llamaLord

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by llamaLord 3y ago
By "useful" he means "will make VC's and uninformed investors feel good"... gotta remember, the definition of "useful" is relative.
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Considering the very early effects of dementia start to impact people sometimes decades before it becomes bad enough that they are diagnosed, it's certainly possible that extreme coffee consumption is some kind of self-medication mecha
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by llamaLord 3y ago
To be clear, I 100% agree. That's why I refer to it as "structural". No individual or even group of individuals is actively doing anything corrupt, but the overall structure creates an environment where self-interested indivi
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Are they technical decisions? Yeah, sure, that's on them. But a LOT of decisions in reality are ones where there is no clear "organic" owner. In that scenario, assuming nobody else is putting their hand up to own it, that&#x2
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by llamaLord 3y ago
There's also the element of what I call "structural corruption". This isn't "money in brown paper bags" style corruption, as much as it is key stakeholders at customers having existing relationships with certai
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by llamaLord 3y ago
To be fair, they should have seen Ryzen coming, any long-term AMD user knew years before Ryzen landed that it was going to be a good core because AMD were very vocal about how badly wrong they bet with Bulldozer (previous core family). AMD
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Looking at the historical data, that tends to be a pattern of urban warfare, not the IDF. Civilian/combatant fatality ratios of 3/1 are not uncommon in urban warfare.
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by llamaLord 3y ago
If a PM has time to micromanage the engineers, something has gone seriously wrong in that organisation haha
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by llamaLord 3y ago
100% agree. This is the biggest debate I have with other PM's who say "you don't need to be technical"... Total bullshit. You're expecting to be able to engage with your engineering team around the relative effort a
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by llamaLord 3y ago
That's awesome to hear the improvement, gives us hope. My partner has confounding factors (autism) which is known to make this stuff worse than usual, but it is improving ever so slowly. Your point around the politicisation of vaccines
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by llamaLord 3y ago
My wife had the same reaction to the Pfizer vaccine. This was... Over two years ago, she still hasn't recovered. Has had to restrict her diet down to ~5-10 very specific ingredients otherwise she gets extremely bad mast-cell flare-ups.
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by llamaLord 3y ago
As a PM, I believe what you're describing is the torrent of people who used to work as "project managers" and "business analysts" who've transitioned into Product for the higher pay, without appreciating any of
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Has there actually been any hard evidence to support this idea? I know there's a fair bit to support Hitler being basically a junkie by the end of the war, but pre-war I'm pretty sure he was just a meglomaniacal psychopath.
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by llamaLord 3y ago
The headline of this article feels deliberately misleading in some very intangible way. Being admitted because you're a suicide risk due to abusing alcohol is very different than say, being admitted due to some kind of psychiatric brea
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by llamaLord 3y ago
I tend to have a view somewhat similar to this IMO. My way of managing this stuff has been to straight up block the worst offending services on all my devices (Facebook, Twitter), and use tools to restrict the amount of time I can access th
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by llamaLord 3y ago
To be clear, I don't think genuine pathological narcissism is actually a particularly common trait, maybe 5% type levels. The problem is that a single genuine narcissist can make an environment absolutely horrible for a large number of
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Yeah I think it's important to note that these techniques are for situations where trust has broken down due to something external, not due to a fundamental issue with one of the people involved. This stuff will never help with narciss
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by llamaLord 3y ago
You forgot all the Kiwis working remote for Atlassian and Canva in the $200+k region. My team of ~12 is nearly ~30% kiwi at this point.
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by llamaLord 3y ago
On one hand I get your point, but there's a pragmatic element to this that doesn't actually make sense. If I wanted to just find new and creative ways of being a racist, there's a million and one ways I could do that on the i
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by llamaLord 3y ago
I'm setting up a discord server and wanted to get a list of words to flag in messages for blocking. I figured this would be an great use-case for GPT-4, especially since I have a paid-up business account, so you'd think I'm n
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by llamaLord 3y ago
So I saw a newspaper headline about Mitch Mcconnell's... glitch... today and was curious so I went to Youtube to watch what happened for myself. It seems Youtube is just HARD censoring searches of Mitch Mcconnell right now, it just ret
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by llamaLord 3y ago
I mean... Yes, but IMO I think I'd be much more likely to carry a small amount of cash if I didn't have to worry about it converting into 10 different coins once I break the big note.
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Was that before or after polymer notes? I have to assume that a polymer $1/2 wouldn't have this issue?
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Honestly this is the thing that scares me the most, for non-trivia portion of the population the apocalypse isn't necessarily something to avoid, its almost equivalent to their "endgame".
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Is the frog boiling yet? Can we start doing something about all this now please?
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by llamaLord 3y ago
As an Australian, the one thing about America I wish we DID copy was the idea of $2/1 notes. Coins are such a pain in the ass, but $1/2 is enough that I don't just want to refuse the change to avoid the inconveniences of carr
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by llamaLord 3y ago
That's why there's so many other companies effectively competing with them... Oh... Wait...
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Show me a single example of a democratic communist nation that has not descended into some form of totalitarianism or anarchy... All you posted was a long list of things that failed because of interference from the west. That's not wha
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by llamaLord 3y ago
Venezuela would like a word with you sir...
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by llamaLord 3y ago
How could you ever implement it democratically? What happens when people vote for the capitalists? The reality is that communism requires centralised power, centralised power attracts bad actors, and bad actors are significantly more comfor

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