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A lot of reporters don't get final say on the headlines for their articles. That could be the case here.
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Also, a lot of people might not have any experience with pot, so they don't know what (if any) effect it will have on them. Unlike alcohol. People usually don't want to experience novelties when there is business or a potential de
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I agree. When people act with disbelief at the results of an algo they've made, they're either sincere, in which case they don't actually understand the thing they have built (which would suggest a lack of competence, which m
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> quality evaluation is not something that can be boiled down to quantitative measurement. It can be, but the question then is should it be? And is that a safe and humane relationship between employers and employees? If Amazon could ge
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There is very annoying double-speak that goes on when a company's algo comes under fire. They often present the algos as if they are real AI, something set loose and allowed to run free, like a wild animal, rather than something design
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I would say many white-collar workers are really only able to be productive a lot of the time for 4 hours a day, if they're lucky. I think it's more often far less for people. I don't think the majority of people are lazy, or
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I think there is another angle to this, which is that the distinctions between "being at work" and "clocking out" have, for many people who work online all day (and especially for many new to WFH people these past 2 year
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> If shoppers can't tell the difference without this analysis, then it implies that the price differential between these two products is larger than it should be. Or that the shopper has misplaced trust in the seller/grocery st
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Facebook, the website, is dying a slow death. Everyone knows it. Certain core target demographics no longer see the website as essential or even relevant. Facebook, the company, is probably going to survive through its acquisitions.
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The relationship between the arguments in Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations (PI) is quite complex and, while there is some disagreement over the the degree of his renunciation, it's generally understood that by the time of his
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Philosophical Investigations is not exactly hard to read, but the style of argument Wittgenstein uses is very slippery. He's trying to poke holes in the conceptual pictures and assumptions we use, and which often lead us to nonsense
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> Best insurance here is "don't get sick" Recent New Yorker article looking at the "Costa Rica model"[0] raised this point as well. America, by contrast to Costa Rica, has a very weak public health sector and inf
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Timeblocking can help. I think it also helps to make and sustain friends, which is a kind of "work" in its own right as you mature into adulthood. You begin to learn that lifelong relationships take effort and almost always meetin
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I've said this a bunch of times before on articles like this, which are fairly commonly posted on HN, likely because the people who populate HN are very online and work on computers all day: If you think you are spending too much time
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> I've come to dread blogs and newsletters because so many of them are written by grind culture freaks who only write faux-insightful SEO'd content as a way to build an audience to sell snake oil to. My way around that is to pa
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He sounds like an asshole. But, he also sounds like an extremely effective leader. His conviction and directness weren't for making friends. He wanted to do and finish hard things.
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There is obviously debate, but Michael Lind argued that Jeffersonianism lost to Hamiltonianism, or the idea of a strong central government. It has been effective, America is a superpower. But it has also shaped the way Americans see themsel
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In principle, the legislative branch represent the people and are checked by elections. In practice, there are party lines and the influence of far too much money; but, the logic is that legislators pushing unconstitutional laws would be vo
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I mean I see comments like this from a lot of people, but if you're in the top 1% of income in America you could probably buy a house in pretty much any urban space outside of major tech hubs/NYC. A lot of people don't want t
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It's just not a grammar book, it's a language book in the sense that it teaches how the language is used rather than "constructed". I always recommend people learn the use of a language before the grammar at the beginnin
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The big distinguishing factor has long been Netflix's subscriber driven business model: if they're not growing in subscribers then the company appears to be "failing" or stagnant to investors/shareholders. Netflix&#
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See also: https://isbillonthewagon.com/
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Also, the vast majority of websites for online clothing stores are complete garbage, slow, messes, that feel actively user hostile.
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I still like some parts of Reddit. I can only do so, though, because I exclusively force old.reddit styling instead of the new repulsive design, and I only visit 4ish subreddits with generally smaller subscriber numbers and more niche inter
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I was agreeing with you. And we are arguing from the same side. My comment was more directed at how the meta-opinion in Hackernews generally struggles to step outside of the computational model, or into other possible theories of mind (or m
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Or, you know, the analogy of brain as a computer with computerlike memory management simply might not be 100% useful all the time. > people don't want to imagine there are the rough equivalent of many, many software layers between t
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Pretty neat. Maybe it's just my laptop's screen, but I find the scrolling effect on the text to almost hurt my eyes. Cool concept though.
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Are these images 100% generated, or are they generated from a "seed" image with the express intention to emulate a likeness with that original image such that the generated image is intended to be indistinguishable from the origin
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Have they changed something? It shows up in your finder/explorer as a drive like any other USB drive. You can drag and drop books into the documents folder. If it's azw3 stuff, push it through Calibre to mobi, then drag and drop l
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Switzerland has a system that basically works like a beefed up and less hogtied ACA. It's a very heavily regulated private market that would likely not be considered ideal for America, though some have suggested it as an option.

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