ecwilson

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by ecwilson 1y ago
Medical journalists are incentivized to make you concerned. I highly suggest all medical journalism be run through a good AI to be put into context. https://chatgpt.com/share/68709753-d2ec-8010-ba8b-e7b57d610e... TLDR:
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by ecwilson 2y ago
I was going to post this exact same comment. I was obsessed with Etherpad when it came out and to this day, reminisce about it whenever I fire up a Google Doc. Can’t wait to try this.
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by ecwilson 3y ago
Non-removable storage isn't the problem. You have identified one actual problem: privacy. But even this isn't a real problem if you turn on system-level drive encryption: https://support.apple.com/guide/secu
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by ecwilson 3y ago
What does restore mean this context? I’ve downloaded files from their online portal without providing a key. Perhaps restoring in this context means having them mail you a hard drive.
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by ecwilson 5y ago
It’s a false narrative that this was about politics and non-work things in the workplace. It was a workplace issue that blew up and employees were annoyed with how the founders handled it.
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by ecwilson 7y ago
I was actually shocked that it could be this low and thought it must be wrong. Other sources have suggested it would cost over $1B: https://u.today/guides/blockchain/bitcoin-51-attack-how-it-w... > The hash rat
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by ecwilson 7y ago
I've always assumed it was one of two things: 1. The social benefit. There's research showing that if you have a rich social life and friend network, you live longer. The assumption being that the drink is likely to be with other
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by ecwilson 7y ago
Apple is up 100% in the last year for no good reason.
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by ecwilson 7y ago
Current valuations, Tesla and Apple among the most prominent, are so far disconnected from reality that it echoes the dot com bubble. But this time, the cause is not dot com mania -- but buybacks, driven by reckless financial policy. https
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by ecwilson 7y ago
1. VR/AR finally become a thing as the tech becomes small enough, powerful enough, and wireless enough to be a good UX. Facebook's investment in Oculus pays off as Oculus becomes their main profit center, and we transition to a Re
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by ecwilson 7y ago
>I think the general theme I see is that folks expect companies to solve problems that their governments must be solving. And when they don't get it uniform, everyone's mad. People want an outcome and don't particularly ca
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by ecwilson 7y ago
You make a good point about how to actually enforce this. Apparently, Washington state did ban political ads on Facebook. As a testing ground for such a policy, the results haven't been great. https://www.theverge.com/2
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by ecwilson 7y ago
I was hoping a Facebook engineer would show up in this thread. If you don't mind, I have a couple of questions. > Something the public doesn't get but engineers do is it's impractical to manually review every action on Fac
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by ecwilson 7y ago
> This is, unfortunately, a rational response to the current climate. Yes! It is rational to have a fear response to the prospect of being held accountable. Because we have not had a culture of accountability, many men are not confid
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by ecwilson 7y ago
Male manager here. This is not at all hard to believe.
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by ecwilson 8y ago
They never will be. I think people misunderstand cryptocurrencies because of the mania that surrounds them. Bitcoin, for example, is a protocol, and should be judged as such. The most important thing for the protocol is trust, reliability,
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Depends on the industry. For very large transactions, like if you are paying a home improvement contractor for something, they will often make you eat the fees if you want to pay with a credit card. So you end up having to figure out where
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by ecwilson 8y ago
You can exchange 30k bitcoin with less slippage than you think OTC.
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by ecwilson 8y ago
And when the internet was first a thing, shortly after, most traffic was porn, until fairly recently porn was surpassed by social media. And since then, there have been world changing social movements enabled by the internet, and the exposu
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by ecwilson 8y ago
> You cannot look at bitcoin by any measure and say that it's a practical success for any of its goals. I can memorize 20 words and cross whatever border I want with $100 million in my brain, and full confidence that that money is
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by ecwilson 8y ago
I don't think it's a bad thing that the birthrate in the US has gone down. In general, it means women have more opportunities, and that's a good thing. More access to birth control. More women choosing to start a career. They
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by ecwilson 8y ago
This book is truly terrifying. I've been a "work through it" kind of person all my life, and have sacrificed sleep from a very young age for both personal and professional priorities. I've been labeled by close friends a
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Can you clarify what you mean? I might have misunderstood you. I was a little flabberghasted that you seemed to say that there's no causality between sugar and insulin resistance. Based on everything I've been reading in the past
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by ecwilson 8y ago
I'm not a search engineer, but here's my understanding. Gmail search isn't bad, it just is using a less complete set of signals to intuit what you're searching for. It's more of a "garbage in, garbage out"
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You're completely right about life being fundamentally better for the invisible/oppressed. I take your point -- it was always broken for them.
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by ecwilson 8y ago
If you think nothing is wrong with society and everything is great, that's interesting to me. It makes me wonder how much luck you've experienced in your life. I have certainly experienced a ton. For most Americans, their reality
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Opt out is not a real option. The world is not set up for that anymore. What are you going to do -- go squat illegally somewhere until someone chases you away? Eat pigeons? It's not as easy as you make it sound to escape the framework
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Look into Jason Friend -- he literally wrote the book on remote work. https://basecamp.com/books/remote As for your actual question, I don't yet know of a great resource for understanding which companies are truly
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Well, mindfulness certainly has been overhyped. Apps and gurus have pushed it as a cure-all and people have eaten it up because our society is broken and people are over stressed. Mindfulness is simply an introductory technique meant to be
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by ecwilson 8y ago
Oh god that sounds awful. One of the reviews has all the spoilers. It's truly stupid.

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