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by zug_zug 11mo ago
My immediate manager for my US remote SRE team was based out of Poland. He was a good manager.
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Yeah... I think part of it is definitely that the profit margin is so high that there's a huge financial incentive to try to make buzz around it before all the patents expire. I guess we'll know for sure when it's available f
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Chemical companies also are on this list (PFAs). https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/05/425451/makers-pfas-forever...
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Not everybody is going to agree, heck even Nixon had like 24% support or so when was proven guilty of orchestration watergate and taping the whole thing. The benchmark isn't every human agreeing, it's just finding out what's
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Well, it is mathematically impossible. Traditional IQ tests have a mean/median of 100, and follow a normal distribution with standard-deviation of 15 points. So 270 would be 11 standard deviations above normal so 1 in 17,000,000,000,00
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
It’s shocking to me how few people I see suggesting we march on Washington and make a new government where corrupt pedophiles get capital punishment.
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Sounds like those people are having an irrational emotional response to a term rather than addressing the presented research in good faith. Also being a broad or nebulous category doesn’t make it not science… much of what science studies st
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
Yeah ever heard of popcorn lung? Crazy stuff
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
The one in the article is dose dependent… And I really don’t understand your point at all. All science starts with observing a correlation and deducing a cause years to centuries later. But you don’t wait for newton to start believing in gr
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
How about responding to the one in the article…?
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
It’s bad for health because the science says so. You’re welcome to do your own years of research to learn more (everything, cooking, freezing, drying, blending, adding acids affects amino acids and certainly bacteria in the food) but until
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by zug_zug 11mo ago
I don't get the point of these types of "5 levels of X"... Like yes you can take any continuous variable and draw as many lines in the sand as you'd like (5 levels of tallness, or even 27 levels of tallness, or whatever)
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by zug_zug 1y ago
I don't think kubernetes is inherently bad... it's just a tool that engineers are about 10x as likely to use as a footgun than as a nailgun.
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Of course the loneliest 5% are going to do something like this. If it weren't for AI they'd be writing twilight fan-fic and roleplaying it on some chatroom, or giving all their money to a "saudi prince." Seems like nothi
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Fair. But the agent still takes 5%. Plus these days your mortgage would be so much worse if you moved that it would cost you potentially double.
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by zug_zug 1y ago
I'm not sure if I understand how a break-up would work, but the sentiment that government be ready to nationalize or otherwise prevent a single company from potentially disrupting the whole economy seems obvious. Perhaps it would look
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by zug_zug 1y ago
I think it's actually very simple... the paradox of choice. You introduce somebody to your attractive single friend there's a real chance they hit it off and form a relationship. You introduce them to 100 attractive friends, one m
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Current and long-time loudoun county resident here. We mostly don't like them, we mostly do feel disenfranchised, and people are trying to mobilize more political awareness of which politicians are cozying up to data-centers. One of th
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by zug_zug 1y ago
To be clear -- the data centers aren't even a slight cause of the high incomes in loudoun county, that long predate the datacenters and the data-center salaries likely bring that number down. Also the county west of loudoun (Clarke), w
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by zug_zug 1y ago
So for a simple example: Suppose 1/20 people are sadistic, and 1/20 people love eating bitter food. Let's suppose each question is multiple choice with a T/F. Let's suppose also 1/10 respondents are bots that a
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by zug_zug 1y ago
So since this study is just mechanical Turk it’s entirely possible that this is nothing. Supposed x% of participants are bots or answer randomly — if we’re measuring a trait that isn’t significantly more common than x% then s big portion of
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Yeah, I was thinking about it, and I do think if you graphed it out it would be pretty easy to see. But afaik this site doesn't even track that many metrics (e.g. does it even count clicks on articles?) so I think what I'm proposi
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Off topic, but I do feel like there is a significant number of things that mysteriously get to frontpage with 12-40 upvotes, zero comments, and then sit there getting no more upvotes / comments for like 20 minutes. Personally I agree t
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by zug_zug 1y ago
> The levels of legibility that companies actually aim for are much more defensible Many companies run in such a way that there is no bucket for "engineers get to do stuff they know is important x% of the time." So what happens
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Mostly a great piece. The only thing I need to challenge is the default assumption that leadership is automatically correct that "legibility" is worth all the overhead. Imagine if you brain had to be consciously aware of every bre
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by zug_zug 1y ago
I think this is largely practical advice if you want to influence a tech company at all costs. That is -- to have multiple projects lined for each executive goal that you can singlehandedly deliver on to thunderous applause. That said, it&#
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by zug_zug 1y ago
Agreed. I’ve actually tried quite hard for decades now and I wish I had just chilled — that extra effort rarely turns into a commensurate reward
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by zug_zug 1y ago
I guess the main point I took away was that the expectation of masking creates a lot of pressure on everyone. Maybe the optimal solution is us all dropping the pretense and being chill with it.
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by zug_zug 1y ago
It's been my experience (~ 4 years ago) that generally taxis were cheaper than Uber in new york, especially for anything like "Get me to the airport", sometimes like $25 cheaper.
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by zug_zug 1y ago
I feel like this article is a bit too confident for the evidence provided. I recall going to a Steven Levitt speech (Freakonomics) speech where he was talking about looking into what miraculous star teachers were doing to educate their stud

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