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by gretch 3y ago
Rereading it I think it’s ambiguous, and I definitely didn’t read what you intended (after clarification). The problem is that the phrase “I assume there is less probability of errors” is not attached to a condition. It’s a bit like that re
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by gretch 3y ago
> I assume there is less probability of errors since when you reserve on a travel agent website, your reservation goes through an additional system before it gets to the hotel My intuition says the opposite. More moving pieces in the sys
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by gretch 4y ago
I’m not saying that rice production won’t be short or that there won’t be some small hiccups, but is it worth the attention of all these lay-people. The news about this rice production is not going to have more of an impact on your personal
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by gretch 4y ago
Maybe things are actually pretty okay, and it’s just the information we get makes it seem like everything is falling apart. Remember Y2K? Everyone thought we would have mass system failure across the world. And while some systems did fail a
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by gretch 4y ago
Isn’t this very simple? It’s just basic supply and demand. Travelers are already exhausted from travel so they are willing to pay high prices for small comforts. Also, some travelers are business travelers and their company foots the bill.
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by gretch 4y ago
> Placebo effect is not effective in 100% of cases There is no medicine that is effective in 100% of cases. Chemotherapy does not 100% fix your cancer. Covid vaccine does not 100% mean you won’t die from covid. Antibiotics is not 100% e
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by gretch 4y ago
It’s an interesting gray area because the effects of placebos are empirical and reproducible in rigorous trials. If your doctor tells you “this pill helps many people with your condition ”, they’ll be telling the truth.
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by gretch 4y ago
>No public social media accounts combined with the timing of the fraud happening during a ski trip implies that somebody close to the family was in on it. I recommend against this type of baseless speculation. We should all do well to re
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by gretch 4y ago
It seems like this page/preview conflates interaction design with aesthetic/cosmetic design. Interaction design is like “which buttons even exist?”, “should this input be represented by a radio or a drop down?”, what is the naviga
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by gretch 4y ago
Here’s some unsolicited career advice. First of all, your feelings are completely valid. It’s perfectly reasonable you feel the way you do. But, those aren’t feelings you need to express outwards or let other people know you have. Think ver
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by gretch 4y ago
We shouldn't adopt 'general censorship' positions, but if China censors US media, then the US should center Chinese media. I believe in reciprocity. If someone treating you poorly, there's no reason you need to keep allo
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by gretch 4y ago
That's not what the concern of the bill is and it's completely transparent. Just read the first 2 pages of the bill and you can see the concern is, in the words of the bill, a "foreign adversary" and their ability to &qu
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by gretch 4y ago
> Perhaps, for many users this is true. But I don't need or want a nanny-company telling me what I can and can't install on my devices. 100% agree. Simply don’t buy an Apple phone.
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by gretch 4y ago
Because cargo theft is not something an average person has any involvement with. People know what shoplifting is and they might encounter it in their day to day life. If some cargo container goes missing, what does that even have to do with
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by gretch 4y ago
Um, I mean is it even true? Did they offer any insight on why this is the case? Comparing a new thing to an old familiar thing or a current fact can really help people overcome irrational bias against the fear of the unknown. Metaphors, sim
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by gretch 4y ago
Because tech ballooned the most during the covid reaction. e.g. META has roughly doubled in headcount since 2020. Now it is laying off a fraction of that new headcount. I'm sure there's a similar stat for Amazon/Twitch. And t
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by gretch 4y ago
uh yeah it literally is? click into your own links? Google has their 3rd worst quarter for YoY Quarterly growth out of the last 12 years. Facebook has 3 consecutive quarters of negative yoy growth
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by gretch 4y ago
There is something romantic about it, but make sure you don't accidentally admire it more than the captain who keeps their ship safe and thus neither of them go down at all. All those captains out there who are faceless/nameless b
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by gretch 4y ago
Because their income comes from advertising. Because the economy sucks in general, companies in all industries are being more careful with where they spend their marketing budget. You can see this reflected in the revenue of other advertisi
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by gretch 4y ago
Federal reserve interest rates. When interest rates are low, money flows more freely. When interests rates are up, it's harder to lend/borrow, money flows less freely, and the economy cinches up as a whole. This is a major simplif
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by gretch 4y ago
I remember being a 12 year old running to the video game section of walmart to try the latest N64 game while my mom did the weekly shopping. Germs/bacteria were not even 1% of what was running through my brain. You're not the targ
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by gretch 4y ago
Honestly people just have different values. And that’s totally okay. There’s lot of places to work and live and we don’t all have to homogeneous aspire to a single model or culture or behavior. I like this kind of direct messaging and disli
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by gretch 4y ago
There’s a survival selection process. The ceo founders who did not believe it in their bones failed very early on. Because honestly you have to be a little bit insane to take on that much risk and uncertainty (not to say it’s a good thing,
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by gretch 4y ago
The parties (coworkers, kids) you mentioned in the post are not meant to be your adversaries. If you’re in a position where you don’t trust them to not dupe you on a human level, you already lose. No technology in the world can help you
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by gretch 4y ago
As an example, computers have beat people at chess for a long time now. It’s still fun to play chess though Cameras can make better pictures than sketch artists, but people still draw for pleasure
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by gretch 4y ago
To the GP: I'm FANG now, started my career at non-FANG. Largely I agree with this advice, but for a completely set of different reasons. In particular -> "Going to a FANG and learning toxic habits, like putting yourself above y
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by gretch 4y ago
Is there a point you're trying to make? This train was originally intended to connect norcal and socal (now it's only doing Merced to Bakersfield), so an apt comparison would be e.g. I-5 not all highways everywhere. Also, I did lo
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by gretch 4y ago
The worry here is that GPT has no problem being confidently wrong. A better answer would have been "I can't solve logic problems". Instead one day, non-technical people will try to use it for all sorts of use cases like legal
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by gretch 4y ago
But why is this a desired end state of the world? Does anyone think to themselves, gee, I'm glad Roku, the company that made my TV, is financially prudent enough to open 3 separate bank accounts. TV companies should compete on making t
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by gretch 4y ago
These aren't behaviors that add any value to society: > Depositors can continue to be callous in their financial behavior Depositors should be able to select a normal bank and put their money in without having to do a huge deep dive

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