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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think Elon will succeed _and_ I agree with almost everything in this verge article. But Elon has been very inconsistent in what he’s said. It’s impossible for Elon to accomplish his current vision because it’s not internally consistent.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
“ Twitter, the company, makes very little interesting technology; the tech stack is not the valuable asset. The asset is the user base: hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters, celebrities, and other people who should know better but kee
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Didn’t Musk volunteer to follow the laws of the countries twitter runs in, in fact he said that it was a good thing to follow those laws because it reflects the will of the people.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
He's said a lot of things. He said he was going to fire 75% of employees and now seems to be walking it back and says he plans on growing the workforce over the next few years. I actually do think he's going to succeed, but he&#x
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> sole purpose of conspicuous virtue signaling. I don't understand this sense that everything positive people do is actually negative. Part of being a good leader is _acting_ like a good leader. You can't be the type of leader
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> Could you imagine if we said that customer support and success should do development? What’s wrong with this idea? in fact I have said this, though the context was technical b2b open source where familiarity with the code is part of t
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It sounds like you’re being sarcastic But I’ve heard this advice a lot actually, especially for small businesses
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Are there any active communities playing multiplayer doom? (Preferably with a version compatible with Mac). I've looked but been unable to find any.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Most HR departments set salaries based on "market reference points" derived from data from salary survey companies like erieri.com. But the HR depts also send their salary data to the salary survey companies (that is how they
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It is kind of sad though, and I say this as someone who has been trying to analyze more of my own negative reactions and be more positive. A video like this has so much potential to to inspire. And in that vein I do think it’s pretty cool
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is an incredibly inefficient way of learning the world and while it may optimize for being wrong less, you will also be right less often as well. One should be critical in assessing whether one should be critical.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
He has lots of videos in his YouTube channel showing various feats of archery, this is a pretty good one: https://youtu.be/BEG-ly9tQGk Maybe he faked all the videos and got the Guinness book of world records to put a fake r
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by mikkergp 4y ago
The blurred lines lawsuit may be a good counter example where Marvin Gaye’s family was awarded 7.4 million dollars because the song blurred lines copied the “feel” and “sound” of “Got to Give it Up”. I think it’s ultimately going to rest l
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’m talking about outputs not the model itself, the GitHub copilot example has lots of shared bytes
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> They are only suing when the memorizer is trying to make money off of the song without permission of the copyright holder. Granted everything I know about copyright law I learned in a few audio tapes in my car, but I think the question
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I get the impression we're about to see an ocean of litigation around AI and IP. If you're not a participant it will probably make good popcorn fodder. Though I don't doubt that there is a threat to graphics design and othe
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by mikkergp 4y ago
>> Need a database? File a ticket with DevOps. > That does seem like a bit short of the mark. E.g. that should be automated provisioning in 2018, never mind in 2022. Serious question, as I think this has been part of my thought pro
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, I mean, fundamentally it's so complex because you have to make tradeoffs and people hate tradeoffs "I don't want to have to worry about what machine my app runs on" vs "kubernetes is to complex" "Dep
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> DevOps people are generally assigned to a team Yeah and this is a great solution (aside from the bus factor), maybe the person I responded to was really concerned less about knowledge and more about expertise (the word they did use in
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is going to depend on a lot of things. Size of company, cloud native or not, org structure. I mean everyone would love to live in the google world where a team of SRE's run everything. But even in the world where a Devops engin
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It just doesn't work for the most part. Maybe as an Ops person, I just want to do Ops, I don't want to have to understand your code, but Lambda has specific limitations on how long code can run for. I can't allocate CPU and
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Isn't this the consequence of a large, free, open, diverse system? I remember the constant complaints about their being "too many javascript" frameworks a few years ago, and how their are always new ones. I'm less conce
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I agree with you so I was trying to think of some counter examples and the one that comes to mind would be species that have hive minds? Is justice as important if the many are considered part of the whole? If I drop a stone on my foot an
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Think asking for a generic question around trust is probably not the right question to ask, and the answers aren't really insightful. I agree, I’m not really sure what not trusting the media means. I generally speaking think in b
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Humanity has peaked sometime around 1960s-1980s I'm 99% certain they would have said the same things in the 60's to 80's about the 20's to 40's (maybe stopping somewhere around 1939) and in the 20's they w
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I appreciate what he is saying, but this also feels like the speech given at the beginning of a sci-fi/horror movie where you realize you’re completely wrong.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> You’re only allowed to express your disagreement because of free speech principles Sort of true, but it doesn't make sense not to re-evaluate how we apply those principles when we encounter dramatic changes in communication patte
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think the problem is that twitter is attractive _because_ of who is on it. Journalists, liberals. The goal isn't really to permit free speech, it's to make certain ideas and values more palatable in our society. There's
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by mikkergp 4y ago
There are very few people who just want to speak freely. People choose a platform like twitter because they want to be heard, and they want the opportunity to be heard by people who don't want to listen.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> I'm convinced that it's not possible to have constructive I don't know that when the rubber hits the road people are meaningfully trying to make a constructive free speech platform. The nihilism is the point.

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