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by thrav 6y ago
If there were a candidate who was going to demolish Trump, as you suggest, they should’ve easily demolished Biden for all the reasons others have mentioned about him being completely uninspiring.
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by thrav 6y ago
For anyone interested, there’s a thorough politico interview with some California researchers pioneering exploration into this topic.
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by thrav 6y ago
That’s an interesting point. You’re asserting that the fear of government funding falling through is what drives this behavior? Any input on the impact of guarantees? Is this not something we do? Is it irrelevant because if funding isn’t th
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by thrav 6y ago
More people get well paying jobs, fewer people are overworked, and we pay less overtime? Sounds like killing three birds with one stone. Inefficiencies like this should be the enemy of both political parties. They’re why Republicans complai
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by thrav 6y ago
I couldn’t agree more. It managed to feel like good old fashioned low budget internet fun from YouTube yesteryear. Putting aside Matt and Trey, it’s one of the few things that’s made me genuinely burst out laughing in years, period. It’s ma
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by thrav 6y ago
You could just as easily be writing about BART. The United States fails hard at public transit, even where we’re richest and it makes the most sense. I use it all the time, but I can’t really blame the people who refuse. Tokyo was in a leag
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by thrav 6y ago
Obviously that example can be replicated in a Google search, but that doesn’t invalidate the value of the same concept applied to protected information.
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by thrav 6y ago
As an example, I just needed the routing number for my account to make a payment. I was like, “shit, where is that in the app again”, but had just made this comment, so I hit help, and typed “routing number”, and it immediately responded wi
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by thrav 6y ago
Because the ChatBot squashes all those different pages and forms into one location. It takes the time and mental load of trying to locate features on the site or app off of me. Instead of navigating through 3 links to reach the form, having
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by thrav 6y ago
This is not true of all ChatBots. In fact, some companies outright discourage using theirs as such. USAA, for example, makes it abundantly clear that you’re talking to a robot, before beginning the conversation and provides multiple choice
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by thrav 6y ago
Anything that’s under $20 is probably going to be disposable and not structurally sound. I completely agree, and think that’s by design. At that price point they know y’all are both considering the piece disposable. If you buy one of their
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by thrav 6y ago
I finally got to the bottom of this, after moving in with my wife. I never owned IKEA furniture, but inherited some of hers. Her big chest of drawers wobbled, and some of the drawers were blowing out the bottom. To her, and to anyone else,
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by thrav 6y ago
This is more or less what Texas has decided to do. I’m in California, but my entire family is there, and many of my younger family members are going about their lives relatively normally. At least one of my cousins caught it and their whole
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by thrav 6y ago
I think the idea was that if they properly marketed their achievement, they could get Lambo level compensation at a big 3 cloud provider.
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by thrav 6y ago
It absolutely does and is extremely challenging for a particular type of partner. There are many books on the subject. Most ADHD people are also susceptible to RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria(?)) that can make us feel like the entire pla
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by thrav 6y ago
Sure. But you won’t see anyone commenting about that. I’m only saying some people will in fact intuit a thing and be right, and we should hardly admonish them for doing so. The higher rated their comment is, the more other people likely int
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by thrav 6y ago
At the same time, in a big enough forum, there will always be many people who have already intuited what most psychological scientific studies are about, and had it confirmed by their own experience many times over. I’m equally irritated wh
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by thrav 6y ago
If only setting aside brand was a legit thing car purchasers did. Cars are one of the prime places people assert their identity in a product. I feel like any car maker willing to make the most expensive SUV will immediately sell a ton, beca
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by thrav 6y ago
It likely happened in Florida and Texas too. Their profile basically matches New York.
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by thrav 6y ago
Wasn’t there a proof of concept for exactly this about how social media apps were probably already doing this? I believe I saw it on HackerNews. It was a site where you gave them camera access and then ran something like a 60 second experim
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by thrav 6y ago
This is so true that at other companies it often takes a lawyer (in-house counsel) reminding product that something is legally precarious to stop it, and they still push. For something that has no real legal ramifications, there’s no way yo
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by thrav 6y ago
Have you read about how your example, VW, saw a massive increase in market cap In a similar way in the past? It’s a way that was easily repeatable with enough capital and some ability to influence the public with things like memes, controve
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by thrav 6y ago
That tweet was likely intentional foreshadowing of the coming split. He posted it at 8:11 and they announced the split on 8/11. I have no basis for this suggestion, but I’ve actually been thinking lately that SoftBank and Musk coordina
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by thrav 6y ago
You reminded me of the close of one of my favorite Philosophize This episodes on Authenticity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GfkJEWnsNy4
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by thrav 6y ago
The end around this is convincing yourself that you’ll spend it better than the government would. There is a famous clip of Michael Dell saying as much at Davos. Bezos and Musk think they’re saving the human race by deploying their capitol
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by thrav 6y ago
Inverse the gain porn —- Don’t buy TSLA on the day everyone is posting screenshots of their $4M accounts —- Ride the wave of the self-fulfilling DD.
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by thrav 6y ago
Significant hurricanes are not rare. Significant hurricanes landing in places that expose massive vulnerabilities in American infrastructure (the levees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_levee_failures_in_Great... )
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by thrav 6y ago
Almost by definition, they must be adding something to the world to acquire that capital —- so they’re definitely adding something to the world. I didn’t mean to suggest it’s a social negative. I only meant to suggest they’re defining their
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by thrav 6y ago
Just wait for the pendulum swing. Modernity has a real under appreciation for the value of the institutions that naturally arose within almost all human societies. Sometimes the time for a thing has passed. Sometimes the genius of a thing
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by thrav 6y ago
Consumption. If your life is defined by consumption, you’re not adding anything to the world, which is where most people experience meaning. Maybe you’re planning to consume now and create later. Marriage is all about creation.

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