drblastoff

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by drblastoff 2y ago
It’s incredibly difficult to run a large social platform without it quickly devolving into a cesspool of hate speech, pornography, extremism, misinformation, propaganda, etc. It’s a never-ending tightrope walk, and you ultimately need to em
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by drblastoff 2y ago
This assumes the staff engineers work more hours (not my experience)
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by drblastoff 2y ago
The card check at entrance and “club” concept serves another purpose: it deters random people from going to Costco to steal or cause problems. Retail theft is a major problem for most stores these days, unfortunately.
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by drblastoff 2y ago
I’ve fallen victim to this, though perhaps fortunately with digital synth plugins that take up no physical space. This is related to another problem of mine: ignoring things I’m naturally good at, and fixating on things I’m naturally bad at
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by drblastoff 2y ago
I’m constantly torn by the natural inclination to climb the ladder and enjoy the financial rewards, but I have little interest in the day-to-day tasks of my staff engineer coworkers (mostly sitting in meetings and writing emails, very rarel
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by drblastoff 2y ago
If the city says “You cannot live on the sidewalk, in public parks, or in Bart stations,” that’s a far cry from putting a gun to someone’s head. The city can offer other options: - shelters in the city - shelters outside the city if shelter
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by drblastoff 2y ago
The point is that you don’t incentivize moving to SF with no money and no job and no prospects and living on the street until you get free housing. Newsom tried this while he was mayor. His conclusion was that for every person they put in h
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by drblastoff 2y ago
Do you let the shelters become drugs dens? Because many chronically-homeless people in SF are addicts, and they prefer to live on the street than give up drugs to sleep indoors. Addicts should have a choice: shelter, treatment, or jail. If
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by drblastoff 2y ago
Yes, tags, and really anything illegally spray painted on public or private surfaces. No problem if the city or a building owner wants to commission or invite graffiti artists. I spent time in several European cities recently (and in the pa
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by drblastoff 2y ago
The IQ of the average college student has dropped from ~120 to 102 over time. College no longer the domain of a people pursuing intellectually-demanding careers. It’s become an expensive and completely unnecessary prerequisite for the gener
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by drblastoff 2y ago
If they want to limit “visual pollution” they should crack down on graffiti. Zurich is covered in it and it’s really ugly. Local Swiss claimed it’s no worse than other cities, but it was worse than any place I’ve seen.
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by drblastoff 4y ago
Why are you pretending that $100k-$200k is the ceiling in the defense industry, when the comment you’re replying to is specifically pointing out that it’s frequently a stepping stone to more lucrative career options? Not to mention that tho
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by drblastoff 4y ago
> My point is the world will develop whether or not that is in the interest of those in power. I didn’t get that from “if the rest of the world is allowed to develop.” But yes, parts of the world have been developing much faster than the
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by drblastoff 4y ago
You think the rest of the world has not developed? Have you been out in the world?
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by drblastoff 4y ago
My God, what if a glut of middle managers and PMs delegating to LLMs is all we need?
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by drblastoff 4y ago
Cities are not all alike. I enjoy living in my current city, but would never move back to San Francisco.
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by drblastoff 4y ago
Studies have shown (take this with a grain of salt because I heard this from a podcast), that dividend stocks and non-dividend stocks have roughly equal returns in the end, with dividend stocks faring slightly worse. This is because dividen
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by drblastoff 4y ago
That wouldn’t be a problem for engineers who are good at networking or the interview song and dance, but plenty of talented engineers aren’t particularly good at those things. The company will lose some talent, sure, but let’s not pretend t
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by drblastoff 4y ago
You should report this to VAERS if you’re in the US and it hasn’t been reported already. Indicate the batch number, which should be written on your vaccine card. I’ve had four Pfizer shots. For three shots, the side effects were mild. But a
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by drblastoff 4y ago
A layoff is motivated by business reasons, but where does it say that performance can’t be considered when deciding who gets cut and who stays? “Sometimes, job performance does play a role, too; for example, if a company has to fire one-
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by drblastoff 4y ago
> layoffs _must_ be done without regard to performance Do you have any citation for this? I’ve never heard this before, and a quick search pulls up many sources that contradict this.
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by drblastoff 4y ago
Looked him up, it says he kept $7.9B for himself.
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by drblastoff 4y ago
I heard “batch” used often in grad school by my non-American classmates, but “class” seems far more common in the U.S.
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by drblastoff 4y ago
He manages the fund to pay himself the highest annual compensation in the UK, $200M-$450M+ a year.
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by drblastoff 4y ago
(Redacted)
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by drblastoff 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ATAP
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by drblastoff 4y ago
You’re conveniently ignoring a couple thousand years where China bullied its neighbors relentlessly.