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by spoonjim 4y ago
Given how few people who steal catalytic converters are ever punished for it, they should give these guys extreme punishments (eg life without parole or 50 years) to make the expected value of the punishment as high as they can.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
This is so clearly a copyright violation that I am hoping for a big lawsuit soon so the courts can confirm it.
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All of the emissions reductions in the US aren’t going to do anything if China keeps emitting at pace. We should not be doing anything unilaterally.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I still won’t fly a Boeing MAX. Literally refused to do a business meeting in person and just did it over Zoom because the only sensible flight was on a MAX.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I lived in 250sqft with a shared bathroom in NYC for 2 years and loved it. Loved in 800 sqft in suburban America for 4 months and couldn’t handle it. In a big city with affordable Third Spaces you can simply live outside of your apartment.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I’m of two minds here. Obviously race based admissions is unfair. But Harvard isn’t trying to admit the next generation of scholars, it’s trying to admit the next generation of power. Will that generation be 75% Asian, the way a class would
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by spoonjim 4y ago
No, that’s where you’re misunderstanding the situation. These people are trying a few tricks to achieve high status in their ingroup. My guess is that it’s working. They see this as Mission Accomplished which is why they are continuing to d
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you’re trying to wrap your head around this: keep in mind that being really loved by a small group is more profitable than being broadly palatable to the entire world. The people who pull stunts like this get the most donations, have sex
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I wonder if it’s related to the marijuana itself or the characteristics of heavy marijuana smokers.
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The language will be “preserved” in that 300 years from now, a tape drive in Harvard’s Widener Library will have a Hokkien model on file for historians writing a tenure book designed to go right back into those dusty shelves.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You can communicate with your brain with a one-bit protocol.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The thing is that in-office work only meets the needs of the in-office people if everyone else is there. So instead of every company feeling like they need to support remote work, there should be some companies that are all in-office and so
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Dilbert isn’t for kids… it’s for people who have spent time in a bureaucratic office setting.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Eventually people are going to just disappear into these amazing worlds and spend as little time in meatspace as possible.
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Almost everyone who has achieved something great has micromanaged like this. It’s just some decide to be coy about it.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Lol. I had a US Congressman write a personal reference for me because I went to the right schools with the right kids. It’s so much more hackable. A high SAT score is like a ripped body: you can spend money on coaches, and they can help, b
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I want to play professional basketball with players of extremely high aptitude but I’m 5 foot 7 and can’t shoot or dribble. Somehow the Bulls aren’t interested in me
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Also the learning loss from 2+ Years of Zoom School
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What are others?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Normally, this kind of issue is dealt with by a “change of control” provision in the contract. Don’t know what the situation is here, if there is such a provision then Qualcomm should be held to comply. Maybe it’s not as explicit and Arm is
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Exactly, which is like saying "eating a high protein breakfast increases athletic performance." It may be true, and it may be applicable to the average athlete, but even if such a study was proven conclusively, I would not expect
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don't see the difference. The sentences are equivalent to me except to denote a stock vs. a flow.
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That's the argument that they make, duplicitously.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Sure, Silicon Valley could have been MORE successful. But it's a bit like telling LeBron James that he might have been better at basketball if he had eaten more protein in his breakfasts. It's like, really? I'm happy with bei
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Is anyone in power going to come out and say that it’s very obvious that you don’t need workplace diversity? Silicon Valley created trillions of dollars of wealth in just a few decades and it was staffed with 90% white, Indian, and East Asi
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The alternative to normalized firing is normalized career employment like that which turned Japan into a noncompetitive economy.
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That's a weird logic. So it would be constitutional to outlaw gunpowder?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you take the Second Amendment literally as written, even regulation of personal nuclear weapons is unconstitutional.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you are a former Harvard CS professor and engineering director at Google then you don't need to know any VCs. They will take your call.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL exactly. A Harvard CS professor who had also worked in industry wouldn't even need to share the deck or idea to raise $5m. John Carmack just raised $20m for his AGI startup and doubt he had to share any plans or decks either, and g

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