess, I'm located in the US.
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by digging 3y ago
I'm expecting/hoping that eventually the right to WFH for a job that can be done entirely WFH will be recognized as a necessary accommodation for various disabilities, so that these petty flexes can be halted.
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by digging 3y ago
Surely such a misanthropic shifting of blame to the poor themselves is well supported by research?
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by digging 3y ago
It isn't that a liar can't say something true, it's just that you know they are willing to say something untrue to manipulate you. So the correct response is to automatically discount what they say until it's verifie
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by digging 3y ago
> "Ruthless, cunning, deceiving" are very different from "machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy" That doesn't sound true to me at all, though. How are you defining these terms that there's no overlap bet
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by digging 3y ago
While this is great information, I wish more could be said about Centaurs & Cyborgs, the title of the piece. There's a brief example of a type of task that each approach excels at, but I'd definitely like more. The crux of thi
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by digging 3y ago
I "vote with my wallet" as a form feel-goodism. It has almost no impact, but it helps me feel satisfied with myself. This is similar to donating a small amount to a charity that works on issues I personally feel connected to, even
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by digging 3y ago
Yes, there is some research suggesting that CEOs exhibit "dark triad" traits more then the general population.
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by digging 3y ago
Oh, this was disappointingly light on substance. It's an interesting musing on the history of passwords and the (very real) frustrations of modern authentication. I thought it would have more depth though into the current state of vari
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by digging 3y ago
One thing I wish I had realized: clicking "save grid" sets the current configuration as the seed state, such that clicking reset will only take you back to the grid as it was the moment you tried to save, and the original config
947.
by digging 3y ago
Yeah we can't realistically get better water outcomes by only changing out supply. We have to change our usage too. Farms should be converting to crops that have lower water usage, and food manufacturers should be converting to foods
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by digging 3y ago
The waste product is brine. It's an extremely salty sludge that's toxic to marine life. In the same way that fresh water is "just" diluted seawater, but pumping millions of gallons of it into a coastal ecosystem would wi
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by digging 3y ago
Huh, I guess I was mistaken that restoration on the Salton Sea was already in progress. I've seen large flocks of birds in and around it and assumed there was food for them in it. But it sounds like no, it's still horrible.
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by digging 3y ago
> Have we considered that maybe we're just spending too much time on entertainment? No, I doubt it, unless you have some data that the advent of digital entertainment has changed our entertainment habits. (I think it's a separa
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by digging 3y ago
Among the countless reasons why this is an extremely bad argument, consider that the entire point of wind and solar is to prevent the landscape from being obliterated by climate change.
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by digging 3y ago
I really loving driving through oil-rich areas and seeing flames dotting the horizon. Maybe we can start piping some natural gas directly to wind turbines to spew fires out the top so they're more elegant?
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by digging 3y ago
The problem with this assertion is that focusing on profit for the shareholders no longer has any downsides because the public is numb to it. So it's the winning play. We need regulations that sufficiently disincentive such behavior in
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by digging 3y ago
It's not the same. Kagi is trying out multiple products including ones that depend on LLMs (eg. a summarizer). But they're not changing the core web search product by inserting these alternate features. If they do, I'll cance
955.
by digging 3y ago
Why is that bad?
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by digging 3y ago
This is an excessively bitter take IMO. I'm saying this as a happy remote worker: office interactions are actually a good thing, provided you've actually built a good team. I miss many of my previous coworkers because we actually
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by digging 3y ago
Interesting to think about but my gut is telling me it's not even worth planning for. It should be an infinitesimal chance of impacting a planet.
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by digging 3y ago
I can do my job equally well in-person or remotely, but that's because I don't connect to my team . I started here before the pandemic and we never really clicked in a way that made in-person collaboration happen. Whereas in my p
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by digging 3y ago
> revenue went from 4.3b in 2013 to 31b in 2022 ... That means they are doing something right Yes. > including their talent strategy No. It only means they're doing one thing right: income > expenses. Beyond that, revenue tell
960.
by digging 3y ago
Yes, like you can lose your treasure by forgetting where you buried it. Or you can lose your silver when an accidental fire melts your palace into slag. Or you can lose your wheat harvest to mold! Self-storage is the default way of holding

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