drewcoo

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by drewcoo 3y ago
Mostly concur, but I'd downplay the D-K. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> i then lived in a 1st generation walkable semi-suburb w/ small plots/old (1910s) houses If the houses were that era, it was a "residential neighborhood." It likely originally had some amenities like corner grocery s
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Planned economies generally have not fared well in history, not only from economic value added perspective, but also from the fascist political systems they produce as a by product. The best-known planned economies were socialist and w
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> The problem with the concept of a middle class job (one where you can comfortably afford living, fun, saving, etc I think is most people's interpretations), is that it represents an unstable equilibrium state. Incentives of most b
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by drewcoo 3y ago
They weren't called the dark ages until some humanists came along and decided to call themselves the enlightenment. It's not so much about feelings as facts.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
How is identity a human right? The article doesn't explain that. Or anything, really. I learned that UN Human Rights Day turned 75 last December. And that Hannah Sutor is "passionate" about DevSecOps
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by drewcoo 3y ago
>> “don’t trust AI with anything you wouldn’t trust a high schooler to do.” Then they should be great for making fast food, staffing amusement parks, and seasonal farm labor. They don't seem to be good for those things either. [E
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by drewcoo 3y ago
If "more efficient" means fewer, tighter oligopolies, then you and the "vocal older folks" may both be right.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
I know I was interested in random noise inputs and test oracles that could classify them into known equivalence classes for inputs/outputs as a way to verify equivalence class boundaries. That was in the 90s. But it's an example o
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by drewcoo 3y ago
They're all happy path, like framework tutorials. For any game with complexity, they're not going to touch the odd edge cases that will have a pause while people argue about the rules for half an hour.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Rules lawyers" have their place in any game that's reasonably complicated (or needing more play-testing)
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Preferring stabile predictability is not a bad thing. It's just something we pretend cannot happen in software. Most industries don't want anything like software's "death march," "sleep under your desks,"
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> I entered tech in 2004, during the immediate aftermath of the dotcom crash. I entered in 1999, when there were plenty of jobs mostly filled with people who liked paychecks a lot more than coding. It was hard to find jobs doing anything
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by drewcoo 3y ago
1. If they're lonely, they're probably going to want to talk with someone. 2. If you're American, nobody actually expects you to speak anything but English. And probably not that very well. To sound better educated, Americans
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by drewcoo 3y ago
gamification =?= psittacinification
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Are you talking about the parrots?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Or eminent domain the properties nearby and make people move to someplace where they won't be washed out to sea like that sand was. Unlike the perpetual sand bill, it's a one-time cost for ME.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> "unhappy people are pliable people and are more likely to vote for demagogues, demagogues who are more a wrecking ball than a manager of state" That's a stilted and verbose euphemism for "voting against the status q
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Memory is malleable. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/am-i-right/201307/yo... Your earliest memories have had the most chances to be changed and not reflect what really happened. So what, exactly,
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Even in the before times (before they were run by MBAs), that company was notorious for boom/bust hiring/firing of both blue collar and white collar workers.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"The economy" is solely a measure of how rich people are doing financially. Any other concerns aren't captured there no matter how important we keep saying they are. I think we ought to track a "bloody revolution index&q
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> lost is the ability of the 4th estate to establish a single narrative For a brief while, radio and then television reigned. They were a tight little oligopoly. The only other news came from periodicals that "weird uncles" mig
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by drewcoo 3y ago
When I think racism and Oregon, the first thing that comes to mind is not oppressive drug policies either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Oregon
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by drewcoo 3y ago
"Temporarily embarrassed" bunker owners, thank you very much.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Redirecting attention and redefining victimhood seem like typical BBC. This time they're just doing it on their own behalf.
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> People like to hire people who are like them So we're looking for a unicorn startup that provides AI with personalities and the ability to mirror their bosses?
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> humans are much better at avoiding accidents (not immune, but much better) Are they, really, or is it a question of liability? If we could "lease" AI drivers, allowing companies to defray liability while still not paying unre
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by drewcoo 3y ago
> Who is 'them' here? If you can't tell, you're not part of the conversation. If you're (much more likely) trying to frame the poster as some kind of conspiracy theorist . . . there's a different STFU for th
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by drewcoo 3y ago
Garbage. Trump's second term will "fix" this. Because they're not really selling "news" in the first place . . .
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by drewcoo 3y ago
On the contrary, if it were easy to accept (not "hard"), it wouldn't need any enforcement.

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