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by parpfish 1y ago
what happens in a theoretical market where 100% of investors were in an index funds? companies lucky enough to be listed in the S&P or whatever would get a huge influx of cash, but their actual quarterly performance wouldn't change
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by parpfish 1y ago
if they're not fighting for you, they're no your union. it's a union.
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by parpfish 1y ago
one thing that i've been repeating for years now is that if you want tech to organize, unions need to sell themselves differently. unions in the past are portrayed as remove physical dangers, limiting to reasonable hours and fair wages
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by parpfish 1y ago
Sometimes I worry that all the stories about unions helping to end the most extreme exploitation and fix deadly working conditions has made them unrelatable. If you make a cushy salary and the biggest physical risk is carpal tunnel, you mig
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by parpfish 1y ago
Then you better not watch any fireworks on Independence Day either
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by parpfish 1y ago
Why don’t labor issues resonate more with tech workers? I know that we’re not a monolith and are actually a heterogeneous mix of opinions, but there frequently talk about job dissatisfaction (career burnout, comically stingy equity grants,
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by parpfish 2y ago
Just say YTA
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by parpfish 2y ago
for the last few month i've been trying to figure out what sort of game people are playing with the ragebait stories on advicecolumn-esque subs (AITAH, AIO, etc). if you read one story in isolation, it seems fine. you'll think tha
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by parpfish 2y ago
reddit these days is a constant reminder that there are few things more annoying than seeing bad arguments for stances you agree with
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by parpfish 2y ago
> Which is dumb, because sometimes I'm legitimately better at the strategy half too A semi-related thought I've had recently: I've run into a number of non-technical product people that say that they're primary skill
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by parpfish 2y ago
We’re talking about inequality between regions/towns, not individuals. Do to self selection and sorting, you could have a situation where individual level inequality is unchanged but the geographical disparities change
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by parpfish 2y ago
I wonder what would happen if you ghiblified images of the slop I cooked for dinner. Ghibli food always looks so good
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by parpfish 2y ago
Unless you’re Nathan fielder and you just want to talk about aviation safety
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by parpfish 2y ago
Well put. A few decades of compounding inequality transforms what used to be good natured ribbing amongst chums into bullying.
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by parpfish 2y ago
depending on the rurality of that part of new england, they might have a legitimate claim to need the ground clearance and 4wd in the winter. sometimes backroads aren't plowed well. or they. are plowed well and you need to scale a gi
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by parpfish 2y ago
you mean "finger-man running on the side of the road and jumping over buildings"? we would've called it parkour if we had known what parkour was back then
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by parpfish 2y ago
Don’t forget the classic “let’s hyperfixate on any negatives for the new thing instead of comparing them to the negatives of the current solution”
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by parpfish 2y ago
i actually think it's good that you need to explicitly share the photo with each group. people like getting a message that they know you decided you wanted them (or their little group) to see. if i see a photo that a friend broadcast
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by parpfish 2y ago
re: mangoes In the 90s, American would've known that mangoes were a fruit and (probably) that they were orange. But they would not be in a standard grocery store. I suspect a big part of this was that for a long time the US banned mang
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by parpfish 2y ago
As social media shifted from direct communication to “broadcasting”, we lost any sense of reciprocity in these online connections and they’ve become meaningless (or worse, parasocial). I can’t think of a way to introduce any meaningful reci
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by parpfish 2y ago
Maybe you could do it with math research? First, give it the abstract for a fresh paper that it couldn’t have been trained on, then see if it can come up with the same proofs to see if it can replicate the logic knowing the conclusion. Seco
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by parpfish 2y ago
Other food: - Mangoes went from unknown/exotic in the US to being a standard fruit in your produce aisle. - it’s surprising how cars in the 80s didn’t actually have cup holders. I always thought that was just a joke until I bought an 8
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by parpfish 2y ago
I know that VHS tapes aren’t great, but I’ve found that having a limited supply of physical media actually makes me more likely to watch things. Browsing through a collection at the library or a friends house, it’s shocking how quickly you
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by parpfish 2y ago
Also google “Giles Brindley” for another great self-experimentation tale
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by parpfish 2y ago
Self experimentation is pretty common in psychophysics experiments. I think a big part of it is that the experiments are long and boring, so the scientists themselves are the only people likely to pay attention and perform the task accurate
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by parpfish 2y ago
Stardew is the opposite of relaxing for me. It’s a never ending to-do list and sense that you don’t have enough time. It’s “Chores: The video game”
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by parpfish 2y ago
One of my more tin-hattish ideas: higher ed has drifted toward more of an “all inclusive resort” model over the last 50 years where students get to live in a “parallel” version of the city with their own police force, medical center, dining
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by parpfish 2y ago
Another potential factor driving the US’s reckoning with car centric development is the aging of the boomer generation. At some point, there’s going to be a large number of cities where a majority of homeowners are too old to drive.
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by parpfish 2y ago
Hook theory: It doesn't matter what I say, so long as I sing with inflection
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by parpfish 2y ago
I'd assume that AI companies would use the wiki dumps for training, but there are probably tons of bots that query wiki from the web when doing some sort of websearch/function call.

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