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by ketzo 5y ago
These are gorgeous, thank you for the links.
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by ketzo 5y ago
The other comments are talking about the American-ness of the firing, so I will also say that this is (in my mind) a particularly American brand of humor. It's very, very standard for people to make sarcastic/ironic/teasing j
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by ketzo 5y ago
“smells delicious” is hilarious to me. What’s the smell like?
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by ketzo 5y ago
“regulatory arbitrage” is a pretty hilarious way to spell “extremely profitable crime”
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by ketzo 5y ago
> (There may be environmental reasons to accelerate that shift even faster.) Yeah, that's.... the entire point. That's why his statement is not just wrong, it's morally repugnant.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I wonder -- what percentage of "angel" investors never expand beyond a portfolio of five businesses? Or... just one business, say that of a friend or family member? Personally, if I'm ever financially capable of investing i
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by ketzo 5y ago
Half of the article was about how the author is surprised by how bad a quote-unquote "mild" case of COVID can actually be. They're making the point that even if you aren't hospitalized, this shit is pretty rough for some
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Against Kids' Sports(annehelen.substack.com)
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by ketzo 5y ago
Have you had COVID? It fucking sucks . This vivid description is pretty accurate to my experience. Is it an alarmist tone or an accurate expression of symptoms? Why do you immediately take it for an agenda? Sometimes, if you feel scared wh
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by ketzo 5y ago
The Apollo program comes to mind, although I don’t know if that hits the “trillion” mark, even adjusted for inflation.
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by ketzo 5y ago
That sounds like an extremely rough time. I hope you and your wife are alright.
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by ketzo 5y ago
And a reputation boost for the hackers that managed to pull it off.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Trust me, so do I. But when you're picking between "trendy Thai place" and "trendy bar down the street," the suggestion of McDonald's really sharpens people's metaphorical knives.
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by ketzo 5y ago
> But there is a meta-rule here which is: > * Don't be friends with people who would do that. Lol, I think this is actually very generalizable for.. many rules. Pretty good call.
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by ketzo 5y ago
If you're with a group of people who are trying to decide where to go to dinner, but no one's putting out suggestions or willing to make any hard calls: Suggest you all go to McDonald's. There's nothing that gets people
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by ketzo 5y ago
As I understand it, there doesn’t need to be a liquid market for something in order for it to be a security; just an investment of capital with the expectation of return through the efforts of a third party (the Howey test)
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by ketzo 5y ago
The Economist is great when you want to read stridently neoconservative propaganda masquerading as neutral, high-minded thinkpieces.
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by ketzo 5y ago
This really, really resonates with me. I've been trying to address my own feelings of burnout, and I think this is a big part of it. Frankly, it's been a while since I had a win. I think I'm gonna try to set myself up for a s
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by ketzo 5y ago
Agreed, except that you can buy a house for a lot less than 2.5k/month.
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by ketzo 5y ago
Yeah but like, those are still huge cities $100k/yr is still enough to provide for a family of four in a huge number of places in the U.S. if you're in a more suburban or rural environment, which is still 9 digits' worth of h
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by ketzo 5y ago
I guess that's fair. But I have an inclination to say that for an organization to to accomplish amazing things with consistency over the kind of timespan of a government or nation, the organism has to be self-sustaining. Part of that i
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by ketzo 5y ago
> there are many movers and shakers in the government trying to make things better This is probably the thing you said that makes me feel most optimistic, and you sound like you actually have a decent idea what you're talking about,
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by ketzo 5y ago
But, like... that feels defeatist, right? Are we saying that there have never been excellent, efficient, large organizations in the past? I feel like history tells us that, at the very least, large groups of people working in tandem have
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by ketzo 5y ago
I, like (I think) many young people, am pretty disillusioned with the current state of the U.S. I would really like for things to be better than they are, and I'm still fairly convinced that software has the potential to make good thin
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by ketzo 5y ago
Many comments in this thread are variations on a theme of "self-driving cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to be better than human drivers, who aren't actually all that great." I think it would be nice if this
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by ketzo 5y ago
> The thing self driving cars need to avoid is killing people in broad daylight for no discernable reason This, I think, is the thing that people miss when they say "self-driving cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to
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by ketzo 5y ago
Okay, so new trucks don’t exclusively have a hood height of 5’9”+. I still think the broader point of “it’s really hard to see people, even adults, right in front of you” is 1) demonstrably true 2) extremely scary.
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by ketzo 5y ago
I don’t mean this rudely — have you been around many trucks recently? They’re fucking massive . The newer F-150s, while maybe not 6ft tall at the front, easily obscure a child or a short person. I have personally seen extremely close calls
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by ketzo 5y ago
Yep, big time. If you’ve listened to a podcast regularly in the last five years, you’ve almost definitely heard an ad for them (or similar competitors).
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by ketzo 5y ago
A routine is a pattern of behavior, while a ritual is a specific, repeated set of processes associated with a routine. I think the author is advocating for rituals as a way of more effectively building a routine.

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