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by wilde 5y ago
We rolled over to state-sponsored election meddling. There’s no way we’re going to care about this.
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by wilde 5y ago
I was trying to find this blog post when that post whining about pair programming was going around. 1:1 interaction has significant positive effects (even if not quite 2 sigma).
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by wilde 5y ago
The TV adware industry is reprehensible. All major brands do this. I think I’ve disabled it on my TV but don’t think just changing vendors will help.
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by wilde 5y ago
The CMO explains that hilariously the CEO is still wrong, but it was another ad agency that gets credit: https://twitter.com/kate_rouch/status/1495929301631475713?s=...
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by wilde 5y ago
I wonder if remote work will start to correct for the height bias at least.
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by wilde 5y ago
I want to agree with you but, uh, Google seemed to do fine, and they invented this BS.
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by wilde 5y ago
Your point on leverage feels true. I just wish we’d use it to finally move away from the Google model of interviewing. Rather than having people do useless exercises on whiteboards we could do a 30m “are you a jerk” interview and then let
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by wilde 5y ago
What? In medicine it’s called “rounds” and it happens every shift.
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by wilde 5y ago
Without more info it’s hard to say. When I felt like this, a manager recommended I start journaling my energy. I kept a Google doc with sections for each week. In each section, there’s a bulleted list of things I did that gave me energy and
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by wilde 5y ago
I think the main risk is that Google gives up on GCP overall, since it’s never been profitable and is still a long way from getting there.
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by wilde 5y ago
I think our statements overlap. “Reddit moderators have better standards.” Is something I’d definitely agree with.
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by wilde 5y ago
SEO is ads Google is failing to monetize. That said, the reason the Reddit trick works is that it uses information Google explicitly excludes when ranking content (engagement signals). Google has a bunch of “objective standards” that it use
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by wilde 5y ago
Oh totally. I was just annoyed that the prompt after that was “see! You actually don’t think torture is wrong!” The site seems to think that morality is a set of unparameterized rules blindly followed. That is frustrating.
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by wilde 5y ago
The arrogant tone of the website is deeply frustrating. Especially since their examples are full of false premises. For example, in the nuke question they estimate torture’s efficacy at 70%. That’s way, way higher than the actual efficacy.
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by wilde 5y ago
At what point do you go “you know, the low severity problem we’re solving (finding my keys) is probably not worth creating high severity problems like stalking and sexual assault?”
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by wilde 5y ago
Yeah, that’s why tech datacenters were up while people froze in their homes. Corporations know to negotiate these things. Individuals either don’t have the opportunity or prioritize price.
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by wilde 5y ago
There’s something deeply funny to me about the world’s largest vendor of unregistered securities claiming to base their decisions on the rule of law.
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by wilde 5y ago
Can’t Delta just keep its own no-fly list? They’re a private company. They have the right to refuse service, no?
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by wilde 5y ago
I think traditional auto makers have done a much better job of communicating to consumers what the tech can actually do. We don’t have self driving cars (which implies that they can drive in those harder conditions). We have cars that are g
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by wilde 5y ago
Oh sweet! When can skip the bullshit puzzle phone screens?
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by wilde 5y ago
I guess for me “bodily autonomy” is not some bright line. We mandate other vaccines for school. We have loads of regulations around what goes in our food and water and air. Why is this suddenly different? I think I’m as guilty as anyone at
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by wilde 5y ago
The rate is what matters. Vaccination is one of the easiest things we can do to affect that rate. In terms of ethics, yeah I care what other people do. I also care that they stop at red lights so they don’t murder me with their car. We set
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by wilde 5y ago
You got data on that? The studies I’ve seen show that boosters help slow the rate of infection. Ex. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
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by wilde 5y ago
From the GitHub: > One of IBA’s benefits is that it allows sites that are useful to the user, but perhaps could not be easily monetized via contextual advertising, to display more relevant ads to the user than they otherwise could, helpi
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by wilde 5y ago
The obese can’t kill me from across the room. A better analogy would be smokers, who I am also frustrated with but at least nicotine is addictive.
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by wilde 5y ago
For deaths. We don’t have nearly as good of stats on long COVID, which is not a lifestyle I would pick for myself.
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by wilde 5y ago
The marshmallow test has been largely debunked by recent follow up studies. It largely acts as a test of socioeconomic conditions at home if anything. The analogy to COVID probably holds but not in the way you’re suggesting. https:/&#
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by wilde 5y ago
I wonder if it has to do with the type of food. “Hummus recipe” gets you the entire history of chickpeas: https://www.inspiredtaste.net/15938/easy-and-smooth-hummus-r...
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by wilde 5y ago
It’s a good question. One answer could be “enough money to act as a deterrent” and “who cares, the govt I guess”. EDIT: Could also do the student debt thing and have the fines pierce corporate veils and not be dismissible in bankruptcy.
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by wilde 5y ago
Pay is more a measure of what the worker is willing to accept than a measure of quality or productivity.

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