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by tqi 3y ago
> it's that those situations might be unevenly distributed among drivers. I think that may be true in all cases - for example seat belts and airbags requirements may affect people differently depending on height and weight?
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by tqi 3y ago
That's true of basically any change isn't it? Even seat belts conceivably could result in some very small increase in the chance of death as a result of it being harder to escape a vehicle. Obviously the benefits far outweigh the
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by tqi 3y ago
Hm IANAL so am definitely waaay out over my skis here, but I assume the optics of large employers mutually deciding who is/isn't qualified to work for them lends itself to accusations of collusion and wage suppression.
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by tqi 3y ago
> FAANG and friends would just get together and come up with some kind of... I think the DOJ frowns upon that kind of behavior.
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by tqi 3y ago
It's actually not that different. According to the American Time Use Survey, people watch about 3 hours of tv a day on average: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/economy/issues-by-t... Estima
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by tqi 3y ago
> Relying exclusively on user stories as the source of requirements [...] is not sufficient for the design of solid systems. This narrow focus is one of the main limitations of agile methods. This feels like a strawman - does anyone actu
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by tqi 3y ago
Is that meaningfully different than an author selling a book about how to do the inverse?
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by tqi 3y ago
Definitely agree that uncertainty and curiosity are key components of empathy. I realize that my reaction is probably informed by a part of the question that I didn't include in my quote: ... there’s also a type of person, whom you wri
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by tqi 3y ago
> You know, I remember meeting someone at a conference once. Within maybe 10 minutes of meeting, he showed me this terrifying — to him it was probably wonderful — spreadsheet of how he accounted for every hour of the day for the last cou
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by tqi 3y ago
This is a pretty thin article - as far as I can tell entire article boils down to "apply a statistical test" to ab test results?? The four step process laid out doesn't magically protect you from confirmation bias, for exampl
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by tqi 3y ago
This is looking for lost keys under a lamppost because that's where the light is.
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by tqi 3y ago
Can someone explain the legal theory that diffentiates using something like Dataminr to monitor tweets vs simply having an army of agents manually searching for them? I agree that it feels like the scale of the former makes it different, bu
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by tqi 3y ago
Why? Probably for the same reason journalists love writing trend pieces about manufactured narratives, attention and clicks?
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by tqi 3y ago
> if we don’t realign our incentives away from maximizing short term profits we may be destroying our future. What does that look like, in practice? It seems to me the magic of Longtermism is that when time horizons can be arbitrarily se
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by tqi 3y ago
A wildlife corridor? Doesn't look like it from this 2011 streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7143712,-122.4757819,3a,90y,... Regardless, your preference for preserving the status quo is absolutely valid. B
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by tqi 3y ago
The Summit Park development ( https://www.fletcher.studio/summit-park ) is actually pretty thoughtfully planned out imo. There are definitely compromises that have been made, and the developers are obviously not doing this ou
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by tqi 3y ago
Platforms are a carnival mirror reflection of the people who use it (both users and suppliers), and "enshittification" is just what it looks like once everyone piles in.
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by tqi 3y ago
"Since the vector database provides approximate results, the main trade-offs we consider are between accuracy and speed. The more accurate the result, the slower the query will be. However, a good system can provide ultra-fast search w
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by tqi 4y ago
While I also DGAF about disney/sony/wb bottom line, my point is that "Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales except for companies I don't care about" is not the same as "Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales."
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by tqi 4y ago
Of course it is - the title says "Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales", and most sales aka revenue comes from blockbusters. Global box office in 2019 was $42B[1], and the top 10 highest grossing movies alone accounted for $13B[2]. [1] http
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by tqi 4y ago
For one, 70-40 years ago is 2 to 4 generations, so I do think it's still relevant to think about. Also that history shaped what SF became, so new people wanting make changes doesn't seem unreasonable. For another, the fact that so
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by tqi 4y ago
It's not wrong, but making it a requirement for one's opinion to be taken seriously is pretty gross. For one, it actively favors people with money, since they are the only ones who can afford to establish new multi-generation bona
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by tqi 4y ago
Who gets to decide what is or isn't the spirit of SF?
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by tqi 4y ago
I'm very pro development in general, but I'm not sure if the market for a building of that type makes sense for that location? Over 40 minutes to FiDi on public transit and not especially close to 280, so not super convenient for
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by tqi 4y ago
I think the person you're replying to is saying that: - If a government arrests someone, it should be forced to acknowledge both that it happened AND give the reason for arrest - Media should have the right to report on arrests, withou
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by tqi 4y ago
> using someone’s murder to further your political beliefs is horrible. Agree that it's gross but we do it all the time, and I think too often it only feels horrible to people when the political beliefs aren't align with one&#x
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by tqi 4y ago
I'm curious how the predictive aspect of LLMs can generate / "solve" equations. Is it purely "these inputs are most likely followed by this output", and thus needs to have actually seen the problem to get it ri
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by tqi 4y ago
I'm a bit confused by this article. On the one hand, it seems to advocate for thinking beyond "instrumentality" and being solely "oriented around the practical principles of utility, effectiveness and impact". On th
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by tqi 4y ago
> Neutral changes aren’t costly on our users, so while we should be somewhat averse to wasting time and adding tech debt for neutral changes, it isn’t the end of the world. While I think most of the points in the post are reasonable, I s
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by tqi 4y ago
“I would like to see an unbiased group without personal or commercial agendas to create a set of standards that has to be followed by all users and providers of AI.” Will input from the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus also be included in this g

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