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by jjj123 6y ago
Good lord this comment is condescending. Some people are teachers because they want to be teachers, period. They find fulfillment in it. That’s not even touching the unnecessary dig at public institutions.
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by jjj123 6y ago
I think it’s not just that there’s more art now, it’s also that the systems we use to consume it (spotify, Netflix, etc) shape that art, sometimes for the better but often for the worse. It’s like when the CEO of spotify said recently that
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by jjj123 6y ago
How is it a redefinition or unhelpful? Being born with privilege of any kind is luck. Even if you’re a hard worker, the chance of being very successful varies dramatically based on your initial state. I’d argue it is helpful to frame luck i
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by jjj123 6y ago
I’ve only listened to a few of Joe’s interviews but I really disagree that he pushes back often at all. He kind of seems like a golden retriever, eager to agree and please and genuinely non judgemental about the majority of his guests’ opin
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by jjj123 6y ago
Tangent but as someone who has used the word ally in the past, the opposite in my mind has not been enemy, it’s bystander.
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by jjj123 6y ago
Do other people have the same issues I have with streaming dark content? I watch a lot of horror, and the compression on Netflix and Shudder (and probably HBO + Hulu) causes really horrible banding in dark scenes. Literally if they could ju
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by jjj123 6y ago
Sure, there’s an example where best case the user experience is improved and business metrics aren’t affected. But I assure you if that app has a decent analytics setup they’ll also be tracking business metrics, and if for some reason busin
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by jjj123 6y ago
There’s an important distinction to make: this tracking doesn’t necessarily lead to better products, it leads to better business metrics. Sometimes a better product comes out of better business metrics, but other times they’re directly oppo
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by jjj123 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. He’s saying Americans don’t have to address superiors by their titles and we act like that’s a victory when our workplaces are totalitarian in every other way.
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You mean like how every TV ad works? Yeah that sounds preferable.
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There are lots of examples of where personalization results in a worse experience for users but better metrics for the tech company. Somehow the Instagram ads algorithm has figured out exactly what I’m self conscious about with my own body;
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by jjj123 6y ago
There was (is?) a serial killer in LA killing homeless people with a bat in 2018/19 that got barely any news coverage.
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You say “us vs them” like it’s at all inaccurate. Owners have every incentive to make their employees work more for less. Unions just balance that power dynamic.
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by jjj123 8y ago
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Is it that the huge mega artists now aren’t good, or that good music isn’t getting recognized/doen’t have a sustainable fanbase? The latter is demonstrably untrue. If we’re talking hu