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by jmye 3y ago
I hope they get every dime they’re owed. That said, I can’t imagine the media geniuses still buying ads on a site that “[…] responded to a request for comment with a poop emoji.” Musk is an absolute child, and Linda Yaccarino better have a
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by jmye 3y ago
“You’re famous so I get to abuse you however I want and you can’t complain” is an absolutely terrible point of view.
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by jmye 3y ago
That’s not how “good” answers work. If I tell you the sky is green and that makes you happier than hearing that it’s actually blue, your site no longer has value for getting or understanding answers. That is a fatal flaw, and I’m not sure
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by jmye 3y ago
Is it your opinion that some people simply shouldn’t get their mail, or that people who live in rural areas should pay exponentially more to get their mail delivered? Why is either of those things desirable? USPS is not a business, and it’s
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by jmye 3y ago
I’m not clear what this has to do with your parent comment being disingenuous. Does Musk “winning” make you feel better about things?
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by jmye 3y ago
How do you know my answer was “good”? I’ve seen highly upvoted answers in my area of expertise on a number of platforms that were wrong to dangerously wrong. How will you know the difference?
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by jmye 3y ago
I find that the “LinkedIn experience” has a direct, causal relationship to the people you connect to and follow. Turns out, when you connect to the kind of people who post Facebook memes, you’ll end up seeing a lot of Facebook memes. When y
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by jmye 3y ago
And a way to make their own participation seem somehow grander (and not like 99% of the site was utterly toxic 140-character pissing matches and bad faith posturing).
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by jmye 3y ago
No they aren’t. He owns it because he couldn’t back out of his Internet Troll-joke offer. Let’s try to be at least slightly honest about reality, here.
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by jmye 3y ago
Suggesting that war, presumably the invasion of Ukraine, is in any way, shape or form, comparable to leisure travel, is absurd. That said, I would be really interested in hearing you make your case that people should just accept invasion “f
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by jmye 3y ago
“Something tells [you]”? Based on no chemistry/biology knowledge, nor any apparent knowledge of how long aspartame has been used or any studies of that usage? Or even where the WHO recommendation is coming from? Come on, now.
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by jmye 3y ago
There are no health issues that anyone should ever be using Chat GPT for - the hallucinations are very real, and often severe. Not that you should be googling your symptoms either - there’s a reason we put medical folks through more than a
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by jmye 3y ago
> Ones that are trained on LLM generated blogspam will probably, I expect, get outperformed by ones that are trained on genuine information, or at the very least ones made using new techniques that adequately filter noise. Yes, humans ar
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by jmye 3y ago
> When I was really junior, I'd go to meetings and think that the vast majority of the time was wasted. As I became more senior, I realized that a lot of that wasted time is for providing context, relationship building, and alignmen
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by jmye 3y ago
> but IT workers can understand what the basic run of the mill business drones do...and their work tends to be a bunch of pointless meetings. What an ironic comment. Sorry, any early-career worker looking down their nose at anyone else (
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by jmye 3y ago
As a trail runner, same - I really look forward to a future where decent glasses can show route details/programmable workout info/etc. and I can leave the watch at home. Less crap to carry + more info readily available would be aw
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by jmye 3y ago
I'm not sure why you think being pedantic about explaining/complaining gets you out of anything. Acting like only lazy idiots go into teaching is rank nonsense, in either case. > I mean that any school that is turning out a sch
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by jmye 3y ago
> The fact is that the vast majority of people who go into "education" do it because it is the one of the least demanding career paths. I'll never understand why the people who think teachers are glorified babysitters comp
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by jmye 3y ago
Because they didn’t move en masse to a mediocre alternative? That’s a pretty disingenuous reading of this report.
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by jmye 3y ago
I would expand on that to say that Google's algorithm no longer has anything to do with showing you the best results. It has been altered or adjusted to show you or get you to click on the most ads. It's the same thing Facebook di
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by jmye 3y ago
Literally anything else. Having seen the general/highly upvoted Reddit opinions on things I have domain expertise in, and having seen the outsized effect that angry subs can have on media opinions, there is absolutely nothing I trust o
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by jmye 3y ago
>It's easy to ban a bunch of people and come up with an estimate of a large amount of hate reduced. "These hate-mongers posted X times per day to an audience of Y people, therefore we stopped Z hatred-incidents per month. Big p
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by jmye 3y ago
I think this article hits on the main point that I think has been missed by the early criticism I've read (and it's totally possible I've missed a lot of useful writing on it) - this device isn't supposed to compete with
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by jmye 4y ago
> If NPR's government contributions are embarrassing for the organisation, it might be best for them to forgo that funding. Ah, yes, the old "if I misrepresent the issue and assign a negative emotion to it, other people will se
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by jmye 4y ago
> I suppose the more common it becomes, the less the "offer" process will mean in practice. Candidates will hedge their bets. My partner was shocked I was still interviewing after accepting an offer - this kind of story is gene
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by jmye 4y ago
Define costs, specifically. What are the 'costs' of ensuring that depositors have their money, while taking over long-term SVB investments that the government can wait out? What are the 'costs' of tens of thousands of jo
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by jmye 4y ago
That seems like a real romanticization of the early internet - comparing, essentially, Geocities to a forest and simultaneously calling the plethora of content-creator sites available today (sites like Substack, not 'influencer' b
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by jmye 4y ago
> One issue with the NHS is that I get the impression the information they publish that strongly respects their goals and desires perhaps to the detriment of patients sometimes. Do you have data that supports the NHS withholding or advis