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by mrxd 2y ago
Incredible findings. Apparently your mom dies sometime when you are between age 30-90.
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by mrxd 3y ago
This is what I think it is too. A gullible person draws on their personal experience and overestimates other people’s susceptibility to deception.
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by mrxd 3y ago
Design linting tools solve this problem.
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by mrxd 4y ago
This is true in the entertainment industry, but it's because consumers want to buy what everyone else is buying. Not because there's a huge difference in performance. In fact, it's the opposite. There are many equally attract
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by mrxd 4y ago
https://www.hrdive.com/news/employer-settles-dol-claim-it-fi...
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by mrxd 4y ago
There are edge cases where a personal reference is valuable. If you’re inexperienced, it can get you an interview. Or it can get you a job at a small company without a real HR department. But outside of that, a hiring decision made based on
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by mrxd 4y ago
This is untrue for the simple reason that your friends’ employers wouldn’t allow it. Hiring practices based on personal references opens the door to discrimination lawsuits, so every HR department creates objective interview processes that
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by mrxd 4y ago
I clicked on the “soteria houses” link in the article
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by mrxd 4y ago
I wondered what is this “community-based” mental health care that the author advocates for, and how is it different from psychiatry. Are psychiatrists not part of the community? It turns out it refers to “dream-work, breathwork, herbalism,
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by mrxd 4y ago
The goal of the union is to improve wages, benefits and working conditions. If Apple addresses those concerns to the extent that union membership is a worse deal, then the union has won.
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by mrxd 4y ago
I think people advocating for increased funding for mental health services have started to define all social problems in terms of their impact on mental health, e.g. prejudice as a traumatic experience, the stresses of poverty, etc. Increas
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by mrxd 4y ago
What’s being implied here is that the endowments of these elite institutions were created through historical crimes, but activists won’t make an issue of that if the universities support diverse hiring initiatives.
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by mrxd 4y ago
Designers hate Adobe. This acquisition caused a huge collective meltdown on Twitter, and people are saying Figma is dead now. Many people were hoping Figma would kill Adobe.
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by mrxd 4y ago
> I understand completely why this was kept quiet. Are you suggesting that Apple and Facebook normally have these kinds of discussions in public? Because that is not at all the case. Possibly there is something nefarious going on here. B
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by mrxd 4y ago
It's a good start, but it's more of an illustration than a logo to be honest. It should work as a single color (white, black), at small scale and in combination with your product name.
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by mrxd 4y ago
I’m a huge supporters of unions, but Amazon has been very open about their opposition to unions. The fundamental argument for unions is that companies serve shareholders at the expense of workers. Opposing unions is some kind of shocking co
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by mrxd 4y ago
That is a normal usage in the tech industry, but that's not how ordinary people use that word. More importantly, it's not how journalists use that word. In ordinary language, you are making inferences about what users are interest
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by mrxd 4y ago
ML is useful for many things. I'm asking the question of whether prediction is useful, and whether it is accurate to describe ML as making predictions. The reason to raise those questions is that for many people, the word prediction
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by mrxd 4y ago
If your ML model is able to predict what consumers are going to buy, the revenue lift would be zero. Let's say I go to the store to buy milk. The store has a perfect ML model, so they're able to predict that I'm about to do t
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by mrxd 4y ago
Also in the age of social media, visual identity is less about the wordmark. For most of these companies, their word mark doesn’t even show up on their social media feeds. Most have guidelines that often include a custom typeface, specific
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by mrxd 4y ago
It depends on how you define design. Herbert Simon defined it as “to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” And there’s a lot of academic work around that. The problem is that that’s not how the
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by mrxd 4y ago
I just don’t find it plausible that only certain people are capable of love, trust, loyalty, etc. and we should be looking for those kinds of people. It seems more likely that this level of investment is costly and people already have these
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by mrxd 4y ago
I suspect that Girard’s ideas are a touch more sophisticated than “people are sheep”. Unfortunately if you see his name in a headline, that’s usually all that’s being said.
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by mrxd 5y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, surely their approach is more rational than that. They're probably looking at it from the perspective that the business needs to have a profit margin of X in order to justify investing in it. They pr
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by mrxd 5y ago
Well, it doesn't help that the word ideology is being used in different ways. In non-Marxist contexts, an ideology is a political theory: liberalism, socialism, fascism, etc. When Zizek uses the word, it is in the traditional Marxist s
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by mrxd 5y ago
If you remember from the documentary the analysis of the movie They Live, the protagonist puts on the glasses in order to see the truth. For Zizek, the putting on (not taking off) of the glasses is crucial. It is specifically not a gestur
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by mrxd 5y ago
Zizek’s argument is that cynicism is the prevailing form of “ideology”. Cynicism is a position of doubt, skepticism, seeing through illusions, knowing better than the deluded masses. The view that everyone is manipulated while only you see
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by mrxd 5y ago
I said mostly . Some die without medicine, but I'd argue that the number is small in comparison with people who are affected economically. By focusing on deaths, you're effectively minimizing the problem. It's similar to iss
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by mrxd 5y ago
92% of contributors to the Linux kernel are paid by companies: https://www.suse.com/suse-defines/definition/linux-contribut... Most major OSS projects are controlled by a few companies who pay developers to work o
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by mrxd 5y ago
> “If you're going to die and you're being denied the medicine that can save you, would you rather break the law and live, or be a good upstanding citizen and a corpse?” It's obviously better to risk using DIY medicine tha

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