pitt1980

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by pitt1980 1y ago
Aren’t these venues small businesses that very much appreciate whatever publicity someone sharing their venue on social media gives them? I guess they can weigh that against their customers desire for privacy.
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by pitt1980 2y ago
How many $1 million prizes were given out?
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AI is making Philippine call center work more efficient, for better and worse(restofworld.org)
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by pitt1980 2y ago
At on point I asked it for academic papers that said a particular thing, as best I can tell, only about 60% of the papers it cited actually existed
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by pitt1980 2y ago
One thing I’ve noticed, is that at least in the free version, if you ask chatGPT for sources outside itself, ‘can you give me a link to somewhere on it internet where it says that?’, it won’t do that. It is very much a black box in terms of
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by pitt1980 3y ago
fwiw, there's a building my sister lived in in Pittsburgh, the Penn Garrison, it's downtown, not totally sure what the history behind its development is, or what the window related zoning issues are in Pittsburgh, but it has one-b
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by pitt1980 3y ago
I'm too old to have done this when I went through school, but I suspect a good practice is to go through your syllabus, and but the major unit covered into the youtube search bar. I suspect you get all sorts of parallel presentations o
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by pitt1980 4y ago
Short answer, yes. Longer answer - from my prospective - I enjoyed the first book Path to Power the most, which revolves around LBJs early life up to becoming a US Representative. I thought it was very on par with the Power Broker. That a
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by pitt1980 4y ago
The Robert Caro books about Lyndon B Johnson detail his effort to force meme “LBJ” as a reference to him. (Mostly in terms of insisting various communications employees use it in press releases and what not). It seems he liked the iconograp
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Study Shows 2U Tech Boot Camp Grads See Quick ROI(news.gallup.com)
3 points by pitt1980 4y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 5y ago
At one point I was getting a lot of facebook ads for MTalyor https://www.mtailor.com/how-it-works.html which I guess is a digital app that will measure you for clothes. I wonder if their percentages for returns are signific
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by pitt1980 5y ago
Are you sure online shopping is killing the planet faster? Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores. I didn't see anything in the way of the discussion of these tr
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by pitt1980 5y ago
For those not familiar with that blog, She previously wrote a long series on Machiavelli which was a great deep dive into his life If interested start here: https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/
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by pitt1980 6y ago
The link doesn’t support the implication you’re making.
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by pitt1980 6y ago
Another thought, How much of the content you consume comes out of this environment? Are you letting that content set what you imagine is normal behavior? As a society, what role does the entertainment industry play in setting behavioral nor
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by pitt1980 6y ago
fwiw, ‘Storytelling’ is just one node of the larger ‘Pixar in a Box’ offering from Khan Academy. Most of the other nodes are more technical in nature. Might be closer to what you were hoping to find. https://www.khanacademy.org&
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by pitt1980 6y ago
Hmm, maybe its my browser, I'm still in Windows 11
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by pitt1980 6y ago
Google maps used to have a feature where if you scroll back from street view you would get a 3D rendering before they gave you the 2D satellite view if you scrolled further back. Not sure why that went away, but it was pretty cool, and I en
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by pitt1980 6y ago
125 people can do a lot I bet secrets are easier to keep when they don’t seem fun to brag about, I suspect a fair number of war crimes and similarly un-fun secrets have been safely lost to history
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by pitt1980 7y ago
I tend to go through long periods of writer's block I have a lot of perfectionist tendency where I tend to be highly critical of early work I have it in my mind as being a high effort endeavor honestly, laziness ----- looking at that l
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by pitt1980 7y ago
what exactly is someone who pays a (small sum) for a setup Twitter account expecting to receive?
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by pitt1980 7y ago
I'm curious what exactly happens if say you get a 55K job doing 'marketing' at a startup are they collecting 17% of your paycheck?
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by pitt1980 7y ago
I’m not sure either (My totally blind guess would be about half of your guess, which would be plenty high enough for your point to still stand) That said, corporate headquarters get moved frequently enough that this is probably a question t
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by pitt1980 7y ago
There was a thread a few months ago on HN about non-violent communication https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263894 which elicited a lot of comments about how much they disliked this type of conversation reading this co
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by pitt1980 7y ago
Nah, all the books you need to read about thinking were published in the past year. I actually happened to read The Goal a few weeks ago, I take you think It’s Not Luck is a worthwhile follow up?
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by pitt1980 7y ago
normally this comment would sort of annoy me, but its not obvious what the point of this story actually is ------ looking on google Imogene is about hour outside Omaha is about 15 minutes away from the nearest Wal-Mart Kids from Imogene app
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by pitt1980 7y ago
Those ideas aren't mutually exclusive. Sometimes people are more receptive about suggested solutions after you've expressed some solidarity. "Yeah that does suck" "That situation happened to me, it was a pain in the
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by pitt1980 7y ago
are you positive that B and D are rule out A and C? maybe a slight more productive way to have these conversations would be "I thought about A, it didn't seem like a good idea to me because of B, what do you think? Am I thinking
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by pitt1980 7y ago
To the degree to which we interact with the world and create our own reality. It's lower effort to turn a pessimistic outlook into reality than it is to turn an optimistic outlook into reality. I've been ready the Wayside School b
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by pitt1980 7y ago
On Morey, sure, basketball fans know who he is, and he’s a respected guy, but relative to say LeBron or Harden, in a list of Q scores, he’s certainly behind at least hundreds of other NBA personalities, And this was a 2 line tweet, Which ag

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