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by safog 4y ago
It was never the happiest place on earth for a lot of the non-creative types. No idea how the creatives at Disney felt. For instance, they used to have unpaid interns do full days at theme parks in-character and people would fly all the way
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by safog 4y ago
No I understand these, I'm curious about what you're referring to when you say there was a report that industry wide comps are down sharply.
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by safog 4y ago
> Meanwhile my employer is celebrating the latest salary comp data showing that industry-wide compensation has declined sharply. Any pointers?
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by safog 4y ago
FWIW I worked at Amazon in one of these teams and it's not something I found very interesting. You get thrown a random binary that some ML researcher compiled with instructions to host-it. No sense of ownership over the product, you&#x
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by safog 4y ago
Check out "unnatural selection" which covers DIY home CRISPR setups if you're interested in this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnatural_Selection_(TV_series... I believe they cover the-odin.com a
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by safog 4y ago
There are no presubmits that prevent breaking changes from "going into live". If some shared infra updates are released, the merge from live breaks for multiple individual teams rather than preventing the code from getting submitt
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by safog 4y ago
Thank you for being so candid. FWIW I think you are bang on with your assessment and I'm really hopeful that I can get back to using Medium again.
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by safog 4y ago
In general, generative models are taking publicly available content from creators and are monetizing them for big tech. Same with stable diffusion, AI art. And it'll be the same with LLMs. Eventually the whole internet would be flooded
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by safog 4y ago
Yup you're right. It's more like Adani's lenders might threaten social stability if Adani becomes insolvent. But I'm pretty sure the govt will give SBI a cash injection and have them loan that amount to Adani in the even
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by safog 4y ago
He's too big to fail status in India, so it'll be interesting to see how their short position unfolds. They can keep the scam going for much longer than Hindenburg can keep their short I imagine.
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by safog 4y ago
Benefits costs add up quite significantly, not just the pay. Pay is made up of base pay + bonus + stock. The stock based comp is weird accounting tricks too where you dilute existing shareholders to pay employees. The direct cost to company
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by safog 4y ago
There's no reason to view it as a pure tech-only thing. Every single company has hoarded talent in the past two years owing to the tight labor market. And it only needs some folks to signal before the flood gates open. Finance is begin
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by safog 4y ago
Yeah it's an interesting thought. Credit card scams, phishing, etc. have made new ways of stealing possible. It's 'safer' as in I think you can claim muggings or burglaries (or losses to these) have reduced because peopl
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by safog 4y ago
China and India both have declining fertility rates as well. It seems like fertility is incompatible with economic development.
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by safog 4y ago
Curious - why would it be unconstitutional? There are plenty of laws forcing companies to engage in certain kinds of behavior. The latest I've seen is the beer manufacturing / distribution / sales breakup as a result of the p
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by safog 4y ago
Neutral observer, don't particularly care about lambda. I think it's worse than average - lots of strong opinions being bandied about. If I had to make up a score it's somewhere slightly above Google shutting down Stadia and
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by safog 4y ago
Tesla comps are a good indication, he drives them pretty hard too. They aren't really that high.
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by safog 4y ago
(a) seems very likely to me. Didn't he already speak about making Twitter a "super-app"? super-apps are a bit new to the American audience but in China / India they are surprisingly commonplace. I won't be surprised
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by safog 4y ago
Thanks, this is interesting. I wasn't aware that all land that's not explicitly zoned is agricultural.
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by safog 4y ago
Unlikely because there's basically no NIMBY-ism in India. Any developer can just acquire land, some air rights and plop up apartment complexes. And unlike in the US, apartments in India are designed for family life and aren't just
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by safog 4y ago
Yeah I think it's a wider design movement - everything's transitioning towards more neutral / no strong colors / accents vibe. Interiors, architecture, logos, fonts, furniture, what not. Dunno if there's a name for
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by safog 4y ago
Has a technical recession ever not resulted in an actual recession as declared by NBER?
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by safog 4y ago
Yep we just throw both basmati + quinoa in the same pot and throw it in the rice cooker. Works well.
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by safog 4y ago
Yep, but there are a lot of environmental factors that the link above talks about. Stress, Sleep, Alcohol Consumption etc. all matter and the effect varies by individual. What was incredible was how well the glucose level predicts cravings.
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by safog 4y ago
Yep I used levels health for a month and it was extremely useful. Beyond that, I mostly eat the same stuff all the time so I know what it's going to do to my glucose even without the CGM telling me about it. I still would like to give
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by safog 4y ago
Are there any apps that can read the NFC data from the FreeStyle libre? I don't want to deal with yet another device that you need to use to read data + upload.
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by safog 4y ago
Is there a way to get this device without a prescription? I tried phone apps that use the FreeStyle Libre and make it into a CGM (e.g., https://www.levelshealth.com/ ). They're great but also super expensive.
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by safog 4y ago
It is true, not sure why there are downvotes. US immigration is a mess and Canada's is delightful even if it's pissing off the locals a bit these days. I've been saying for a while that US and Canada have been playing a zero
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by safog 4y ago
I spoke to a fairly well respected psychologist about exactly the issue OP was describing. He felt that the issue was really poor impulse control and suggested introducing delays between action -> reward. He thought it wasn't ADHD b
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by safog 5y ago
There's a huge language / culture divide in India and yes managers of a certain culture can hire reports of their culture to be their yes-men but it's not exactly based on caste. It's effectively a French guy hiring anot

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