spoonjim

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by spoonjim 3y ago
What the West refuses to learn from other countries is that you can literally eradicate crime by eradicating criminals
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Which itself had funny consequences. Expert Sexchange used to show you a page with a payment dialog up top but you could just scroll down to the content.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Only if crime isn’t punished. If it is, I.e. the video is used to track down the thief and put them in jail for 20 years, it definitely stops the problem.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
As the universities attempt their cute little social science experiments there is probably a lot of opportunity to create a new university whose admission criterion is simply a 1600 SAT score
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Why?
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Goodhart’s lawing the Asian nerds into a high school with cholos and gangbangers
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by spoonjim 3y ago
The universities want to have 13% black students because they’re run by the kind of people who prioritize that over other goals. They are now in the position of trying to achieve that while plausibly claiming that they’re not.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Even with a decent IQ, failure to finish high school usually indicates very low commitment / time preference / overall “with it” ness. It’s not a good thing that this is the future of our military but not at all surprised that the
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by spoonjim 3y ago
A drone with an analog video broadcast will have lower latency than a packet switched cell phone
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by spoonjim 3y ago
I don’t think you should be apologetic about the small scale of your contribution: the animating principle of open source is that the aggregation of small contributions like yours can create outcomes that rival those of even the wealthiest
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by spoonjim 3y ago
I never give that shit to my kids because I know it’s made in some uninspected Chinese factory
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Disappointing… I find the iPad Pro feels quite heavy when I attach it to my face
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by spoonjim 3y ago
If it’s any consolation, nobody is getting rich off a temperature-sensing stirbar
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by spoonjim 3y ago
No, major celebrities are very careful about their brand and usually demand extra compensation to use it. I have seen some VC investments that require written approval of any use of the investor’s name or likeness.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
So, the cost of a single family home in California
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by spoonjim 3y ago
You don’t really know anything about China. Unless you are directly criticizing the government it’s just like anywhere else.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
It all depends on how much the customers depend on uniformity between use cases. One thing that a strong design system does is force uniformity between products which can be a boon to confused customers.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
I’d love to see some coffee snobs do ABX tests of their voodoo coffee vs. something from Walmart
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by spoonjim 3y ago
FYI I will not sign into an app with Google or Facebook etc. unless I need to (eg it’s an app for doing something with my email). Too risky.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
“Customer” usually means business customer in this context.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
That makes as much sense as saying (knowing) that the only difference in basketball skill between you and LeBron James is that he thinks higher of himself.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Actually, they haven’t. One is some policy analyst and the other is an actor’s wife.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
He is the CEO! He sets the entire agenda for the company. Of course he is important - how could he not be?
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by spoonjim 3y ago
What makes this a “masterpiece”? It’s old, and historically valuable, but it doesn’t look that great to me.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
This guy calls himself a programmer but couldn’t write code to print 100 random lines from a dictionary?
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by spoonjim 3y ago
> When did the gaming industry become a place where what people inside the company want matters more than the end user? Happened everywhere. Now if you run an intense company where people are expected to work hard towards ambitious goals
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Life doesn’t work like that. You’re born without a left arm and guess what, professional basketball player isn’t for you. You have to live in Minnesota? OK. But don’t expect others to change their criteria because of that.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
He went to MIT and was employed at Jane Street, this doesn’t mean he was a Steve Jobs talent but he is certainly high IQ.
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by spoonjim 3y ago
I suppose if you’re going to make your peace with this, it’s good if you can convince yourself that it works for “us”
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by spoonjim 3y ago
Lol

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