jbarciauskas

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by jbarciauskas 4y ago
They exercised their free speech rights on their platform.
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by jbarciauskas 4y ago
Sorry so which part of Biden or Trump asking for Twitter to review content that is against its own policies isn't free speech?
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by jbarciauskas 4y ago
This is not how Section 230 works at all. The CDA got rid of the neutral platfom requirement. You are spreading misinformation. https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/22/20700099/section-230-comm...
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by jbarciauskas 4y ago
It's extremely odd to characterize all modern management as Taylorism from the outset. The post seems to be flogging a strawperson argument and concluding with a summary of what I think is a fairly broad consensus about what modern man
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by jbarciauskas 4y ago
Yes. Also gray areas do exist. This isn't one of them.
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by jbarciauskas 4y ago
The way this is phrased, I expected to learn there was some benefit to a low amount of fraud, as such. There is not. There is a benefit to a high amount of trust, which necessitates accepting some amount of fraud.
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by jbarciauskas 6y ago
This is lacks a strong causal analysis. We still don't understand why polls are consistently undershooting Trump support. Given the performance of polls in 2018, it seems highly correlated to Trump's presence on the ballot, and un
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by jbarciauskas 6y ago
I don't understand the question. The OP was edited in response to this, but I'm still mystified. I'm not making a particular claim about anything other than the experience of Black people in America, so I don't see how t
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by jbarciauskas 6y ago
There are a lot of replies here asking about correlation with non-racial factors such as economics or crime. The fact of the matter is that Blacks in America are poorer, suffer higher rates of unemployment, lower educational attainment and
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by jbarciauskas 6y ago
Agreed. There's very little evidence to support the claims about what is discussed here is what made Stripe successful. Intuitively many of the claims seem true but where is the data?
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by jbarciauskas 6y ago
It's an industry with highly inelastic supply and a huge drop in demand.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
That's incredibly regressive. Give money to people who will spend it.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
What? Who cares about taxes when you don't have cash in your pocket or food on your table
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
Yeah that's fair but that's not a realistic way to view the cost of a finished consumer product.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
COGS for Casper is ~50%, which doesn't quite line up with your $50. I suppose if you mean $50 in raw materials, plus construction costs, then fine, but that doesn't get you to 20x markup. The margin isn't that crazy. Typical
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
I don't think the evidence is that that's the biggest issue in general, and certainly not in this case.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
I think the idea is that if you are privileged enough to have the time to be politically engaged, you are morally obligated to use that privilege to make society more just. Failing to do so is a moral failure. Note that this perspective cou
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
The standard of evidence is lower in civil cases than criminal ones. Taking away someone's bodily autonomy is different than saying you can't have a prominent role at a prestigious institution. You don't (or shouldn't) h
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
I don't think the many people who have experienced his abuse directly, or the victims he is trying to minimize, would agree with your assessment of what's important.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
Demanding the same standard of evidence we demand in court and science to disrupt human power structures helps those with power retain it and use it against those who have less power. Also what he said is fully public, so I don't under
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
If you're interested in learning more about what we're working on here: https://youtu.be/uQrRbvLyJ4M
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DDSketch: A fast, fully-mergeable quantile sketch with relative-error guarantees(arxiv.org)
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
I forgot about the shell company bit on their long-term leases. In any case, they are in the business of managing and reselling real estate, whatever the time horizon.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
Zoom is also up 50% since it went public in April, and Crowdstrike is up 70%. I don't really get the sense in comparing a bunch of companies with disparate financials and very different industries. The We Company is a real estate compa
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
Software engineers aren't special. Literally any job that requires a modicum of concentration, whether it's writing marketing copy or doing complex financial forecasts, means that interruptions are costly.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
The cap on taxable SSI wages went up 7% in 2017 and no one really noticed or complained. It's a relatively progressive way to keep things funded. I don't see why we'd need to do much else.
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by jbarciauskas 7y ago
He's obviously incredibly smart to have achieved what he did at such a young age, but he's actually a joy to listen to as well.
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by jbarciauskas 8y ago
There's a difference between believing things and actively campaigning for other people to adopt your view via the enactment/enforcement of various laws by the government.
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by jbarciauskas 8y ago
There will be partisan lines drawn in these debates, but we don't need to start there. But mostly this was obviously a PR/DC networking move and not a serious attempt to have oversight or meaningful conversation.
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by jbarciauskas 8y ago
This board could have been non-partisan, filled with leading thinkers in the space from academia and industry, and given meaningful access and authority. Google management decided to make it clear the whole thing was a sham by specifying th

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