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by ketzo 3y ago
For individual people, this policy sounds fantastic. For the macroeconomy, this sounds kind of disastrous. A policy that encourages less prime-age employment in a society that is already falling off the demographic cliff [1] seems really
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by ketzo 3y ago
As far as enforcement goes, I think that "raising the retirement age" would basically be "raising the age where you can draw on government benefits." So it's not that you would be ""forced"" to w
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by ketzo 3y ago
The SEC rewards whistleblowers very handsomely — you could call it part of total compensation!
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by ketzo 3y ago
After a bath or shower, your ears are open to the air, and the water can evaporate. The earplugs keep the water sealed in your inner ear for a long time where it can't dry, increasing the chance of infection. Some people do just get mo
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by ketzo 3y ago
If it's coming from someone who could even remotely be considered a "host" to you, it's definitely a serious question, and they actively want to fulfill any needs you might have. Southern hospitality is a super real th
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by ketzo 3y ago
When you say that your experience in the south is more Ask -- who is usually doing the asking, host or guest? I said this down the thread but my experience (grew up in the south) has always been that Southerners are very up-front about tryi
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by ketzo 3y ago
This is counterintuitive, but in the framing of the article, I think that "y'all doin okay?" would actually be part of Guess culture, not Ask culture. It's just a very up-front manifestation of dealing with Guess culture
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by ketzo 3y ago
In principle, I agree -- no one is entitled to one communication style or another, and we should all respect each others' preferences. But the problem is that the flow between those personas is not bidirectional. Again, generalizing a
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by ketzo 3y ago
It's the easiest thing in the world to forget -- after all, you know how it's supposed to sound! How could they possibly misinterpret your very clear message? ;)
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by ketzo 3y ago
That's fair, I'm writing from a West-Coast-USA-tech-company perspective. An exclamation point from a partner at a law firm... probably hits a little different! But in more informal communication, I think exclamation points are goo
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by ketzo 3y ago
> TRY TO SOUND FRIENDLY. > Say "please" and "thank you"... use emojis... I'll add to this one -- use exclamation points! It's actually ridiculous how effective all these little things are. In my experienc
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by ketzo 3y ago
In theory, I'm with you; in practicality, I have always found that literally just a one-sentence lead-in -- even if it's not perfect -- goes a long way towards a better conversation. I kind agree with you on your reading of the
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by ketzo 3y ago
idk how much "sitting down at the table and negotiating" mattered when every Republican in both houses of Congress voted "nay" not to take away from the bill itself, but it seems like the most important thing was that De
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by ketzo 3y ago
but every successful social network has proven that the moderation is the product maybe you’re ok doing a bunch of manual filtering, but a huge percentage of users will churn the instant they see gore/porn/etc
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by ketzo 3y ago
I wonder how much more of this "middle class" of colleges we will see hollowed out over the next few years/decades. So many of these places are in really serious financial straits. Families are more and more unwilling to pay,
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by ketzo 3y ago
> Higher Education Administration Not to make an obvious boring comment, but: someone was offering a college degree in this? Yeesh. Bloat begets bloat, I guess. I guess maybe that's overly cynical. Post-secondary education is impo
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by ketzo 3y ago
I think you make a good point, but also: There is such a thing as pressure to automate. You could imagine a world where wage costs just stay low, and companies just keep making stuff by hand. Companies need to know that there is a cost-
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by ketzo 3y ago
We consider many animals to be "sentient" -- we recognize that they are to some degree conscious, in this case meaning that they have the capability to sense, perceive their world, and have some kind of emotion about the things th
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Archive.ph Getting Cloudflare Blocked?(archive.ph)
2 points by ketzo 3y ago|4 comments
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by ketzo 3y ago
As of around 4PST today, when I try to visit archive.is or archive.ph, I just get a loop of the Cloudflare "Are you a human?" page. Wonder if their luck has finally run out.
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by ketzo 3y ago
This is absolutely perfect, thank you!
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by ketzo 3y ago
well, if nothing else, that thing looks futuristic as hell would love to point out in my yard and say "oh, that? that's our mechanical energy storage device"
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by ketzo 3y ago
Sort of a silly question -- how do you know that? Where would you recommend I start reading if I wanted to know things like that?
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by ketzo 3y ago
Yes, I agree, I feel pretty good saying that no human being has yet followed through with a bleach recipe. I'm just saying that there's a learning curve, like with all new technologies, and that a population-wide sense of "tr
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, I have used chatgpt to generate recipes and I can tell you it’s surprisingly effective. It’s particularly good for a grocery-list kind of problem: “I have X and Y in my kitchen, what could I make?” Ingredient ratios and cooking time
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by ketzo 3y ago
I used to agree with you. But I think we have spent 20+ years teaching people to accept that computers is generally trustworthy, and a lot of people simply do not know how to separate LLMs from computers more broadly yet. Yeah, I know, “don
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by ketzo 3y ago
I agree. It’s not like “doctor exploits position and the media for fame/notoriety/influence” is a particularly new story.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Counterpoint (not just to be annoying — I think you pose a very interesting unanswered question): If I read your hobby website about photography and use it to take 1% better pictures, do I owe you 1% of what my clients pay me? I think that
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by ketzo 3y ago
It can definitely contribute, though, right? Being annoyed at the same things for a long time can really sap your enjoyment and motivation.
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by ketzo 3y ago
If your job was to watch paint dry for 8 uninterrupted hours every day, but you were paid $150k/year, do you think you would feel happy and fulfilled? being absurd, of course, but there are degrees to everything. I think we can all agr

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