importantbrian

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by importantbrian 3y ago
The Newton would be the quintessential example.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
What makes you conclude that statins are "bunkum"? I don't know anything about anti-depressants or surgical implants, but I have gone down the rabbit hole on statins and at least as far as I can tell they do what they are gen
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I would doubt it. There aren't going to be many companies publicly discussing their CACs, and if it did exist what would someone do with the information?
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by importantbrian 3y ago
There are tons of businesses where $240+ is a great CAC.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
> and endless supply of humid air etc. Floridians are getting really excited right now.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
There are tons of them. Just as a quick example, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10408398.2019.1... this is a study who's funding came from the Produce for Better Health Foundation, which is
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by importantbrian 3y ago
This is very true. I've worked in an organization where most people on most of the other teams would negatively rate the company, but I was fortunate to have a great boss. So I look back on my time there as positive, although I recogni
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I guess you missed the etc. But the fresh vegetable market is a 3/4 of a trillion dollar industry [1]. [1] https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/food/vegetables/fresh-v...
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by importantbrian 3y ago
Wheat [1], Corn [2], Sugar [3], Fruit [4], etc. Are all multi-billion dollar industries as well. Are you equally skeptical of studies demonstrating the health effects of fruits and vegetables? [1] https://www.statista.com/st
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by importantbrian 3y ago
The real answer to the Fermi paradox. No intelligent species has yet figured out a way to commercialize interstellar travel.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I think the big issue is that adaptation is it's own special skillset. Being able to adapt an existing work in as faithful a way as possible while juggling technical, budgetary, human, contractual, medium, etc. constraints is a really
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by importantbrian 3y ago
The first season was frustrating for me. If it was a stand alone story I probably would have really enjoyed it, but it is based on one of my favorite sci-fi book series, and it is one of the least faithful adaptations I've seen.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
Linux did kind of win for end user computing. Android is based on a modified linux kernel.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
It's bizarre to me that climate skeptics think the ozone issue is a point in their favor. Ozone depletion was a real issue, but the international community came together and banned the use of CFCs. Since then ozone levels stabilized an
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by importantbrian 3y ago
F1 has this absolutely nailed. I fear that if it gets popular enough in the US ESPN will buy exclusive rights and then you'll have to have a cable package in order to watch it.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
> There's no way in hell they're going to break into the mobile phone market, so VR was their best option. They even tried to break into the mobile phone market at one point back in 2013. Then apple made it's privacy chang
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I guess that depends on what you mean by good, but better credentialed, more experienced nurses do get paid more. Source -- my wife is a nurse.
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by importantbrian 4y ago
I think video games already are this for a lot of people. I realized this while attempting to clear all the question marks in Skellige in Witcher 3, and I watch the games my nephews play and there is just so much grinding for loot. It reall
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by importantbrian 4y ago
I don't have strong opinions about who did it, but I wouldn't dismiss Russia that quickly. Russia has a long history of utilizing false-flag operations. They were pumping them out almost hourly leading up to the invasion. If they
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by importantbrian 4y ago
The problem is that a GPT capable of doing all those things at the level required is also capable of running the company. Someone with capitol can start the business and set GPT-X to go out and maximize paperclip profits.
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by importantbrian 4y ago
> After going in circles a few more times, I decided that was it. It got close . It seemed to understand the problem, but it could not actually properly solve it. I had this same loop issue with Chat-GPT. I had something I wanted to do
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by importantbrian 4y ago
I've seen a lot of heat pump hype lately but it's usually around heating your home, but I live in Florida. Is there any benefit to this for people in warm climates? My understanding is that the cooling part of an AC unit is alread
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by importantbrian 4y ago
This exact thing happened to me with Nike. It's apparently called email bombing. I didn't even realize I had a Nike account, but I guess I bought some shoes or something with it years ago. In my case they tried to buy a bunch of g
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by importantbrian 4y ago
This is really good, and matches up with my primary complaint from the execs I've seen hired out of consulting. They tend to be short timers. They often present wildly optimistic 3-5 year growth plans to the board knowing full well the
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by importantbrian 4y ago
If it makes you feel better about your negative anecdotes I've had the same general experience. I've seen a lot of Business School -> Consulting -> Executive track guys come through various companies in my career and they&#x
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by importantbrian 4y ago
This is very likely just selection bias. Companies who's founders choose to be remote first are going to vary philosophically from in office companies in more than just one way. In my experience, remote first companies tend to be less
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by importantbrian 4y ago
Where I see this mostly is in non-tech companies that don't have IC tracks. Often these companies have pay-bands that necessitate this. If you have a SWE that you're worried about losing you can't just keep them in the same j
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by importantbrian 4y ago
I think they might not. I will grant I'm not an expert in this area, but I did read the cited paper. It's a paper from a law student published in the universities law journal. Maybe he knows what he's talking about, but I wou
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by importantbrian 4y ago
No OP, but my guess would be people who have drug resistant bacterial infections and don't have another option.
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by importantbrian 4y ago
Whenever someone says that the reason some health related thing isn't being used because it's not patentable and there's no money in it it's a pretty sure signal they don't know what they're talking about. Ther

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