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by gonehome 3y ago
There are also ways to detect matches even with e2ee iirc and I suspect they found doing that instead easier than dealing with the previous approach. At the time I also thought it was obvious it was in preparation for e2ee (despite loud peo
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by gonehome 3y ago
+1 tight vertical integration leads to better products, better defaults, and better user experience in the (vast) majority of cases across most product domains. It’s sad to see them fail, hopefully someone else will be able to pull it off.
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by gonehome 3y ago
It’s a new OS design that runs in a runtime with baked in networking and PKI lookup for encrypted routes between users. I primarily use it today for chat (similar to IRC), and I locally host my own system. Every user is their own server. I
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by gonehome 3y ago
There are some E-ink fans in the urbit community (disclaimer I work on this stuff) and it really lets you fully extend the retropunk feel. I’ve got my Urbit running on a native planet hardware box ( https://martiancomputing.substa
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by gonehome 3y ago
You can read a lot of the old discussions between the founders Madison, Hamilton, etc. and the type of abuse they were worried about and how they thought the structures they put in place would reduce risk. I think it’s been working ok, but
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by gonehome 3y ago
> The best thing about animal farm is that it tells you that it doesn't matter what someone tells you they want to do, once they have power, they are likely be corrupted by it. I think it was more that a system will abused by the ex
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by gonehome 3y ago
It wasn’t just basic social skills, I was asking some simple CS/data structure questions.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think it's a big (and likely incorrect) assumption that all of (or even a plurality of) the people making these comments working in admissions are themselves white. It's not just that they're not representative of an entire
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah there's definitely a selection bias in an interview setting too, but since I was doing the same thing in both locations (career fair interviews as a company employee) there was more in common between the groups and me (imo) as opp
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by gonehome 3y ago
I just meant things like couldn’t afford tuition, don’t know how or can’t get loans, or couldn’t move from family, or w/e - someone who was accepted but didn’t go due to stuff unrelated to getting in (my dad was also in this category).
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by gonehome 3y ago
My observation from doing hundreds of interviews at career fairs was the fancy schools (Stanford) had students that were way better at basic questions. This isn’t a perfect metric, but it’s signal. If your peers in undergrad were your fri
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, this is one reason why I think the outliers at state schools are undervalued. These heuristics are indirect and lead to inefficient selection, competition over the same scarce resources. If you’re a startup there’s a strategic advanta
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by gonehome 3y ago
This substack quotes some of the relevant bits: https://colemanhughes.substack.com/p/10-notes-on-the-end-of-... Copying here actual conversation (revealed in the lawsuit) between admissions officers at UNC: “I just ope
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by gonehome 3y ago
> “On a personal note, I was accepted to an Ivy League school (though not Harvard) as a high school senior, but my family couldn't afford to send me there, so I had to go to a state school instead. My classmate and friend was accept
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by gonehome 3y ago
It’s a similar problem to the scientific journals that extort scientists. The elite universities are not primarily selling education they’re selling prestige. In academia it’s worse because prestige is the metric for getting grants and stat
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by gonehome 3y ago
I’ll +1 this too - it’s very good and he’s a good teacher, it’s enjoyable to read.
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by gonehome 3y ago
When I worked a low paying support job there were the coworkers that complained about the people coming in and there were the good coworkers and they rarely overlapped. Same is true in retail or in this example imo - the worst employees are
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by gonehome 3y ago
I don’t buy this - I’ve seen good support people solve problems despite system inadequacies. The guy in this story who said “your AirTag may be there but that doesn’t mean your bag is there” is the opposite of that type. Maybe they left a n
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think generally it’s better to never lie outside of a few rare corner cases (mostly around avoiding violence). Those corner cases have basically never come up in my life (stuff like the SS coming to your door and asking if you’re hiding J
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by gonehome 3y ago
Did he at least apologize after that? Sometimes being embarrassed like that can turn a person nice, but sometimes not. Hopefully in the future he gives you less of a problem.
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by gonehome 3y ago
The employees deserve to be thrown under the bus for this imo. I’ve done support work, if any of them gave a shit they could have helped her, but they didn’t. Stuff like this suggests major cultural problems across the entire org (which inc
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by gonehome 3y ago
DBS hardware seems to work - does it also have these issues or are you excluding it for some reason? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation
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by gonehome 3y ago
No idea if accurate but there was this which is interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36996337 > “ Specifically they were one of the last believers of long-forgotten Russian theory of superconductivity, pione
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by gonehome 3y ago
Agreed, tools like gathertown can make a big difference in improving this problem for remote teams, but it requires buy in from the top and the right culture (everyone has to hang out in there during working hours).
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by gonehome 3y ago
The fact they think this shows they have no idea what they’re talking about. This problem was solved when apple introduced ignore unknown callers. They could improve on it slightly by allowing iOS apps access to breakthrough if they can pro
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah it's unavoidable, if you rely on growth (especially if you have a free or freemium service) you need to do this crap (though the author describes the most hostile form of it). The business models of the web trap everyone within th
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by gonehome 3y ago
Maybe? I did find this from 1997: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Microsoft-Pulls-Pran... I thought I’d read that came after Netscape started it though? I could be wrong. Some more info here: https:/
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by gonehome 3y ago
I swear I read the Netscape guys went to Microsoft hq in Redmond and posted signs all over the campus mocking Microsoft for being stupid and missing the web. Rumor was Gates saw one and thought they were right so pivoted to destroy them. Do
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by gonehome 3y ago
55k on average is ignoring the entry cost of a model 3 (especially with incentives) - also average is just a bad metric for affordability. An extreme example: https://electrek.co/2023/07/24/brand-new-tesla-mod
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by gonehome 3y ago
Urbit's current chat implementation solves a lot of these issues and there's a clear path to things like search getting way better since all your chat data is stored on your local urbit.

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