skibidithink

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by skibidithink 6mo ago
What celebrations? HN commenters hate money-printing schemes.
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by skibidithink 6mo ago
OS X / macOS has been ahead of Windows for a long time for anyone who lives in a web browser.
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by skibidithink 8mo ago
The solution if you really want to hear from the other side is to visit their echo chamber. But most people who talk politics aren't really interested in changing their perspective. That's why these echo chambers exist.
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by skibidithink 8mo ago
Until they decide that they only support 2FA by app push notification.
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by skibidithink 8mo ago
There are no obvious threats to AdWords (aside from LLM chatbots) and YouTube.
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by skibidithink 8mo ago
The flourishing of pet peeve syndrome means that once you understand the hivemind, you can predict the comments just from the headline alone.
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by skibidithink 8mo ago
He saw AI as an existential threat to Google.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
It'd be in stark contrast to Russia's attempted decapitation strike.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Even the slightest shadow of a "rules-based international world order" is dead. And all it took was some post-pandemic inflation.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
People who even know what remote attestation is are an even smaller niche.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
I often reciprocate. Receiving a gift triggers some warm fuzzies and I try to make the other person happy as well. If they say or act as if there's something expected? I'm returning that "gift". That's a bargaining
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Which facts are misrepresented? The point is that the author picks some arbitrary critique and calls them fallacious, when the core of the disagreement is elsewhere.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
This is exactly it. I don't buy someone lunch with an implicit expectation that they'll buy me lunch in the future. That's tacky and gross. I buy lunch because I wanted to buy them lunch, and if they decide to buy me lunch, I
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Right, all the games that they think will be successful. Most games won't- it's a power law market. There's nothing preventing a game dev from selling exclusively on their own site. It's not as though Steam has exclusive
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Just skip the chapter?
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
What Steam brings is a firehose of gamers with their credit cards ready to all the games they think will be successful. There's a reason why everyone launches on Steam.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
If every gift one gives out comes with a moral obligation, it'd be pretty selfish to give gifts.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Indie good, big company bad
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
More details here: https://www.smdp.com/waymo-beats-santa-monica-to-the-courtho...
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Critics are typically saying that giving out scholarships limited by race is racially discriminatory.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
It's better data than the people in one person's life.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
You did say it. > with slots going to the rich and privileged) [...] AA just pushes against THAT It doesn't give away the slots reserved for the rich. And it's not a tiebreaker between equally qualified candidates. At Harvard,
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
None of my arguments require any assumption on why. But I would say that it's because of prestige and signaling.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
AA doesn't prevent the rich from buying admissions. It redistributes slots from middle and lower class folks with the wrong ethnicity.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
And many against affirmative action will agree that there have been massive historical injustices for certain demographics that have lingering effects. The difference between these two sides is which value they prioritize.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
It's only positive sum if they grew because of affirmative action. And if affirmative action caused net friction, it'd be a Moloch.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Are there any designers here who can explain when the differences between Public Sans and Roboto Sans and when to use one or the other?
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Even if some critics of AA are committing that fallacy, debunking a weaker argument when a stronger argument exists is ineffective. The implicit argument is that AA's largest challenge is a coordination problem. It's not. It'
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
It's about time. Car doors should have an intuitive method to open even when the car is unpowered.
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by skibidithink 9mo ago
Lots of interesting insights, but their affirmative action take is a miss. > Critics of affirmative action often commit the fallacy of letting a failure in one area doom the entire enterprise. This ignores the interdependent nature of af

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