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by empathy_m 3y ago
Yes it's a major plot point in Anathem. The Internet was so badly polluted with machine generated garbage that a special caste of techno priests, the Ita, evolved with the mission of doing machine augmented web searches to find valid k
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by empathy_m 3y ago
Interesting juxtaposition in the comments of "I don't answer calls from numbers I didn't recognize because of how scam-prone modern telephony is" with "many startups have seen huge profit opportunity in making outbo
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by empathy_m 3y ago
I wonder what would happen if (1) Massachusetts taxed nonprofit university endowments. (This would not directly improve services -- instead MA would cut personal income tax for the wealthy then reduce state funding for services like the leg
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by empathy_m 3y ago
> He can sell his shares when he feels like it. I thought that as a corporate officer he kind of can't sell his shares when he feels like it? My layperson's understanding is that people like him have to decide in advance when
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by empathy_m 3y ago
I've lost about 33% of my body weight throughout 2023 on Wegovy (the weight loss brand of semaglutide). There were major weight related health complications I was having at 34 BMI and they're not happening now. I knew how to lose
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by empathy_m 3y ago
Yeah I was reading about this last week on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EricNewcomer/status/1725633569056506282 ) - the departure was "under explored". I have to imagine that the industry does not appre
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by empathy_m 3y ago
This has already happened. The human reaction to the spiritual successor to Dr Sbaitso has caused decision makers at multiple trillion dollar companies to radically alter their product roadmaps.
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by empathy_m 3y ago
Wonder how Chris Poole is doing. I loved using his site in the 2000s and have been amazed to see the creativity it has unleashed, some for good and some not so much.
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by empathy_m 3y ago
The corollary to this "if your account was abruptly closed with no explanation, it was a pile of SARs, so sorry" story is that when you're at an airport and weird stuff happens, the best boogeyman reason is air marshals. Did
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by empathy_m 3y ago
The part that resonates here is saying "ah yes well we have a full database backup so we can do a full restore", then "the full restore will be tough and involve downtime and has some side effects," then "I bet we c
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by empathy_m 3y ago
Is there a point at which the mods' work can be done by a large language model? Not because it's any cheaper or anything, just because after many years of doing this eventually it must start to feel stale and there's a burnou
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by empathy_m 3y ago
This looks like an awesome toolchain to try to use for developing qualitative data sets in disciplines where the norm is to cut corners (e.g. https://datacolada.org/98 ). Could you sell a version of this product where you pr
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by empathy_m 3y ago
I think my success rate with grocery store digital coupons is about 80%-90%. I don't bother to ask the self checkout attendant or the unstaffed CS line to fix the bill when a coupon doesn't go through, which I'm assuming is f
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by empathy_m 3y ago
I haven't heard the phrase "N+1 problem" before -- is this a Ruby-on-Rails-ism or do other communities use it too?
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by empathy_m 3y ago
> What're the workers gonna do? Protest? Strike? They're going to work for other firms, who have also simultaneously laid off staff. They will accept lower wages. Salaries will be permanently anchored lower, improving the cost
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Frankly I don't think the deposit insurance thing is a big deal -- It's really really hard to imagine a world where a big enough bank fails and people don't get $1. But the interest rate spread ... Seems like a lot now? Wasn&
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by empathy_m 4y ago
What were SVB customers getting in exchange for encouraging every company to keep their $ in uninsured deposits earning low interest? Was it 2.5% 30yr mortgages for founders? Was it liquidity, in the form of loans against illiquid pre-IPO s
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Hmm, based on what you've quoted here and knowing nothing else but a few messages on AI Twitter I would invest in jart. This is BillG-style product skill -- there is a ton of work that goes into representing a piece of software as some
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by empathy_m 4y ago
I think a 100% depositor recovery rate seems very likely here. Interesting to think about future rules -- would they limit the 100% guarantee to banks who pass the >$250B protections thst SVB lobbied to remove for $50B-$250B banks?
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by empathy_m 4y ago
What is this phenomenon -- is it the "bystander effect" or something else? Pretty much everyone knows that the LA Sheriff's Department has been heavily infiltrated by gangs like the Compton Executioners. The phenomenon is ext
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by empathy_m 4y ago
The transcript[1] shows some excellent prompt engineering work from Kevin Roose! Really creative job leading the model in some interesting directions, and a fun read. He writes: >> Because of the way these models are constructed, we m
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by empathy_m 4y ago
I think the media is slow to catch up on this stuff, yeah. The AP's article[1] on the Türkiye rename was datelined from "ANKARA, Turkey (AP)" :) I don't know whether the delay is necessarily a matter of political prefere
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by empathy_m 4y ago
What is the word for "name for employees of a company"? It's not "demonyms" but I've seen a whole lot of these names in the layoff notices. I think there is room for a small "employeenames.fyi" site w
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Is EA still a thing? I thought the post rationalist and e/acc communities were where the forefront of human civilization in the Bay Area is now.
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by empathy_m 4y ago
Both, I think. If everybody lays off 6% of staff in strategically low-value projects, there will be a glut of workers willing to take new lower salaries. These jobs are still in high demand, and the company can reset compensation for new hi
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by empathy_m 4y ago
So what's your plan -- do you live somewhere that's unlikely to get a direct hit and do you have the food and gear ready?
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by empathy_m 4y ago
This article is about layoffs of 20% of employees at Scale AI (YC S16). I submitted with the original title. For anyone keeping track of company names of employees as shown in layoff notices, these folks are "Scaliens".
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Company Update(scale.com)
3 points by empathy_m 4y ago|1 comments
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by empathy_m 4y ago
I was personally capable of tracking 100% of my caloric input and output to manage to a target weight. I lost 25% of body weight and kept it off for a long time (years). However, now that I have a full-time job and am also primary caretaker
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by empathy_m 4y ago
While I've been happy to see the MIT Free Speech Alliance come alive I'm disappointed that their web site doesn't list a specific set of current or past free speech issues and the advocacy they would have adopted for each. Ke

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