mirceal

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by mirceal 4y ago
not only that, but our gut is literally the 2nd brain of our bodies. Read somewhere that there are more than 200 million in our gut. To put it in perspective, that’s more neurons that all the neurons in a dog’s brain.
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by mirceal 4y ago
i don't think the comment is ironic. it's in the direction of "I don't want Musk to mess with Twitter". I personally cannot do anything about it but watch and voice concern, but if enough people see the concern I am
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by mirceal 4y ago
one hand washes the other. the gov already pumped billions of dollars in tesla and space x through different programs. if that pumping increases that would be great, right?
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by mirceal 4y ago
i like how you casually slipped liberty in there. +5 for mental gymnastics
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by mirceal 4y ago
lol. some of the smartest people i’ve worked with had twitter on their resume.
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by mirceal 4y ago
this approach of letting people air bs and having them be shamed by the level-headed individuals may work if the people airing the bs are just misinformed but are open to a discussion and changing their mind. a lot of people, on the intern
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by mirceal 4y ago
i mean... i can see some automatic system banning some users. does that mean twitter does this on purpose? probably not.
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by mirceal 4y ago
nope. not implying that. the reason twitter works and is successful is that you have people from all backgrounds and walks of life. people that get banned don't follow the rules that Twitter has (if the rules are fair, etc, is another
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by mirceal 4y ago
i think they don’t have the tools and understanding to figure our what works and what does not work in tech. clueless. that’s the word i’m looking for
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by mirceal 4y ago
exactly! the gist of it is that they need people from the “other camp” and they need to get into shouting matches to feel like they matter and their crackpot ideas are valuable.
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by mirceal 4y ago
why don’t the platforms blow up? you’d think if these people are banned based on ideological issues only they would accumulate and thrive on these new platforms
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by mirceal 4y ago
trying to fix something that ain’t broken and more importantly they have 0 clue how it works.
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by mirceal 4y ago
the algo amplifies nasty things. that’s for sure. i guess my point is that those nasty things exist independently and have backing (and we should not normalize them).
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by mirceal 4y ago
Musk is part businessman, part clown. Twitter probably hits a sweet spot for both.
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by mirceal 4y ago
have you ever defended your ideas? against someone that does not do this in good faith? and makes shit up on the fly? and lies when caught? and uses mental gymnastics when shown their are plain wrong? how many times would you try to debate
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by mirceal 4y ago
huh. this naive approach is cute. but here is the thing: the amount of effort required to refute bullshit is at least an order of magnitude higher than the effort required to produce it. we don’t have unlimited time an unlimited attention s
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by mirceal 4y ago
isn’t it convenient to blame everything on the algorithm? why spend time actually educating people and giving them the tool of critical thinking when you can create a cesspool that enables and amplifies xenophobia, racism, sexism, you name
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by mirceal 4y ago
yes, but fReE SpEeCh! /s
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by mirceal 4y ago
is it ideological warfare though? what’s the ideology that’s being “suppressed”?
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by mirceal 4y ago
why don’t these “unfairly” censored people build their own platform? oh! it’s hard. much harder than spouting their bs and complaining about “free speech”
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by mirceal 4y ago
better how? what experience does musk have to make twitter better and why is this expensive unique so that twitter itself cannot make the changes? twitter back in the day was awesome until they turned hostile to the 3rd party developers.
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by mirceal 4y ago
why? what’s in it for him and what does it mean for all the other people in the US and in the world? ask yourself: why were those accounts banned?
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by mirceal 4y ago
what does “shake things up” mean? whenever something like this happens you have to ask yourself why now and what’s in it for Musk (let’s be real: nobody spends this much without an agenda). My fear is that Musk’s endgame is to reinstate a s
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by mirceal 4y ago
I dig this whole story
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by mirceal 4y ago
yeah. talking about "rockstars" and "newbs" is probably not helpful. but... the veteran not only can do what the newbies are doing, they can do it better and faster. The point is that in having the newbs do that, the ve
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by mirceal 4y ago
yup. coding in a group setting is harder than coding on your own. Also productivity is whatever you want to make of it. Some people may feel really productive by tweaking a system to squeeze that extra 2% perf, some people may feel producti
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by mirceal 4y ago
the number of lines you write is almost irrelevant. People need to put the equal sign between lines of code written and productivity. Some of the most awesome and productive people I've worked with actually removed more code than they
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by mirceal 4y ago
this aligns with the hypothesis that some people have that a handful of people do most of the work (and the others are the "worst" performers"). What this misses, is that in any highly functioning teams everyone is important
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by mirceal 4y ago
huh. i guess i misread the whole thing. agree with not accepting a counteroffer. in fact, if it goes to that, you probably don’t want to work there anymore
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by mirceal 4y ago
nope. you’ll end up underpaid and over the years leave a lot of money you deserve on the table. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negoti... Get the competing offer. Negotiate. Having a competing off

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