DataGata

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by DataGata 4y ago
Some of the controls are a bit disorienting. All observations below are from the demo: 1) When I create a goal, theres no obvious way that the goal is "created". I just press the back button? The send-comment button was where I in
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by DataGata 4y ago
Thanks for reminding me. I planned on doing "cycles" between my favorite substackers (buy, cancel, read the backlog, switch to a new author), but i ended up with 5 concurrent subscriptions. Canceled now.
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by DataGata 5y ago
I was just reading a blog complaining about commenters not reading the article, and the next comment I read on a completely different article did not RTFQ. > got some kind of shallow, automated message like this? Jakob describes how aft
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by DataGata 5y ago
It should be reassuring to know that most of the things you interact with are actually too bandwidth constrained to care about those things, and the algos you interact with are fairly obvious and explicit (Feeds, curated things, etc)
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by DataGata 5y ago
Don't get nitty about saying "my X". People say "my plumber" or "my hairstylist" or whatever all the time.
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by DataGata 5y ago
I would be willing to bet money they use the same tool.
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by DataGata 5y ago
A person yelling "fire" in a crowded theater gets in trouble, but a person yelling "there is no fire" in a crowded theater in a theater definitely on fire is... being silenced?
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by DataGata 5y ago
You say this but it still feels gross to do.
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by DataGata 5y ago
Consider that maybe the space shuttles exploding _was_ our thing. Boomers got to see the surface of the Moon. Zoomers got to see cheap flight and robotic victories. Millennials were raised by a NASA flying an explosive trailer truck.
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by DataGata 5y ago
I think there are reams of people living in cities like SF, NYC, and DC that are retired and make do without a car. In fact, I would bet that the elderly live better lives on all metrics when they are able to live carless in a walkable neig
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by DataGata 5y ago
Bicycles for the minds are only useful for minds that have a good idea of where they're biking to!
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by DataGata 5y ago
Are the disabled and elderly supposed to be able to wield two ton death machines better and safer than an electric wheelchair or walker?
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by DataGata 5y ago
How much of Wahhabi not being a global caliphate is that they just can't right now?
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by DataGata 5y ago
You are ignoring the article and attacking the publisher. Indeed, the article itself invites scrutiny.
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by DataGata 5y ago
If you get disposed of in 9 out of 10 companies, then 50% of the time it takes about five disposals to find a job where you do get promoted. Seems like the strategy to take if you want long term success and not long term marginal subsistenc
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by DataGata 5y ago
People that play zero sum games only get to play with other zero sum players. There is some risk they will lose. People that play win-win games get to play with other winners (and be winners). Be a winner.
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by DataGata 5y ago
Are you responding to the parent comment? Do you not see how "I'm a mercenary" is as toxic as "I hustle 12 hours a day everyday"?
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by DataGata 5y ago
The Big Bang has physical evidence for its existence that you can personally verify.
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by DataGata 5y ago
Serialized fiction is basically how many many classics came to us. Today, lots of online fiction, like Andy Weir's The Martian or Scott Alexander's Unsong, starts out as serialized fiction that comes out in sections. The episodic
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by DataGata 5y ago
If it were a hedge against inflation, it would behave like a hedge against inflation, and yet it shows no similar characteristics to preexisting inflation hedges? hmmmmm
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by DataGata 6y ago
I don't see why you're lumping in IUDs with electroshock therapy and chiropractors? Sure, the CCP is awful and has awful policies, but IUDs are strong indicators of a healthy healthcare system elsewhere.
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by DataGata 6y ago
They are being sarcastic so as to parody the OP
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by DataGata 6y ago
One thing to consider is that NASA missions are basically always using older technology, because by the time the mission gets approved, designed, and built consumer/business tech has already moved past. Space worthiness ads more '
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by DataGata 6y ago
This was a useful comment, assuming it is true, and even though it is a "debate on definitions" quibble.
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by DataGata 6y ago
I assumed you weren't being sarcastic. Comments in general are pseudo-dialog. Whereas in real life, we stumble over our words and can't edit, in well-policed comment sections with sincere posters, we can all contribute to a Sorkia
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by DataGata 6y ago
If you change "advertising platforms" to the more fundamental "resource producer-resource consumer matching platforms" than it makes a lot of sense.
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by DataGata 6y ago
Hence the genociding.
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by DataGata 6y ago
Madison? A capital city and a college town? Highly liberal? I don't think people define the midwest by the midwests' Urban cores. They define it by fields of food and suburban sprawl.
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by DataGata 6y ago
With office 365, you basically pay for a Dropbox subscription and get all of their office software on multiple computers. Seems like good value
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by DataGata 6y ago
It has to do with that the expense of setting up a cellular network is so expensive that it hasn't be done in large parts of the earth, much less another celestial body.

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