bart_spoon

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by bart_spoon 2y ago
What might that look like in this situation? A user goes to play Spotify and it responds with “No” and shuts itself down? I generally agree with you that endless content consumption is a bad thing, but I also can’t envision a system where t
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Their job is to manage their teams and initiatives. If they are unable to determine why an initiative fails or how their teams are performing, it means they are incapable of doing their job.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
If the AI is being judged as a winner, than by definition isn’t it superior to the typical human produced content, at least in this case? Seems like the opposite of enshittification.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Measure twice, cut once
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
They aren’t trying to become the best at something, they are trying to maximize the ROI of their time.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
And yet just today I read an article about how more than half of tech CEOs now are allowing workers to work fully remote if the choose, which is up from closer to 35% a year ago. It’s possible some of the RTO push was to get people to leave
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
The public sentiment in those cities regarding immigration has completely flipped from the moment the buses started arriving. They were loudly in favor of refusing to enforce immigration laws when El Paso, Texas was dealing with hundreds of
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
If they opposed skilled immigration, there wouldn’t be a lottery at all, there would be 0 visas allocated.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
It’s shocking to me that the argument that consistently gets trotted out as to why we should accept illegal immigration is that they perform jobs too dangerous and poorly paid for non-illegal immigrants to do. Perhaps if there wasn’t a neve
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
There is an important distinction between anti-immigration policies and anti-illegal immigration policies. I don’t know of many politicians who are against immigration of any kind. But there are plenty who are for doing something about the
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
More than just Nashville, they have hospitals all over the country.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Can you think of a single location on Earth where the land was originally claimed in a free market?
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
No, the foreman like character in Hardspace has a heavy Southern accent and the soundtrack has a western tone
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
I think that pittance of calories is only the surface benefit. Consistent activity keeps your metabolism much higher, meaning you burn more calories throughout the day even when you aren’t moving.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Japanese people fry all kinds of food. They have plenty of soda as well, and there are plenty of Americans who struggle with obesity despite not drinking much soda. It 100% has to do with walking/biking and portion sizes. Low intensity
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Yes, I lived in Japan for a few years and those are the exact same two conclusions I came to, with the only additional one being much less added sugar/high fructose corn syrup. Food is generally much less sweet there.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
I think I got into reading the most when I hit about 3rd or 4th grade. I think 8-9 years is when the reading possibilities really open up for kids. Its around that time I and many of my friends got into Redwall and Animorphs, and within a f
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Agreed. In video games, "innovation" quickly becomes "niche". Microsoft actually has a wider variety of games and genres represented on the Xbox, many highly praised, but frequently gets lambasted for having no games bec
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
I've recently come to the same realization. I've always considered myself a more short-distance athlete, having been a sprinter and played more "burst" sports in high-school like football. My wife is a more long-distance
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
The purpose of the Light Phone is to detach oneself from the unnecessary, time-consuming features of smartphones. There are approaches to this that are simply apps, and they are popular, but there is a genuine benefit to the approach a Ligh
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Fentanyl, human trafficking, and identity theft can all be quite lucrative as well. Externalities matter. A high revenue stream does not equate to high benefit to society.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Do 95% of the world's river-adjacent population live along those rivers? That's the question to be asking.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Yes
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
I agree with you, but it goes beyond just smartphones. TV shows were linear, so unless you had an interest in every single show being aired, your viewing was naturally limited to specific times. Video games didn’t use to have online capabil
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
State bans are already occurring. Indiana just banned phones from schools a week or two ago.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
We spend enormous amounts of time and energy trying to pick up the pieces of the destruction being left in the wake by social media giants as they get absurdly rich. How about we instead simply make the giants liable for what gets posted on
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
Are you under the impression that Dante’s Inferno is canon in Christianity?
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
The did an enormous amount of nation-building. Billions and billions and billions of dollars over multiple decades. It was just a complete and utter failire. The book “The Afghanistan Papers” covers the US’s misguided efforts there well.
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
What do you mean by “full height barriers”? Because in Japan, the barriers that exist are probably 4-5 feet tall, and pretty much are essentially walls bolted to the floor. I fail to see how those wouldn’t achieve the result while not costi
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by bart_spoon 2y ago
French intelligence was asserting the US was essentially fearmongering and that Russia would not invade right up until the moment they did.

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