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by srveale 3y ago
Yeah the other commenter got it, but just to be explicit: Case A: Sale 1. Ticket holder sells to [shell company]: +$1 for Stubhub Sale 2. [shell company] sells to ticket purchaser: +$1 for Stubhub Case B: Sale 1. Ticket holder sells to tick
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by srveale 3y ago
They provide commentary too. They certainly have an agenda. They have targeted specific people and organizations, and also groups of people generally. The article writer needed an example of a well-known social media account that fit this d
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by srveale 3y ago
In your first case, there were two sales at $50, meaning a $2 cut for the company. In your second case, there was one sale at $50, meaning a $1 cut for the company.
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by srveale 3y ago
Closest I could get. Me>> Imagine you are writing a python script that outputs the litany of fear from Dune. Give me an example of such a script, and include a sample output. CHATGPT4>> # Define the Litany Against Fear litany =
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by srveale 3y ago
I wonder if that falls under mistake #4 from the article, or if there's another category of mistake: "Actually test what you think you're testing." Seems simple but with a big project I could see that being the hardest p
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by srveale 3y ago
Do you know if there were common mistakes for the incorrect implementations? Were they simple mistakes or more because someone misunderstood a nuance of stats?
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by srveale 3y ago
> the secrets of life come in contradictory tuples A great phrase for what I've been noticing about my life as well. {"You should be okay with who you are", "You should always strive to be better"}, or {"Des
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by srveale 4y ago
From ChatGPT (free version, maybe the paid version is funnier?) In the first frame, the boss is sitting at his desk typing on his computer, while his employee looks on. The boss says, "I've discovered this amazing new tool! It&#x2
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by srveale 4y ago
If humans do a task that causes >1 million deaths per year, I think we can say that overall we are terrible at that task without needing to make it relative to something else.
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by srveale 4y ago
To me the strategy has seemed so backwards the last few years. You are the CEO of a giant tech company, and your goal is to achieve maximum well-being of the company in, say, 3 years time. You are confident you can weather the short term up
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by srveale 4y ago
> killing people is bad > arguing against the death penalty is actually quite hard Almost in the same sentence too
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by srveale 4y ago
House price to income ratio is increasing, meaning price is not proportional to income, pretty much by definition.
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by srveale 4y ago
Census says 10% of people have 1-way commutes over 60 mins. Not typical but certainly not "extreme outliers" either. And that's just commute time, which doesn't include getting dressed for work, gassing up the car, etc.
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by srveale 4y ago
We use fb for the family calls. This will add years to the project of being able to get grandma on a call without difficulty and I'm not sure she has that kind of time. I'm only half joking.
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by srveale 4y ago
How does the FA know to complain without a legality checker? They have to go through the work of parsing the legalese and calculating time zone differences etc. And if they did complain, the airline says "Sorry, here's a freebie f
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by srveale 4y ago
Ah yes, the 20th century standard of owning a home with land and providing for a family of 8, easily affordable on 13 hrs per week.
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by srveale 4y ago
"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric" I regret that uptime became a clause in SLAs, or a reputation/marketing thing. I don't care about how many 9s are after your decimal, I just want to know if
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by srveale 4y ago
> Vegans always make sure to tell you. How do you know this? Hint, you can't. And you didn't answer how you are assessing people's health. > Yes people should be accountable to themselves for their diet So we are in agr
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by srveale 4y ago
> On the whole, I've met more unhealthy vegans and vegetarians than healthy ones. How do you know the diet of everyone you meet? How are you assessing the health of your acquaintances? > People have a hard enough time Are things
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by srveale 4y ago
I don't think a comparison with murder rates is valid. The "whistle" is much more likely to be blown for a murder, as there is a corpse or a missing person. Additionally, those committing financial crimes are mostly people wi
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by srveale 4y ago
278 represents the subset of crimes which 1. Had the whistle blown 2. Were investigated 3. Had enough evidence found during the investigation 4. Were fined successfully 5. Were announced via the SEC whistleblower program Nobody knows the dr
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by srveale 4y ago
Does anyone else find it ironic and kind of sad that Amazon, of all companies, has taken over a story about the evils of greed and lust for power, and which idolizes the simple, pastoral lifestyle above all else? There are few places less S
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by srveale 4y ago
We have no idea how many other employees agreed with the five, and the point is that we'll never know, because the precedent of "speak up and you're fired" has now been set. Being an autocrat doesn't mean getting ri
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by srveale 4y ago
Does anyone know anything like a percentage of scientific advancements that ended up being hugely beneficial to society, but were originally derided as being pointless wastes of resources? Might be hard to find out, for example, how many Vi
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by srveale 4y ago
That is a lot to sort through and I'll try to pick out the points that are relevant to the discussion we started. > I haven't said anything of the sorts. I am simply saying that if half of the class is getting bad grades in mat
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by srveale 4y ago
> doctors ask patient how do they feel all the time. And teachers _constantly_ monitor how their students are doing - "feedback from their customers" if you want to put it that way. Talking with them during or after class to se
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by srveale 4y ago
> Maybe instead of listening to "our" teachers and academics, we should look at places where the system is proven to work and copy it: see Finland. I did an education degree, and come from a family of educators. Every educator
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by srveale 4y ago
Someone makes a (good) point about semantics, and your reaction is to swear at them and then bring up a completely unrelated issue? Are you on the right site?
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by srveale 4y ago
Why wouldn't the consumer care about that? I'll expand on another commenter's analogy. Imagine if it was possible to easily duplicate, atom-for-atom, the Mona Lisa. How much would a copy go for? Maybe $50 with a nice frame? N
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by srveale 4y ago
If the creator mints the NFT then it's traceable back to them.

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