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> The only plausible spots for "bullshit jobs" are in government and in endowment-funded academia You should read Graeber’s book sometime. There are jobs that are useless but still benefit business owners financially. Graeber g
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What do you mean, it’s not fair? I genuinely don’t see anything wrong with a “spite restaurant”. I’ve tried to come up with a comparable situation where the roles are reversed. Suppose that you owned a restaurant. If you fire your chef and
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If you don’t mind sharing, we’re you prescribed tirzepatide for type 2 diabetes, or was this an off-label prescription for weight loss?
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> the judge that set his bail conditions had her husband advise for FTX? Aside from this not being true (a different judge set his bail), I don’t understand why people assume this conflict of interest would have somehow benefited SBF. Pr
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It is clear that Taibbi et al. are cherry-picking FBI interactions that will draw the most clicks and outrage from fans of the new management. If they had published communications between the FBI and Twitter from, say, June 2020, I imagine
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What did you tweet?
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> And those people are wanting to maximize their pay, not the quality of their work. Nobody is able to hire very many people who want to optimize for the quality of their work. Few people put 110% effort into executing someone else’s vis
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> "On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs: > - create justifications to ban Trump > - seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders > - express no concern for the free speech or democracy implicatio
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It is ironic that only a week or so after the Twitter Papers were released (where a primary focus was suppressing stories and accounts with little justification and hastily written new rules), Musk is now doing the exact same thing.
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Well for one, with an entrenched bureaucracy you don’t have to worry about how one man’s emotional state might affect your country’s space programs or satellite internet network.
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This was written by Cambridge and published on their website. It was republished by phys.org which aggregates science, research, and tech news. It might be better if the link was changed to the original article on Cambridge’s website: http
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Copyright infringement is a backbone of the digital world. People remix others’ music, write fanfiction of others’ works, draw fan art of others’ characters, write and distribute clones of others’ games, etc. Much of internet culture involv
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I have played hours and hours of Breakout. I had no idea it was designed by Steve Wozniak.
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The new rule seems to have serious implications for journalism on Twitter. Often a news story states or implies the present location of a person (and not just at public events).
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I honestly would not have cared about the account being banned, except for the fact that Musk won points for nobly saying he would not ban the account.
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Replace Twitter with any other private company and see what you think. For example, Valve is a private company that can ban anyone they like from Steam, but we wouldn’t hear this defense if a publisher get banned capriciously and lost their
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> This whole idea of reparations for things done by previous generations is absurd. Where do you draw the line - 1900? 1800? 1700? I’m interested where you draw the line in the other direction. 1900? 1950? 1980? In 1980, most people aliv
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I wonder if the charities will have to give back their funding.
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Binance posts screenshot of customer service chat on Twitter(twitter.com)
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SBF says that he donated to Democrats publicly and to Republicans through some kind of back channels. He says he did it this way because he didn’t want the media scrutiny that might result from donating to Republicans. Many commenters belie
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In the US you do not need to register copyright unless you intend to file a copyright infringement lawsuit.
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If you’re setting up beds in the office to keep your employees working day and night, that seems like a bad time to also take away free meals.
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This is an editorialized title. They aren’t asking to “unseal” anything because nothing has been sealed yet. The default assumption in bankruptcy is that the list of creditors is public information. FTX has filed a motion to seal this list,
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I sympathize with people who are crushed by economic forces. It’s hard to evaluate this kind of article, though, where much of the focus is “a certain section of the population is discouraged that life doesn’t meet their expectations” witho
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Big investors like Sequoia should absolutely have asked tougher questions. They deserve to be scrutinized for this. It isn’t emotional outrage, it’s asking people to do basic due diligence.
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> What you're really saying is that whoever has the loudest voice backed by the most money gets claim over the name, regardless of who had claim to it first. No, I’m saying that nobody has “claim over the name”. Naming collisions ha
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Hobbyists do deserve to name their projects. And other people can name their projects the same thing. Not a big deal. (By the way, the reverse scenario here should be okay, too. If Google makes a project with with a common noun name, then o
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Unfortunately Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, and Robert Griesemer are not competent engineers by this standard. I’m sure they’ll be sad to hear it.
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Not sure what federation with FOSS platforms has to do with cultural relevance.
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I don’t have personal experience in this, so obviously I can’t speak with any authority. But I have heard from colleagues that tons of little factors can dramatically affect user engagement. For example, even a couple dozen milliseconds of

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