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by tqi 3y ago
I'm curious what signals you're seeing? (I don't pay much attention to this so I haven't really heard anything)
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by tqi 3y ago
I think people on both sides of this debate are being obtuse. As we've seen from the rounds and rounds of layoffs over the last 18 months, most big companies were (probably) bigger than they needed to be to function (TBD on X). However
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by tqi 3y ago
> If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. The way I see it, if I had an ever present human assistant following me arou
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by tqi 3y ago
To do what though? Even the linked thread has no concrete examples. If I had a human personal assistant, most (all?) the value to me would be doing physical errands. I'm not so busy or important that I'd need someone to manage my
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by tqi 3y ago
> Lobbying works. Tech will eventually figure this out. Tech is well aware of this, and is spending accordingly[1]. However I think politics are a bigger motivating factor, and taking "tech" to task is viewed as a good way to s
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by tqi 3y ago
We are all vulnerable to confirmation bias
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by tqi 3y ago
Who is selling these options?? Talk about picking up pennies in front of a steamroller...
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by tqi 3y ago
A version of this is already happening: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-v...
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by tqi 3y ago
i'm also curious if the counterparty gets to keep the $22k?
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by tqi 3y ago
> How to avoid social media enshitification, if no one pays for it? Paying for it is orthogonal. Social networks can be widely used, or they can be high quality (or they can be neither). They can't be both.
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by tqi 3y ago
> We gather new content, published within the last week, from a handpicked list of blogs imo this only only works because it is a niche product? If Google went away, and Kagi became the #1 search engine overnight, I think this approach w
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by tqi 3y ago
AIUI, these restrictions are primarily intended to curb the market for stolen iphones? I think Apple has taken it too far here, but I also think it is disingenuous to have this discourse without at least mentioning the other considerations.
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by tqi 3y ago
I don't think signal is an especially special case. While it may be clear and obvious to you which apps are which, I think that the reality is that its never a clear delineation.
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by tqi 3y ago
I genuinely have no idea what any of that means. What is a symptom what?
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by tqi 3y ago
It's not obvious that when the number if new customers acquired = customers churned, growth flattens?
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by tqi 3y ago
Seems like the author is just working backwards from a conclusion, picking numbers that "work out" to $50k. Obviously growth plateaus when churn matches new + resurrected, that's just basic growth accounting. Why is $50k such
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by tqi 3y ago
I think the problem is there isn't a clear delineation between "traps" and "meaningful improvement." Take Signal for example - early days they had a ton of success with a core group of users, in spite of a number of
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by tqi 3y ago
Is the estimated effect size (g=-0.35) -35%? That feels a bit high to me.
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by tqi 3y ago
I don't feel it's that weird? I think when people see references to [Company] taking an action, they understand it to mean the [Company] executive leadership.
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by tqi 3y ago
Your tweet heavily implies intentionality.
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by tqi 3y ago
Hm I think you and I might actually be saying the same thing, just using different terms? Tests as I understand them (based on reading the article shared by the person I was responding to[1]) run on mock data, rather than real source data.
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by tqi 3y ago
I think part of problem is that it's not a pure reduction in casualties, but rather a large reduction in causalities of one kind in exchange for a small increase in casualties of another kind. Which means we end up gravitating to cases
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by tqi 3y ago
> glorified photo gallery app with commenting This condescending, dismissive attitude is why people tune out privacy advocates.
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by tqi 3y ago
> clear problems when the original implementation is stretched in ways that weren't anticipated -- which is a common argument in favor of testing. On this point in particular, I'm not sure of this is happens very often in data
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by tqi 3y ago
Sure thing. Thinking back, the "data issues" I've encountered roughly fall into two buckets - something changed in the source data, and something broke in the code. My first reservation with tests is that the vast majority of
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by tqi 3y ago
Personally, I've never seen SQL unit tests/asserts demonstrate value in practice. The vast majority of tests are simple uniqueness or non-null tests that would only catch the sloppiest mistakes. I feel like it's emblematic of
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by tqi 3y ago
How is 3-8 a better solution, rather than merely different? It seems like your actual opinion is #9, but that's not actually a solution they can implement.
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by tqi 3y ago
> GOLD not only does well during times of intense inflation, it does very well. In the 1970s, gold rose twenty times over as the inflation rate soared to its peak of 15% in 1980 Is this still true? As a layperson looking at the chart, it
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by tqi 3y ago
Yeah agreed. Choosing not to build this also lacks a plan for unhoused people, so I'm not sure why this is an argument against it.
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by tqi 3y ago
> What's their plan for unsheltered folks? Or is the exclusion of them the plan? Are you say that would be reason not to build this?

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