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by sandspar 3y ago
Ozempic's side effects range from frequent diarrhea to pancreatitis and vision loss. Individuals can consider whether the benefits outweigh the costs. But it isn't free. We might try a Fermi problem to estimate how many of those c
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by sandspar 3y ago
People don't seem to have wrapped their heads around the consequences of media abundance coupled with media coordination. You can find 32 sources to back up anything.
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by sandspar 3y ago
You seem all twisted in knots.
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by sandspar 3y ago
HBR is great at cranking out Just So stories like this. "Shucks, who could have guessed that the leadership style I learned in my 2010's American Northeastern university MBA is scientifically proven to be the best leadership style
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by sandspar 3y ago
Unrelated to Google, but one of Android's best high quality wallpaper apps, Walli4k, has been absolutely devastated by AI generated crap. The weirdest part is that it's the Walli4k team that is adding all of them. The app has beco
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by sandspar 3y ago
It's a shit market and you're taking someone's job and doing it half assed. The other job seeker loses, your boss loses, you win. In Cipolla's formula this is "bandit with a side of stupid."
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by sandspar 3y ago
Gemini is very smart but it fundamentally can't be trusted on any non-technical topics. I talked to it about Taiwan. Gemini gave intelligent reasoning and analysis. But what a coincidence... all of its analysis was perfectly in line wi
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by sandspar 3y ago
For what it's worth, Elon Musk recently retweeted a very flattering picture of Hassabis, perhaps throwing his support behind him.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Regardless of what Huberman did, it'd be a good thing for the world if the "your betters have decided that you should hate this person" articles died out. This article in particular is more of a "your betters have decide
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by sandspar 3y ago
I've found that envy is like faith. If you haven't experienced it then you can't grasp why other people do.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Good idea, let's just hope he's not interested in paper clips.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I don't know if it was a backlash as much as everybody yelling "this is a bad idea!" as loud as they could from the very beginning.
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by sandspar 3y ago
There's a kind of woo for everybody. Dumb people have favored woo, smart people have favored woo. Woo cuts across boundaries.
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by sandspar 3y ago
The natural world constantly has disasters and has had disasters for 4.5 billion years. It's only in the last five years that dying newspapers realized they could get clicks by breathlessly reporting on them.
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by sandspar 3y ago
If you have spare time, get a barista job on the weekends. The physical activity will relax you and you'll get lots of practice talking to people. Books are mostly bullshit - you can read 100 and not be any further ahead. Talking to pe
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by sandspar 3y ago
Maybe think of money as embodied energy. If you realize that he stole 15 years of retirement from thousands of people then it may make more sense. 15 good years of your life turned into 15 bad ones, repeat thousands of times.
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by sandspar 3y ago
You're painting yourself a very vivid picture of this man based on zero first hand experience.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Millions of old guys work like that. The old dude who owns your local bodega probably works like that.
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by sandspar 3y ago
Cuz for some people work is fun. It's like asking a guy who likes fishing why he fishes so much. "But you've already caught enough for dinner...?"
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by sandspar 3y ago
Note: Keep this guy in mind.
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by sandspar 3y ago
In a lot of markets, the institutional layer follows the critics. E.g. in the art market, museums buy what critics think is good. Not so in cars. Car guys are universally - I say universally - opposed to touchscreens and yet car companies a
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by sandspar 3y ago
The guy who owns the farm is still considered a farmer even if he isn't the one picking corn. Counterpoint: so Howard Schultz is a barista?
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by sandspar 3y ago
Good point, when I think of business leaders like Jack Welch, "avoidance of hard, meaningful work" is my next thought. Different people are specialized for different things. Do you think Jack Welch would have helped the world more
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by sandspar 3y ago
DeSantis has built his brand around protecting kids from institutions. This law is consistent with that.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I've lately been seeing a more frequent use of "business students" and "MBAs" as a slur. It's disappointing to see it on Hacker News as well. Slurring people with terms like "Karens" and "boomers
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by sandspar 3y ago
"Affect" is a very common weasel word. It can connect almost anything.
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by sandspar 3y ago
I was wondering recently how much time I've spent arguing with bots online. Hours, surely. Dozens of hours? And it seems like it's going to get worse. The Reddit front page seems largely bot-run now. It's only a matter of tim
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by sandspar 3y ago
If it counts, that one country makes up 17% of living humans.
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by sandspar 3y ago
He's said that he had a difficult relationship with his father, who sounds like a mean, small-minded man. The posters of half naked men on Arnold's wall probably didn't help. Bodybuilding was once mocked. Maybe it needed some
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by sandspar 3y ago
ADHD is the latest in a very long line of "vaguely applies to everyone" diagnoses. The history of psychology is full of them. Asperger's was in vogue a few years ago, chronic fatigue syndrome is for people who like scary diag

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