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by rurp 5mo ago
I had complaints about 538, especially the early days, but don't understand this critique at all. A 30% chance hitting is completely unremarkable, and it was a perfectly reasonable reading of the evidence at the time. Nate isn't w
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by rurp 5mo ago
Zero new synergies ?! Doesn't sound like a real project to me.
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by rurp 5mo ago
I quit auto-updating Jetbrains products years ago and it turned out to be a great decision for me. So many updates seemed to just shuffle around UI elements that I had memorized or worsen the performance. Now I only update when there's
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by rurp 5mo ago
Thank you, that looks excellent.
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by rurp 5mo ago
Does anyone know of a good service for getting more up to date satellite images that can be used with other software, such as a tile server, vector map, or similar? I'm looking for some personal projects and have had trouble finding an
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by rurp 5mo ago
They target toxic ads at people with poor mental health who are especially vulnerable. They do this intentionally because it's profitable. There's plenty of reporting on this if you care to look it up. It "works" too. Sp
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by rurp 5mo ago
I was repeatedly pressured to hand my bank account logins over to plaid when I bought a house. People always seemed surprised when I refused. Maybe they were just acting that way to pressure me into making their sale process slightly easier
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by rurp 5mo ago
I enjoyed the old 538 podcast and usually like Nate's work but didn't care at all about Risky Business. His cohost was terrible in the episodes I listened too. She managed to do a lot of talking without saying anything interesting
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by rurp 5mo ago
That's kind of already happened though. Nate and Galen have both launched Substack's covering much of what they did at 538. I've also seen at least 4-5 others working elsewhere doing the similar polling/politics/spo
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by rurp 5mo ago
Wow. I have a low opinion of ABC as I said in another post, but this level of pettiness is still surprising to me.
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by rurp 5mo ago
It's wild to me how often I see corporate America both: 1. Spend immense amounts trying to build and improve a brand. 2. Toss well known brands aside as if they are useless. Not that it's always the same company doing both at the
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by rurp 5mo ago
There are a lot of similarities to the outsourcing boom a decade or two ago. Lots of small/cheap companies saw that they could hire an entire team of devs in another country for less than one US developer and jumped on it with high exp
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by rurp 5mo ago
Gleefully boasting again and again about ruining tens of thousands of lives is about as clear as it gets for evidence of psychopathy. Along with ~0 instances of empathy.
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by rurp 5mo ago
Remember when Altman was going around saying he doesn't take a salary, he's just doing the job for the good of humanity? It kind of blew my mind how many people believed him. Even on HN, where much of the community knew something
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by rurp 5mo ago
I don't know, I saw quite a few positive comments on Stadia, both as a service and the general approach. Most of the negativity was about it being a Google product and not wanting to get invested in a platform they would inevitably kil
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by rurp 5mo ago
Google Fiber has been advertising a lot in my area. Despite the legacy ISP being as bad as most entrenched ISPs I can't see myself switching and adding another Google product into my life. It might be cheaper and faster now, but will t
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by rurp 5mo ago
What I do is rotate through 4-5 stores but only go to one per week. I stock up on paper towels or whatever when I'm at the store that has the best prices on them, and so on for other goods. I actually do know someone who regularly hits
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by rurp 5mo ago
China, and to a lesser extent Russia, will happily help Iran rebuild and rearm. This war has been a major strategic defeat for the US as it has burned through immense amounts high end munitions to destroy low value targets that can be repla
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by rurp 5mo ago
Seems balanced when you put them in a simple list like that, so it might not be obvious that the republican started wars cost many, many orders of magnitude more lives and treasure than the tiny actions attributed to dems.
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by rurp 5mo ago
How does that justify keeping the people who created the mess in the first place and mass firing people who didn't?
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by rurp 5mo ago
Totally agree, and would add another way “that’s what always happened in the past” is a terribly weak argument. Things might have always worked out at the societal level so far, but very often do not at the individual level. Countless succe
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by rurp 5mo ago
Professional communication has a completely different goal than a student essay, and it's weird you conflate the two. A student paper is useless as an artifact, the actual value is for the student to learn how to write the paper. If a
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by rurp 5mo ago
A few tech companies managed to get massive numbers of people addicted to toxic social media content that was terrible for mental health but made a small group very wealthy. I don't think those same businesses and execs are just going
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by rurp 5mo ago
That stuff will help on the margins but won't fundamentally change anything as long as you have a growing number of people chasing after a limited number of high status purchases. There will always be a limited number of ivy league sch
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by rurp 5mo ago
There's no specific "right" answer on the boxes. Like another post said they're looking at god-knows-what to decide whether or not to let you load the website. Years ago I started to deliberately pick one or two wrong an
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by rurp 5mo ago
Sure, but in this case it seems spot on. China really does have a disturbingly high youth unemployment rate, along with a population that's aging and shrinking. I have no idea if they're headed for a major economic crash, but the
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by rurp 5mo ago
Apple and Tesla are two companies that somehow have a widespread reputation for great UX that I think are absolutely atrocious in that area. It's not just 70 yearolds, an iphone is unusuable for someone of any age if they've never
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by rurp 6mo ago
It's definitely varies by person. I'm much more like the GP where relearning how to do basic things I already know how to do is one of the absolute last things I want to spend my time on, but I know plenty of people who are the op
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by rurp 6mo ago
Saying you need to physically take the car into them, unless you're in a country that requires them to provide the option, and disabling other features out of spite isn't what I would call a supported user privacy feature.
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by rurp 6mo ago
The real uptime being worse than reported is basically an iron law of status pages. You happened to hit one outage and I'm sure many others hit separate outages at different times that also weren't counted.

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