techfeathers

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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’m actually sort of interested in the contrast. I think you’re right, that it is sort of obvious that doomscrolling news is bad for mental health, and it’s a sad change.
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Fox is proudly larger than all the other cable news outlets combined. Sinclaire pens most local media, Wall Street journal is conservative, Joe Rogan is the largest of all podcasts. What does that leave, the New York Times? How is it we
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I mean most research is trying to figure out things we think are intuitive, but I actually find it somewhat interestingly. It says negative content, not news, so I wonder how this compares to say heavy metal or horror movies where people m
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Something always seemed incomplete about testing models against standardized tests; I would expect AI models to first do well on standardized tests, much better than humans, but it makes me wonder if there’s something else that humans posse
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by techfeathers 2y ago
On the left? This issue has been uniquely bi-partisan. From the article: “ So when UHC’s CEO was assassinated yesterday morning, on his way to brag to his shareholders about record profits, not many people were confused about the motive.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Thirty percent is a big number when you’re thinking of consequences like bankruptcy and death.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
This seems to be part of the civilization / institution — chaos / individual retribution axis. I.e. yes, we absolutely should prosecute more white collar crime.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
So, not the USA then? https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
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by techfeathers 2y ago
The liquid democracy thing I find interesting. I guess I don’t trust that anyone with any semblance of power actually wants something that looks like direct democracy, so I’m suss that it would ever be implemented in a fair way, and I’m cu
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Something I’ve really become aware of recently is that rationality is sort of a bell curve. I think really successful people tend to be more biased than people in the middle of the curve. I think this is because of optimization. Some peop
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I've had this observation recently I think of as like "trickle-down everything". It came up after a recent conversation I had with someone asking when Kevin Spacey's career was coming back, and it's sort of this id
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by techfeathers 2y ago
sort of amusing they have this example: > imagine if getting a credit card required an annual trip to the local state Department of Credit Cards where you had to wait in line for the whole day for the right to transact! Which may ironica
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by techfeathers 2y ago
It doesn’t say that prices have to higher, food suppliers could meet the requirements by providing the same low prices they provide to big businesses to small retailers.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’ve been trying to think a lot more about “building community” lately, and I think this person hits on something which is just that the current American system sort of since the eighties has been so focused on career progression and self-e
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I feel like there’s a really interesting discussion to be had hear about crypto and debanking obfuscated by Marc’s clearly bad faith / biased / hiply cynical dialogue with Joe Rogan.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I’m not sure how the marketplace of ideas is really supposed to transact, but it seems like the conversations are too isolated. I’m not pro crypto, and maybe I should be! But I am zero surprised that parts of the government are against it,
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Probably not as surprising given the recent reports that Twitter downranks tweets with hyperlinks.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
One thing that I don’t get about this is the suggestion that degree attainment is about skill building. I have a masters degree, and my degree was almost entirely knowledge attainment, not skill building. Nothing about that degree was des
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by techfeathers 2y ago
For Marc Andreessen trying to support the creation of new banks and financial institution, there’s no pros and cons to the CFPB, it’s all cons.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I remember listening to the podcast of this debate and found this read interesting. I’m sort of inherently inclined to take Klein’s side here, but one thing that Harris said in the debate I thought was really important was that we need to
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I wonder how much of this is “lazy developers” and “quiet quitting” vs the beurocracies , processes and tangled code of big tech companies. I’m not saying they’re aren’t lazy employees, but I intentionally work at a small company because o
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by techfeathers 2y ago
Bari Weiss’ article seems to say that the concerns are bipartisan. Marc Andreesen outright said it was only folks on the right getting debanked and implied it was Elizabeth Warren doing the debanking.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I'm watching the youtube video now, and I'm trying to find evidence that David Horowitz was debanked for having the wrong political views. Marc seems to be making 2 claims. One, The US Government debanks marijuana dealers, sex wo
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I'm about an hour in, and so far, really disappointed. So far it's Democrats all bad, Republicans all good, almost to the point it feels like propaganda for Trump's second term. For example - Tim Walz is a pathological liar
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Do you have a link or something? I can’t tell from the way you worded this if those states aren’t getting enough federal funding or too much?
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This is a good idea, if it doesn’t get whacked by the end of Chevron deference, and if anyone has government healthcare left after the chainsaw comes through. But credit where credit is due.
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I have a feeling you're going to see a lot of this in the next ten years with fintech cozying up to big Gov. And it's a weird dynamic to me. Stuff like this is why you have tight regulations. Do I feel bad for the Fedex driver w
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I'm having trouble losing sleep over the "underpopulation crisis". This seems like an organic reaction to the plant growing in too small a pot. Grow the pot and the plant will grow, or the plant will shrink until it's
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I remember reading a thing that the reason why like day care late pickup fees are borderline extortionary, is that if they make the late pickup fees reasonable, then the average person will consider it a fee for service and not a punishment
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by techfeathers 2y ago
I think part of this is you have to know yourself. I imagine there are some people out there who can really sort of discipline themselves into doing a good job - through checklists or really good review processes. Personally I do everythin

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