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by hnbad 2y ago
> How much do you trust your government with your money? I cannot fathom the reasoning that would lead you to believe this question is a big gotcha. The value of any currency comes from the trust in the economy and military of the govern
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Or they might simply have some ADHD/autistic traits which make these things require additional effort. I have a list of past projects I'm comfortable talking about. I can go to great lengths talking about any of them in detail if
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by hnbad 2y ago
Take it to the limit and show up to an interview in full white tie attire.
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AI's "meme game is going strong" by the same metric I would use to try to argue that Elon Musk's is. I wouldn't call it a good metric, though.
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Copyright is a logical consequence of property rights. I'd agree that property rights hold back industry and trade but if you want to abolish property rights, you first have to decommodify the essentials like food, housing, public infr
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> What the post should say is "we know that this is unfair to artists, but the tech companies are making too much money from them and we have no way to force them to change". It seemed a fact of life that companies will just ab
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by hnbad 2y ago
I agree with most of the points but I would condense #2 and #3 to "Move most things into scripts". Sometimes it's difficult to avoid complex workflows but generally it's a safer bet to have actual scripts you can re-use
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by hnbad 2y ago
"The greatest trick the devil ever played on mankind is to believe you can be free from ideology." Alternatively: "If you don't have an ideology, you just end up creating your own inconsistent ad hoc ideology from scratc
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I think that's just the Overton window having shifted over time. I believe the "cultural melting pot" used to be perceived as more politically neutral in the 1990s but it always came with a lot of asterisks. There's even
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Do I have data on whether or not the average viewer is going to assume that a show on a "News" channel they trust sandwiched between actual news coverage is going to deliberately present lies as factual information? Yeah, sure, go
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I guess it depends on your definition of journalism but there is a reasonable expectation that someone hosting a show - even if it's more editorialized and explicitly opinionated than other reporting - on a channel with the word "
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The US doesn't have a great track record of caring about the health of its citizens, no need to bring in xenophobia. Last I checked, parts of the US still have flammable drinking water. Many neighborhoods still have lead pipes because
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> In fairness, there was no public evidence of the Nazi death camps up until they decided to turn the prison camps into that at the Wannsee Conference either. > It was only in retrospect that we learned the true horror of the Holocaus
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by hnbad 2y ago
> Also, progressives are hypocrites in that they are more than willing to call people racists instead of saying they’re merely people expressing racist thoughts or engaging in racist behaviors. FWIW that pattern of behavior has little to
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> Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do. Allowed by whom? That's always been the problem with the (especially American) idea of a separation of power or checks and balances being sufficient to stop
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I think "avoiding bias" is as non-sensical as a general concept as "fighting terrorism". Bias is inevitable. You can avoid a specific bias - several even - but avoiding all biases is impossible as the mere decision of
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Oh, I'd like you to know that there is (internationally at least - I know the US likes its anthros) very intense debate around the issue whether the Easter Bunny is a human-sized rabbit or just a very fast rabbit-sized rabbit strong en
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Indian English isn't "challenging" because "being challenging" isn't an inherent aspect of a language or variety. Indian English can be challenging for individual people based on their prior exposure (or lack
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> Reducing friction is good! And yet drivers are concerned about black ice. Maybe friction is good in some cases and bad in others? It almost feels like blanket statements are unhelpful and whether something is good or bad are relative s
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I used to buy into all the talk about "disrupting markets" until I saw companies actually succeed in really disrupting markets. It's usually said in a way that suggests or even outright claims to be to the benefit of societ
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> If I were a native speaker? Then for sure, by definition I could not have a wrong accent (whether it's understandable is a different question.) You're Polish. There aren't many places outside of Poland where Polish is a
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> Any company anywhere always has to look for the best talent at the best price. Surely you understand the difference between wanting to hire superstars but then adjusting your targets downward based on what salaries you can offer versus
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I guess it feels plausible because it sounds similar to how advertising works: discount supermarkets and dollar stores intentionally try to look cheap and tacky because it makes customers expect their prices to be relatively lower than th
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Phillipine English is apparently exported to much of Asia via Filipino English teachers (as they're native speakers of their variety of English) so this is likely not just about the Phillipines. Indian English on the other hand is of c
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This is incredibly dehumanizing. I understand the logic behind this product but the entire motivation still boils down to wanting to outsource labor to lower wage countries without the downsides. There's nothing wrong with the "In
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If you're worrying about microplastics in your testicles, you're still underestimating how much plastic is in your body. Literally infants will already have microplastic in their blood at birth.
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I'm not sure he could have. He operated almost entirely on hype. I think the reason he's so addicted to terribly stale memes is that memes carried his popularity during his peak but none of the "real life Tony Stark" com
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You're probably alluding to Marie Antoinette. While her infamous quote "let them eat cake" seems to be falsely attributed to her and many stories about her seem to have been fabrications, she did contribute to the downfall of
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If every single person paid to work on AWS leaves the company overnight, what happens to the value of AWS? Sure, Amazon could eventually hire enough people to replace those who left and maybe even keep AWS running and develop new features b
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by hnbad 2y ago
> Start your own company Okay, that seems easy enough and affordable with most tech salaries. > hire the developers for $200,000 And you've just applied an unspoken filter. What founder can afford paying someone $200k a year, let

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