RestlessMind

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by RestlessMind 4d ago
> That does not justify forcing everyone around you to do the same Literally that's why I wrote: "I know some people who strictly prefer fully remote setup. Over time, I think companies and employees will self sort themselves i
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Spanish Island Wants to Ditch Drunk British Tourists for Rich American Ones(wsj.com)
4 points by RestlessMind 4d ago|0 comments
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by RestlessMind 14d ago
“ The benefits of sitting together, collaborating in person, and solving problems as a team are clearer than ever in our post-Covid world.” 100%. Speaking only for myself, I was fully remote for a few years and that was a miserable experien
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by RestlessMind 23d ago
> And that issue is exacerbated in the U.S. with the worst parental-leave policy among developed nations. NYC's TFR was 1.55 in 2021. London's TFR was 1.35 in 2024. Paris TFR was 1.27 in 2024. Other US cities are not really com
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by RestlessMind 23d ago
> and it was far more productive than anything that happens in a 20 minute drive by car It seems you haven't discovered podcasts yet :)
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
Point is that if wokism was so great and so popular, one of its most famous proponent who is eyeing a 2028 presidential run would not be running away from it. Woke 1.0 was a miserable failure and a lot of people have grasped that by now.
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
Why does left have to fall for that every time?
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
> The underlying technology enablers are from companies like Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC, Micron, all sorts of ISP/cell providers, etc And they exist because of demand from the consumers. All those providers have no incentive to inve
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
your comment is irrelevant and in fact contradictory in the context of the parent comment I was replying to: "if people don’t want to pay for a thing, it’s probably not worth a whole lot " What is "worth" is ultimately d
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
> when the right wing co-opted the term, as they tend to do with all leftist terms, and it became simply another pejorative Even AOC is now running away from woke 1.0 and admitted that there was a lot of craziness. That says a lot.
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
> because the underlying technology makes it extremely cheap underlying technology doesn't materialize out of thin air though. Google and Facebook have invested lots of dollars and engineering hours into making Youtube or Whatsapp v
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
> it's hard for me to understand why would anyone tolerate using it to this day Apparently, they have 3B MAUs and 2B DAUs. So you are in some real bubble. While I don't use it, my parents and all their friends use Facebook to
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
That's for people and businesses to decide. Market clearly values Facebook a lot, over a trillion dollars in fact.
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
> by now we'd probably have widespread p2p video chat we still have it. WhatsApp video chat is the most widely used video chat app. > we already had p2p calling with Skype; we've regressed in that area Skype was barely prese
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by RestlessMind 1mo ago
> what do you mean by woke? There are two parts - one which most of us would support (being against misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc) and one which most of us would oppose (defund the police, abolish ICE, trans women in sports, DEI quot
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New York City Halts Construction at Another Office-to-Residential Conversion(wsj.com)
3 points by RestlessMind 2mo ago|0 comments
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by RestlessMind 2mo ago
> The point is that a crowd doesn't always have a right answer... > popular opinion can be wrong By that logic, all the laws, regulations and norms would possibly be meaningless. So if we were to ignore those, we all would descen
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OpenAI is breaking Silicon Valley unwritten code. That's why Apple is so angry(businessinsider.com)
12 points by RestlessMind 2mo ago|4 comments
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by RestlessMind 2mo ago
> What criteria would allow for someone to "deserve" death? As a framework - death penalty should be legalized when a majority members of the society support that as a punishment. When applying that framework - it should be app
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by RestlessMind 3mo ago
> move to a cheaper city or country for retirement if your house goes up in price What kind of life experience would lead to such a conclusion? It's almost like you have no idea what a community is - with one's friends, neighbo
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by RestlessMind 4mo ago
"If you can't tell the difference, does it matter?" - Westworld
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The Academy Rethinks the SAT(wsj.com)
2 points by RestlessMind 4mo ago|1 comments
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Dubious Chinese Carbon Projects Expose Depth of European Market's Flaws(bloomberg.com)
5 points by RestlessMind 4mo ago|0 comments
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by RestlessMind 5mo ago
> those will fail upwards to other cushy roles I see this trope often. Citation needed! > If the board is unable to bring their house in order, the state should fire them, not let their incompetence ruin the lives of the working class
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The Only Thing Worse Than Spirit Airlines Is a World Without Spirit Airlines(theatlantic.com)
4 points by RestlessMind 5mo ago|0 comments
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by RestlessMind 5mo ago
Management is also fired in this instance. What you are probably suggesting is that management should have been fired sooner and replaced with competent ones. That is the job of the board, who is the proxy for shareholders. Since the board
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The Case for Returning the Koh-I-Noor Diamond Has a New Backer: Mamdani(nytimes.com)
2 points by RestlessMind 5mo ago|1 comments
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by RestlessMind 5mo ago
> if it's working as intended It doesn't seem to be working as intended. Look at the reports published by European leaders, like Draghi for instance.
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by RestlessMind 5mo ago
> affirmative action being destroyed by the Trump administration. Affirmative action was gutted by SCOTUS when Biden was president. Not that it was popular before. California of all places rejected it by 56-44 margin in 2020.
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by RestlessMind 5mo ago
https://archive.is/PPhqe

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