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by laserlight 19d ago
Sam Bankman Fried wasn't jailed for running FTX. He was jailed for conducting fraud. Silk Road wasn't a registered company at all. It was downright criminal.
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by laserlight 23d ago
One should distinguish between high-stakes vs low-stakes firefighting duties. The former could fast-track one's career, but the latter is a guarantee for stagnation.
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by laserlight 1mo ago
> Go check how much sugar is dissolved in soda Your “counterargument” supports the argument that you quoted though. People can't eat spoonfuls of sugar, but they can drink it when dissolved in flavorful, acidic water.
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by laserlight 1mo ago
The following quote is especially problematic IMHO: > For a paper claiming to overturn decades of alcohol drinking recommendations, the statistical foundation is underdocumented and, to be mild, statistically strange. Given that "de
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by laserlight 1mo ago
I used to work for a company seeking SOC2 compliance. They told me that I had to install corporate malware because of the compliance. I didn't want to install it on my personal computer, which I had been using for work. They sent me a
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by laserlight 1mo ago
Requires login. Garbage.
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by laserlight 1mo ago
> This is actually a fairly recent concept. Whether people think it's God dictated or it's self invented, sounds to me like people acquire purpose.
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by laserlight 2mo ago
Piracy has its own costs. It's likely that given the trade-offs, piracy rates don't increase. PS: I have no idea whether piracy rates are up or down.
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by laserlight 2mo ago
> it doesn’t explain why piracy rates are much lower, despite having a lot of service problems. Can you explain why you think piracy rates must be higher? Piracy isn't “free” after all.
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by laserlight 2mo ago
Chasing a thinner product at all costs?
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by laserlight 2mo ago
> It isn't yet. Would you care to elaborate how you don't think a phone is not “practically necessary”? I have never personally met someone like you. I've never known someone who personally met someone like you either. The
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by laserlight 2mo ago
I could have been clearer. A phone is practically a necessity of modern life. Sooner or later people have to use it, unlike alcohol. Whether social media is a necessity is a different question. I bet everyone gets their own dose of it, whet
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by laserlight 2mo ago
I appreciate giving another perspective, but alcohol is not a good analogue of phone. There's no need to “learn” how to use alcohol --- one can do without it. Yet, practically speaking, a phone is a necessity.
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by laserlight 3mo ago
> which are the ones that drove plane hijackings to near-zero? How many plane hijackings have occurred in other countries, which don't have the TSA?
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by laserlight 3mo ago
Don't forget the fact that you'll be questioned to death when you criticize the current generation of models, but somehow, when the new models arrive you'll be questioned to death if you don't find them better than the o
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by laserlight 3mo ago
That's quite a reductionist view of Getting Things Done. There's nothing magic about the system, but someone had to put it together. It has been useful to me.
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by laserlight 3mo ago
Agreed. Just like one doesn't owe the society their voluntary work, the society doesn't owe one protection from criticism.
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by laserlight 4mo ago
The case supports my argument though. Trying not to hire a bad candidate is not a resilient strategy. Someone might fall through the cracks. You still have to screen the candidate after the hire. Heck, even not hiring is not a good strategy
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by laserlight 4mo ago
Louis Rossmann's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRnno9VIZx0
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by laserlight 4mo ago
What if a bad apple is hired despite all the checks? The system should be able to detect and eliminate bad apples before they give “so much damage” regardless of when they are hired. Of course the organization should do its best to avoid ba
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by laserlight 4mo ago
> a bad hire could cause so much damage through incompetence let alone malice The fact that an organization cannot deal with such a case is a bigger problem in the first place. Eliminating incompetence and malice is among the basic skill
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by laserlight 4mo ago
What do presets have to do with the touchscreen? Tesla didn't invent presets. Many cars with physical buttons have had presets.
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by laserlight 4mo ago
> he only designed the interiors not the car body TopGear reports otherwise [0]: > In a genius move, they hired design agency LoveFrom to handle the exterior and interior execution: that’s headed by former Apple chief design officer,
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by laserlight 4mo ago
I don't agree that difference equals boldness. Boldness of Cybertruck comes from its statement. There is no such statement behind Ferrari Luce. It's a cheap Ferrari-for-your-kid kind of design.
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by laserlight 4mo ago
> That's a pretty bold claim. Behind every stupid design there are apologists, who claim that the critics don't get it.
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by laserlight 4mo ago
What is bold about this cheap design?
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by laserlight 4mo ago
> long term people who complete courses are your best marketing as they tell others and so completion is importation and thus the deadlines I don't see why completing courses is a customer satisfaction criterion. I've had many
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by laserlight 5mo ago
Executive function problems are symptoms of ADHD, therefore renaming it as executive function disorder would omit the root cause. Dr. Edward Hallowell proposes Variable Attention Stimulus Trait (VAST) as a better name.
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by laserlight 5mo ago
Not that it impacts your argument significantly, but for the sake of completeness, Apple employs a huge number of retail employees.
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by laserlight 5mo ago
> predictably do what they are programmed to do And now they predictably do what they are not programmed to do.

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