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by office_drone 2y ago
> ... had to go into ensuring that we could wipe out the human race in minutes. That was never ensured. Historical casualty projections expected that, in the event of large scale nuclear attacks, the majority of the involved countries&#x
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by office_drone 2y ago
"The one book we encourage startup founders to read is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. It's critically important for anyone in business. Try to get a used copy printed before the 1960s; after Carnegie
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by office_drone 2y ago
As someone who writes software for moderately boring business operations, I've been wondering making terminal-based apps with lots of keyboard shortcuts would lead to a more productive end user than writing a web app. I've been lo
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by office_drone 2y ago
> they called it Project Habbakuk, in reference to ... "I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you." This is a slightly more subtle way of calling it Project You Ain't Gonna Believe T
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by office_drone 2y ago
I have a hypothesis that the reason humans are more likely to believe things that rhyme is because of the effort involved in creating the phrase. Comparing saying something vs saying something that rhymes, the latter takes more time, more e
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by office_drone 2y ago
At today's closing price this is 3.6% of outstanding shares
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by office_drone 2y ago
As best I can figure #1 is your 'guaranteed hits' - songs that you have listened to the most. As you go higher it may be your most-loved music of a different genre or the 1st genre again but with more new-to-you music.
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by office_drone 2y ago
> This study identifies 33 as the tipping point for sonic stagnation, an age where artistic taste calcifies, increasingly deviating from contemporary works In the time since I turned 33 I've experienced an almost-complete switchover
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by office_drone 2y ago
The simple explanation is that the actions of C-suite executives add value, even after factoring in their compensation
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by office_drone 2y ago
Coops have a hard time hiring directors because they can get paid more in standard corporations? What a heartwarming story of employees knowing their worth and not settling for less.
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by office_drone 2y ago
I'd like to plug PocketBase [0] for a similar use case. Last week I was looking for a place to store random data with API access, and was looking at making a Google Sheets backend, but PocketBase was easy and didn't have a 60 rpm
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by office_drone 3y ago
That's a great use of inversion - the mental model detailed by Farnham Street ( https://fs.blog/inversion/ )
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by office_drone 3y ago
I recall this being mentioned in Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants [0] : Boranes are unpleasant beasts. Diborane and pentaborane ignite spontaneously in the atmosphere, and the fires are remarkably difficult to ext
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by office_drone 3y ago
I found interesting, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606093 about ancient coinage > "There was a chronic shortage of small change in ancient economies, so even poor quality fakes were accepted in markets
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by office_drone 3y ago
According to a realtor association site [0] the 'Residential - All Types' price for 'Greater Vancouver' went from $466,500 in March 2009 to $1,196,800 in March 2024. That is a 2.57x multiple. [0] https://www.g
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by office_drone 3y ago
That can't be right. GTA and Vancouver home prices are 3 times what they were in 2009.
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by office_drone 3y ago
> These days you have to be your own safety agency As far as I can tell this has been normal throughout history. Any modern thought to the contrary is, in that context, wishful thinking.
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by office_drone 3y ago
Commoncog has some blog posts about the process: https://commoncog.com/putting-amazons-pr-faq-to-practice/ https://commoncog.com/product-development-iterated-taste/
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by office_drone 3y ago
> Will a masters in ML give me an advantage when applying A master's will almost certainly do one or more of 1) Getting you past the resume screener and the posting's absurdly high education requirements 2) Showing that you are
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by office_drone 3y ago
https://archive.is/gzSFf
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by office_drone 3y ago
Sometimes that action is called "humility"
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by office_drone 3y ago
> why the stock buybacks are necessary when investment in the business is going down The business theory answer is that buybacks are used when there is no better investment opportunity. Let's say the stock trades at 10 times earning
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by office_drone 3y ago
That just makes it sound like he knows what he's talking about
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by office_drone 3y ago
https://archive.is/I3JZh
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by office_drone 3y ago
Good governance doesn't always mean doing something instead of nothing.
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by office_drone 3y ago
https://archive.is/TgTZs
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by office_drone 3y ago
New movies get produced because people want to make and sell movies. They don't have to make movies that are 100% reality. Movies actually use special effects and CGI to fake all kinds of things that would be illegal in real life. For
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by office_drone 3y ago
It is a scapegoat, and banning it is theatre. The current government of the Trudeau Liberals knows what actual steps it could take to combat car theft, involving dismantling organized crime controlling the ports, and does not want to do it.
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by office_drone 3y ago
> For it to come from AI it needs to come from real children. Yes, but given that CSAM data already exists, and we can't go back in time to prevent it, there's no further cost to attain that dataset. Unlike all future real CSAM
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by office_drone 3y ago
This is misleading. The river has personhood according to a municipality with a population of ~7000 . The Canadian legal system has made no such recognition.

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