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by wutbrodo 6y ago
For me, it was Google. You can make an obscene salary by any reasonable standard and not put in that much effort or stress, especially if you're smart. I'm not in a phase of my life where that's what I want, so I'm curre
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> See the “Bernie Bros” who flipped into full Trumpists a few short months later in 2016. I’m sure if you look back at the Spanish Civil War and other divisive historical time periods you’ll find plenty of turncoats that flip from one ex
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
A lot of them are "start pushing for" or signing executive orders, things that have little to no variance in their estimate or likelihood. That isn't to say the dashboard isn't useful! But looking at the raw number doesn
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> It's a lot more bleak when you realize there are virtually no good guys, and a lot of the people who might seem like good guys at first are either grifting or gazed too deeply into the abyss. It's more to grapple with philoso
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
The sites always had an opt-out of being scraped, via robots.txt. Google made a special-case change for French news sites where they stopped showing snippets, and just showed URLs (still opt-outable via robots.txt). The complaint was just a
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
That just means they form a coherent vertical, as do retail sites (Google shopping), brick-and-mortar stores/venues/restaurants (Google maps), flights (Google flights), hotels (Google hotels), etc. You're really straining the
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
>If there are different kind of models (like Ising and XY), they could all implement the same interface with an energy method. Any views on this? If it's necessary for the interface, then it should of course be in the interface. But
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Huh, I used to work next to the Brain team, didn't realize that they started out as Google X. Per their wiki article: > Astro Teller has said that Google Brain paid for the entire cost of Google X even assuming that Waymo has zero e
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Yea nowhere near goatse, just mildly unpleasant. My comment probably overstated my aversion; I just really like that anchorman quote
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I immediately regret this decision Anyway, thanks!
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I didn't see it in mobile Chrome (well, Brave) but I kind of want to...
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> If you aren’t wallowing in a post-truth groupthink bubble, the world of today is really uncomfortable and lonely sometimes. I dunno... For the most part, my close friends are too intelligent to have this tendency (likely not a coincide
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Thank you for the courteous response to a comment that could easily have been taken as an insult! I don't think it's about individually high-quality sources as much as it is about how you take in information. Don't consider y
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
On the policy/enforcement side, NY had indoor dining open until wayy later than CA did in early winter, despite having worse numbers and a much worse trajectory. (CA overtook NY again and now SoCal is screwed, but this was before that)
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I do not follow the connection to my comment. Could you elaborate?
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Yes, I agree, and tried to capture this sentiment in my edit. It's easy to sit in an ivory tower and sniff about how the masses don't agree with you, and it's much harder to find an intersection point that fires up the masses
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I don't mean this unkindly, but your information diet has incredibly serious problems if you haven't come across any legitimate criticisms of the BLM org in the past. As someone whose pet issue has been police and justice system v
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I've had an unusual amount of travel during covid, so I've had occasion to be in sf (2 mos), SD (1 mo), LA (3 mos), and NYC (3 mos). Leaving compliance aside, since my skewed samples wouldn't be very helpful, policy and enfor
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> it puts the responsibility on the user to change their habits to avoid toxic content, instead of on the platform. Why do you think this is true? Taking action to control what you can of your own welfare is entirely orthogonal to and do
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Perhaps you should reread my comments... This is exactly the claim that I'm describing. The claim rests on the premise that these companies are abusing their monopolistic or oligopolistic position over something posited as critical to
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I don't know if you've been following the news, but the removals under discussion haven't been on the basis of "degrading the service for other users". Leaving aside how ill-defined such a standard is, if that were
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> are heavily - and sensibly - regulated utilities. They are understood to be companies that operate in a very different business environment from the majority of other businesses. Yes, this is what's under discussion. One side of t
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
This isn't as strange conceptually as you make it sound. Power companies can't legally cut off electricity to consumers that they deem "malicious", even if they're violent actual neo-nazis or tankies, let alone the
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> And I sometimes wonder how often it's kind of like Pinky and The Brain where the real genius of the show is actually Pinky but he never gets any credit. I found your comment generally thoughtful and interesting, but couldn't
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
The parent comment both says that this is a global phenomenon and links to a study (not on Americans) whose _abstract_ says "There was a highly significant age-independent decline in total testosterone in the first and second decades o
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
It's not about Twitter's ability to ban users it's about enabling them avoid a substantial expansion of their moderation responsibilities. Twitter considers it a positive thing to have transparent and relatively equitably-app
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Individuals who use Gmail for free are effectively just publicity for Google so they can convince large employers to pay them for Gmail. I don't think this is accurate. Having users logged in while using Google Search is worth far
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> What seems to be under attack here is the right of individual companies and people to decide who they wish to work with. Everyone who is criticizing big tech for choosing not to work with certain people is forgetting that that same pri
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
This is a great example, but is still horribly limited in functionality. I use my Google home constantly, but I've built a mental model of its limitations and am still frustrated by the "latency" involved when my model assume
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> You don't believe but there are hundreds of thousands smarter people with deeper pockets... Even if he is much smarter than all the quants at Goldman, they do this for sixty hours a week in a context where time matters a lot. That

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