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by fardo 4y ago
Anecdotally from prior play, most diplomacy wins have two broad forms: 1. A second place player has fallen behind in a low or no hard betrayal alliance and is no longer capable of a meaningful backstab, and has decided they don’t plan to ba
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by fardo 4y ago
>It's incredibly refreshing to know that the company providing my search results has an incentive to make things better for _me_ and not a legion of advertisers Cable television and netflix have made it quite clear that payment does
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by fardo 4y ago
Context would matter here, but the above question on its own wouldn’t typically rise to bad faith, even if phrased as written. The job of the PM often demands creating project schedules, delegating assignments, spurring their team to delive
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by fardo 4y ago
If one's goal is to be as correct as possible, either at producing truth or making moral prescriptions, there is little reason to think an echo chamber is more likely to be correct, and many reasons to believe it's likely a strong
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by fardo 4y ago
> In my current company there are 7 or 8 levels (depending how you look at it) for ICs. Why? Promotions tend to represent some combination of four things to most companies: • more expected impact and workload, • more status, • more money
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by fardo 4y ago
>I've never seen "less bugs" on a product comparison sheet, for example. Those show up, your sales department just uses the more formal names for the actual customer demands that “less bugs” encodes. That will look like s
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by fardo 4y ago
I think the more realistic model of the future of programming given programs like Copilot is what’s happened in the SQL and compiler domain. SQL and Compilers changed the goal of many programmers from writing custom extractors or serving as
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by fardo 4y ago
Or, more likely, you can do what the supreme court has done in the past with the Roth test [1], argue “you know it when you see it”, and dodge the challenge of rigorously defining the topic while still allowing for some prosecutions to occ
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by fardo 4y ago
>Do you think we will ever turn back to eugenics? As the word is currently used, no, but mostly because it’s seemingly used to represent, in the public consciousness > intentional genetic control we dislike When we do things such as “
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by fardo 4y ago
Older analogues exists, but not exactly in this form. Two puzzles from Logical Adventure of the Zoombinis are very close, though. The first is Captain Cajun’s ferryboat, which you can see at https://youtu.be/_JlMcs_2xes . Th
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by fardo 4y ago
Most people would probably agree an age limit of some sort makes sense. Very few people would want a 10 year old elected president. Once you agree on the premise, it’s only a matter of asking what the limit ought to be, and while there may
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by fardo 4y ago
Mostly negatively, as I feel education is currently completely unequipped to deal with the impacts of both. For text-generation models like GPT-3, I think it's very optimistic to think students will content themselves with only generat
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by fardo 4y ago
It’s more like a tie-breaker for religious rules disputes favoring personal and societal freedom: something like “if you don’t have a clear example indicating how something’s bad, it’s probably Good Enough™ “
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by fardo 4y ago
You can instead enjoy the horror of creating a situation in which despite not losing, there is no valid direction of motion, so your immortal snake is forever trapped in a prison of its own making.
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by fardo 4y ago
> Call it a forecast, not an estimate Can you explain why? At least for predicting expected task finish times, I feel like people use them interchangeably.
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by fardo 4y ago
> meanwhile, if my own government has access to this same data, i suffer direct consequences. my odds of getting arrested for nonviolent crime (e.g. political activism; buying drugs online) go way up when my govt surveils me It seems lik
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by fardo 4y ago
In the sense of >“consolidated repository of encyclopedic information about basically all topics” I don’t expect a sequel, it seems that fan wikis and Wikipedia pretty thoroughly cover the space. In the sense of >”large scale collabor
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by fardo 4y ago
Facebook maintains “shadow profile” accounts for people who have not personally made an account [1], the answer to your question is “whatever information your friends and family exposed on your behalf and which is linkable to you”. [1] htt
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by fardo 6y ago
Programming doesn't really have a strong "Physical space" and "designing representations with meaning" component. When you imagine a pinboard of information, for example, you can have all sorts of content on it, inc
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by fardo 6y ago
Any work in big tech or finance companies that would pay at least 100k per year. This is because on what you've written, you've defined financial success for yourself as "a surefire way to retire by forty". Retirements,
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by fardo 6y ago
There are strong political incentives, when a party wants to run on a platform of reducing taxes, to create as strong of a negative association with taxes as possible. Here are some ways you might seek to achieve this, which you may have se
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by fardo 7y ago
Lots of things conspired to kill credit screens. >The job market for tech went insane, providing companies a disincentive to give developers tools to transfer prestige between companies >Source control and code review processes improv
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by fardo 8y ago
>And yes, that means that your house is going unmaintained and your relationships are getting neglected. So what? Your relationships and the state of the environment you maintain for yourself are important. Together, they likely have mor
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by fardo 8y ago
Usually it’s one of three things: >Your style isn’t up to spec If you always smell crap, check the bottom of your shoes. I’ve found team style guides to be useless generally, but attempting to emulate team style by looking at existing co
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by fardo 8y ago
>Quarantine only delays the length of time the cheater/spammer knows they've been caught, usually on the order of days Days are crucially important in a game's development cycle. This is because the modern review style is
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by fardo 8y ago
As much as you are allowed, cripple your ability to work after hours. This may include: >De-installing email or slack clients from your phone or PC >Never sending messages from your work computer or using your work computer during a w
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by fardo 8y ago
I think a lot of developers forget, perhaps due to their current annual salary and due to high costs of living, that a geography-independent $1K a month is nothing to sneeze at. For example, rent in Michigan for a three bedroom apartment is
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by fardo 8y ago
Primarily because most hackers don’t practice or study design. As a further reason, consider an instructive metaphor: if you asked a blacksmith why he sucks at writing, his answer would probably be “That’s not what they pay me for.”
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by fardo 8y ago
>It makes you wonder what a private corporation is supposed to do. Presumably, stop being a threat to national security, republic democracy, and making creepy patents, and if these issues are structural within the company, get destroyed.
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by fardo 8y ago
As much as I’d like to buy into this interpretation, isn’t the fact that youtube is an ongoing developed and supported service that consideration? As in, their consideration here is “we continue to, without any pricetag, host your videos fo

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