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by disqard 2y ago
You might thrive there. There are definitely people that thrive in such environments (like Chris). FWIW, it's an office workplace, not MMA, so one shouldn't need to be a "finely-tuned fighting machine" to do the job. P
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...and when the PM asks "why has this taken 3 years?", you explain on a whiteboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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You sparked a thought / mental model: The US ruling class periodically senses "blood in the water", and sets things up for a "feeding frenzy" (money and/or power), where a small, well-connected elite engorge th
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Yeah, Kevin Munger's book skillfully dissects what he calls "The YouTube Apparatus" [0] The creators aren't really tuning their output based on consumer feedback, they're actually optimizing for the platform's
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> I thought it would bring people together, but instead, it's used to find and create new ways in which we can group and hate each other. As McLuhan wrote, "The Medium is the Message". AFAICT, the medium known as "the
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I'm with you -- that much yearly income is more than enough to retire on, after one year. Yes, one can argue that the world is (today) set up such that these numbers aren't huge, to which my response would be that today's w
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by disqard 2y ago
> But no. Trump, ever the "stable genius," prefers cozying up to dictators. Part of me is convinced Putin has enough dirt to sink even this "Teflon Don", which necessitates him acquiescing to whatever the puppet-maste
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by disqard 2y ago
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.
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This is... genius, or parody? I can't tell.
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"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome"
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Perhaps ironic, but I feel compelled to point out that: "That said," ...is a bog-standard ChatGPT-esque way to begin one's "summarize and wrap up" paragraph :D
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This looks amazingly useful! Thank You For Making And Sharing!
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Correct, though my perception is that it's a distant Nth-place player behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.
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Your take is radically empathetic, and we have seen (e.g. with Tony Hsieh) how it all unraveled. I wonder if Shitter is a big factor in this spiral. Jaron Lanier pointed this out in Nov 2022 [1]. Unfortunately, if so, we have a worst-case s
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Well-played!!
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You forgot to capitalize the "h" in "he" in your last sentence.
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Only one mention of David Cope on HN. Oh well, at least somebody remembers...
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I had the same thought as you -- glad to see I'm not the only one.
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> inter-continental power transmission cables That's like saying "what we need is to improve mass public transit" -- no Vulture Capitalist would bite at that! You have to pitch a solo-vehicle-in-a-tunnel or some such crazy
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Having worked at a Big Tech for 5+ years now, I'd disagree. Not only do you work for ACME corp., your team's manager (and their manager, all the way up to the director) need to do what the C-Suite thinks will make Wall St. happy,
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I use Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding assistance (and pay $20/month for the "professional" plan). I recommend it!
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Thank you. Keep calling them out!
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I was debating with someone else on here that the "base layer" is "men with guns" [1] They responded that the base layer is "money". I have to concede that the behavior of Tech bosses is easier to explain using
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Maybe it's a case of: "When people show you who they are, believe them" married to: "Corporations are people" i.e., they are a business, and if you ascribe (even notional) respectability to them, you're being n
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Yup, I'm going to dogpile on this: > favorable environment for innovation I may be wrong, but all indications are that this is a sort of "past glory". I've not personally visited Shenzhen, but every online account (e.
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Did you compare it to tesseract? If it's superior (esp. for scans with text flowing around image boxes), and if you do end up packaging it up for brew, know that there's at least one developer who will benefit from your work (for
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Meta: This has been up for 7 hours now and it's encouraging to see that it hasn't automatically been flagged. Edit: looks like I'm late to the party -- it was (predictably) flagged, and (thankfully) unflagged after protests.
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Fair point. "How to control the men with guns" occupies the minds of billionaires. A lot. > Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system, and asked: “Ho
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Yes, it is not "turtles all the way down" (or code/processes/law). The "base layer" has always been "men with guns". If you fail to cooperate, an armed security guard will take your badge and escort

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