vostrocity

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by vostrocity 2mo ago
I've definitely had situations where I zoned out for a few seconds during a meeting or seminar, and want to see what was just spoken. That seems like a much stronger use case where you wouldn't want to interrupt the whole room to
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by vostrocity 2mo ago
People often cite they were first to market, but isn't the bigger factor that they are backed by all the big music labels?
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by vostrocity 2mo ago
I use Pocket Casts all the time and have never heard an ad inserted to a podcast.
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
Actually had no idea Dr. Bronner's was this weird. The guy started it as a tax-exempt religious organization!
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
Surprisingly, their "Alexa for Shopping" feature has been quite good for finding products that contain a specific set of desired features. I was looking for a device that plugs into my car's 12V cigarette lighter outlet, conn
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
Seriously, that was the only person with a level head. When has it ever been okay to discuss work details with an ex-coworker months after they left?
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
The odd thing is one of the guys has the first name Chang, and the other guy has the last name Chang.
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
Maybe someone could help me understand what this message means. > I think I’m going to have to hit the workday button before I’m complete. I just got a weird message that is making me nervous (see below), so I am going to go hit the work
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
Why in the world would a high-level Apple employee not sign out of his personal iCloud on his work computer, and then also use his personal iCloud for data from his new company?
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by vostrocity 3mo ago
I don't follow any sport, but I actually don't understand why UEFA and FIFA are non-profits when all the American leagues (MLB, NBA, NFL) are for-profit corporations. It seems to work well in America.
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by vostrocity 4mo ago
The 'like' counts in places like YouTube and Instagram comments have made clear to me the idea of tyranny of the majority.
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by vostrocity 5mo ago
A lot of these animation regressions in Apple's UI originated from iOS 7 and the move away from skeuomorphism. The move away from skeuomorphism made it acceptable for UI elements to do things that make no sense. Examples: 1. https:&#x
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by vostrocity 5mo ago
A topic I'm interested in that is upstream of what you're saying is the propagation of meaning. If somebody has no idea what the Mona Lisa or the Statue of Liberty are, then we can't really bemoan that they would not ascribe
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by vostrocity 5mo ago
The market may not have ever priced in a rebalancing of the S&P 500, but the S&P 500 also has never allowed entry of companies that may never become profitable.
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
If you are somewhat of a public figure and working in a leadership role at a company, I think it's more sensible to put out a widely-seen public announcement about where you are going next, than to just disappear.
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
I'm not sure it's human nature as much as it is a system that compresses everything into finance.
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
MAID as in Medical Aid in Dying? Why would you do that?
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
How porous is the CIA's interview process that they couldn't validate the guy's military discharge status?
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
Additionally, you say there is no need for mass surveillance, but we already have mass surveillance. Every big tech company knows a lot more about the average user than any government has known about a citizen prior to the 1980s. We should
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
If you zoom out more, we are incredibly fortunate that nuclear weapons turned out to be very difficult to build. There is no guarantee that future discoveries won't uncover things that are both easy to build and incredibly destructive.
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
I think it is a new framing that merits discussion. Example case is the school shooter in Canada that OpenAI knew about but chose not to warn authorities of (presumably because OpenAI wants to balance safety and privacy). OpenAI (or any oth
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
You mentioned communism, and I'll add to that since I've lived under communism. It's a great idea in theory that doesn't work in practice because of human limitations. It doesn't work, because A) the reason you said
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
I'm intrigued by Michael Nielsen's thoughts on cryptography applied to synthetic biology risk. I'll quote his notes on using cryptography to maintain a balance of privacy and safety: >To help address such concerns, it&#x27
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
Did you have a better path forward? I point to Michael Nielsen's commentary on Vulnerable World Hypothesis [1] again: >do you think inexpensive, easy-to-follow recipes for building catastrophic technologies will one day be found, gi
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by vostrocity 6mo ago
One idea I haven't seen much discussion on is "provably beneficial surveillance" [1], which builds off of Nick Bostrom's vulnerable world hypothesis. It seems like the best path forward. >We can turn that conventional
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by vostrocity 7mo ago
I don't think the quality of US workers has to decline. The quality of workers in lower CoL places like India simply has to increase, and it has. Both of the companies I've worked for have opened India campuses in the past few yea
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by vostrocity 7mo ago
It's amazing hearing everyone say FSD on HW3 is inferior because it was shockingly good to me.
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by vostrocity 7mo ago
Not a Tesla fan or owner here, but I tested a friend's HW3 Model Y on FSD (Supervised) and it was completely competent. Not sure why EU owners seem to not have it.
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by vostrocity 7mo ago
As an introvert, I've often how wondered how introversion developed and why it became a helpful adaptation.
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by vostrocity 7mo ago
There was a 2020 US presidential candidate, Andrew Yang, who proposed something like this.[1] 1. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/andrew-yang-the-most-meme-...

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