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by dnissley 4y ago
A review of this book from the same blog: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-k...
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by dnissley 4y ago
+ Lower weight. You can pick up many electric scooters and carry them up/down stairs, indoors, etc. Often weigh around 30 pounds or so. Segways weigh over 80 pounds.
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by dnissley 4y ago
This is the most interesting part of this story! Everybody going on about how Marc is a hypocrite, but to me it smells of a house divided, since we don't know for certain who penned the letter, or whether Marc himself even ever saw it.
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by dnissley 4y ago
First result for me (using search "why i'm suing youtube"): https://imgur.com/a/mGVwuXW
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by dnissley 4y ago
The antidote I've used to cure any despair has been to think about all of these technologies (and the world generally) from the perspective of an average person. The average person doesn't care about "privacy issues" as
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by dnissley 4y ago
> the prospect of war Are you claiming that trade dependence between countries makes war between them more likely?
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by dnissley 4y ago
Yeah, this seems to be a mistake. Looking around at various sources it seems to actually be around 46%: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cge/racial-ethnic...
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by dnissley 4y ago
> smart people aren't actually better at running things Could you expand on this? It seems almost to fly in the face of the very definition of "smart"
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by dnissley 4y ago
I would rather have a runway of X + Y years to deal with these problems than X years, while more thoroughly mixing world culture in hopes of having a more cooperative society by then.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Truly fascinating account of this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-se...
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I don't think this type of resource would be all that helpful for people trying to scrabble up the ladder. They would almost certainly be much better served by countless other resources.
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by dnissley 4y ago
It's not solely on the manager if the manager doesn't know because the employee in question is not giving feedback about their workload. Which isn't to say that the manager isn't to blame at all -- there are many things
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by dnissley 4y ago
They are both things that people realize about themselves and things that they are diagnosed with by others. E.g. in order to receive hormones, one must be diagnosed as having gender dysphoria by a professional.
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by dnissley 4y ago
An independent effort to fund the development of such a phone is being organized at https://smallandroidphone.com/
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by dnissley 4y ago
> At this very moment, the person trending highest across all social media is a sex trafficker hawking his self improvement remote mentorship thing to insecure young men Who is this? And what platforms? I'm not seeing anything like
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by dnissley 4y ago
Personally I can't blame you at all for such a belief given how poor of a steward of user data the company has been in the past. All I can say is that it won't happen on my watch, and that the company gives product teams the tools
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by dnissley 4y ago
re: The merging of facebook with oculus login -- next month you'll be able to create a standalone "meta" account, which are basically the equivalent of the old oculus accounts. You don't have to link them with a facebook
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by dnissley 4y ago
This is a trait of an employer that I consider a red flag. If they don't understand that most programming languages are pretty similar, and can be picked up quickly by any willing person, they probably don't understand a lot of ot
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by dnissley 4y ago
Polymatter did a great episode on the pressures that create outcomes like this in regards to rankings: https://youtu.be/cQWlnTyOSig
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by dnissley 4y ago
Hey Jim, it's nice to see a familiar face around here. We crossed paths (extremely briefly) at Angie's List where I was "that one guy working remote from Chicago".
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by dnissley 4y ago
If a security hole was found in Google and in the US government, which do you think would respond in a way that would make that less likely to happen in the future?
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by dnissley 4y ago
The laws being broken were clearly unjust and Uber committed civil disobedience (in the American tradition) by breaking them. That doesn't mean every underhanded thing Uber has ever done has been justified, but in this particular insta
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by dnissley 4y ago
> How is that in any way relevant at Google Because certain people constantly use the fact that there isn't 50/50 gender representation in engineering roles as a way to imply the profession is particularly sexist. It was absolu
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by dnissley 4y ago
Kind of startling that people didn't hear about this and are doubting the veracity of the claims... I thought this story was well known by now. https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-...
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by dnissley 4y ago
It's not just about new employees though. The pandemic shifted people's priorities, but many are still clinging to a job that doesn't fit those new priorities.
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by dnissley 4y ago
As a meta employee, here's my read: Zuck just wants folks to get back in gear after being somewhat (justifiably) distracted over the past 2 years. To be honest I see where he's coming from. I heard about and read a lot about the c
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by dnissley 4y ago
Yeah, this was a huge benefit of threads for me! They don't break me out of twitter flow into some other website. On top of this they have barely distinguished notes from links (despite owning the platform!)
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by dnissley 4y ago
Not hard to guess in many cases -- especially if you can find other people's email addresses from the same company, since they are often created formulaically. E.g. first.last@company.com or <firstinitial><lastname>@company
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by dnissley 4y ago
Meh, seems like it attacks the usual stoic strawman of it boiling down to simply being unemotional. That's not my own takeaway of stoicism. At the core of stoicism is the dichotomy of control: something is either in my control or it is
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This is zero sum thinking -- however many people this helps, it will take just that many getting hurt in order for it to happen. Doesn't solve the root of the problem in the least, it's just a wealth transfer.

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