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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I have been getting a lot of spam lately. Here's what I'm doing 1) Turn on filtered view on iMessage 2) Actually report the abuse to carriers. iOS makes it easy, but it seems pretty ineffective because the abusers can just use an
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I went to a timeshare presentation once, fully with the mindset of saying no. It was scary how, at certain points, I started to actually open up to it. But I just kept to my script, saying no, even when they pressed. At the end of the day I
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Then it’s basically porn. A short term “better” solution that undermines longer term satisfaction. Porn, junk food, etc The thing about people is they’re people. They’re different. It can be hard. They’re selfish. But there can be joy in o
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I liked how honest the guide was. There wasn’t anything fake noble here and a lot of his frustrations I have also felt as a people manager - the questions employees ask, making excuses when deadlines slip, etc the job is to make YouTube vid
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Play it out Let's assume today a LLM is perfectly equivalent to a junior software engineer. You connect it to your code base, load in PRDs / designs, ask it to build it, and viola perfect code files 1) Companies are going to integ
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I needed to read the article a few times - the quotes from David are a bit vague. His presented focus is on great experiences for the customer, which demands high operational excellence from his team. His team found a reasonable way to sav
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
The prompts at least for me are very travel heavy with an emphasis on said travel being meaningful / life changing. It’s great to have something like that, but travel can just be fun and that’s great too. I have other areas I’d rather
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Catholic Church has no official teaching on the age of earth. Atheism has always existed, it just may have been more or less visible depending on the political climate. Even long ago when people worshiped ideas like Thagwag the rain god[0],
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I have a lot of respect for good detectives. I really enjoyed "Homicide Hunter" - which is a retired detective's recollection of past murder cases. Who knows how much was myth vs fact, but I got the sense he kept good notes
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Being a jerk extends all around. As a manager I’ve had two employees tell HR that I was racist. The evidence? One I fired for performance, the other I had on a performance improvement plan. Mind you I had other minorities on my team in para
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
If you find a friend reaching out once in a while to be awkward, then I’m guessing you probably don’t want to be friends with that person. Or, maybe you have a bar for “friend” that involves more regular contact so it doesn’t feel random.
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Sure the government can create some inefficiencies but trying to blame them removes culpability off Boeing. If it was truly our government then many more government contractors would be delivering broken crap and that doesn’t seem to be the
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I have a lot of respect for great lawyers/judges. While they're saying what is essentially gibberish to me, and they're asking "open' questions, that build on the responses, all along they're slowly backing the
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Here’s the lead: taxation. Imagine that. People avoid pain more than gain pleasure, and people are sensitive to their wallets. “By contrast, taxation is a notable exception in effectively causing large emission breaks alone. It stands out a
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
He’s dead serious. Uber got its start by flouting taxi rules. By the time the backlash started uber/lyft were too popular for governments to shut down so instead most governments created an awkward different category for them, so there
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
100%. As I've gotten older, the things that have given me the most satisfaction are those that take place over a long time. It's kind of like planting trees - it can take a while to see the fruit, but then it keeps on giving with
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
“My partner has threatened me over sharing account access” The survey seems to have missed a likely large confounding variable - cheating. Men are more likely to cheat, so their female partners, either due to confirmed or suspicious cheatin
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Look up value creation vs value extraction. It explains why every tech product is eventually doomed to shittification and opens the doors to competition Value creation is when you have a new thing and people are adopting. You grow by more p
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
It wasn’t so much what words they used. The Japanese just didn’t have any way of translating / understanding Navajo. Kind of like you may hear a language, and recognize what it is, but no idea what they are saying. The Navajo language
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Nice write up - curious much did it end up costing?
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Finally, the inevitable product we all knew was coming: going after Google’s core biz I like the follow up questions feature but how is it different than chat gpt - just providing links as well?
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Homes shouldn't be an investment. They've accidentally become that in the past few decades, and as a result, affordability is getting worse. The better it does as an investment class, the worse it will become. It's a self pe
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
This 100%. Their prices are generally too unstable to put anything on "ship & forget". There are some exceptions, like the items you subscribe to.
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Even many personal blogs these days are suspect, they’re building a brand. I like this guy is doing his own thing.
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Institutional ownership is immaterial? Erm, from the same source, 10% of some metros is a lot, and that’s just moving the meter to 100+ homes. If you did 10+ or 3+ it would be even more. “This share rises to 3.8 percent of single-family hom
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
Yah I had no idea where that came from. Assume 250 working day in a year that’s…$1.25 - $2.5 million per year. At a tractor manufacturer. It was probably a typo, with extra zero. they probably meant $500-$1000 per day. That would be $125k
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by xivzgrev 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. My mother in law has stage 4 lung cancer. She has some mutations for which there are targeted treatments, but the cancer mutated in one area. Fortunately there were more treatments for that mutation, but she&#x
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that's the way to go. one time got "lost" in a corn maze about 2/3rd way thru, going in circles, so just finally hopped a row, and followed the path out 30 seconds later. it's supposed to be fun, not stressful.
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These plaintiffs need a new lawyer, one experienced with going up against big corporations you can’t be amateur hour in these cases. things like not requesting emails in the right way, or offering arguments the judge easily swats away. The
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I know what BS “The platform’s new rules require all items to incorporate “a human touch” as outlined by its creativity standards” That’s just as bad as hand crafted pizza in the frozen grocery aisle - yes at one point someone had to design

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