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by ketzo 6y ago
I looked this up just to make sure — it definitely, definitely is the majority of their revenue . Net sales on Amazon.com for Q1 2021 were $75 billion. AWS and “other” combined were $19 billion. [1] As far as profit goes, you have a stro
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by ketzo 6y ago
> I think one of the key differentiators is whether that removal extends only to the class being 'protected' or whether it extends to everyone. Very, very good point. It's not the only measure, I think, but it's cer
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by ketzo 6y ago
I mean, the short answer is risk vs. reward. Smoking is insanely bad for you, very addictive, and the benefits are, uh, marginal. To walk down your list: - Alcohol can be safely consumed in moderation, and is less prone to addiction. Th
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by ketzo 6y ago
That’s actually a solid point. There’s extra responsibility to prevent harm to specific groups when the harm has been targeted at them specifically. And yeah, I know that’s not actually the message. But as I read it, “banning menthols bec
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by ketzo 6y ago
Smoking is really, really, really bad for you. It’s much worse, and much harder to stop, the earlier you start. Banning flavors 1) stops some overall consumption 2) especially stops youth consumption. Lifetime healthcare costs for the neg
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by ketzo 6y ago
I’m extremely in favor of harm-reduction legislation in general, and I think this ban is a good idea overall. Flavors are effective at hooking young people in particular — lots of vaping research has shown that — and so get it outta here. G
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by ketzo 6y ago
Sure, viral interference, yes; but I didn’t go inside a restaurant for 13 months. You’re saying that (and masking, and social distancing in general) didn’t affect influenza transmission? Why would it not?
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by ketzo 6y ago
I mean, it's absolutely a criticism of git, so in that sense the title's spot on; it's not a pull request, or a suggestion that we should all go out and stop using git. I mostly took issue with GP's implication that th
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by ketzo 6y ago
This feels more like a learning exercise than an actual critique of git that would necessitate some kind of response. I thought it was a useful way to practice thinking about software design with a tool I already know.
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by ketzo 6y ago
To be honest, given Tesla's pricing history and Musk's... claim-making history, $35k is more likely. But I can dream.
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by ketzo 6y ago
Two great managers I've had both regarded this as one of their highest duties. As an engineer, having someone above you in the chain of command who regularly asks things like "how are you feeling about work? Bad? Good? Are you str
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by ketzo 6y ago
For such a long piece, this is disappointingly light on any details or discussion about how one would go about building a "Contextualization Engine." I mean, we all saw what happened with Microsoft's Tay Bot [1] -- any syst
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by ketzo 6y ago
Yep. There's nothing quite like the experience of going on Stack Overflow for a particular problem, and the "best answer" is almost what you need... but you scroll down, and there's a different version that's exa
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by ketzo 6y ago
Huh. Plus one to you -- you have meaningfully changed my opinion.
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by ketzo 6y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment, but: > If you see those things as "the boring bits" that you don't want to do then you're not a developer. Don't we already have enough gatekeeping in software development? I
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by ketzo 6y ago
Worth noting that the game came out in 2011, and they wanted people to be able to play it on laptops. They were aiming for really minimal computation.
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by ketzo 6y ago
Woah, is that a thing? Very cool.
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by ketzo 6y ago
So, totally uninformed here -- why exactly is superconductivity a big deal? What would it change for us?
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by ketzo 6y ago
Just wanna say I absolutely loved reading that blog post, thanks for the link.
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by ketzo 6y ago
California homelessness is, obviously, deeply tragic for a lot of reasons, and I think anybody selling a "simple solution" is either lying or just wrong. But man, when I drive through downtown L.A. and see street after street of t
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by ketzo 6y ago
Okay, but what does Susan Fowler's memo about systemic sexual harassment have to do with incentivizing engineering siloes? You seem to draw a pretty direct line.
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by ketzo 6y ago
Well, at the very minimum, the recent firings/resignations certainly seem... correlated to him.
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by ketzo 6y ago
That's what happens when elected representatives from Wyoming and Tennessee have a congressional majority over the control of a border 1,500 miles away from them. Stoke fear of immigrants to get yourself elected, then make legal immigr
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by ketzo 6y ago
I really hoped that Black Panther (the Marvel movie) was going to be the start of a new era of mainstream Afro-futurist fiction. Such an amazing genre/setting/aesthetic (depending on how it's used) that is so tragically under
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by ketzo 6y ago
From my limited experience, their finance writing (as the publication's name might suggest) is actually pretty good; I appreciate the skill it takes to write about financial markets in a way that's understandable to someone with v
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by ketzo 6y ago
If you read the latter half of the article, the author says pretty much exactly the opposite.
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by ketzo 6y ago
I am quite surprised at the amount of negativity surrounding this piece. Yes, it's sort of clickbait-y. You don't need to feel like you're about to wither and die because you just turned 44. Yes, it's deeply anecdotal. L
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by ketzo 6y ago
I thought it was notable that even as the article describes Google's advantage over Amazon, you can see Google shooting themselves in the foot: > Her shop has been unable to list any products since January because Google suspended h
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Google Aims to Be the Anti-Amazon of E-Commerce. It Has a Long Way to Go(nytimes.com)
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by ketzo 6y ago
Cultural Christianity versus theistic Christianity in action. Anecdotal, but many, many more people had to go to church as kids than actively believe today. The problem is that this leads to people who feel entitled to a space in the conv

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