longdustytrail

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by longdustytrail 1y ago
Tacoma has gotten much much nicer over the past 20ish years and the aroma jokes are mostly vestigial at this point. My best friend moved down there a few years ago (a family member sold them their house under-market and the price was too go
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by longdustytrail 1y ago
Also not accurate. I have a 2 year old in daycare in Seattle and the ratio is 8:1. I believe it’s 6:1 or maybe 4:1 for infants. I’ve never heard of 2:1 that would be absurd
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by longdustytrail 1y ago
An interesting precedent for sure but it’s worth noting that a company tried and failed to use this precedent to argue that spam filtering is a violation of the first amendment
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by longdustytrail 1y ago
This is absolutely not true in my experience (MLB, NFL, NBA). It’s very very common for one person to buy tickets for their whole party (this is how you make sure you’re sitting together) and there’s no part of the purchase or checkin flow
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by longdustytrail 1y ago
It’s true that all money is made up, but not in the same sense OP means. Like I could give you 20 dollars and it’s made up in a sense, it’s just a piece of paper, but also you can go to the store and buy things with it. Whereas if you’re an
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
I agree with a lot of your top 5 so I’ll try to continue 5: I enjoyed sections of this book but as a whole I didn’t like it 4: had some cool ideas and there were moments when I got excited but the execution wasn’t there. Basically an amateu
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
When I started at Facebook one of things everyone did during orientation was to put up a diff changing the default text of the search bar at the top of the homepage. This was a good way to familiarize people with the end to end flow of maki
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
Ok but you’re gonna have a hard time convincing me that (morally) HBO should have been able to make game of thrones without cutting a check to the guy who created it
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
This doesn’t seem that wild to me. Zoom already prompts me to unmute my microphone when I cough.
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
I “read” cars and trucks and things that go for my 2 year old every night. He recently found out that goldbug is on every page and now he won’t let me turn the page until we find him. It’s genuinely a lovely book. We got ours from buy nothi
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
Anthropic
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
There are many people who don’t get asked about their regrets when they’re older. And there are many people living lives of quiet desperation.
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
Etymologists use it a lot. I went down an etymology rabbit hole a while back looking for the origin of a phrase and google books was immensely helpful
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
I think patio11’s blog is exactly what you’re looking for. Probably scroll back to the earlier posts to find more fundamental stuff like what you’re asking: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
Is he a Russian puppet or isn’t he? If he can’t speak on ukraine for fear of being killed by Putin then everything he says should be viewed through that same lens
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
First off yes I (and I think 99% of people) would be totally fine with your closing hypothetical. Why would I care about CNN’s ad revenue? Never even enters my mind. But more fundamentally your frame totally omits brand safety, which is kin
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
I happen to be on vacation with a former crowdstrike employee right now, they said none of their old coworker/friends are saying anything. I’m guessing internal comms went out to lock everything down
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
This is just generic speculation
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
Judges don’t run campaign ads
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
The same thing happened to another one of Paul’s wacky passion projects, the Cinerama theater. That ended up being taken over by the Seattle Film Festival after being shut down for a few years. My impression is that Paul died somewhat sudde
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
Presumably if you own the car you can act as your own “assistant”
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
There’s a passage in there about Nagel’s “what is it like to be a bat” which has fundamentally changed my worldview ever since I read a shitty OCR version on a blogspot. I ended up buying the book and enjoyed it even more. I just googled it
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
I think there’s a distinction to be made between people who are working on stuff that doesn’t end up providing any benefit to the company to the company and people who are straight up not burning any calories. When I worked in big tech, I s
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
These are all great, another good one is “This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t” https://www.theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entir..
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
In the jargon of philosophy this a friction point between Deontology (rules-based ethics) and Consequentialism (outcome-based ethics). Deontologically there is a strong case against seatbelt laws, but the consequentialist perspective is rat
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by longdustytrail 2y ago
He just banned posting the identity of pseudonymous accounts which is definitely not illegal. He also banned posting public information about the movements of his private jet which is also definitely not illegal. This stuff would easier to
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by longdustytrail 3y ago
I see where you’re coming from. But it’s a fascinating window into the nitty gritty of managing a 20+ year, $1 trillion+ government construction project. Some of those silly seeming acronyms, like MSC for “milestone C”, probably are include