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12,052karma·2,819submissions·April 18, 2014
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This is just a lie. I personally know somebody who worked at meta and they had a whole set of teams dedicated to building tools for governments to mass-export data based on their queries Now I don…
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It's very rare that I see an article on a topic like this that seems to be succinct, not assume any existing knowledge, and make me leave feeling more informed in < 80 seconds. Maybe personal …
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As somebody who's good at RCA, I'm worried all my embarrassed coworkers are going to take at face value a tool that's confidently incorrect 10% of the time and screw stuff up more inste…
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> conspiracy theory ? We all live in this interconnected thing called a "culture." Maybe you've heard of it. It affects what we all do it at all times, the clothes we wear, what we v…
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No playing sports for sure is fun and normally authentic behavior. Especially if it's not a particularly "cool" sport (e.g. pickleball). Though of course you definitely do find those pe…
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I like the idea, on principle, any attempt to build community should be supported. I'm may not be the target audience if this is recently post-college, but the thing that strikes me is these acti…
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Is this really how this works? Do you have a source? Also… in this situation does klarna get any of that 1340 or does Alice just delete the app?
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I think this would be more informative if it dropped all moral pretense and just talked about the economics objectively. If we’re gonna call a spade a spade, bnpl is one of a dozen services that extra…
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So... what happened? Did 2 hours a week work? Is it profitable now? Is it your only job? If so how many years of 2 hours a week did it take to become a livable income? I love this philosophy of beatin…
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I disagree. 1% issue aside - There are things Trump has done that have no American precedent, such as Jan 6th, openly insisting he'll run for a 3rd term, and too many others to list here. In that…
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Sounds like apple really needs a better review/appeal process, official set of standards, etc. Seems like it's bad for their ecosystem at this point.
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> Come on, time to get offline and go make some friends. Oof, I really struck a nerve huh? I'm sure you're smart enough to know you shouldn't try to hurt people's feelings just …
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I don't know, that seems like a rather defensive response to me. Perhaps self-reflection is in order. Is the idea that friendship might be transactional too scary a thought to consider head on? H…
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>> What is a close friend? Before we can start asking people if they have any we should probably agree on a definition. If you use the Hollywood standard, then probably none of us have close fri…
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Cool, but I wish it said how the participants subjectively would have described the experience.
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I don't know... I bought an expensive mic with a budget at a prior role, but it kept picking up background noise more than my mac would, and ultimately it's sitting in the garage. The diffic…
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I'm sorry, what? Most of us would trade our jobs in an instant for a nice fang role where we had 0 oncall. I don't think that option is on the table for everybody.
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Kinda feels like a nothing article. Seems to suggest epigenetic changes without establishing causation or even whether they are are good or bad changes. This is important because what I've heard …
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I feel like there are two approaches that are never gonna work: self-control and asking companies to change. I think there is an obvious answer though: taking control of the algorithm via AI. I don…
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Well you normally don't have perfect information. Imagine you're woken up in the middle of the night by a window breaking, you hear somebody coming down the hall, and there's a strange …
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Well a few thoughts. I feel like your question is trying to excuse reckless disregard (at best) as mere incompetence. I don't think if you sum up all the value on all the leases of wasted buildin…
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Wow, I think you've just become iconic to dozens of us (self included). Congrats on taking life's lemons and turning them into sweet victory. I saw in another comment you were able to make y…
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There is indoor lettuce I can buy at my supermarkets that is "zero pesticide" (you can just google it and find several, don't want to post any sort of links to products here). I suspect…
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I'm finding this draft article pretty confusing, and am not sure why it's shared in its current state. I think it should also cite sources. > "However, the average ketamine “user” co…
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Very eloquently stated. I think socially we have mental-model of what a "good" job, or "good" life is, and this model is largely based on certain capitalistic/individualistic …
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Yes… that’s my point…