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by zwkrt 4y ago
But we end up having to make other arbitrary assumptions about what happened at the very beginning of the big bang or about multiverses that we have no scientific justification in making. Calling the observed physical constants 'arbitr
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by zwkrt 4y ago
But the problem is that we have no evidence to suggest that our universe is typical in the first place. For all we know there are a trillion trillion universes and ours is the only one with gravity by some fluke, and we are actually living
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The fine-tuned universe is not a scientific concept though. The only hypothesis at a high level is that the constants or initial conditions of our only observable universe could have been different. However we have no data or reason to beli
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Am I a human or am I a brand? https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hubrandity https://youtu.be/rPHK494AUxE
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Yeah even at a company with as relatively stable a product as twitter, there are so many processes that go on internally that certainly need someone who knows how to operate them. Another commenter mentioned dead-man's switches, but yo
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I don't really know how to solve the eternal september problem on any given online forum except to create a separate space for new users to talk about noob things, and to heavily discourage noob discussions on the other/main forum
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It’s complicated. Live Nation is a promoter. For those of you not in the industry a promoter is basically like a mini VC that funds a tour or a live event. The promoter invests the capital necessary to put on the show and in turn gets to di
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by zwkrt 4y ago
To put it into perspective I work for two years at Amazon to try to create a competitor to Ticketmaster. Our ticket sales infrastructure wasn’t quite as polished as Ticketmaster is but it was passable. What killed the product though is that
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I worked in the industry for a while and I agree with your points. I would add though that Ticketmaster is incredibly entrenched because Live Nation (parent company) is also a promoter and also owns many venues or has exclusive contracts wi
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Social pressures never turned anyone gay. Quite the opposite actually.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
> getting sick is not worth having a friend Everyone has their own risk analysis. My analysis is that this is totally out of whack. Covid will be around longer than you’ll be alive. Make a friend it won’t kill you. What really gets me th
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I think hard times are a sufficient but not necessary condition. The reason that hard times create close relationships is because in a hard time you have to really be real with the people around you. You have to have mutual trust and mutual
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I agree on all points. I think tech/phones have this effect as well. People become more like the machines they interact with. Seattle is probably the most tech-dominated city by ratio of residents in the industry in the US…
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by zwkrt 4y ago
You’re right I was being harsh, but I wanted to really make a strong point that the above commenter was not describing innate qualities of manhood.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I think that’s an honorable goal. I like the swimming pool analogy. Some people and cultures are just so much more guarded when it comes to addressing their feelings with others. Even basic-level friend feelings of appreciation, compersion,
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Agreed, I’m definitely coming at this as an American. Even more so as a Seattleite, a place known for its relative social coldness even by US standards.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The idea that gay people having more social standing and more rights has somehow ruined straight relationships is laughable. You’re saying that when being gay was literally a criminal offense straight guys didn’t have to worry about holding
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Let’s be clear homophobia (with a root in misogyny)“ruined the rainbow” for everybody else. The only funny looks you’re getting are from close minded people. And it’s only ruined for you (the hypothetical you, not making assumptions) becaus
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by zwkrt 4y ago
As I understand it colors themselves cannot be trademarked. The trademarking comes in with the combination of color and product type. So Lyft and T-Mobile can both be electric pink, but Uber couldn’t rebrand to be electric pink.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Agreed, it kind of seems like a stub that he meant to turn into an entire blog post one day. I do feel like I see many people in my life clinging to questionable habits. I personally have a nicotine addiction and it is easy for me to trick
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It’s funny as a gay man to see all of these pictures because they really do read to me as gay with my modern lens. That isn’t because of some sort of special gaydar it’s just so uncommon to see straight men showing any type of vulnerability
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Emphasis can be a good way to get visa endorsement for finding a better job. Also sometimes people who are booksmart are not streetsmart and end up working for a bad company.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
So there’s this philosopher Daniel Dennett. In broad strokes, he’s generally liked by philosophically minded scientists and disliked by the philosophy community. His position is that we will slowly chip away at the magic of consciousness as
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The cable is going to be submerged in the water and I think that you are underestimating the amount of force that it requires to drag the entirety of the cable through the entire length of the water. If the ferry is pulling itself along usi
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The rule of thumb I used when I lived in the frozen wastes was that 10cm of snow is about 1cm of rain in terms of water. Qualitatively I know it is much lighter than 56lb/ft^3, because you can easily pick up that much snow even if it i
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Yeah I would say that Amazon has a ton of basic work that needs to be done. The website is so big and complicated and multi-faceted compared to some of the other big tech companies. Sometimes you really just need to hire a developer/te
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Amazon got that reputation a decade ago when they were vigorously growing in user base and revenue. They couldn't hire fast enough if they even wanted to without wrecking the organization, so there was a ton of teams/people that f
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I worked at Amazon for 5 years and was in over 100 interview loops. Amazon won't hire you if you don't have the skills, but they are/were relatively lax in hiring compared to other big FAANG companies. It is also helpful that
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by zwkrt 4y ago
There’s a reason that traditionally in America psychology is taught in a research oriented way. This has the upside of at least ideally causing psychologist and psychiatrist to have a curious attitude toward their patients. In a field that
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by zwkrt 4y ago
You're right that it is just an implication on my part (and thanks for the sister comment of yours for finding the diagram!). Comparing it to LB is just a little bit flippant. But you have to admit, LB was a 100 year old company that p

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