dtjb

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by dtjb 2y ago
But all of those things directly affect their every day lives. Your experience and the assumptions you've drawn are not representative for large swaths of america.
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by dtjb 2y ago
>Almost none of a person's daily life is dominated by racial issues I won't presume to know your race but many americans do not live with such comfort. Studies have documented how race is correlated to outcomes in everyday enco
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by dtjb 2y ago
I would've thought a stopped vehicle without any visible lights would be much easier to detect with a lidar/sensor based system vs human reaction. Do these platforms like BlueDrive and FSD not constantly survey the distance of obj
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by dtjb 3y ago
You can see this in the large outlier on Feb 12 2017, which coincided with a storm that delayed trash pickup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12%E2%80%9314,_2017_N... https://www.cbsnews.com/newy
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The Crimes of SEAL Team 6 (2017)(theintercept.com)
23 points by dtjb 3y ago|5 comments
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by dtjb 3y ago
I think the risk to the carmaker is your customers getting used to the apple infotainment system. Maybe they start to see the car as less a Fiat and more an Apple car. Then the exclusive expires or needs to be renegotiated.
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by dtjb 3y ago
Agreed, and I think following flowchart-type logic is within today's AI capabilities. This thread is full of people getting inaccurate responses from humans. I think when it comes to accuracy, a well-trained LLM likely beats the status
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by dtjb 3y ago
Few front-line agents have deep knowledge about their company's products or services. They trace their finger through some branches on a flowchart then dictate from a knowledgebase.
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by dtjb 3y ago
He offloaded a ton of TSLA to finance the twitter deal, reducing his ownership from 22% to 13%. Now he wants to dilute shares to claw back control. Twitter has undoubtedly been a distraction. https://www.reuters.com/breaking
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by dtjb 3y ago
Why do you assume their use of the word "unsafe" was limited to awkwardness? There is a growing group of people willing to confront anyone in public that is transgender, with a smaller (yet still growing) group who are emboldened
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China's space plane apparently deployed 6 'mysterious wingmen' in orbit(space.com)
17 points by dtjb 3y ago|0 comments
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by dtjb 3y ago
As far as data centers go, it's beautiful. Like something you'd see in a Mission Impossible heist. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oj5FSKsTt7o
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by dtjb 3y ago
"Everything on a woman's resume is doubted because it may have been due to affirmative action." Do we doubt men's resumes because they could have been a legacy admission, or hired by a buddy from school?
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Notes on Roadtrips: creativity, ingenuity, and building something new(thebrowser.company)
1 points by dtjb 3y ago|0 comments
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by dtjb 3y ago
I like that Teams added the option to hide your self-view. Even if you don't focus on it, just having a slightly delayed mirror copy of yourself in the corner of the screen is mildly distracting. It feels more natural talking to a grou
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by dtjb 3y ago
That's some off-putting content to show new users. I suspect they're an ideologically driven platform? *edit, their press release section removes all doubt.
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by dtjb 3y ago
> covid restriction refugees Is there any data that suggests such a loaded term is appropriate? It seems more likely that people were taking advantage of the new economic benefits of remote work.
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by dtjb 3y ago
Even if you never share anything, just the thought process that goes into the ordering of the blocks and elements on the page force you to think about the larger structure and dependencies. It's incredibly helpful.
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by dtjb 3y ago
KSA used Pegasus to spy on and murder an american journalist. They're also a major shareholder of twitter.
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by dtjb 3y ago
Isn't that exactly what Amazon is doing?
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by dtjb 3y ago
How is that different from Walmart selling their Great Value store brand? They see what products sell well then formulate their own cheaper alternative, maybe even giving their product better shelf placement. Every national grocer does this
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by dtjb 3y ago
>"This is a deeply flawed article based on a poorly designed experiment and reflects significant author bias in the interpretation of the results,” wrote Washington State University horticultural physiologist Linda Chalker-Scott in
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by dtjb 3y ago
For most, it's a community more than a product. A lot of people see the rebranding similar to a billionaire buying their town and renaming it.
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by dtjb 3y ago
Pithy quotes don't drive policy, science does. We can preach tough love as much as we want but it doesn't change the physical reality of adolescent brain morphometry. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&
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by dtjb 3y ago
Extreme political polarization is happening in democracies across the globe. https://www.axios.com/2023/01/16/political-polarization-deve... https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/10/01&
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An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa(kentik.com)
118 points by dtjb 3y ago|35 comments
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by dtjb 3y ago
Metrics/KPIs/OKRs are how we align large organizations around complex outcomes. Highly effective workers always see these measurements as a waste of time, but when you're trying to validate and steer the contributions of thou
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by dtjb 3y ago
At the beginning of the 20th century in the US, 3 in 4 workers were either laborers, farmers, miners, or household service workers. By the end of the century that number had fallen to 1 in 4. Of course that wasn't a net loss, it was pa
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by dtjb 3y ago
If you read the underlying findings [1], there were two behavioral ethics studies with fabricated results. The first was conducted in 2012 and was supervised by Ariely. [1] https://datacolada.org/109
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Professor believes alien fragments found in 2014 Papua New Guinea meteor(cbsnews.com)
4 points by dtjb 3y ago|2 comments

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