etjossem

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by etjossem 7y ago
LessWrong can be reasonably characterized as a recruiting ground for pyramid schemes and/or a cult of personality. It is an attempt to reframe libertarianism as apolitical and as the only rational, correct course of action. Effective a
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by etjossem 7y ago
Thank you. Please read directly from the source instead of participating in anything to do with LessWrong.
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by etjossem 7y ago
I referred to "if the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link" but I get that this may apply in particular to "Washington Post: " etc. Point about i
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by etjossem 7y ago
I don't believe this was a good call. The title was accurate before, and the meaning of the submission has been substantively changed. Now it uses the title of the site - something we're explicitly asked not to do as part of the H
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by etjossem 7y ago
In both the case of the phone and the Peloton, it allows someone who can't afford the item to pay for it on an installment basis. On an individual level that access to credit might be useful, but it's another form of leverage whic
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by etjossem 7y ago
Instead of $1,995 up front, it's $3,783 over 39 months due to a subscription contract bundled with the financing. This is a very clever way to claim "no interest" but actually charge 27% APR. There are absolutely customers w
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by etjossem 7y ago
Absolutely this. A bubble doesn't look like one until it pops, so you can't just say "everyone's buying $2000 spin bikes, everything must be fine." For starters, Peloton does a majority of its sales through Affirm
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by etjossem 7y ago
Murphy's law: "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" Muphry's law: "anything that can be mispelled, will be mispelled"
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by etjossem 7y ago
By "tech" is meant "the community." You can't get policy change without enough people getting involved and supporting that change. Do you want to fix this? Join YIMBY Action. Support pro-housing candidates at the po
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by etjossem 7y ago
They really buried the lede. "Politics is an organizational problem, not a technological one." If we could just build more houses by saying that we decree them into existence, we wouldn't have this problem. The author propo
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by etjossem 7y ago
"Let it get really bad so people notice" isn't even close to a solution. We all know there's a housing crisis; the solution depends on who you ask. Some folks are going to say "let's have high affordable housin
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by etjossem 7y ago
For even more context here: they're part of a biotech incubator called 4Catalyzer. The other companies are also working on potentially life-changing products too, including cancer drugs and seizure detection. Lots of possible roles, ta
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by etjossem 8y ago
As far as bringing in some UK sources that were traditionally print, I'd probably go with The Guardian and the Telegraph - caveat, they do have a left- and right- leaning bent, respectively. There might be an AP feed you can get in add
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by etjossem 8y ago
Looks great, and the only thing I could ask for is a way to request that more sources be added.
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by etjossem 8y ago
Considered Harmful Clickbait Considered Harmful (2019)
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by etjossem 8y ago
A few of my teammates at SendGrid have been following the situation, and we definitely feel for the engineers who are scrambling to fix the problem. It's never fun to get paged, especially when the trust of your customers on the line.
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by etjossem 8y ago
This is a genuinely good take, and the downvotes are disappointing. We like to describe new efficiencies in productivity and information-seeking as "good for the consumer," because that's a highly positive effect. But it&#x27
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by etjossem 8y ago
... news at 10.
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by etjossem 8y ago
I agree with this. For many people who are learning Git for the first time, it's also their first experience with contributing code to a repository at all. The last thing you want to do is turn them off entirely, or gatekeep the profes
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by etjossem 8y ago
Ding ding ding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running
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by etjossem 8y ago
This is the part that is upsetting to me, not the name of the feature. "Fully self-driving capability" suggests that it is one hundred percent self-driving (and therefore will not require a human to drive it). That part's a l
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by etjossem 8y ago
"Tesla is extremely clear that Autopilot requires the driver to be alert and have hands on the wheel. This reminder is made every single time Autopilot is engaged." A reasonable person would not take this to mean that the car is d
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by etjossem 8y ago
I do have a problem with some of their marketing material - which describes the car as having "Fully Self-Driving Capability." No, the Model S doesn't have the capability to drive itself fully right now, and it's uneth
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by etjossem 8y ago
That's really cool - but just like driverless cars, it's the exception to the rule for what an autopilot system does.
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by etjossem 8y ago
Anyone who knows what an autopilot [1] is understands that it does not make an aircraft autonomous. It's an assistive device - a stabilizer for wings and pitch. To call the Tesla Model S an "autonomous vehicle" simply because
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by etjossem 8y ago
“This data is from the 1990s and is based on people’s subjective views of what would have happened if they did not use a gun.” These are not hard stats, they’re self reports from people who had occasions where they felt safer carrying. Peak
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by etjossem 8y ago
I would like to see your sources.
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by etjossem 8y ago
I recommend looking at the data on this before leaping to the conclusion that guns are effective at protecting their owners from lethal injury. In a Philadelphia-based study, "individuals in possession of a gun were 4.46 times more lik
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by etjossem 8y ago
Because most forms of entertainment do not dramatically increase the likelihood of death by suicide, homicide, and accidents all at once. If you can name something else that does so, for both the participant and those around them, I can pro
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by etjossem 8y ago
The context is the British pharmacy "Boots" - think Walgreens. The parent commenter's argument is that our society at large does not want heroin and coke sold at the corner drugstore. They want these substances out of sight,

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