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by yedava 3y ago
When you get an idea like "I'm going to X with Y, where Y is not designed to do X", it probably takes several hours or a couple of days to implement it. Are you going to let your hire take that much time? And more importantly
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by yedava 3y ago
I would gladly pay for Youtube, except for the fact that Google will still sell me out to advertisers. Ad companies like Google have destroyed the possibility of a consumer trusting a company. As far as they are concerned, our only purpose
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by yedava 3y ago
Even if you pay for Youtube, Google still shows ads in their other products (search/maps etc...). So the data is not worthless. It also gets stored forever and Google can figure out other ways to monetize it.
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by yedava 3y ago
There's an easy solution to "protecting" children on the Internet. Let people and not companies decide what to view on a platform. Like Youtube can provide an option to whitelist channels or let users programmatically define
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by yedava 3y ago
Plenty of people lose loved ones and manage to remain decent human beings. We can admire Feynman's contributions to physics, but when it comes to personal life, he was just an asshole. There's no point in looking up to him in matt
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by yedava 3y ago
Corporations do everything in their power, including illegal things to maximize profits. Why can't an individual do what's best for them?
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by yedava 3y ago
> Also, inevitably remote/async work flips the priority such that employee would be much more responsive to interrupts/errands of their own life than to focus their full attention on the employer's concerns. Which is how i
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by yedava 3y ago
Yeah, text is superior for these kinds of topics. But ads and SEO spam have destroyed discoverability for writing. The same hasn't happened for videos yet. They can still be monetized and that justifies the time and effort needed to m
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New Privacy Badger Prevents Google from Mangling More of Your Links(eff.org)
29 points by yedava 3y ago|1 comments
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Who's in Charge?(momjian.us)
2 points by yedava 3y ago|0 comments
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by yedava 3y ago
Up until a decade or two ago, rhetoric was an extremely effective tool when it came to denying the origins of caste. But with genetic evidence piling up, such positions are simply untenable[1]. As to why certain social institutions endure f
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by yedava 3y ago
> Just because some book says "people from X varna should do certain job", who is enforcing it? Hindu dharma is not driven by any particular book, but is simply the dominant sociopolitical system in the Indian sub-continent. A
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by yedava 3y ago
My point is why the enormous amount of energy directed at reservations when there are mountains of evidence that corruption is several orders of magnitude more destructive? It's an elephant vs an ant in the room thing. You ignore the e
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by yedava 3y ago
> Go to any govt office: the chief of some division is incompetent, some low-level clerk does the heavy lifting. For the majority of the time since 1947, it was the non-reserved "competent" class of people who were in charge of
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by yedava 3y ago
It's interesting to see how new religions are born after old religions are found wanting. Whereas earlier we had a God overseeing Earth, we now have Teleological Universe that ordains capitalism. But just like old religion, the new rel
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by yedava 3y ago
I'm sure they do, but the solutions they've proposed (let the markets decide) haven't worked. Hence the assertion that these economists are arguing from academic theories and not from real world data. Not to mention that thos
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by yedava 3y ago
There still are plenty of low hanging fruit to accelerate innovation like breaking up monopolies, tackling inefficiencies in healthcare and reforming patent and copyright laws. I wish economists step outside of their academic bubbles and re
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by yedava 3y ago
His wealth is not so much about living a rich lifestyle, but about shaping society to his views. His wealth allowed him to buy a media megaphone (TwitterX) to further his political objectives.
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by yedava 3y ago
I would assume that the vast majority of piano playing happens with older repertoire. Narrower keyboards can maybe make pieces by the likes Rachmaninoff accessible to more people.
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Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? (2018)(thenewstack.io)
1 points by yedava 3y ago|1 comments
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by yedava 3y ago
Is it just us jumping on a bandwagon or is it sustained corporate propaganda that undermined institutions? Our ancestors used to believe in things like anti-trust, labor protections and so do the people today. So what changed?
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by yedava 3y ago
There is a hidden premise when it comes to productivity - it always comes at the expense of your personal life. Any numbers like 'X % increase' in productivity at work need to be accompanied with a commensurate 'X % decrease&
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by yedava 3y ago
When I try to think of a real world village analogue of 4chan, the only thing that fits is hazing. To people who participate in hazing, it builds character and brings people together. To everyone else, hazing is horrifying as it has led to
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A Psychedelics Pioneer Takes the Ultimate Trip(nytimes.com)
23 points by yedava 4y ago|3 comments
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by yedava 4y ago
Smartphones are the modern dark patterns and are far worse than IE era toolbars. The toolbars and other Windows crap were easy to notice and easy to get rid off. The modern smartphone is a fast, sleek and utterly locked down device which co
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by yedava 4y ago
I really doubt if AI will have any impact on developer jobs. If I want to build an alternative to TurboTax, how much can AI help? I like to think of software as automating a large number of bizarre corner cases which are a result of us bein
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by yedava 4y ago
I think it's a form of parasocial relationship. It's like you are "conversing" with someone who has the exact same tastes as you, which is kind of hard to come by in real life.
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by yedava 4y ago
The way I see it, companies know that there will always be people who would sacrifice quality of life for money, and adjust compensation for that. This wouldn't be a problem if only a few companies do this. But when every company does
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by yedava 4y ago
Extending the logic further, if housework is work, then is the workplace a home? In a home, the parents genuinely care about the 10 year old. Like if the kid is sick, the parents will allow unlimited time off for the kid to get better. If t
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How Equifax Became a Private IRS(mattstoller.substack.com)
272 points by yedava 4y ago|183 comments

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