samaltmanfried

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by samaltmanfried 1mo ago
Good news! That means they're going to solve all that street crime, right?
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by samaltmanfried 6mo ago
> Like buying off Trump, which probably had a lot to do with us starting the Iran war... Oil companies have actually not benefited from America's middle-eastern wars. America's regime-change wars have made the region less profi
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by samaltmanfried 7mo ago
> perogies Do you mean "pierogi," the Polish dumplings? > halupschi I have no idea what this is. Are you talking about галушка? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halu%C5%A1ky ) > Didn't speak any
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by samaltmanfried 7mo ago
My employer isn't particularly bad for society, but let's pretend they are. My company is a large employer of foreign workers. I already live in fear of being priced out by foreign bodyshop firms. If I decided what we were doing w
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by samaltmanfried 7mo ago
It wouldn't be. But they never do it, so I don't have to worry about it.
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by samaltmanfried 7mo ago
Like many Americans, I am from a European immigrant background. For what it's worth, I have spent a lot of time in x-land, and I speak x-ish. But I am an American. My ethnicity is mixed. I grew up in America. You would never know my
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by samaltmanfried 7mo ago
It irks me because it usually manifests as embracing cartoonish stereotypes of the most superficial aspects of the culture: "I'm 1/64th Italian, so I like pizza. I'm 1/16th German, so I like beer. etc." It does
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by samaltmanfried 7mo ago
I'm so glad someone brought this up. It irks me when I hear Americans detail every minor fraction of their genetic makeup: 1/4 Italian, 1/8 German, 1/16... etc. But they don't speak any of these languages, they&#x27
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by samaltmanfried 11mo ago
Some people's jobs might be 'meaningless', but we're on the verge of lots of people's jobs being outright 'useless'. Anyone who's worked in a large corporation knows how small some people's usefu
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by samaltmanfried 1y ago
AI might not have much actual impact on software engineering, but AI (Actually Indians) has. Companies are using AI as a justification for layoffs, and then just replacing those roles with cheaper engineers employed by bodyshop companies.
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by samaltmanfried 1y ago
The laundering of data on US citizens into the private sector, and overseas, through this company is truly horrifying. Especially how fast it happened, and how little say we had.
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by samaltmanfried 1y ago
I don't care about his opinion on America. Tell us about his policy on nuclear weapons.
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by samaltmanfried 1y ago
Assuming this claim were true, which it isn't, the modern Israelis have genetically nothing in common with the Jews of the old testament. They don't have the same culture, religion, language or genetics.
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by samaltmanfried 1y ago
> Do what he says he would do with them? Like what? Declare a fatwa against them? When you answer, please provide sources for your claims. I'll be eagerly awaiting your response.
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by samaltmanfried 1y ago
Anyone else here appreciate that this article appeared in a journal called 'PNAS Nexus'?
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
I find something really gross and dystopian about the idea of Ozempic. Developing the willpower to resist short-term gratification, and the ability to make long-term decisions about your diet and health are some of the most important ingred
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
> obesity actually is an adaptation Obesity is not an adaptation. It's a total aberration. Storing energy in the form of fat is an adaptation. Becoming obese is overloading your entire system. > why isn't everyone obese
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
If the role was advertised on LinkedIn, out of those hundreds of applicants there's probably only a small minority that have appropriate experience and right to work.
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
It's really tragic that lots of Americans think this kind of garbage is a healthier alternative to other kinds of breakfast. It may actually have less sugar than pancakes drenched in some disgusting syrup, but it's still garbage.
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
I just searched for modern images of Smithfield market, and what on earth is that ghastly awning they've bolted onto that beautiful historic (presumably Victorian) facade? For example: https://dm1igrl0afsra.cloudfront.net&#x
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
Agreed. It's clear that most people don't understand basic nutrition, and most people have a very distorted view of what the human body should actually look like. The average American is very overweight. If you raise your arm
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
It's really hard for me to answer this question. In hindsight, I feel like I should always have been more stubborn, more intransigent, more uncompromising. However, who knows how things would have really turned out if I'd ha
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
ACE 4. I generally feel like adult life is very difficult for me, but I'm a fully functional adult. I'm in my 40s, married with young children. I suffer from depression, but I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
What "competitive-with-west devices" is China making? It might be the world's leading manufacturer, but the only item I can see right now in my office that was designed there is a cheap EPROM eraser. China isn't leading
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
How will your portfolio benefit from React? Portfolios are usually just static content. By all means use interesting technology like React and Sass to develop it, but compile it all to static HTML/CSS, unless you really need dynamic fu
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
Thank you for the suggestions. Unfortunately, the only reason I'm writing React at all is because so many companies want React experience, and I figure I'd better stay up to date. If I was given the opportunity to choose technolog
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
Is this how other people feel about NextJS? I've been trying to keep an open mind about it, but its entire design seems so antithetical to what I'm trying to accomplish. Is there a better mainstream alternative? From what I'v
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
The situation with the tooling constantly changing isn't nearly as bad as the front-end frameworks themselves. I've been updating my knowledge of front-end, and it's an absolute shambles. The official React documentation( htt
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
For what it's worth, they're also prohibited by Airbnb's terms of service: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3061
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by samaltmanfried 2y ago
I think that in Anglo-American culture it's also usually a faux-pas to confront a 'phony' in casual conversation. I've met lots of phonies in my time, and I feel as though calling them out on their BS stories, even in a

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