outsidetheparty

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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
“the company correctly intuited a significant gap between its users stated preference — no News Feed — and their revealed preference, which was that they liked News Feed quite a bit.” I think what it actually revealed is that you can someti
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
OK, your updated description is > 1) give users an overview of and feedback about their activity, 2) create effective and evidence-based interventions, and 3) improve learning outcomes and engagement. ...which is product telemetry; on th
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
What kind of analytics are you talking about? Is it for your clients to use, or to measure your own engineers' performance, or is it product telemetry, or etc etc etc?
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
> People on Twitter are either wilfully dumb or simply ignorant. You'd think after 16 years I'd be used to it, but it still kinda blows my mind that the social network designed for context- and detail-free hot takes is the one
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I'm having a very difficult time understanding what you're trying to get across here; can you rephrase?
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I’m not familiar with Zeihan, but those are bold claims indeed! I’m not disputing — these are weird times indeed — but can you summarize the reasoning behind those? I’m particularly curious about what is the expected cause of Chinese soci
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
> Lobbying is basically just advocating. That's fair. I was imprecise: I should have made it explicit that I was speaking about lobbying in America : > The one big difference between the US and the EU is that the majority of po
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I mean… yes? I thought this was common knowledge; there’s certainly no shortage of documentation available: the ROI from lobbying efforts is insanely high, on the order of 75,000% by many estimates. I find it amusing that you dismissed this
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Again: you somehow appear to have missed the point that this is a research project, not a SaaS proposal. It is not intended to have "real world usefulness", it's intended to advance the science of feature identification and
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Couldn’t possibly disagree more; that’s akin to saying that feature identification is not useful, because if we really wanted to we could just deliver a list of identifiable features along with every photograph. The point of this, obviously
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
It’s not a bubble. Just a garden variety recession.
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
As is usual for science reporting, the actual study's claims are much more modest than the news headline suggests, and indeed only claim a correlation: "Our findings indicate that higher frequency of adding salt to foods is associ
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Would you expect to be able to walk into the middle of a complex technical discussion on a long-running project you're not familiar with, and immediately understand every bit of jargon and shorthand? Why, then, would you expect to be i
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
How will I connect with other UX designers if there's no search? How will I 'network' with them if there's no social media? What do users actually do on this site? That's not clear at all.
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
What would be the purpose of such a site, from the users' point of view? It sounds like the user experience is: I sign up, and "connect" with people whose email addresses I had already. Now what? What actually happens on the
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Took me a moment to notice the "shuffle" button; the utility of the site became a lot clearer after that! Are those real peoples' photos? I know this is intended for mockups and placeholders, but the absence of any licensing
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Yes, thank you for demonstrating precisely my point! The results are r/shitliberalssay, r/conservative, multiple quotes from FOX News, r/roevwadecelebration, r/conservative, r/deplatformed_ (a pro-Trump QAnon crank)
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
It's really not that at all. It's a very one-sided talking point, if you're hearing it a lot that simply demonstrates which media bubble you're in. Search for the phrase "unelected judges": the results are all
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Not everyone. The phrase "unelected bureaucrats" is almost exclusively a Republican talking point in US politics, used when they want deregulation of exactly this sort.
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
One overvalued flash in the pan does not constitute a trend.
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I had distinct memories of HGH in milk having been identified as the cause of this, but apparently that has been disproven: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/health/the-claim-hormones... It's a bit
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
You’re proud of this?
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I was wondering about the poor fellow who'd worked 83 years at some other company, now stripped of his majesty
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
You're right, it does look like Canadian salaries are a bit lower than in most of the US -- though not that much lower. (Nationwide averages are wildly skewed by Silicon Valley, but for example entry-level engineering jobs in Chicag
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Ingredients in a successful pitch: 1. I have a problem 2. You demonstrate that you can solve that problem 3. You demonstrate that your solution is faster / less expensive / easier than rolling my own Handling number one
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
I like this! Thanks for sharing it! ("Quantum childminding" is hard yo -- the park level has me completely stumped)
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Not even a little tiny bit. This question is as old as outsourcing itself; I've been hearing scare stories about how all the programming jobs going to cheaper developers in India or Eastern Europe or wherever else for literally decades
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
Fair enough. The comment I was responding to characterized pooping next to a stranger as "nightmare fuel;" perhaps I over-interpreted that.
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
To my understanding, the assumption that humans alone are "sentient" and fundamentally different from animals hasn't been part of the general scientific consensus for decades. Apes, monkeys, octopuses and crows have been obse
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by outsidetheparty 4y ago
It's funny how people tend to assume their own characteristics are global phenomena, or at least common; isn't it? Looks like the actual number is somewhere closer to 2.8% - 16.4% of people [ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.

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