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by lwo32k 1y ago
But no real work happens there imho. Everyone knows it, so everyone is on holiday most of the year enjoying the food, drink and chateaus. I worked on a project there where literally every week, some one up the food who was required to sign
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Gamblers are a poor example. Their decisions hardly effect anyone else or institutions or nations. Increase the cost of the fallout of a decision (your relationships, your bosses job, your orgs existence, economy, national security etc etc)
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Thompson Sampling
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by lwo32k 1y ago
More like people have limitations and there are complex problems they can't solve because of those limitations. Therefore any attempt creates new problems. So they make up Stories to justify their actions and shift focus away from the
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The Power of Gaming Together in a Lonely World [video](youtube.com)
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by lwo32k 1y ago
I have a "wealth manager" in the family who handles the wealth of these people. And he describes it as taking care of "hyper-domesticated livestock". They are over engineered for max yield to the point, they can't &
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by lwo32k 1y ago
It's a very very messy process and most of the time doesn't end well because of the power imbalance. Larger the worker group more the disagreements amongst them too. My Dad was a factory manager and I grew up running around the fa
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Even if there is a preset script its very hard to see it, given the variety of identities and different environments people get thrown into. Even people who are extremely similar can end up leading extremely different lives.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Avg Ad Prices have been going up for almost 6 quarters now. Pretty cool they have managed to keep increasing it. So Advertisers are getting a bang for their buck.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Its not possible for them to make "billions of dollars" any other way - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_economy
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Well I can only speak for myself, but my interest in poetry (which was non-existent) has spiked thanks to AI responding to random questions on poetry. To the point now, I spend sometime everyday thinking about poems, writing little notes to
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by lwo32k 1y ago
There is much more Content (Supply) than there are Eyeballs and Time(Demand) available to digest it all. The system is just self correcting.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Cuz Investors love hearing how you can milk both sides - producers and consumers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_economy So startups tell them what they want to hear. When one gets funding everyone else copie
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by lwo32k 1y ago
That was a mad few days. We were stuck on campus. Water ran out by the next day. And students were using water from the campus fountain.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Its like the times before Central Banks appeared. People would go to the market see prices rising (inflation), see themselves getting pushed out of the market, and come up with all kinds of theories about what was happening - its the sea go
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Marketing or as my boss calls it, "Demand Engineering" is a skill that engineers, techies, and scientists aren’t really trained in. The goal of marketing posts isn’t necessarily technical depth; it’s about reaching the largest num
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Whats the per capita income of Rural India?
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Its normal. Too see it look at the financials. Don't look at the tech alone. Otherwise analysis is incomplete. "useful, in-demand product features" have to generate revenue greater than cost. If its too low or execs think the
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by lwo32k 1y ago
If it looks like that its cause they are all missing quarterly targets given to Wall St previously. Standard playbook when that happens - cut costs/off shore/outsource/layoff/sell off teams etc
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Social media has equated the worth of people to how much Attention they can collect (quantified via upvotes/clicks/likes). Its like ecologists saying we will protect and promote the plants in the jungle based on their popularity.
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Its not your fault or your problem to fix. The kind of people who can do something are all futzing about themselves for a long time now, so making everyone else feel responsible is just manipulative behavior to serve other purposes. With in
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Artists aren't taught about the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff (which gives us an upper limit on how many Creative/Curious folk any population can support) or the Laws of Supply and Demand. You can round up the best and the most influen
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by lwo32k 1y ago
People loathe Meta cause if they don't hit their quarterly targets for Wall St what happens? - They will sell more of your data, push more ads down your throat, charge businesses more for reach and visibility, and blame anyone who comp
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Google is not run or influenced by tech workers or engineers. Its run by financial engineers, as are all multi-national corporations these days, as survival and scale doesn't depend purely on tech or its quality, but on leverage of cro
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by lwo32k 1y ago
They don't/can't believe they are incompetent, which adds another dimension to the entire story. "One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Same thing can be said about any religion. There is a reason there are elaborate stories, rituals, prayers, pilgrimages etc etc in all religions. Its not an accident. All these practices, with the prime feature being Repetition, allows for
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Austria too - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-08/the-desig...
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by lwo32k 1y ago
"Pure Desperation" What happens when there is more Content than there are Eyeballs or Time to consume it all? Or economically what happens when Supply massively overshoots Demand? People who design UX/UI aren't economist
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Leaving aside the support base, lots of ambitious and driven people use the same strategy Trump does, cause it works. For them. At the expense of others. Sort of like the survival strategy of parasites and predators in nature. They key poin
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by lwo32k 1y ago
Volcanoes can launch things into space. There are already systems that try to tap into it. So its possible in theory to trigger it underwater.

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