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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The profit motive does a poor job of handling the externalities journalism should be addressing. But govt control of the media landscape to the degree you're talking about can easily hamstring the important adversarial function journal
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> NPR/PBS tends to have better and more balanced news but it is largely because of their donor/patron model. This is an interesting hypothesis, because PBS is near the top of my quality ranking for news orgs while NPR is near t
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Content ID'd by the accelerometer? How does this work?
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I evidently misinterpreted GP's incoherent comment as claiming that we were enslaved by the entertainment itself, as some commentary about the inescapable addiction of modern media.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Consider working on both your writing clarity and reading comprehension. "It's not leisure if you don't like it" and "Slavery in entertainment" are easily interpretable as claiming that the entertainment itself
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Can you expand on the slavery analogy? I'm aware that this is the naive perspective, but when I realized I was watching more TV than I liked, I stopped, and there was no overseer to whip, mutilate, or starve me into resuming. That isn&
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
You're commenting on a post about an RCT that does show probiotics having an effect...? And AIUI, there's plenty of other evidence of a) their efficacy for changing the gut biome and b) the gut biome's causal effect on a var
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Most people don't have anything remotely close to what you'd call "beliefs", so no consistency is required between one pseudo-belief they might hold and another.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Understood, thanks, though I will note in case you missed it that this is in response to a comment calling my own evidence of autism.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Are the supply shortages policy-induced? Or do you mean not by the Biden admin, but just the regulatory status quo (incl tariffs from the previous admin)?
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I'm also a layman, though one of my degrees is in economics, which tbh isn't that helpful here beyond understanding the fundamentals. My current working model is that there are multiple simultaneous effects, mostly separable but i
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Having to spend half your available income for things that are automatically taken on your salary in Europe is _the_ major reason Americans are paid considerably more Are you thinking of anything beyond healthcare? Youre correct that s
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Could we stop posting clickbait garbage like Vice? The CEOs of "Sezzle" and "Safegraph" said something on a podcast, and the headline loudly proclaims that "Tech CEOs" desire this. Two CEOs, one of whom has 500
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
And on top of that, even the secondary industry hubs in the US (eg tech in NY or biotech in the Bay) are massive and productive enough to dwarf European industry "capitals". The geographic diversification of the US really is an en
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> accepted in US politics Is your impression that this is US-specific? Mine is that lying is accepted in politics in general.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Too many meetings get scheduled over lunch and people lose their windows of opportunity. Why not just put a daily block on your calendar during your lunch hour? It seems pretty bizarre to require everyone to take their break at the ex
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
IMO the bulk of this is due to workplace culture, not being remote. Naturally being at home adds some logistical flexibility, but the bulk of the gap is between companies who treat their employees like toddlers and those who actually respe
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This was the story that got me hooked on Asimov as a kid
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> For all the data driven ethos that execs tout, this is one area where decisions seem to be made at the whim rather than derived from data. Having worked at places that take the data-driven ethos to an extreme, there are very straightfo
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> it’s more often than not a grid of a lot of the upper staff of media companies like CNN, FOX, and so on. And each one of the people in that grid has a blue Star of David next to their photo. This particular meme crossed over from consp
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
FWIW, I've noticed this with non-Americans too. I did a backpacking trip around the world when I was 25, and the proportion of European women (always women) who felt like it was their duty to lecture or question me about the US's
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Are you in iOS? I see a pretty detailed breakdown of notification categories that I can disable.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. As my point is about individual choice and control, overlapping jurisdictions are not relevant to my point: I'm effect you live under the single "government" that is the superposition of mu
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I tried switching from YouTube music to spotify recently and was shocked that they don't have a _music library_ feature: a table of songs that you can slice by artist, album, etc, in the manner of every music player since the dawn of t
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yes, in the mundane literal sense, they are subject to competition in a way government is not. This is blindingly obvious to anyone whose brain hasn't been rotted by extremist populist discourse. We (rightfully) worry about excessive m
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Percent change doesn't make sense either. Plenty of companies have lost a much higher percentage in the time period.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I used to use Firefox _while_ I worked at Google. Though I eventually gave up when the performance/feature difference became too huge to justify.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> The purpose of these behavioral questions is to get you to produce details about how you actually act at work in challenging circumstances. I think the idea is not that these are low-signal, but that the _recall_ of stories like these
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> Basically I now prepare fake stories before hand. Seems pointless. Give me hypothetical scenarios any day of the week. I'm with you on this, as I find on-the-spot recall pretty hard too, especially depending on my mental state. I
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
They don't break out the profitability of some subunits, but according to the WSJ it was "breakeven"[1] in 2014 with $4B in revenue. I still don't see where the GP comment's confidence that it's not meaningfull

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