mabbo

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by mabbo 5y ago
TL;dr: an instant in time and a future time based on a wall clock in a location aren't the same thing. But in my view, it's okay to pretend they are the same thing and model them all as instants. Even in the current climate of pot
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by mabbo 5y ago
Cross border work burned me so very hard a few years ago. I live in Canada, but got a position with Amazon where I'd fly around the US (and occasionally other countries) to do upgrades and launches of Amazon warehouses. Paid in US doll
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by mabbo 5y ago
For some context, the United States put 11 people to death in 2021, and has put 78 people to death since the start of 2018. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Un... That isn't to say the US
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by mabbo 5y ago
But is it really so different if we replace race with religion? Israel doesn't recognize people who join the religion- it's effectively based on birth just as much as race. We have a government over a people that determines the ri
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by mabbo 5y ago
Is there a better analogy to compare the situation to? Language is about communicating ideas efficiently. Apartheid is a good word for what is happening, and our response should be the same as it was in South Africa.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I feel like the author is not highly aware of social norms, nor how they change depending on context, culture, and confidence. Many inexperienced users- the kind who often need help the most- are coming from a place of low confidence. They
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by mabbo 5y ago
Consider: you are on the Amazon Basics product development team. If you do well, you will be promoted, given bonuses, and greatly financially rewarded. If you do poorly, well, Amazon let's go of 6% of employees in every org every year[
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by mabbo 5y ago
> “Amazon lied through a senior executive’s sworn testimony that Amazon did not use any of the troves of data it had collected on its third-party sellers to compete with them,” It's time to set an example. This sworn testimony was k
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by mabbo 5y ago
Honestly I only joined a few months ago so all of this is new to me too! The one consistent thing I've heard is that reddit is full of good advice.
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by mabbo 5y ago
It's a hard topic. My team mostly does experiments, A/B tests on new merchants to see what nudges leads to better results overall. The reality is we have a lot of ideas and we're trying to get data to figure out those answers
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is honestly very few considering how many different places Uber Eats probably advertises on. I work on helping new Shopify merchants get more early sales, and ads are super important for that to happen. Open up any small and growing e-
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by mabbo 5y ago
And this is what terrifies me. My daughter was born a week ago. I'd like there to be a world for her to grow up into.
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by mabbo 5y ago
He might take Kyiv (not 'Kiev'). But he can't hold it. Not indefinitely. And all the while, the sanctions will destroy his economy. No economy = no money to build more war machine.
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by mabbo 5y ago
We're playing chicken with a lunatic. He knows that. We know that. He knows we know that. His only play is to act (?) even crazier. 'War' means nuclear war, means the death of probably a large portion of the world population.
825.
by mabbo 5y ago
Moderating a top web destination today isn't possible to do correctly. You could automate moderation with ML, automatic recognition, user-flagging but the sheer number of false positives, and alleged false positives, means you basicall
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by mabbo 5y ago
While I think there's a good reason to suspect Telsa's software is at fault, I also note this: > 74-year-old Terry L. Siegel Every few years there are reports of a (usually foreign) car manufacturer having problems where the ca
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by mabbo 5y ago
I still have no idea.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I hope so. It's honestly the coolest tech I've experienced in a while. It's invisible but a great UX. From what I've read, today it's so expensive in terms of hardware that it's probably a money pit. But hardwa
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by mabbo 5y ago
For a long time, Fresh did not directly make a profit. That wasn't it's purpose. The goal of Amazon fresh was to say "hey UPS! Looks like we can do deliveries all by ourselves without you! Give us a better deal or we'll
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by mabbo 5y ago
A long time ago, I was a dev in Amazon's fulfillment org, and one day a lot of very smart people disappeared. The guy who had done some incredible pioneering work in computer vision for the warehouses; the only principal engineer the o
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by mabbo 5y ago
I'm reminded of the discovery that grapefruit impacts how drugs are processed by the body. If I'm remembering correctly, the scientists were trying to find a way to see if alcohol impacted some drug, but wanted the measurement to
832.
by mabbo 5y ago
Or just raise the net by 2 feet.
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by mabbo 5y ago
If this much change is going on, you might as well introduce salary caps too, which helps deal with teams like the Yankees who can just buy their way to victory. It's equally unlikely to ever happen.
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by mabbo 5y ago
> "I think this looks cooler." You're using this straw man to demean the author, but I think you miss an interesting point: it can be very hard in software developer to articulate the good and bad. "Uncle Bob" re
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by mabbo 5y ago
A thought: what you have is a particular set of skills. What you do with those skills may bring you more fulfillment than the act of using them. Maybe telecom isn't for you. Maybe you'd find happiness in doing data science for an
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by mabbo 5y ago
John Napier seems to have been an absolute gem of a person. > Another act which Napier is reported to have done, which may have seemed mystical to the locals, was when Napier removed the pigeons from his estate, since they were eating hi
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by mabbo 5y ago
Intuition is really the problem with git. Most developers that use git daily don't actually have a deep understanding of the domain model powering it. They don't know why it's doing things, or why they need to do things in a
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by mabbo 5y ago
I often am a sucker for those. I'm 188cm tall (6'2-ish). Long legs. For about $10 per hour of flight time, I'll pay more for a couple extra inches of leg room. During boarding, I have sometimes mentioned to the boarding agent
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by mabbo 5y ago
The deep, burning question I want to figure out is whether it's real or not. Like in other things- the Binging with Babish episode he did for example- he seems like an okay guy. Is he acting normal for other videos and does what he lik
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by mabbo 5y ago
Huh, you know, I thought you were being hyperbolic, but that actually is a great example. That said, I really had a lot of fun grinding my own meat to make burgers. Doubt I'd do it every time, but I'd definitely break it out for a

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