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by prododev 2y ago
Another one is nemesis, which now refers to a long standing enemy, as well as the older meaning of a Greek goddess of vengeance. Don't imply or wink and nudge. Say what you mean to say. Your example is either a non sequiter like mine,
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by prododev 2y ago
Anyone who would fund or build this is, in my mind, taxonomically evil. Maybe not irretrievably so, but YC would need to do a lot of work in my mind to not be "that form that believes the panopticon and dehumanization is good." T
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by prododev 2y ago
There's a very common and often discussed concept called wage slavery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery Which is different from chattel slavery, of course. But it's still an extant theory that get
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by prododev 2y ago
What do you think the purpose of VC vetting is? It's right there in the name: Capital. You know the thing they optimize for is capital, right?
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by prododev 2y ago
#1 reasonably high? We turn down plenty of Stanford grads. What's their GitHub like? #2 degree basically never comes up, except if someone is saying they had an atypical degree path. And institution? Never, unless it's a part of s
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by prododev 2y ago
Sure you do. The poster was polite, got an extremely rude response, and has no obligation to be polite afterwards. Airing their shit out is a disclosure of a vulnerability, and it's important to do. Typically you reach out to say, &quo
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by prododev 2y ago
This assumes the genocide has ended, which it very much has not. In what year did Native American parents receive the right to choose not to send their kids to a boarding school? 1978. Until 1978, Native American families were being separat
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by prododev 2y ago
I don't think it was lack of experts. I suspect the UI people are professionals. I much more strongly suspect it was "we're going to hire one person to do the work of three" and the result was "get it working as qui
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by prododev 2y ago
I agree, sold my car awhile back. It's not really needed.
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by prododev 2y ago
Not in my industry (software engineering). Hiring managers barely care about what school you went to. It might afford you more career fair opportunities, but that's about it. Now, some schools will give you more educational opportuniti
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by prododev 2y ago
Bragging about where your kid goes to school is extremely common. It signals not only what can you afford (like a car), but also lets you buy and display a bunch of gear. (University name) Dad is like a super common apparel and bumper stick
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by prododev 2y ago
I mean, put some live shrimp on a plate and I'm sure people will not feel great about it either. People have eaten bugs around the world forever, from prehistory to modern times. Scorpions, snails, ants, silkworms, grasshoppers, bees,
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by prododev 2y ago
Good luck to the people being held prisoner in these hubs. Hopefully they can escape the abuse and violence, and not just be trafficked to another hub.
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by prododev 2y ago
Where your kid goes to school is a status symbol. And like most status symbols, it is a foolish and conspicuous waste. Americans love to root for teams and build their identities around what teams they are on. In sports, in politics, in col
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by prododev 2y ago
Better batteries require less frequent charging, reducing pressure on networks. But also, better batteries enable electrification of other modes of transport much more easily. Cars are bad, electric cars are at best "less bad".
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by prododev 2y ago
It's wild that people buy these, let alone feel comfortable wearing them. I'm already pretty strongly anti Meta, I can't imagine buying a mic and camera they control and bringing it with me everywhere.
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by prododev 2y ago
I mean, it is kinda quacky to treat someone with that until it's demonstrated by science. I'm open to the idea that light is an important regulator, but that effect should be easily observable if it's truly effective.
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by prododev 2y ago
Bigotry causes cover for this shit. If trans people were just accepted for humans who just want to live their lives, then the pattern matching defense wouldn't need to exist. There'd be no need to assume "well, first and fore
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by prododev 2y ago
AI doomerism I've seen largely boils down to pretty standard critiques of capitalism -- who controls the means of production (the capital class), who will benefit most from increases in productivity (capital class), who is going to end
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by prododev 2y ago
They're obvious hyperbole complaining about how you can't immediately have access to high res, high frame rate footage of a disaster with casualties. Maybe people think you are kind of creepy for being so insistent (and hyperbol
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by prododev 2y ago
Yes. The term of art for this is "demographic bias" and it's exactly what you describe -- the population set has itself a skew for or against some demographic. An ML image generator designed to repaint someone as a lumberjack
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by prododev 2y ago
Who, it should be noted, is not a leftist. Let alone a radical leftist.
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by prododev 2y ago
> It's a statistical model, and of course there are more black rappers and white investment bankers Yes, this is what the author is pointing out - there's a statistical bias in the dataset that is showing in the results.
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by prododev 2y ago
Can you share them? Because physics says that damage to roads scales quadratically with weight. Not sure why tires would not experience a similar increase. At the very least, these tires are subject to higher forces due to the heavier weigh
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by prododev 2y ago
Discord has ads, though they are relatively rare and not embedded in chat. They are called "Quests" and you can disable them in the settings.
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by prododev 2y ago
Many of us made peace with this road a couple decades back and have been focused on building communities locally to survive it. Obama, Trump, Biden, GW ... they were all building the road to this moment together. It's like watching one
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by prododev 2y ago
I think saagarjhas comment is probably a transcription error on my part, copying the wrong link out of a thread that had questionable stuff in it. I'll dig up some more. They tend to be a bit stochastic, and on various topics. (There w
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by prododev 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by prododev 2y ago
HN is pretty low moderation across the axis of personal attacks. If you politely say a ad hominem or racist or *-phobic thing here, it's unlikely you'll be moderated for it, for instance. I can dig up many such examples, but I s
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by prododev 2y ago
This is every successful product, small, medium, large. I've never ever worked on a big corporate or small personal project and not experienced this. The secret is to have a healthy system for taking in those requests, queueing them by

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