CPUstring

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by CPUstring 9mo ago
Slop existed before AI at a monumental scale. Meta and Alphabet made sure of that.
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by CPUstring 3y ago
Coming from the middle class, I've never met anybody talented coming from a shitty school who didn't also get filtered into a gifted program at a good school. Maybe your school system just wasn't competent at filtering people
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by CPUstring 4y ago
I'm not sure that is maximizing employment as much as it is taking advantage of labor that is too cheap to meter.
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by CPUstring 5y ago
You can use payback time to back into expected returns that adjusts for the time value of money and you need to consider that you're getting expected (investable) savings as well. Indeed, anything that can pay itself back in less than
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by CPUstring 5y ago
You can make a joke because that, while conflict minerals are horrible and cause enormous damage to human life, the conflicts between people on a team are also very small. Comparing the two as if they are equivalent, when we all know they a
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by CPUstring 5y ago
A character assassination would be something like "He does something morally reprehensible (cheating, selling ads to three year olds, etc". The above post is more like "He harps on multiple things he maybe shouldn't, and
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by CPUstring 6y ago
So many times, dark mode just seems like somebody pressed the "invert color" option
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by CPUstring 6y ago
One of those stories is having a bad password memory. One is a person conducting business on his personal account and triggering flags. Another is a business messing up. It's a good habit to keep multiple interlocking personal email ac
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by CPUstring 6y ago
Musk drives his team for speed because every one of his companies still has the "how much runway do we have" mindset. Lots of people can throw stones from their glass towers knowing they work at a company that will exist in 2030 o
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by CPUstring 6y ago
Quibi has all the hallmarks of _corporate_ groupthink. "You know what the kids like? They like phones and Joe Jonas, my daughter won't stop talking about him." These things are made by executives and leaders that are so type-
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by CPUstring 6y ago
Mosquitos transmit and incubate malaria. You don't get malaria from hanging out with a person with it, you get it from getting bit by a mosquito that has previously bitten a person with malaria. [0] Given that the two are intrinsically
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by CPUstring 6y ago
> Mexico is safer than the US - some will find that unpaletable. Get over it. This is quite verifiably false? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid... https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by CPUstring 7y ago
That is explained in the video
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by CPUstring 8y ago
Whatever is happening, it got me out of bed instead of browsing endlessly
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by CPUstring 8y ago
Whats your point though?
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by CPUstring 8y ago
That's just arbitrage, right? If you're able to sell them at higher prices, the venue should've done it themselves.
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by CPUstring 8y ago
Good question. It should be a progressive tax
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by CPUstring 8y ago
Hax0rz2
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by CPUstring 8y ago
You think a bunch of lawyers who got into their positions because they speak well will start writing in comment threads?
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by CPUstring 9y ago
I imagine that "death from sitting too long" and "death from heroin overdose" differ a lot on the preferability spectrum.
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by CPUstring 9y ago
It depends. When you read, you're approaching a well to drink the knowledge therein. When you're approaching a place that streams- HN, reddit, twitter- you're approaching a river. You approach rivers and wells differently, an
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by CPUstring 9y ago
One of the key things that the book does is say, "Hey, you're probably looking at history with fundamental attribution bias goggles on. Take those off." The civilizational features that go into its namesake may not be suffici
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by CPUstring 9y ago
There is an entire section in the article about how most people's first reaction is "don't burn the house down" and how the community worked together to create safety systems. The community is aware and working on issues
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by CPUstring 9y ago
To be fair, France currently has more forests than it did a century ago.
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by CPUstring 9y ago
This comment is unhelpful and negative for no reason. Somebody helping somebody else should not be dismissed but instead rewarded.
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by CPUstring 9y ago
I get all my instructions from my manager, product manager, and VP through email. The only time we communicate digitally in non-email ways is to share pictures/diagrams on Slack.
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by CPUstring 9y ago
Kerbal Space Program without a doubt.
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by CPUstring 9y ago
I've made the mistakes of reading more scientifically inclined books on Audible, but I've recently realized there are three strong categories (1) history books, (2) history-of-science/scientist type books, and (3) self-help&#
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by CPUstring 9y ago
One of the key questions after the first pass is "is this well-written enough to keep reading?"
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by CPUstring 9y ago
The morality of the consumer vs. the morality of the supplier an interesting problem. On one extreme, we have the drug dealer relationship. The supplier is obviously more morally duplicitous, and the consumer is often pitied (at least in li

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