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by tqi 4y ago
Isn't that like saying a minefield is the same as any other field as long as you know where the land mines are and step around them? At the end of the day is it that surprising that people choose to walk somewhere else?
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by tqi 4y ago
Sure, if that is possible.
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by tqi 4y ago
I'm saying there isn't a single answer to the question that everyone will be happy about.
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by tqi 4y ago
Might be nice if people could read comment threads like this one and realize that there is no "right" answer to many questions, only individual opinions that live on a spectrum of individual opinions.
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by tqi 4y ago
Personally, I've never understood why first to publish matters? As far as I can tell, the only people who care are other journalists, who seem to think that any story about a breaking news item MUST credit the person who wrote about i
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by tqi 4y ago
2008-2018: Banking reform 2018-202?: Data privacy I wonder what the next trendy thing government officials will pretend to care about/fix in order to garner media attention. Something crypto related, maybe?
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by tqi 4y ago
Is a news director selecting stories for the front page of a newspaper meaningfully different?
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by tqi 4y ago
Total Time Spent, Total Post Impressions, Total DAP are both easy to measure and relatively predictable week over week, so its fairly easy to see regressions. Outages definitely impact consumer apps, which makes sense if you stop to conside
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by tqi 4y ago
> No reasonable interviewer is going to hire you or not hire you simply due to your fluency during the interview alone. > With that in mind - relax! Imagine you are explaining things to a friend rather than being examined. +1 to this.
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by tqi 4y ago
1. As others have said, practice is the only real way to get better. If you can carve out the time, interviewing even if you aren't actively looking to change jobs is a good idea. 2. Specifically to your question about proper narrative
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by tqi 4y ago
> It is universal common knowledge that the ease with which one takes to math is different for different people. Why can't we just admit it and quit trying to make people who are unique the same? I disagree with this statement, espe
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by tqi 4y ago
Drastically reducing rentals would crush job mobility/flexibility. There are a lot of problems with the rental market, but it's existence is not one of them.
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by tqi 4y ago
1. But the crux the issue here (and with atomic weapons) is that as long not everyone has rejected it, then end result is not meaningfully different. And it's impossible to get everyone to reject it. 2. Again, I don't think that a
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by tqi 4y ago
1. How did rejecting atomic weapons go? 2. In what way does it "threaten human dignity" that is different from the technologies that came before it? Automation took away the livelihoods of people in industries like manufacturing d
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by tqi 4y ago
> As a society we can reject this technology. The point of this parable is that you explicitly cannot undo this...
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by tqi 4y ago
> The problem is that now people think the concept didn't exist before hearing the word "steelman" I don't think most reasonable people will make that mistake.
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by tqi 4y ago
Journalists especially seem eager to have tech put back in its place. These days it feels like they are straight up antagonistic towards the whole industry. A quick scan of The Verge homepage, I see mostly sarcastically negative stories (Ne
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by tqi 4y ago
Agreed, this doesn't pass the sniff test at all. Makes me think of this article[1]: > Your estimate will be wrong for a silly, almost tautological reason: if you can only detect large effects, then any effect you detect will be larg
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by tqi 4y ago
> We will apply our generous severance philosophy to offset the financial impact of this decision. What does that mean for people who accepted but have not started?
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by tqi 4y ago
You don't think the fact that newsrooms are overwhelmingly college educated people with Liberal Arts backgrounds has anything to do with it?
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by tqi 4y ago
Short term, it seems like probably? [1]: > There are studies depicting the market’s reaction to recommendations made on Cramer’s show. Notably, in January 2009, graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania published a study clai
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by tqi 4y ago
1. "Oracle does not do employee appreciation events" is not the same as treating staff badly. Events like that have all kinds of frankly important accessibility and inclusion concerns that are tricky to handle. Not saying it'
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by tqi 4y ago
Couldn't that just be about "fairness" to the other (non-Sun) employees?
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by tqi 4y ago
Are Apple ads not targeted? ie is their platform different than: > Even though companies like Facebook and Google aren’t directly selling your data, they are using it for targeted advertising, which creates plenty of opportunities for ad
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by tqi 4y ago
What is your complaint here, that company names should only be made up words?
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by tqi 4y ago
> It's like trying to explain why small talk is important to someone from a low-context culture - there's probably a fundamental disconnect where it will never make sense. Doesn't your analogy actually run counter to the p
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by tqi 4y ago
I think the lesson here is not that you misunderstood (which is completely understandable, no reason you should know the name of a local theater) but rather that it's never a good idea to assume the worst reading of a situation.
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by tqi 4y ago
> There is a binary: Pro-union, anti-union. That's it. It's that simple. ...and "anti-union" = "union busting"?
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Where do Group chats land in this?
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by tqi 4y ago
The ad was dumb but when did we stop taking responsibility for our own dumb choices? It's not like they tricked people into investing in crypto.

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