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by gretch 3y ago
I don’t mean to minimize your concerns, and you should live your life as you see fit, but since you put this out there as a comment for others to reflect on - from my perspective your feelings are like paranoia or compulsion. To me, my gluc
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by gretch 3y ago
> You should have higher standards too, then. That's right you didn't call me dumb or irrational, you're just using a metaphor where you look down on me from your higher plane.
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by gretch 3y ago
You are someone who is convinced that those with different preferences than you must be dumb or irrational. My standards are plenty high. They just aren’t aligned with your world views.
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by gretch 3y ago
YouTube was founded in 2005, and then sold to Google in 2006. Then it was run under Google from 2006 to 2023. Does anyone remember what 2005 looked like at all? But people really like the narrative that Google couldn’t make a YouTube
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by gretch 3y ago
Your “higher standard” is only “higher” for your preferences. Personally I’m happy with both the operation of Facebook and Apple. I do not wish a 3rd party with no track record of technical innovation, and especially not the US government,
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by gretch 3y ago
I applaud you taking personal action and voting with your wallet / dev cycles. > it ruins value-chain and makes it uneconomical This is empirically not true. If the value-chain is so 'ruined' and 'uneconomical'.
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by gretch 3y ago
> People could, y'know, just not install the Facebook app, if they're unhappy with Meta's privacy practices. Of course, given that Meta's privacy practices are already atrocious, and people still use Facebook, I guess
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by gretch 3y ago
Who said anything about comparisons with other presidents? In general people who even seek political office should not be allowed such office. Let’s not forget that trump is a known associate with convicted child rapists Epstein and Maxwell
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by gretch 3y ago
Those people have real problems that I am sympathetic to. For example, being left behind economically. Problems at the border. etc. Trump speaks to these problems and the democratic party does not fix these problems. The reason Trump is pop
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by gretch 3y ago
In addition to all of the theoretical responses provided, I would also say that the US has withstood the test (so far). Trump is probably one of the “worst”* people and held the highest office. And yet despite the fact that it happened, the
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by gretch 3y ago
In the past, Google has been criticized for being anticompetitive by integrating too much with itself. Here is an article with complaints about Google travel. https://skift.com/2020/10/20/u-s-antitrust-lawsuit
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by gretch 3y ago
What are your standards for quality? I’m an enthusiastic amateur home chef. I have ordered some of these “trash” whetstones. My knives get sharp. They aren’t damaged. The whetstone works over time. If you are like a knife artisan, yeah I gu
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by gretch 3y ago
> Caretaker ratios are fixed by law genuine question as a bay area resident: which laws are you referring to? do you have a link to something?
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by gretch 3y ago
Yeah Sam Bankman Fried probably had the skills and connections and trust to coast through life. But instead he chose to commit the most egregious of financial fraud. I would strongly argue that almost all crime is irrationally - take it to
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by gretch 3y ago
You might be too charitable. There were hard transition phases where I was not necessarily considered successful. And I probably only made it through because my employer had deep pockets and chilled while I took time to adapt. The other dir
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by gretch 3y ago
Completely agree with this take. I worked in FAANG and before that I worked in various startups. Most of the people around me are very adapted to this very specific hyper-structured environment that we are in. This is not a criticism - they
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by gretch 3y ago
> Not worth it for anyone in the US or even Europe. Lots of crimes are not "worth it". And yet criminals do it anyway. Because criminals (nor most humans) are not perfectly rational. There's routinely reports where people
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by gretch 3y ago
I’ve used duolingo several times on and off throughout my life for different languages (Spanish, German, French). Sometimes paid, sometimes free. In the beginning I thought it was excellent and that’s why I kept coming back. I tried it agai
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by gretch 3y ago
> If every school were to close the immediate emergency would be that people would have no one to watch their kids. If the pipes in your house burst right now, your immediate emergency would be to pretty much stop everything and stop you
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by gretch 3y ago
I agree, and particularly the phrase "ignore the science". It presumes that this single thing is the one we should all build our lives around and there are no other priorities to balance. All of us in our lives "ignore the sc
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by gretch 3y ago
This article is an about female suicides. How does your theory of it being “the phones” make sense when boys and girls pretty much have equal access to phone? If it’s phones, you would expect male suicides to be up as well. And if it’s how
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by gretch 3y ago
I don’t consider this to be out of element for a president. She tried to outplay the gotcha game, which is why she did poorly. Instead she should have come in and said “At Harvard this is what we believe - …”. Being able to state the values
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by gretch 3y ago
I watched the testimony. I’m left leaning these days (mostly because the right went batshit crazy), but I hold a lot of conservative values (which are reflected in the moderate left too so nbd). I found her testimony to be insipid and not w
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by gretch 3y ago
I personally am very skeptical of the other salt theory - salting the earth as a means of disrupting enemy soil. I started to think about it in depth when thinking about weed control in my own backyard - should I salt my own soil? The I rea
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by gretch 3y ago
>do you know why I pulled you over? I never answer any question which speculates on why another human did a thing. It’s stupid and pointless, especially if the counter party is there. It’s basically saying “hey can you read my mind?” Eve
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by gretch 3y ago
I see a lot of the arguments from all sides on “the future is X, it cannot be Y!” To me, this is a false dichotomy. In my opinion energy is one of the most important pillars of society. It is so important that it must be hedged. I don’t thi
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by gretch 3y ago
> Why does everything get worse? Everything gets worse because it starts off amazingly good, so there’s no where left to go but down. In this case, most ppl had Prime for the shipping, and just got a free video service on top. It gave us
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by gretch 3y ago
I agree with you. I just read it for fun. And that’s still worth it
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>you're just going to run with your assumptions? They're not assumptions if they are his/her lived experiences.
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by gretch 3y ago
>It would be different if it were the same exact group of people and the same budget who are in charge of plane safety, as those in charge of the car safety This is exactly the case. In the US we have the Department of Transportation tha

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