skizm

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by skizm 9mo ago
> You might fear that people will start arriving at 1:07pm, but I have seen the opposite. They respect the new time. They arrive by 1:05pm, ready to work. We do the :05 thing and this is exactly what happens every meeting: all of them en
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by skizm 10mo ago
What are good Firefox alternatives these days that will run a proper uBlock origin (not chrome’s watered down manifest v3 version)?
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by skizm 10mo ago
Maybe this is a lever that they now have to finally break free of their total dependence on Google. Get someone like Meta to pay them to be the default AI model / interface.
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by skizm 10mo ago
Serious question: does this thing actually make games run really great? Or are they so optimized for AI/ML workloads that they either don’t work or run normal video games poorly? Also: > I arrived at a farmhouse in a small forest… W
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by skizm 10mo ago
Valve is the only company I'd let inject anti-cheat software directly into my veins if it meant I could play CS and be sure others were not cheating haha.
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by skizm 10mo ago
Etsy was a B-corp at the time of their IPO, so there is some precedent.
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by skizm 10mo ago
I think the simple answer is you can't do this with most people. Bootcamps have tried for a while and mostly failed.
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by skizm 11mo ago
McKinsey and other consulting companies aren't really paid to consult so much as they are paid scapegoats. Management just needs someone to blame if something goes wrong. LLMs won't really ever replace them.
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by skizm 11mo ago
Serious questions: won't banks and ratings agencies simply treat this as Meta's debt since it it effectively Meta's debt? What changes if this was on their "official balance sheet"? How does playing with the wording
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by skizm 11mo ago
I think you mean the US WAR budget! /s
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by skizm 11mo ago
To me this basically says roughly 10% of all internet advertising revenue is from scams. I’d bet Google has a much higher number than 10%, since they do more volume.
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by skizm 1y ago
> it turns out there aren't really any laws constraining the executive branch There are plenty of laws being ignored. Tariffs being the most obvious.
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by skizm 1y ago
Meta's last earnings absolutely ripped, their stock jumped 11%, and somehow the stock's P/E ratio went down. I honestly think the market sleeps on Meta. I guess they really hate them investing so much in wearables/AI&#x2
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by skizm 1y ago
Didn't you read the article? They're building a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team.
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by skizm 1y ago
I mean technically stock trading platforms can ban you if you trade too well. Usually happens with options, not buy and hold positions. Retail trading platforms need users that are statistically no different than random to sell their order
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by skizm 1y ago
Wadsworth Constant. Skip to 30% of any video that seems like they're dragging out the intro.
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by skizm 1y ago
You don't need to trust them. They're all very predictable. They will always do whatever makes them the most money in the long term while nominally being able to defend all their actions in court. There is a theoretical dial with
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by skizm 1y ago
Obama deported 3 million illegals. Trump has deported 60,000 so far.
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by skizm 1y ago
Does capitalizing letters, using "*" chars, or other similar strategies to add emphasis actually do anything to LLM prompts? I don't know much about the internals, but my gut always told me there was some sort of normalizatio
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by skizm 1y ago
I guess the question is how many other companies did they correctly identify as not being trillion dollar companies. They will be optimizing for different things than VCs. Also, it is very possible they would have run one or both into the g
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by skizm 1y ago
Could all the large centralized mining pools (ghash and the like) plus exchanges like coinbase and binance blacklist or burn the 184B BTC? Didn't ethereum do something similar to revere a $600M "hack" a while ago?
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by skizm 1y ago
I have heard from other internet comments (with no sources) that Gabe is planning on handing Valve off to his son when the time comes. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?
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by skizm 1y ago
I guess I'm preaching to the choir here, but a machine has re-sale value outside of what it produces, which is what actually makes it a "asset". This argument could be applied to any knowledge worker that makes a spreadsheet
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by skizm 1y ago
I'm curious: what was the original argument for this special case of counting anyone involved in software dev as an asset instead of an employee?
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by skizm 1y ago
Nothing stopping Google or Apple from adding warnings to websites. They do control chrome / safari.
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by skizm 1y ago
Not sure on the specifics of the WhatsApp deal, but often times the founders, or key employees will be paid in stock from the new company that vests over some number of years (4 usually). Some or a lot of it might be up front, but to get 10
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by skizm 1y ago
Pretty sure Zuck makes these decisions and doesn’t give individual apps within Meta much freedom. I recall Instagram (after being acquired) wanting to develop their app a certain way and Zuck kept giving them a hard “no” on a lot of feature
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by skizm 1y ago
Pete Hegseth at the behest of Trump mostly: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/politics/us-cyber-operations-...
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by skizm 1y ago
If you’re a cog stamper, probably doesn’t matter, but if you think for a living and need to generate ideas ever, diverse perspectives are invaluable. It’s the exact same as biology: bio diverse environments always outperform homogeneous one
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by skizm 1y ago
The "anit-DEI stuff" is the same as the DEI stuff from before this administration: performative. Originally DEI was because the people demanded it of companies, now the anti-DEI version is because the administration will make your

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