tsycho

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by tsycho 7y ago
While I disagree (or maybe don't understand) the rest of your points apart from the mean reversion one, I did find your comment thought provoking. We should think about the unintended consequences of disclosure, even as we appreciate i
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by tsycho 7y ago
Small startups experiment with novel ideas, workflows and products (in a 1000 flowers blooming way). The successful subset of these that survive, get merged/molded/copied by BigTech, and acquisitions are one of the ways to do that
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by tsycho 7y ago
I understand your intent, but what people "want" reads like an utopian wishlist. It's not clear that any strategy sustainably can take us there. All regulations are tweaks to free market capitalism, and more are definitely ne
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by tsycho 7y ago
Put your money where your mouth is and short the stock (or buy put options) :) PS> I am a Tesla owner who then bought the stock as well since the experience was so revolutionary. I agree with the other poster who compared it to the 2007
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by tsycho 7y ago
So as an ex police officer, why do you think your ex colleagues did stuff like this? i.e. Intentionally twist someone's statement or lull them into a false sense of security to say something that will be intentionally misinterpreted? I
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by tsycho 7y ago
Your fear is valid. One way I solved it (partly) is to hire help. Use your financial comfort to buy back your own time by paying someone else to do chores like cleaning, dishes etc. And the 1-2 hours per day that you'll save, now you c
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by tsycho 7y ago
It is, but there's so much social pressure. A decade ago, I bought a $4K diamond as an engagement ring for my now-wife (I didn't know about moissanite then), and my colleagues gave me so much shit since I was spending significantl
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by tsycho 7y ago
So I, like many on this site, also have privacy concerns about these assistants [1], but I have never seen it [2] give obviously incorrect answers such as your anecdote. Obviously Google Knowledge Graph occasionally gives blatantly wrong an
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by tsycho 7y ago
All of you who are commenting on how it's unfair that this bill will mean most green cards over the next few years will go to Indians, how is it fair that Indians currently have an 50+ year queue for a green card? As a personal anecdot
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by tsycho 7y ago
If you have done both professionally, then by definition, you can code. I think your parent poster's point is that too few people can. They are not saying that teaching is easy.
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by tsycho 7y ago
True, but the majority opinion driving AB5 seems to be that most drivers are doing this as their full time jobs. Yes, there are those who drive a few hours occasionally as a hobby or for extra side income, but they don't count much. If
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by tsycho 7y ago
Flash developers were fine since the tech market was still expanding rapidly, so they could learn new skills. What happens when the market is no longer growing, and workers become obsolete since their job is automated away?
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by tsycho 7y ago
IIUC, AB5 might end up making Uber a monopoly in California (and US if other states follow suit) via regulatory capture. Currently, most drivers seem to drive for both Uber and Lyft (based on their cars having stickers for both). But if cla
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by tsycho 7y ago
Thank you for your efforts in making the world a better place.
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by tsycho 7y ago
As someone who owns a Tesla Model 3 and a BMW 528, the Tesla is waaaay more fun. If I had to buy another car today for some reason, there's no question it would be a Tesla. And as far as build quality goes, are you kidding me? BMWs are
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by tsycho 7y ago
Do you pay for Youtube (Red)?
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by tsycho 7y ago
(I am going to assume you are genuinely curious and will answer sincerely. Also, this topic has enough easy to Google sources for my claims below that I am not bothering to cite them, primarily because I am on my phone. However I am happy t
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by tsycho 7y ago
Be less negative. Try to look for the positive ways something may be used. For constructive criticism, try to come up with something unique to the product in concern. Any product may be shut down in the future, there's no value in repe
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by tsycho 7y ago
Since the fine hasn't been decided by the FTC yet, I am not sure I see the point of declaring a number? For instance, if the FTC was going to be happy with say a $4bn fine, this tells them that FB is happy to pay $5bn. The only reason
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by tsycho 8y ago
And if we consider Facebook's normal modus operandi: Today it's 1.5 million, a week or two later, they will say it was 15 million and 2 months later, they will say it was 150 million+. Don't give access to your contacts, loca
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by tsycho 8y ago
What's SDC? I got nothing obvious from googling it. UPDATE: Got it, self driving cars. I am not deleting the comment in case others were confused as well.
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by tsycho 8y ago
Clever strategy by Elizabeth Warren. The ads might be effective in promoting her platform by themselves. And if the media report on the apparent irony, or FB takes them down, that gives her more publicity. FB's actions may cause a Stre
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by tsycho 8y ago
SlateStarCodex's recent post on a similar topic was illuminating [1] > It’s very easy to remove spam, bots, racial slurs, low-effort trolls, and abuse. I do it single-handedly on this blog’s 2000+ weekly comments. r/slatestarco
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by tsycho 8y ago
How active is the FB group for San Francisco? I refuse to have a FB account, so I can't check. If the group owner is reading, can we have a non-FB meetup group please?
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by tsycho 8y ago
That requires jailbreaking, which many people would not want to do (for good reasons).
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by tsycho 8y ago
Unfortunately, Amazon Prime now has ads. Not as much as cable TV, but still very annoying now that I am used to no ads. I watched the Illusionist last night on Prime video, and not only was there a minute of unskippable ads at the start, bu
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by tsycho 8y ago
Any Google product still has a higher probability of being around for longer, supporting data takeout and having a much longer and user friendly deprecation period, than a similar product by some startup. If you want full control, your only
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by tsycho 8y ago
Almost anything on NSHipster
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by tsycho 8y ago
It’s fashionable to bash Google+ and ignore/diminish its contributions. Almost all features in Google Photos for the first 1.5 years of its existence already existed in Google+. Further, the infrastructure that the Google+ team created
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by tsycho 8y ago
Android does a much better job at this, and it baffles me why Apple doesn't. I get 5-10 spam calls every day on my iPhone, many of them early in the morning (I used to live on the east coast and am now on the west coast). On my wife&#x

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