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by nfw2 2y ago
That is how they got started but I don't think it accounts for much of the revenue now. That was my impression at least.
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by nfw2 2y ago
I was at Chegg during its peak. I think there is a cautionary tale here about the danger when a company's culture deludes itself about its product's value statement. No one internally at Chegg admits that it's cheating softwa
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by nfw2 2y ago
It was pumped up incredibly high during early covid years because of high growth due to remote learning and the high availability of capital.
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by nfw2 2y ago
I agree the "education" label is questionable, but it had a market cap of nearly 15 billion at its peak.
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by nfw2 2y ago
I agree it was a poor choice of words as the decisions are largely being made by regulators and doctors.
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by nfw2 2y ago
I didn't say it's not real. A doctor prescribed me Adderall at 18 after talking to me for 5 minutes because I was having trouble sleeping. It did more harm than good. Something can have therapeutic uses and still be over-prescribe
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by nfw2 2y ago
> Attempting to censor all liars sounds like a catastrophe waiting to happen, for example. This is the whole point of libertarianism. No one thinks lying is morally good.
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by nfw2 2y ago
> (free speech) has always been limited by harm caused to others No it hasn't, except for specific enumerated circumstances
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by nfw2 2y ago
You actually do have a right to that, and to suggest otherwise is a much worse stance on public policy than someone incorrectly describing a quarter's GDP growth.
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by nfw2 2y ago
I think part of All-In's success is that it has the vibe of a group of friends sitting around and shooting the breeze. It's way less academic than something like the Ezra Klein Show, but that's the point. Is there bloviating
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by nfw2 2y ago
It's extremely frustrating to me how reliably the anti-JS crowd on HN promotes this sort of "just use HTML / CSS" content. Having a general purpose programming is obviously beneficial for application development. There i
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by nfw2 2y ago
Why is that bad? Both have uses: 1. Client-side validation is for immediate feedback for the user. 2. Server-side validation is to block malicious actors
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by nfw2 2y ago
I actually kind of like renowned author Dan Brown, the same way I kind of like the acclaimed historical drama National Treasure
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by nfw2 2y ago
To summarize Dan Brown books by describing the characters fundamentally misunderstands them. The characters are about as important as the characters in a porno. The point of a Dan Brown book is to chart the stupidest possible path through h
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by nfw2 2y ago
You are a humanities professor at an Ivy League university, but also, somehow, in mortal peril. Your love interest is picturesque but ill-mannered... This is also true of Indiana Jones, which everyone likes.
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From being in book clubs
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by nfw2 2y ago
I'm not sure when I first had the idea. I read a lot of mystery, but I'm often frustrated trying to remember all the details. A virtual notebook seems like it could help a lot for me personally. My mom and grandma also read books
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by nfw2 2y ago
I'm building an e-reader app where "enhancement content" such as illustrations, context-approprate summaries, and group chat can be integrated into the reading experience. The way I am connecting external content to the epub
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by nfw2 2y ago
Fwiw, GPT o1 helped me figure out how a fairly complex use case of epub.js, an open-source library with pretty opaque documentation and relatively few public samples. It took a few back-and-forths to get to a working solution, but it did ge
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by nfw2 2y ago
My understanding from the article is that expiry ("use by") dates will still be needed, and sell-by dates are being removed because mean something different from expiry, but consumers (myself included until now) generally misunder
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by nfw2 2y ago
I agree there are tradeoffs to SPAs, and I shouldn't have implied that companies are a perfect decision-making apparatus. That said, I think if a certain technology becomes an industry standard, especially one that demonstrates some st
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by nfw2 2y ago
The OP was asking for an explanation why the preferences of the industry diverge from the preferences of this comment section. The question itself identifies two groups. The top comment on this page said the frontend community seems like a
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by nfw2 2y ago
Because the ux and dx are better once you reach a certain amount of complexity. Companies know what is best for their business. There were will always be a group of devs that don’t like it because it isn’t the same web as in their heyday, a
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by nfw2 2y ago
> "All OpenAI is doing here is decoupling ownership of the for-profit entity from the nonprofit." Yes, but going from being controlled by a nonprofit to being controlled by a typical board of shareholders seems like a pretty bi
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by nfw2 2y ago
The author's test proves the theory; it doesn't falsify the theory. The test could only prove the theory or fail to prove it. Failing to prove is not the same as falsifying.
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by nfw2 2y ago
I'm not saying what you think I am saying. The theory that "Uber price is always independent of whether the rider has credits" is indeed falsifiable, and the experiment in the anecdote seems to do so. The opposite claim, &quo
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by nfw2 2y ago
How the term is used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability From Karl Popper: "The only way to verify a claim such as "All swans are white" would be if one could theoretically observe all swans, w
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by nfw2 2y ago
Full self-driving will kill it
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Conservation of momentum is falsifiable because you could construct an experiment that where the expected movement based on the theory might not be observed, in which case the theory would be falsified. Perhaps what you are getting at is th
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by nfw2 2y ago
I see. That seems like pretty good evidence then. The point of the OP is that it is impossible to submit evidence that contradicts these anecdotes, because it is impossible to prove something never happens through experiments.

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