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811.
by paulcole 2y ago
> I feel like typical employment isn't for me because I'm too entrepreneurial now Get over this feeling. Get the easiest job you can that makes a decent amount of money and learn to relax.
812.
by paulcole 2y ago
Every neighborhood is a car-free neighborhood if you’re rich enough, poor enough, or determined enough. Source: Me, determined enough.
813.
by paulcole 2y ago
> My cofounder and I think the rise of AI has put the free web at risk To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, “When your paycheck depends on you thinking something, it will be very hard to get you to not think it.”
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by paulcole 2y ago
Do you actually have a need to flee or are you thinking this sort of planning will be a fun hobby?
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by paulcole 2y ago
> None the less I think it gets the point across that just because you can program doesn't mean you can work at a FAANG. This is orders of magnitude less true than the high school varsity and NBA comparison. If someone can program w
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by paulcole 2y ago
Yes, but. I was hoping to express my displeasure with Apple.
817.
by paulcole 2y ago
If you have time, wrap your arm in your jacket and shove that into its mouth. Otherwise bare arm as deep into its mouth as you can. In both cases use your other arm to strangle it.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Let’s get real here. There’s like 550 NBA players. There’s what, like 10,000 engineers at Google alone? A person who leetcodes their way to Amazon isn’t in the same universe of comparative-skill-level as the 11th man on an NBA bench.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Gmail and 15 minutes a day (or less) to get it organized. Answer quickly or delete.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Just curious, but do you think LLMs have the ability to significantly increase the productivity of a person who generates code to produce business results (note, I was very careful to not say “software engineer”)?
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by paulcole 2y ago
> We can jump into whatever equivalent of Zenos' paradox this is. I don’t know what that is but OK. > Do they care more about being displaced by the disaster or eating? > I think it can be said they care about both. I don’t di
822.
by paulcole 2y ago
That would be a great argument if I were refuting something about how many people like the color green.
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by paulcole 2y ago
OK I’ll give you that they were concerned enough to tick a box and cross their fingers and hope for the best.
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by paulcole 2y ago
If a person was displaced in 2024 due to climate induced disaster, do they care about the climate or do they care about being displaced by the disaster? If those people hadn’t been displaced in 2024 due to climate induced disasters, what wo
825.
by paulcole 2y ago
I guess that’s where I see a difference. If you look at a problem and say, “I definitely care about this, I’m just failing to take action,” I’ll say, “Can’t be that big a problem then…”
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by paulcole 2y ago
> On the other hand everyone is concerned about the planet's health This whole article rests on this faulty premise. It’s like saying everyone is concerned about shark attacks. Everyone’s not THAT concerned or the beach would be a l
827.
by paulcole 2y ago
I can kinda bullshit an answer about chips and whatever or that there’s fertilizer and migrant labor involved. But do I really know anything beyond what I’ve read in a New Yorker article that I skimmed? Not really.
828.
by paulcole 2y ago
How fun do you think the ipad factories and strawberry fields are to work in? How many pesticides are on the strawberries? How many people in Africa get killed so some warlord can run the cobalt mines.
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by paulcole 2y ago
I don’t know how my ipad works but I like using it a lot. I have no clue how strawberries get from a field to my grocery store but I really like eating them. There’s a limit to how much I am willing to learn and there’s a heck of a lot of t
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by paulcole 2y ago
> No one’s last words are, “I wish I had spent more time at the office.” Rich people love saying this. I bet there are some dudes who die penniless in a gutter who do wish they had a bit more money.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Well that’s not necessarily true, but that was the point of my question. Make sure this person understands the situation they’re in and whether it’s actually a problem before thinking they have some surefire business.
832.
by paulcole 2y ago
You’re sure your company wants to save $100k/month?
833.
by paulcole 2y ago
Looks like it’s back already lol. The thing that made me confident was that the mentioned Trump by name (telling me they knew he was going to make a change).
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by paulcole 2y ago
Democrats getting trounced by Trump/Republican Party is one of the most embarrassing things to ever happen to the Democratic Party and that is saying something. If they lose (again) it won’t be because of TikTok. No place left to look
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by paulcole 2y ago
Who’s to say it’s too much? I enjoy it. I’m over 1/2-way thru my life. I think I know what I like doing with my time by this point.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Not bizarre at all. Trump doesn’t need to ever acknowledge that he’s the one who made that initial move. Just take credit for saving it now. Maybe if he’s feeling himself he’ll say it was a 4D chess move to make Biden look like a bozo by be
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by paulcole 2y ago
I’m 41 and watch 20-25 hours of TikTok a week. I love it. Glad it’ll be back early next week, most likely.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Anyone who says that LLMs are terrible for the environment will never be swayed from that belief. It is like a new shibboleth for idiocy. When someone says it just reply with, “I see” and move on with your life.
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Being an introvert, I absolutely hated calls. Can we stop with this crap already. You hate calls because you hate calls. Not because you’ve made up a definition of introvert that helps you avoid phone calls.
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by paulcole 2y ago
No, I thought I made that fairly clear in my earlier post. There are things I do for me and things I do for money. The two don’t overlap often and I have little interest in them overlapping significantly.

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