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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
It's median, but I think there's a similar effect actually. A lot of people "watch TV" as a side activity to something else (like browsing their phone). Alas, I've never been able to multitask as well as my digitall
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
Yishan (former Reddit CEO) describes how Altman orchestrated the removal of Reddit's owner: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the... Note that the response is Altman's, a
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
If you haven't seen the news update, that's apparently what happened. The Chief Scientist pushed out the other two C-levels, accusing them of hiding stuff from the rest of the board. The board took his side. Altman and Brockman ha
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
Don't they only have to hide the truth from one person? Altman and Brockman were ousted. The only other person on the board from OpenAI is the Chief Scientist, and I doubt he's that involved in the business-end of things. Edit: Al
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
This is kinda ironic. The founders of Splunk originally created the product, because they realized that every sysadmin used their own, single-file script to analyze logs. They cleaned the scripts up and productionized what emerged. The reas
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
TL;DR: It's taking the standard premise that there's no such thing as dying from old age, and applying it to examining treatment for elderly patients. The current conception of a human lifespan is within the context of a world whe
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
#tbt Siri being unable to even start a timer for years
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
The fee was paid by pre-Musk Twitter to the law firm hours before the acquisition. This is less damning that it may appear, because Musk instructed Twitter to explicitly not pay Wachtell, but those instructions don't mean anything to
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
I think there's a few other factors that impact visibility. * The Bay Area is a place where you can make $100k a year and be classified as low-income [1]. * Tech employees tend to live low-key lifestyles that don't really show how
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by occamsrazorwit 3y ago
> you are that person for someone else Especially if you're American. Gallup [1] reports: > The median annual household income worldwide is $9,733, and the median per-capita household income is $2,920 Even among developed nations
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
Yesterday, Gitlab hadn't had a layoff. While Apple did have a much smaller increase in headcount over the last few years, I wouldn't use Apple as an example while we're still in the midst of everything. In December, people we
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
Behavioral economists have ascribed economic bubbles to the same root causes as mass hysteria. Humans may become more sophisticated, but the tendency to believe in collective delusions are rooted deep in our psychology.
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
It's a literal meaning referring to the idea of a secret ruling class of leftist women in society. They're assumed to have all this societal influence and control ("blue-haired gestapo") despite no actual leaders resembl
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
Users have been reporting issues with missing reply notifications and missing replies for a while. It's not obvious if you're not paying close attention, so I think most people won't really notice. Try counting the number of
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
It's probably because the aesthetic here is relatively bland, and sandals are an existing form-factor of shoe. Airpods are aggressively sleek and white, and they sit in a weird uncanny valley of accessory and tool. Technically, wired e
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
To be fair, there's a very real business reason for keeping login and sign-up prompts. I'm surprised he didn't recognize that as a founder. I imagine some PM panicking and running around after learning about the change.
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
It definitely isn't. There's a noted problem with replies failing and disappearing. The number of replies versus the number of replies is often inconsistent, and it changes with new replies being added (so it's not some spam-
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
It's not heavily subsidized. It still costs like $10 for a meal. Also, my point in using Apple as a reference was that they do have a crunch culture (occasional 80-hour workweeks), and those cafeterias aren't open all day (unlike
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
How is ordering Grubhub a drain on productivity?? Most tech companies don't have free food (e.g. Apple), so I doubt that's an important aspect here.
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
He tried to get gain some meme cred but lost some actual credibility instead. Ouch.
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
From the "Twitter Files", the platform reporting system has a list of accounts, and those accounts can have different levels of "approval" for moderation. For example, any moderation action taken on Libs of Tik Tok would
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
He also tried to anonymously get news agencies to publish that the cave diver was a pedophile too [1]. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...
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by occamsrazorwit 4y ago
After seeing PG claim that the criticism of Musk was rooted in politics yesterday, I think it's clear that he's become a Musk fanboy. Ironically, this very article is pretty useful in prescribing how to react towards PG himself. E
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by occamsrazorwit 5y ago
> If someone is competent enough to sustain 2 jobs, they will also get quickly promoted to 2x their salary if they are working one job. One of the benefits of this is that you don't have to be competent enough to sustain two jobs. T
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by occamsrazorwit 6y ago
The "Innovation in the physical world" section seems to have little that actually addresses the productivity and societal part of the Great Stagnation. mRNA vaccines aren't some massive innovation over traditional vaccines, a
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by occamsrazorwit 6y ago
How does developing a vaccine two months faster have a lasting impact on daily life? The best case argument for having a noticeable impact is COVID, and we can't even use that because we split vaccine development into multiple tracks.
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by occamsrazorwit 6y ago
I'm surprised no one brought up the possible explanation that those female gamers are anonymous while Slate Star Codex is pseudonymous, not anonymous. If you read his post carefully, he mentions that his identity is actually public kno
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by occamsrazorwit 6y ago
> It doesn't matter what people on HN say, as long as the market agrees. The market can never overvalue or undervalue? Hmm...
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by occamsrazorwit 7y ago
If you allow people to rate the ratings, you come back to the original issue that people are unreliable raters. Dislikes over likes does sound interesting though.
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by occamsrazorwit 7y ago
How would you fix the ratings issue? That's a common issue with ratings systems in general (that they reflect popularity instead of quality).

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