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by zug_zug 4y ago
Sounds like deliberate price fixing
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by zug_zug 4y ago
As a woke person, I consider these important questions.
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Absolutely AWS: Superior to the cloud compute at the Fang I was at. Best-in-class API, and documentation, and support on-call. Tenancy issues are rare. Docker: Run any application on any server with one command. Isolates all state from that
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by zug_zug 4y ago
I went from 10 years in startup to fang and felt fang was awful. Everything was built in-house, and none of it held a candle to industry-standard tools. Every single thing: observability, containerization, CI/CD, code-review, source-co
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by zug_zug 4y ago
None of that actually matters. The point is the market will fix it. Not enough lithium? Then price will go up and we'll mine more (remember when people thought we'd run out of gas by 1980?). And as the price and demand goes up alt
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Is that true? The average new-car price in America is a shocking $49k (partly because people are willing to take out 7-year autoloans). For that price you can get an electric: Ford, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Nissan, Tesla, or Volkswagen.
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by zug_zug 4y ago
One case of libel doesn't strike me as a reason to halt AI development.
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by zug_zug 4y ago
I think AI is a threat, but I don't see a "pause" as a practical solution. I think perhaps a more practical solution is open-sourcing a safe-room protocol. And perhaps publicly subsidizing compute for it, so long as certain s
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by zug_zug 4y ago
That all feels tad dramatic. It's like a person on the internet -- in that it's wrong 20% of the time, often confidently so. But the distinction is it's less rude, and more knowledgeable.
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by zug_zug 4y ago
This is an outstanding phenomenon, not dystopian. Your friend was going to have to do the incredibly awful and wasteful task of rebuilding an incredibly complicated system. However, fortunately, a much more optimal solution happened, where
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by zug_zug 4y ago
I think what we're seeing is the effect of no-downvotes. If something comes up which seems "really freeking cool" to a specific 4% demographic (and annoying to 10%), it can get more upvotes than something that seems mildly in
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by zug_zug 4y ago
All fair -- except the context is there's sort of a self-proclaimed "rationalist" community which is known for eschewing social norms to the point of seemingly deliberately over-considering controversial ideas as a reaction (
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Well, you will certainly the first time sure. But in your next 3 jobs it should be much easier.
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by zug_zug 4y ago
I still don't know if we have enough distance to evaluate the pandemic in a productive way. But here are my thoughts: - So isn't this article conflating two things. There is the fatality rate of covid when it started, and the fata
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Interesting. Because they may be called in to testify for hours on end as an expert witness?
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Not really sure we need another "model" of devops. All of these "philosophy of devops" discussions I've ever seen really boil down to "I am annoyed my coworkers aren't owning X, and here's a big fancy
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by zug_zug 4y ago
This isn't unique to devops, this is a general software thing. But there is an answer, which is the standard technology stack: - AWS - Postgres - Linux - Docker - Jenkins or similar - Slack - Pagerduty - Jira - Packer - Terraform - etc
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by zug_zug 4y ago
I feel like that arrangement of words is almost conveying something.
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Uh, because it's an obvious status-game with a pretense of intellect that fails to garner approval from normal likable people as well as the kind of person who likes literature, who will in turn feel obligated to out-Pynchon you?
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by zug_zug 4y ago
If you want to like Pynchon stop. You shouldn't "want" to like anything. Where is this internal pressure coming from, and how can you get rid of it?
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Really? I heard all these bad things about asylums, how they were basically worse than jails and some psychologists pretended to be sick to get admitted to see how long it would take them to realize they weren't insane. The staff never
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by zug_zug 4y ago
As a liberal who lived there for a while -- I honestly think this is one of the few cases where liberals are less correct. I think initially it started as "being poor is not a crime" with the good thought that you can't arres
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Very fun idea. But it seemed like they "couldn't hear me"
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Well I don't think it's a failure because it didn't generate enough money, I think it's a failure because it a certain class of microtransaction-centric game does brand damage to perhaps the premiere game brand in the wo
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Maybe you jest, but this is the future of the internet. Except instead of filtering by "is ai related" it will be able to "exclude by is-toxic, is political, is a whataboutism, etc"
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by zug_zug 4y ago
I'm not really sure how you can compare those two. Mocking nickleback was a pseudo-joke like hating pineapple pizza, used for social comfort. Bezos is not that. It's maybe a bit exaggerated where it might seem like people think he
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by zug_zug 4y ago
Maybe that's progress though. I don't think the goal is to never make AI advancements. I think the goal is to make progress slow enough, and controlled enough, that we have time to react if it turns out to be a paperclip optimizer
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by zug_zug 4y ago
> I suppose there are different pollutants all the time, but the areas I'm familiar with (SF Bay and LA) have gotten much less polluted in the last few decades, at least by how they look and smell I want to point out that pollution
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by zug_zug 4y ago
> post 2010 rise in inflammation You're assuming that depression and other mental illnesses only started in 2010, which is theoretically possible, but not an established fact. We've actually seen a drastic rise in most mental i
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by zug_zug 4y ago
These always come up and there's always this internet-commenter tendency to be like "I KNEW IT: SMARTPHONES/INTERNET/LACK-OF-RELIGION/ABCDEFG ANYTHING OF THE LAST 20 YEARS I HATE", which is fine for a hypothesi

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