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by tqi 2y ago
> Kathy Zhang, a senior analytics manager with The Times and the guild's unit chair, said, "Management has really dragged its feet when it comes to bargaining," between the union formation and now. Maybe tangential, but I
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by tqi 2y ago
> Social media is of low value ...to you. Everyone is a Libertarian except when it comes to other people's preferences.
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> When I ask people why they do this, they either don’t have an answer, or respond with “huh, I never thought about why”. And that’s interesting to me. I do this because I don't care enough about the particular account or use it fre
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by tqi 2y ago
The wikipedia article continues: "Prior to 1985, water meters were not required in New York City; water and sewage fees were assessed based on building size and number of water fixtures; water metering was introduced as a conservation
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by tqi 2y ago
I don't think there's such thing as a founder "mode", just good founders and shit founders, and anyone who thinks they can turn it on and off is definitely a shit founder.
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Because when they do and it and the answer invariably comes back "no", it's not considered "newsworthy" so journalists don't give a shit.
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One thing that surprised me is that when the article talks about "big cars", I had initially assumed they meant the ubiquitous family crossover SUVs (RAV4 / CRV and the like) that have more or less completely replaced the fam
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by tqi 2y ago
Don't you need money to pay the estate tax?
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by tqi 2y ago
That's not the point. From the article: “When you look at the dental insurance model, it doesn’t protect the patient from financial risk. It’s the opposite,” said Marko Vujicic, chief economist and vice president of the Health Policy I
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by tqi 2y ago
Supposedly they use "RLAIF", but honestly given that the first step is to "generate responses... using a helpful-only AI assistant" it kinda sounds like RLHF with more steps. https://www.anthropic.com/res
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by tqi 2y ago
Dental insurance isn't really insurance, in the usual sense[1]. [1] https://www.vox.com/23901293/dentist-delta-dental-insurance-...
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"The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division — for the third time in the span of a year — recently failed to convince a jury that alleged agreements to fix or stabilize labor markets should be punished criminally." https:&
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TBF your contention that the impact of price collusion also requires citations. And the DOJ has thought a lot of things, however their track record in court has been not exactly been stellar so I'm not sure how much of a signal that is
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> the owner is the person who chooses to enforce the pricing algorithm Very interesting - I can't find anything about this on their website, but assuming that is the case I feel like this is the only explanation so far in this threa
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What I'm having a hard time understanding is why RealPage cared about "compliance" in the first place - do they charge as a % of rent? That seems nuts, I would imagine landlords hate that. If not % of rent then I can't
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by tqi 2y ago
Taxi "companies" were also political innovations, where the medallion system kept supply far below demand and prevented any kind of meaningful competition, allowing drivers free reign to play games like "my cc machine is brok
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> If you could time-travel back to the 80s and 90s, plenty of folks would have scoffed that anyone would ever "need" a computer, let alone a computer in their pocket. Is that true? I feel like people have imagined portable comm
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by tqi 2y ago
This is like pointing to a Vespa as proof that a BMW should only cost $7k. A BMW is clearly overpriced, but they are also not the same class of vehicle.
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by tqi 2y ago
Oh definitely agree / empathize. My point is that the difference in approved purpose makes the price comparison spurious.
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https://images.salsify.com/image/upload/s---9R0HlX1--/bc01nu... "Stay near and watch baby during use. This product is not safe for sleep or unsupervised use. If baby falls asleep, remove baby as soon as
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by tqi 2y ago
A baby swing is not a bassinet.
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You think ads are the only way for power and influence to be achieved?
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by tqi 2y ago
How would removing ads help with any of that stuff? Desire for power and influence are not byproducts of ads.
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by tqi 2y ago
It's going to be hilarious when this poster posts a follow up complaining about AI generated legal advice they received on Reddit.
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What is it about digital content that turns people into hoarders? It's not like they are deleting episodes of Dexter's Lab. I would be surprised if anyone on the entire Slate staff had spent more than 5 minutes consuming content o
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Google is falling behind because at a certain point, employees will look at the tenuous connection between the company's overall success and their individual success, and make the rational choice to prioritize the latter even if it is
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On the one hand, I agree that those people are usually wrong and generally pretty annoying. On the other hand, who cares? This is a random internet forum, not the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, so maybe there is no such th
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by tqi 2y ago
To the parent comment's point, even after reading the post I'm still not sure I understand why this is better. - replay resistant: doesn't ssl already ensure this? - database-leak resistant: if i'm understanding this cor
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Personally I think it's clear that with large bureaucracies personal incentives become disconnected from company outcomes, so instead of fostering innovation you get empire building and politics.
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Google's former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI(theverge.com)
22 points by tqi 2y ago|17 comments

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