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by jmeister 4y ago
It could be a rough test to weed out the non-coders who may try to cheat his call. What matters is a low false-positive rate. Like there may be several hostile employees looking to sneak in for some stories they can sell to the media later.
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Sneerers In the past few weeks, I’ve learned two ways to think about online sneerers that have been helping me tremendously, and that I wanted to share in case they’re helpful to others: First, they’re like a train in a movie that’s barrel
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Scott Aaronson: Sneerers(scottaaronson.blog)
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These days the rebellion starts from kindergarten apparently. There needs to be balance between understanding and respecting tradition, and questioning it. On one end you have Iran/Taliban, on the other you have modern USA. Galileo was
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by jmeister 4y ago
Absolutely. I've worked for Elon like characters before. Not comfortable, but great learning experiences.
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Do you know what it's like in military organizations around the world and in history? Most men don't have a problem with authoritarian hierarchies as long as the hierarchy is justified in their view. Tech people are extremely codd
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Nice theory but wrong. They just lost out to Uber Eats and DoorDash.
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by jmeister 4y ago
A classic: >These people of the Power Elite were visibly much smarter than average mortals. In conversation they spoke quickly, sensibly, and by and large intelligently. When talk turned to deep and difficult topics, they understood fas
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by jmeister 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact–value_distinction
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by jmeister 4y ago
What if he(and others like me) believe that working in-person really is truly necessary for accomplishing great work?
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The conversation on Twitter is dominated by confident predictions of catastrophe(twitter.com)
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by jmeister 4y ago
"It is interesting how multiple polls show that most respondents think Twitter will likely be somewhat better in the future, but the conversation on Twitter itself is dominated by confident predictions of catastrophe. I wish there were
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by jmeister 4y ago
Some progressives are waking up and taking action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply-side_progressivism
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by jmeister 4y ago
Mature cities like NYC* find ways to incorporate new industries and grow with them. SF doesn't want to grow up apparently. That's fine, but the seagulls aren't to blame. SF could have used their tax revenue to build something
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by jmeister 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference... Hackers may have even more contempt for the slackers and sanctimonious activists currently at Twitter. This is just like the far-left and the far-right al
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by jmeister 4y ago
>The government should take something from this and not allow for too much consolidation. What's wrong with consolidation on its own? This is the corporate version of "every billionaire is a policy failure". It is, on its
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by jmeister 4y ago
Thanks for posting this. Berger is great.
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You're leaving out a million grandparents who keep up with their grandkids' milestones across oceans through FB(like mine), and the countless old friendships rekindled(like mine). American exceptionalism?
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Some Stanford professors oppose closed event on free speech(insidehighered.com)
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by jmeister 4y ago
Thanks
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by jmeister 4y ago
> Is there even an intellectual basis for conservative thought? This comment belongs in the HN hall-of-fame.
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>I'm pretty tired of debating people who don't know biology here Too bad. This is a matter that affects every citizen in this country, and the experts lost their credibility a couple of years ago at least. The rubes will keep
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by jmeister 4y ago
>We may need this, but the stakeholders holding the purse strings don't. And they are the ones who will decide what gets built. It has never been easier to build a business(software). Labor is abundant, and the tech boom has created
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by jmeister 4y ago
This is totally wrong. Public opinion is by far the biggest roadblock. Believing that only some evil rich people are in the way is a coping mechanism. Read David Shor or Matt Yglesias on this.
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Elon Musk suggests he is pulling internet service from Ukraine after ambassador told him to ‘f** off’ ‘We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine,’ says Space X https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/el
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Musk says SpaceX cannot fund Ukraine's Starlink internet indefinitely(reuters.com)
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Tech is the only sector that is actually even borderline competent these days. https://www.wsj.com/articles/blame-lockdowns-on-silicon-vall... "Without technology to keep the economy from imploding, they(lockdowns
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by jmeister 4y ago
>just for the sake of earning yet more money. >It does not solve any real issue, Contradiction detected. Who will buy this tech then?
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In manufacturing training too. Basically any training that involves physical handling.
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by jmeister 4y ago
>Now that this article has been published, so many people who never went to college and could hardly do middle school algebra are complaining and moaning that they will never trust an NYU degree and that this generation is soft And there

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