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by amsilprotag 6mo ago
I thought the same as gp, that putting teachers at high risk invalidates the whole visualization. If this is intended to be useful for future career planning, with meaningful gradations between specializations, than it should exist in the p
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by amsilprotag 8mo ago
Any time you use the word startup you are already ceding ground. Startup as a term solves the problem of the VC: given technology is inherently risky, how do I get good returns? Answer: make sure the winner keeps doubling down. Create a cul
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by amsilprotag 1y ago
I have used the quiz-making learning tool within gemini. It is very good for things that would exist in a typical K-12 textbook. The first 30 or 40 multiple choice questions on a subject are usually pretty good and useful. But then it will
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by amsilprotag 1y ago
Maybe you are right that I give too much benefit of the doubt. I have been following the saga and I believe the AI turn was a bad move on every level. That's why I stopped using the app. But I can still believe that the CEO doesn'
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by amsilprotag 1y ago
A CEO has the power to do anything, but employees have the power to collectively, quietly sandbag if they don't like the leadership. I think the AI effort led to a broad disillusionment, causing an unwillingness to put extra effort int
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by amsilprotag 1y ago
I stopped using duolingo regularly about a month ago. It's wonderful that Luis von Ahn says in interviews that he tries to prevent teams from cluttering the app, but it seems like he lost the battle. You can get 10+ pop-ups after a les
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by amsilprotag 4y ago
Totally agree with poor plot and dialogue. But if you had read it on publication in 2008, viewing the aliens as US and Earth as China, you would have been one in a small minority to foresee something like the Oct 2022 Biden order to revoke
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by amsilprotag 4y ago
I don't know how well this would hold up in arbitration, but he has repeatedly cited the existence of bots as a reason for buying and fixing twitter. > If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying! April 2
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by amsilprotag 6y ago
I don't know whether this is true, and I'm writing this out of curiosity and not bad faith, but the most parsimonious explanation for this being the top comment is that both the writer and voters assumed (as I did before reading)
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by amsilprotag 6y ago
Preferred stock? Priority?
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by amsilprotag 6y ago
Tim Sweeney is really interesting. He coded Unreal Engine 1 and is controlling shareholder of Epic. He gave a speech[0] January at a game conference arguing against the App/Play store 30% mark. I think he has internalized Ben Thompson&
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
I recently finished Brad Stone's The Everything Store , written in 2013. In the last chapter, brands complained about Amazon pricing below the their Minimum Advertised Price (MAP), to the detriment of physical sellers. Stone used th
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
I think Giridharadas is very good and says good things and picks good targets. But there is a strange attitude here and on twitter that he is guileless, when clearly he is making very calculated moves. This is especially apparent in seeing
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
From your text: Then Anand shares the thoughtful and profound email he sent to Ito & Co and others at MIT Media Lab, from which it is crystal clear Anand is unambiguously trying to do the right thing. You're giving Giridharadas w
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
This sounds like what Kevin Kwok was describing[0] in his recent essay, The Arc of Collaboration. Even down to using the Discord metaphor. Kwok says that Slack ended up being more of an exception handler when normal processes break down.
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
From Robert Caro's The Power Broker : Robert Moses had shifted the parkway south of Otto Kahn's estate, south of Winthrop's and Mills's estates, south of Stimson's and De Forest's. For men of wealth and influ
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
Only one crypto mention, and it's a company selling banks tech to detect crypto fraud. TRM Labs: Banks are required to trace the source of their customers’ money. TRM helps banks identify and trace cryptocurrency fraud. They charge $2
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
I was pretty sure "say you wrote it" was an example in the original essay. Though upon review, Graham writes "almost verbatim". Different publications vary greatly in their reliance on PR firms. At the bottom of the he
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
The road death category is wrong. What is being reported is "accidents", of which CDC says there were 161,374 out of 2,744,248 deaths in 2016. But even this only gets you 5.88%, under their 7.68% reported in the interactive grap
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by amsilprotag 7y ago
I've noticed the same three categories discussed in two "go west" novels -- Steinbeck's East of Eden (1952) and Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion (1962). It's interesting, and a bit jarring, to see the MBA
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
Looking closer at the data, almost everyone is receiving small travel, lunch payments. Many of the higher earners are receiving large sums for "Promotional Speaker/Other", "Consulting Fee" or "Current or prosp
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
I guess McKinsey erred in accepting the work from Purdue, but it seems like the consulting provided was obvious and likely overpriced. More at fault, in my estimation, is the AMA and other physician standards bodies. Propublica released a
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
Interesting video. Some advice seems person-specific over age-specific, as in, I wouldn't be surprised to hear them give the same advice five years prior or hence. One area where I think future advice can be most helpful is in prevent
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
90% of women marry by age 56 according to this chart[0]. At 40 it's 81%. Data from 2015 5-year American Community Survey [0] https://flowingdata.com/2017/11/01/who-is-married-by-now/
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
Just yesterday I watched an hour-long interview [0] from 2002 with Doug Engelbart. On finding a wife. Engelbart moves to a university town, ditches a male-focused hobby, and finds a more gender neutral hobby in folk dancing. Echoes of Noy
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
I'm surprised the author quoted Why Nerds are Unpopular and didn't cite what I feel like is the most relevant part: When there is some real external test of skill, it isn't painful to be at the bottom of the hierarchy. A roo
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
From the end of the article: As for the one-click payment system that helped build both their online stores, the US patent to that expired in September 2017. I could understand allowing a months-long patent of this kind, but 18 years seem
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
I remember reading earlier this year a commencement speech at West Point in 2010 by William Deresiewicz. [0] I think the skill of being alone with one's thoughts has become rarer and more valuable with each passing year. [0] https:&#x
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
Regarding absolute quality of output, that's an interesting thought. Maybe the interconnectedness and availability of immediate consumption feedback (likes, views) made things worse. People often talk of the monoculture eroding over
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
Yes, you can name shitty famous people of today. But when I was growing up, I don't think I ever followed a famous person who wasn't approved by a gatekeeper of some kind. Nor did I ever see an interview of them that wasn't

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