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by joebob42 3y ago
That's fair; I agree that the information is probably mostly out there somewhere, there's just a lot of noise in the signal. Perhaps I'm also over-indexing on the idea that I used to be able to just blindly buy something from
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by joebob42 3y ago
The nice thing about brands is it (used to be) a good standin for quality. Costco is still sort of like this for me. If I need $thing, I can just go get whichever brand of thing Costco is selling. There are usually only a couple choices, an
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by joebob42 3y ago
I think subscribers are sticky enough that this would pretty quickly drive revshare down. Especially when I imagine a sizable portion of revenue comes from the very biggest streamers, who may not need discovery from twitch at all and would
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by joebob42 3y ago
Or, not even lie, but just be unaware of the subconscious biases influencing them. Then they can say with a completely straight face that your group had nothing to do with it, even if that isn't true.
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by joebob42 3y ago
Also, frankly, if you just want to learn these things, do it free online. Duolingo, YouTube, etc do honestly a great job teaching these. I'm not discounting the benefits of a teacher and a certain educational environment, but where the
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by joebob42 3y ago
Could you elaborate more? It isn't super obvious to me the connection between fine art and ad tech.
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by joebob42 3y ago
Very few pieces of software in my experience are doing anything 5 years later. 5 years seems like an extremely long time to be amortizing over.
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by joebob42 3y ago
Thousands of times, surely? At least if we're talking Americans, very few people have total lifetime expenditure less than hundreds of thousands I'd think. 100k is 2k a year for 50 years, even a million is only 20k.
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by joebob42 3y ago
Still using a pixel 3 I bought used for <150 3 years ago. Works totally fine, never slow, no issues with battery life. Before that had a p1 that worked for a long time too. Maybe I've just been lucky but I've had very good expe
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by joebob42 3y ago
It feels like every time a fraud is uncovered we hear "this is good for crypto", with the implication that, but for this one last fraudster, the industry is clean and trustworthy.
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by joebob42 3y ago
Or alternatively, those colors are good for a beetle with a termite on its back for the same reason they're good for a termite. They help whatever the termite looks like blend in to the area where termites usually are.
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by joebob42 3y ago
The definition here is a fairly narrow one and doesn't nearly cover what I think of when I think of "pork".
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by joebob42 3y ago
Can someone explain the punchline here? I'm probably just slow but I can't put it together.
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by joebob42 3y ago
That's the spherical cow view of how markets work, and it's a meaningful part of what actually happens, but there's also a good amount of hype / new cycle/ non "discounted value of future cash flow" going
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by joebob42 3y ago
They means social benefits, not health ones. They even say so in their post.
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by joebob42 3y ago
He means social benefits. At least for me they absolutely are real and we're valuable to bring me out of my shell in college. Don't need it as much anymore, but drinking a bit in college had a transformatively positive experience
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by joebob42 3y ago
That's 50 years ago. It's literally not even one lifetime ago.
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by joebob42 3y ago
For what it's worth, the asterix is confusing. Your comment gave me a wildly different (apparently incorrect) impression.
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by joebob42 3y ago
I mean, maybe, but if you pick an arbitrary currency, weighted by "market cap", btc has an extremely long way to go before being an unusually long lived one.
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by joebob42 3y ago
Thank you. I see gps sentiment more often than I can understand, and it horrifies me. Especially as regards creative mediums (music, art, etc) where the point is to entertain. I may not know exactly what's wrong with a work, but I&#x27
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by joebob42 3y ago
I don't think you're asking an unfair question. Its now been answered, by many people, to the effect of "this study isn't convincing, but we don't see a simple way to design a convincing one".
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by joebob42 3y ago
It being extremely difficult or impossible to design a convincing study doesn't make the other ones convincing.
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by joebob42 3y ago
What if the patient wants other people in the circle? (I do, when I'm a patient. I've never really trusted doctors I've had due to my perception of competing motivations, and they've given me reason for that distrust mor
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by joebob42 3y ago
I think this may be sarcasm, but I also think it's literally true. Part of what I find interesting about the whole debacle is how many people really "told you so" well before the wheels started to come off (if that's ind
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by joebob42 3y ago
That's fair in principle. I think if this needs to be captured and controlled, it's unfair and unreasonable for it to be a high margin business (since the margins would stem in substantial part from a government granted monopoly).
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by joebob42 3y ago
One thing I don't understand: I only spend about 25-30 a year, despite making a devs salary. I think 45-50 ubi is the point where I'd just leave the workforce.
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by joebob42 3y ago
I think I missed the whole evil Microsoft bit in the 90s (a little too young), and while a lot of big tech has done a lot of harm since it hasn't felt so obviously, unashamedly evil. Altman seems like the successor to Micro$oft to me.
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by joebob42 3y ago
I'm attempting to carve that out, but I get that it's extremely difficult to do / might not be possible to do well. I benefitted tremendously from work I did as a teenager (but did not have to do to survive). Obviously there&
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by joebob42 3y ago
It's a little flippant but I kind of see your point. Everything I did as a kid was more dangerous because I was an uncoordinated idiot with no sense of danger. I'm still mostly better off for having done the stupid things I did. W
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by joebob42 3y ago
I think when you are specifically the government and will definitely refuse to sell the land, the line is a little grayer.

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