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by jdm2212 3y ago
RTO is a real disadvantage in hiring all the people who are posting on HN in the middle of the workday about RTO instead of, y'know, working.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Which non-538 models consistently outperform 538's models? EDIT: (cause I can't reply to the below comment) my question was what model beats 538, not which betting market beats 538. yeah, duh, the Vegas line beats 538, because i
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by jdm2212 3y ago
538 absolutely is horserace coverage, but unlike basically all the other election coverage, it's rigorous, impartial, and intellectually honest.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
As opposed to horserace election coverage, which is the single biggest focus of all of American journalism for the year or so leading up to an election... which is of greater journalistic value?
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If you watch an old Saturn V launch video, they have the same slowness at liftoff. Really gives a sense of of how gigantic the thing is. You've stuck rockets onto the bottom of a skyscraper and are trying to loft it into the air.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Brutalism might be better than shanty towns, but it's still ugly af.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
That doesn't answer the question of "why did anyone let them build this crap". Why didn't the non-brain-damaged architects get to put up buildings?
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by jdm2212 4y ago
lol @ comparing this to Harvey Weinstein
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by jdm2212 4y ago
If you don't believe me about how weapons safety on set is supposed to work, take it from an actual professional armorer (below). Notice there's nothing in here about it being the actor's job to make sure the gun is safe, nev
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by jdm2212 4y ago
How do you imagine actors act out scenes that involve shooting each other with guns if they can't put their finger on the trigger, point guns at each other, or use guns loaded with blanks? Baldwin seems like he's personally kind o
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by jdm2212 4y ago
The similarity is that Alec Baldwin is neither a gun expert nor a car expert. He's an actor. When actors deal with dangerous props -- and all kinds of props can be dangerous in unexpected ways -- there are (supposed to be) professional
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Is anyone alleging that Baldwin loaded the gun with live ammo that he pulled off his own belt? Every account I've read has the armorer loading it. Curious to read other versions though.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
You can make up whatever rules you want and say "Period" afterward for emphasis. That doesn't make those rules real or relevant to how movies are made.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
If he was driving a car on set, and someone cut the brake lines so he ran over a production assistant, a "human being is now dead as a consequence of his actions". But that doesn't make it his responsibility to check the brak
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Curious to read accounts of his managerial role on the production, if you have links.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Where does that article describe Baldwin having a day-to-day management role?
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by jdm2212 4y ago
As I replied below... > Baldwin did not shoot someone at short range with a blank round. By all public accounts, he handled the gun in a manner consistent with the scene's directions and safety information provided by the crew. He&#
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Baldwin did not shoot someone at short range with a blank round. By all public accounts, he handled the gun in a manner consistent with the scene's directions and safety information provided by the crew. He's no more responsible f
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Executive Producer usually means: this person helped make this movie happen (e.g. helped line up financing, pitched the movie to the studio), but has no direct role in overseeing day-to-day work on the movie. An actor's job is acting.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
They were using blanks on set so Baldwin would have to be able to (a) reliably differentiate between blanks and live rounds and (b) re-check the gun for live rounds before each take. Making sure props are safe to use in a scene is just not
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by jdm2212 4y ago
A lot of movie scenes involve pointing a gun in the general direction of the camera, and there's generally people standing around the camera (cameraman, etc.). So pointing a gun at people is pretty much unavoidable. That's why the
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by jdm2212 4y ago
> On a per-deal basis, we could never really do better than break-even. A Substack advance was effectively an interest-free loan that would never be paid back if a publication failed. They made a ton of money on Matt Yglesias's adva
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by jdm2212 4y ago
They don't have "paid gigs" there. They bring in tons of subscription revenue, and Substack gave them advances against that subscription revenue. In each case, they quickly earned out the advance.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
This is one of the most amazing things I've ever read. Also, I feel so bad for his lawyers.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
FTX is a Bahamas-based company. Why would US regulators be regulating a Bahamas company with no US presence?
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by jdm2212 4y ago
It is necessary. If you can fire low performers, average performance will be higher, which means average pay will be higher. The risk is that you personally get mistaken for (...or correctly assessed as...) a low performer. Hence, tradeoffs
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Everything in life is tradeoffs. American software engineers get paid more than basically anyone else in the world, but we also have less job security. What's preferable just depends on your risk aversion vs marginal utility of money.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
For salaried, at-will employment, the employer can demand whatever they want and fire you for whatever reason they want. There are exceptions for, like, sexual harassment and racial discrimination, but not for "I disagree with the boss
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by jdm2212 4y ago
Unless the sales people are bringing in more than that in sales.
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by jdm2212 4y ago
They open source stuff that is no longer a differentiated capability (hence no harm in releasing it to the public), and the goal is recruiting. Same as any tech company that open sources projects because it'll attract positive attentio

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