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by pillowkusis 2y ago
TF2 was one the first major game to introduce a F2P+microtransactions+loot crate economy. I think they did it fairly. Paid content was always for purely cosmetic changes (with some very small exceptions, removed in 2013). You could pay for
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by pillowkusis 4y ago
I strongly recommend working for a FAANG. Even a few years are going to give you lasting benefits: - You make significantly more money at a FAANG than most of the rest of the industry - The klout of a FAANG on your resume will open a lot of
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by pillowkusis 4y ago
> The person entrusted with this decision (typically the manager) now wields tremendous amount of power over others. This happens anyway in Google's "objective" promo system. Your manager assigns your projects, gives you y
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by pillowkusis 4y ago
Exactly! I don't respect it, but it's a very understandable response. Just stop making this controversy our problem. The "correct" response in my eyes is to say "we are a platform, we aren't responsible for the
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by pillowkusis 4y ago
This thread is an interesting perspective on social media "censorship" that you don't hear often. Of course everyone working at a social media company has an ideological bias, and that can come out in the product. But conside
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by pillowkusis 5y ago
>Google fired the three workers... for "clear and repeated violations" of the company's data security policies. The four deny they accessed and leaked confidential documents... Surely if they can prove they didn't lea
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by pillowkusis 5y ago
This article takes the angle that Lambda's profitability efforts may hurt its students: > the school can still reach profitability by enrolling 2,000 students a month while only placing less than half of its graduates in qualifying
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by pillowkusis 7y ago
I think this article boils down to "virtue signalling isn't neccessarily a bad thing, because there are honest signals and dishonest signals[0], and honest signals of virtue are fine, even helpful." This is a common complaint
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by pillowkusis 7y ago
Thanks, I couldn't find the paper anywhere. "Second, we were unable to assess whether the observed increase in youth suicide rates was attributable to the portrayal of suicide in the series." This is so intellectually dishone
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by pillowkusis 7y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of this study. The breakdowns by age and gender make me suspicious of p-hacking. It seems this journal does not require pre-registration of studies so it's hard to know if the study was pre-registered. It very
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
Scott argues that Bitcoin is an example of why rationalists need to be more confident in their results — I’d argue it’s an example of where they should be much more modest. Hindsight bias is in play here. The line of reasoning that “this in
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
Never ever regret making a decision that you thought would make you happier. The fact that it didn’t work out like you thought is nothing to regret. that’s life. It turns out, with the benefit of hindsight, that maybe staying a traditional
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
> As software developers and designers, we have a responsibility to the world to think these things through carefully and design software that makes the world better I’ve seen this opinion, especially in the post-2016 world. I’m not sure
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
>happens to limit messages to 140 characters and that happens to create, unintentionally, a subtlety-free indignation machine, which is addictive as heck, so this is the one that survives and thrives and becomes a huge new engine of pola
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
I was sure that I had come across something but didn't know what to google! Thanks for the links.
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
The tricky bit about consciousness is that nobody can find a useful way to measure or define it. So we end up chasing our tails talking about if fish feel “pain”, that is, they suffer, and yet have no tools or criteria that would help us kn
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
I think many companies aren’t promoting “diversity” to support an ideology, they do it because it has specific PR and legal outcomes that help their image. Companies with high diversity metrics get praised in the press. Companies with low d
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
I think a portion of it may be java's widespread use in large, "enterprise" environments where due to a variety of cultural and technical factors there's a high level of complexity and abstraction. Pretty soon it becomes
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
do I have that right? if you held your bitcoin they'd be worth 14M today?
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
this is not exactly true, no[0]. The law's intent is to give shareholders a means of legal action if the leadership at a company destroys shareholder value for their own gain. 0: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate&#x
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
Ludwig is memorable to me because he stands out as the essential Nerd long, long before it was OK to be a nerd. Ludwig’s life was tragic largely because he was so far from society’s norms and expectations. Gay, uninterested in his family’s
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
>The media should practice more circumspection They won't for exactly the reason the lawyers do this. This is a trendy, hot topic (look how many comments it has on HN so far). This is "news" fodder for media outlets. They
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
this is classic survivorship bias. in order to reach incredibly high levels of success, of course you have to dedicate all of your energy to it. Of course, this ignores all the people who dropped everything to pursue something and failed, c
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
Some other reasons why B2B sites are incomprehensible, along with “get them on the phone at all costs”: - What you do is totally opaque and requires a massive amount of context to explain. Yes, it’s 5 sentences, but only after both you and
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
I suspect HR does gating because it works. HR’s goal is to fill the interview pipeline with as many “reasonable” candidates as possible. They can’t spend much time looking at each candidate since there’s so many. But if it sends down an obv
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
An anecdotal but interesting illustration of the suprising finding that "social programs don't work": http://freakonomics.com/podcast/when-helping-hurts/ The tl;dr being in the mid 1900s when somebo
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
>Almost makes me want to build a better debating platform. I’ve thought about this for a long time. I think the trick is to realize that most people DON’T want to have a debate. It takes a lot of self-control, forethought, and careful sp
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
Your comparison to "the economy" as some dark being that demands sacrifice has been explored more deeply. It's a good read on why obviously terrible outcomes still happen even though we know it's bad. http://s
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
>indicators that can help us guess this is the dangerous part. No, they can't, even though it seems like they could. If they could, they would be used by people to make money and deflate the bubble that would have caused the crash i
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by pillowkusis 9y ago
A site like this seems dangerous at best. Nobody can predict the stock market. Nobody can predict when a stock market is more likely to crash. This site tries to indicate otherwise. Whatever causes the crash it probably won't be one of

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