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by paulcole 1y ago
The ad spend itself is not the issue. I am fine with spending $10,000 on ads (or whatever amount). The issue is that when I know $5,000 of it was spent on clicks that had 0% chance to convert. For every fraudulent click I can block/pre
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by paulcole 1y ago
> The only thing you should care about is your own sales vs your own ad spend. You do understand that when I stop/reduce the fraudulent clicks that leaves extra ad budget available to be spent by clicks from real people who will act
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by paulcole 1y ago
> You can’t stop fraudulent clicks just like you can’t stop your SuperBowl ad from playing while your viewers are in the bathroom Yes, you literally can stop fraudulent clicks. I'm not sure where you get the idea that it's not
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Does it really matter if it's all fraud Uh, yes. If you get 47 sales on $10k in ad spend (pay per click) and $9900 of that $10k was fraudulent then you got 47 sales on $100 of ad spend. Imagine if you could stop those fraudulent c
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by paulcole 1y ago
Yes and I literally don’t care if they sell my data.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I should add that I don’t care at all about my data being sold (to the highest bidder or otherwise). I also have a personal policy of paying for subscriptions (ad-free when possible) when they’re available. But if something changes and I ha
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by paulcole 1y ago
> For real data, the average cold-submit of CV to interview ratio has been around 1:1200 for LI/Indeed. What's the source of this?
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by paulcole 1y ago
I’m not interested in any software, open source or otherwise. I have to use software to do the things I want to do. I pick an option that’s good enough, use it, and go about my day. Fiddling with and thinking about software isn’t a hobby I
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Are you a programmer? No. It is binary thinking because there’s 2 choices: take action or don’t. If you don’t take action then it’s just wishful thinking of how you’re imagining how you’d like your life to be. Which again, is a totally
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Family, friends, support networks, availability of employment, and a million other factors apply. You’re just adding excuse on excuse here which is totally fine. People love thinking that a million factors are holding them back when th
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by paulcole 1y ago
> You really can't blame me for not trying hard to avoid driving. This isn’t about “blame” (a word I never used). This is simply about what people choose to do. > not everyone has the choice to move to a handful of metro areas in
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by paulcole 1y ago
People leave abusive relationships all the time, too.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> When the cities are designed for cars with everything else being an afterthought, people are going to driver everywhere. Not if they really hate driving and want to live differently! You can say you're a victim of circumstance or
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by paulcole 1y ago
> city infrastructure requiring people to drive everywhere I really really really disagree with this. A huge number of people could design a car-free or less car dependent life for themselves if that was something they valued highly. Peo
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by paulcole 1y ago
I'm biased because I'm 45 and have never driven a car in my life. I grew up in a very rural area in Florida, went to a big state college, and then moved to Portland, OR because it was a decent place to live without a car. I knew f
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by paulcole 1y ago
> What's an equal concern to me is how insufficiently resilient Reddit collectively appears to be, in face of this. I don’t see this as a big a problem as you do. As soon as you solve this, then you have the issue of people you see
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by paulcole 1y ago
The answer is so simple. We really really really really like our cars/trucks/SUVs in the US and have agreed that about 30,000 to 40,000 people a year will die so that we can keep driving the way we do. It’s the price we pay for th
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by paulcole 1y ago
> I have asked them to terminate my employment immediately so that I can file for unemployment with state of California(my home state). You don’t ever need anyone’s permission to file for unemployment but telling somebody, “I need you t
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by paulcole 1y ago
> I've been tracking software quality metrics for 3 years as an engineering manager What metrics specifically?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> It's always weird to see somebody who had zero involvement in the creation/engineering/design of a product so disproportionately defensive about it. Why is this weirder than the guy who goes out of his way to post negati
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by paulcole 1y ago
I hire for marketing and design (all levels) and only remote roles. For ICs it’s this: 1. 15-minute or 30-minute virtual meeting w/ me. 2. Take-home exercise - I limit this to about one hour if unpaid. I end up paying for some kind of
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by paulcole 1y ago
If you are not European, I will be amazed. If you set up 2FA and then lose your 2FA, then that’s just life. Happens sometimes and you move on. GitHub absolutely doesn’t need to provide an in-person recovery service.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> New and novel things impress me They don’t seem to if 90% of what you have to say about AI is by your own admission at best tepid. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can look at the state of AI today (even if the gains are perceive
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by paulcole 1y ago
> it's obvious that they are not an everything machine Whoever said they were an everything machine? When I first used the Internet in the 90s, I wasn’t like, “This sucks there’s no Amazon and no Facebook.”
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by paulcole 1y ago
> This, however, isn't the first AI capable of doing that correct? Didn't Sora 1, Veo, and others come out before this making videos from sentences? It seems like there was a 90% chance you weren’t impressed by these either… &g
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by paulcole 1y ago
I have used Sora many times! If you need to see a Scorcese movie as output in order to be impressed then you will be incredibly disappointed. > It is great for demo reals but that is about it. This is what is amazing! Imagine you go bac
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by paulcole 1y ago
As a gauge for how seriously I should take your critique: How many hours a week are you actively using AI tools yourself? What percentage of public comments that you’ve made about AI tools have been skeptical or critical?
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by paulcole 1y ago
I think this is a key difference between US and Europe. It seems like you believe that if the government passed a law then it will have meaning in society? It's still as meaningless as if you just wore one today.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> if someone found me on one of your photos and say - look a lanyard, what a jerk for putting that online, without any additional consequence You can wear a lanyard today!
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by paulcole 1y ago
Yes that all does seem like too much.

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