bbreier

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by bbreier 1mo ago
I'd like to address the YouTube claim-- I find it really quickly leaps from my algorithm into a terrible place, from innocent clicks. One of the more common examples of this in my experience is: I want a video demonstrating the form fo
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by bbreier 1y ago
Funny enough, I've had the opposite experience. Easy access to books and reviews has me reading conservatively 10x as much as I did a decade ago
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by bbreier 1y ago
It’s unfortunate that many Americans are comfortable with this guilty even if proven innocent approach to justice
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by bbreier 1y ago
It has dropped to 100th while the MentraOS post remains at 5th. Is HN pushing negative PR for AI down the ranks?
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by bbreier 1y ago
Does controversy cause articles to slide on HN? I noticed that this had more points in less time than several articles ranked above it, which surprises me a bit e.g. at time of writing a post about MentraOS has 11 points in 1 hour compared
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by bbreier 1y ago
As far as I am aware, wealth inequality is significantly better in Europe than it is in the United States ( https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/wealth-in... as an example) and I still wouldn't charac
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by bbreier 1y ago
I think the frog and the scorpion were both wrong
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by bbreier 1y ago
Peasant has a more specific meaning than this. More importantly, it has been used as a pejorative for a very long time now and that is clearly the intent the vice president had in mind.
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by bbreier 2y ago
Not likely to be a workable system in a home with children, then
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by bbreier 2y ago
I would say in your toy example the hospital has been shutdown due to the PE firm "cashing out" excessively
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by bbreier 2y ago
This aligns with my experience with a couple of DEI (or similar) programs at large tech as well. Coupled with really basic training that amounted to "Unconscious bias exists and it can happen to you, make sure you judge candidates by t
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by bbreier 2y ago
Deflation is a problem, but not for the reason mentioned there. The reason deflation is an issue is because it makes holding cash into an investment strategy. If the price of goods is dropping, the value of money is rising, so the more cash
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by bbreier 2y ago
funding for public schools in California and most other places is based on number of students in attendance
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by bbreier 2y ago
The same way anyone could make a judgment call before the attack was carried out? We are capable of abstract reasoning about the consequences of our actions.
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by bbreier 2y ago
I would like to add that everyone should check the incredible documentary "For All Mankind" scored by Brian Eno.
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by bbreier 2y ago
funny enough, "To Beat the Devil" of his is my pick for the best riff on the trope of country songs about musicians taking on the devil
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by bbreier 2y ago
And how long has it been since the last US backed coup in Bolivia?
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by bbreier 2y ago
A mix of quality, management of scarcity, x-factor (call it what you will, some kind of intrinsic appeal to the in group who buy this sort of thing or otherwise inherent desirability), and marketing
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by bbreier 3y ago
> We have already imported Mao struggle sessions, essentially. What? I haven't had to go publicly shame my neighbors for not being revolutionary enough, at least that I remember.
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by bbreier 3y ago
The article explicitly states that the drop is in income, and does not take spousal or child support into account
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by bbreier 3y ago
I'd like to be able to begin it with an image rather than a prompt.
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by bbreier 3y ago
Greg's removal was announced in the same press release as Altman's
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by bbreier 3y ago
Rolex actively engineers this situation, though
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by bbreier 3y ago
Sometimes life doesn't have three acts! Sometimes life is just a Kafkaesque decent into madness and all you can do is try to cope with a coy joke.
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by bbreier 3y ago
so if this holds water, wouldn't we expect these educated professionals to return to the states which appeal to families when they are ready to start one?
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by bbreier 3y ago
I kind of tend to agree with your skepticism / consternation broadly, but it does give _some_ indication as towards the types of jobs: > This project can bring new employers to Solano, and independently create thousands of permanent
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by bbreier 3y ago
I have no experience managing a company at that scale so I won't challenge the assertion that Elon is doing a better job than I would but... the feed has not been rate limited for unregistered users for the history of the site as far a
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by bbreier 3y ago
The turning of the seasons and the weather are as immutable and absolute as social media, so this is a perfect analogy for the situation at hand.
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by bbreier 4y ago
> But RealPage emphasizes the need for discipline among participating Lessors and urges them that for its coordinated algorithmic pricing to be the most successful in increasing rents, participating Lessors must adopt RealPage’s pricing
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by bbreier 4y ago
I really, really want to agree with this, but as much as I enjoy Abbey Road, I also can never get enough Rubber Soul

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