its_ethan

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by its_ethan 26d ago
You'll be thrilled to learn that you can sort any product on Amazon by average customer rating and "most popular" (total number of sales) in order to find exactly that product. Customers are real humans with autonomy that nee
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by its_ethan 29d ago
It's possible we're not on the same page on what you meant, but after your clarifying, it still requires defining what a "bad product" is, and that's not as easy as it feels like you're suggesting. A cheap prod
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by its_ethan 29d ago
I appreciate your response and perspective, and I apologize that my reply had been more snarky than it needed to be. I'm not here just to defend Amazon, it has it's issues, but it has also provided a lot of value to it's cust
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by its_ethan 29d ago
> I think deficient or faulty products exist and amazon often sells them. So nothing I said disagrees with this. I agree that "pseudo-scam" products and counterfeits exist on Amazon, but if something is risky/dangerous for
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by its_ethan 29d ago
> there are a lot of cheap air fryers that are not worth buying over a one or more "good value" alternatives OK, but the customer is the only person who gets to decide what that means. "Reversing the idea" is just mak
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by its_ethan 29d ago
"Nuance isn't relevant here because I've already assumed what they're doing is strictly bad" is what I'm haering. Engaging with the nuance means engaging with the fact that rent-seeking can only exist where val
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by its_ethan 29d ago
You raise a very good counter to what feels like the main thrust of the guys article. It put to words something that felt "off" to me while reading it, that there was an assumption made that was never stated and was also incorrect
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by its_ethan 1mo ago
ORD to MKE is a 60-90 minute drive depending on traffic. When you account for going through ORD security, boarding, taxiing at ORD, etc. I'm not so sure that it's a win for travel time. Depends on where you're starting from i
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by its_ethan 1mo ago
I gotta be honest, I don't really think these immigrant groups see or care what Trump/RFK are saying. If anything they see them as an "enemy" who they should not trust.. This is an incredibly left-leaning city where the
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by its_ethan 1mo ago
I am very prepared to get downvoted for bringing this up - but I'm not convinced that the "anti-vax movement" most people think of is truly to blame (that is, crazy people who think it gives you autism or whatever). At least
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by its_ethan 1mo ago
I think they are saying that it's difficult to "maintain manners" for hundreds of thousands to millions of diverse "I, the individual" 's. It's great that you don't struggle with that yourself, but yo
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by its_ethan 2mo ago
OP hadn't been responding to any claims about being "truly life changing" he was addressing the point regarding what parts of his day are now reliant on AI such that his work would be more difficult without it. You're th
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by its_ethan 2mo ago
What I'm gathering here is that your argument simply boils down to that it's your personal preference (in this example) that rotating 90 degrees should have no associated animation. > The actual job is not "feel" it i
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by its_ethan 3mo ago
It feels a little disingenuous to ignore the second half of his final sentence/conclusion. Feels like you're trying to do some kind of "gotcha". The main thrust of what he was saying is in the second half: "a road s
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
> No, you were saying that accessibility is subservient to efficiency Where do you believe I said that? I don't recall saying anywhere that efficiency should be a priority over accessibility. I said "what if" to create a
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
> there are other considerations besides one measure of efficiency Bruh that's literally what I was saying? Instead of how efficiently can you replace a filter in an engine, another benefit might exist instead. Said another way, may
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
Given how many people have seemingly jumped on misinterpreting the truism as me making some claim of a specific fuel efficiency improvement, I'd disagree with people being already familiar with it. To be concise as well: it's been
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
> Yes, I'm sure most people on this website have ran into seemingly bad design choices which made sense once they knew more context. But that doesn't mean that all bad design choices are like this. I'm literally just sayin
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
ok, glad you seem to have everything figure out so definitively
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
I'm just gonna copy and paste a response to another similar comment: The point that I am making (obviously, I think) is that tradeoffs exist, even if you don't think the right decision was made, your full view into the trade space
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
I'm just gonna copy and paste a response to another similar comment: The point that I am making (obviously, I think) is that tradeoffs exist, even if you don't think the right decision was made, your full view into the trade space
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
I'm using this hypothetical to illustrate the point that: tradeoffs exist, and that you (we) may not have full insight into the full complexity of the trade space that the engineers were working with. Putting some random number of hypo
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
Sorry we're talking about a hypothetical car engine, and as an analogy to software development. I'm not an expert in designing car engines like you, but acting like this example being not fully realistic is some kind of "gotc
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
Glad to know in this hypothetical car scenario the owner decided to not get an oil change leading to the total loss of the vehicle. That seems very realistic and definitely something that car designs should be optimized around. Or, we consi
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
Right but what I'm getting at is that there can be tradeoffs that might make designing for maintainability mean optimizing for something less important to the end user. Do you optimize an engine for how easy it is to replace a filter o
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by its_ethan 5mo ago
What if there's an efficiency in engine design by placing the filter in the middle that leads to a +2mpg improvement for the driver? Or that it fails, on average, 22k miles later into it's life? Not all hard-to-repair-yourself des
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by its_ethan 6mo ago
So... what exactly is your argument here? The children of a man who is convicted and sent to prison should also go to prison, so as to avoid separation? Or that we just don't send men to prison if they have children?
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by its_ethan 6mo ago
Apple paid 304m in taxes on 1200m in profits in the UK. That's ~25% tax rate on profits. It's entirely subjective to say if that's a "pretty hefty" rate or not, but it seems to be pretty standard for G20 countries.
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by its_ethan 7mo ago
> It's all relative. Except "AI". That is more of a disabler than an enabler Feels like there's some irony here given the rest of your comment. "It's always been this way and probably always will be... excep
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by its_ethan 8mo ago
This is a nice example/re-stating of what the heritability % "means" here. I'm curious, with something like smoking/drinking, how you can be confident that you've untangled genetic predispositions to addiction

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