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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Amazon claims that this is because state laws have been changing, and even if you don't take them at their word, it seems pretty straightforward. Why would they want to get involved in shifting this particular norm? Why didn't the
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> TAForObvReasons mentioned Uber - I think it is an example Are we in fact worse off than when taxis were around? I know rideshare contributes to traffic, but the consumer experience is infinitely better than taxis (and still way cheaper
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Statistics as detailed as "alcohol consumption by percentile" are hard to come by, but the data doesn't point to armchair just-so psychology like this. Using some proxies for level of extreme drinking: The US isn't in th
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> and we're being left in a worse place than before the "disruption" happened. Do you have examples of this? It sounds theoretically right to me but I can't think of any empirical cases of being worse off as a consume
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You're confusing the two interpretations of "1.5°C". The calculation you're using is interpreting it as the absolute temperature, relative to Celsius zero (which is not the same as Fahrenheit zero!). What you actually wa
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> yes. but I think it's better for it and obviously plenty of others do too including apple This is unfalsifiable, and the line of thinking that generates it is trivially rebutted with a quick look at recent history. All of the limi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I've used it for a couple of years without it resetting
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The parent comment said the Android UI was better; I took that straightforwardly to mean the UI in general. He does mention "since Material", so I can see how you interpreted it as a reference to design. That just makes the downvo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't have much experience with iOS products, but I recall early in smartphone history being flabbergasted by the lack of basic affordances like a notification bar, or quick settings (eg to switch wifi on/off). I'd imagine
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Leaving aside the hyperbolic fringe, I'd guess that what you've heard is that it's possible for a team with discipline and experience to develop in such a way that they sidestep C++'s memory pitfalls. The situation being
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yup, you can see this effect all the way to the 2010s, before which "Internet kid" was practically a subculture (or group of subcultures). Once everybody arrived on Facebook, the Internet became an almost-universal social phenomen
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Fwiw, I have the opposite perspective (maybe because I used to be one of these people!). All of the people I've worked with who go out on a limb in technical discussions and engage with their technical seniors are independent-minded an
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
FWIW, this isn't my experience at all. There's a difference between being an asshole and the contrarian bent+ relatively-minor rough edges Graham describes. The essay touches on this, by saying that it's become a lot easier t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
>This happens all the time with unorthodox ideas, you can be right but if the mainstream doesn't shift in your favor before too long, you get ignored, discredited, or worse. I'd argue this is a bigger problem now, If I'm u
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't know that people are plucking the word out of its context like that. "The pandemic was engineered" is a substantially different claim than "the virus was engineered", and I have seen vanishingly few claims
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This term has always bugged me. It seems to me that thinking "conspiracy theory" is a meaningful concept is guaranteed to make you dumber. Truth is an incredibly complex concept, and while we need to use greatly-simplified models
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Very interesting, thank you. Call it Gell-Mann Amnesia, but I had not thought to extend my skepticism of the basic competence of public health authorities to flu recommendations. I suppose my model is that they were bad in the fast-moving e
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> with only one jab the mRNA vaccines are only about 20% effective against the UK, SA and Brazilian variants Do you have a source for this I could see? I did some light Googling and couldn't find anything that said as much; it also
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Great question, that I don't know the answer to. The answer to that question is part of the uncertainty that attenuates the signal I described as "weak". I think the reason I like the approach I'm describing is that you
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Thank you for bringing that up. That makes a lot of sense, and public health absolutely does need to consider mass psychology and their credibility. The theory that they're overindexing on protecting that credibility doesn't reall
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Some more info from the uni that performed the study[1]: > In relation to the cellular (or T cell) immune response, which plays an important role in supporting and maintaining antibody production, the team found that within the three-wee
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea I'm very curious about this too. Oddly enough, it's not the first time I've heard someone on HN complain about a search query being hard for Google to answer, tried it, and found the answer in the first result (and the ne
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It gives an assurance that CPU throttling, suspension, hibernation, will work correctly. For what it's worth, I had two XPS 13s in a row and the one that came with Ubuntu pre-installed had _way_ worse hardware compatibility proble
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Right, and these companies are more than capable of running on a week to week or day to day basis (they already do this in the markets they test in). > I'm not sure a want a human driver who only drives in winter - they will be out
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> If you sacrifice one of those two things, you'll get a low SAT score. If you have both, you'll get a high score. Even this is saying too much. I know someone who literally did two or three practice tests and got just shy of a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I suppose the argument would be that there's no illusion that media hiring is intended to serve actors' desires as opposed to building the image that studios want for their product. If tiktok had marketed themselves as a unique ki
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Introverted? Neurodiverse? Ugly? Differently abled? Have a regional accent? Too bad, your video resume is disqualified for not being as “good” as the charismatic member of the cultural/ethnic majority. This already happens, in int
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I fully agree with you, but I think a missing piece is that the resumé-oriented system has biases as well. Writing resumés and cover letters is a skill that many people don't have. There are mountains of jobs for which resumé-writing a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The thing is, you can have negative feelings about tiktok (I am) without thinking that their jobs service is useless or doomed to failure. I'm not much of a social media user, despite being of an age full of extremely active users. I f
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
De gustibus non est disputandum, I suppose. Faking crocodile tears over a family member's recent death is well over the psycho line for me, and "but he had to if he wanted to get money!" is not an especially convincing rebutt

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