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by throwaway82388 3y ago
Peerless stylist of his generation, a serious thinker, and somehow managed to be fun alongside all of that. I haven’t kept up with his novels since Yellow Dog, but could recommend each and every one I’d read for something , even the duds w
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
Whether the acting party is a friend or an enemy distinguishes the guilty from the blameless. Anything can be rationalized post facto. It’s the bedrock principle of contemporary politics and it’s breathtaking to witness.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I’m fairly certain that I’ve yet to visit an upper middle class household without a high end gas range, albeit hooded. Surely this disproportionally affects the foodies and amateur chefs of the world.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
Plenty of think tanks and NGOs are on it. Google “personal carbon quota”
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
Vibe shift is just another term for a change in elite aspirant opinion. The vibe is localized to highly trend conscious social and professional milieus. These scenes are often regarded as a cultural vanguard, but are in fact often detached
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I think I understand your larger point, but whatever corrections or amendments need to be made to the myth of Jobs, the idea that he was in any way average shouldn’t be one.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I was politically conscious for his presidency (and a few more before it), and you make a good point or two, but I’d take issue with this characterization of the Bush years. His presidency was dynastic. He was a member of the political est
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I’d describe Trump and Musk as similarly adapted to the attention economy. But it is a similarity of style, as you said, and not necessarily politics. While Bush II was far from the inventor of executive dissimulation, his administration di
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
There are only two sides in the culture war. Any free-thinking criticism of one side places you in or aligns you with the opposition. “If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” Intelligent commentators mocked the famous George W. Bush lin
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
There are a few responses people have found useful to misdirect and shut down conversation around this topic. Nothing burger, and the claim that it was about revenge porn, are strong signals that this is one such stock response. It’s disapp
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
It does depend on the details. In special fields, like medical software, regulation might alter the market—although code even there is often revealed to be of poor quality. But of all the examples of cheap and convenient beating quality: p
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
Anyone who has doubts has to look at the price. It’s free for now, and will be cheap enough when openai starts monetizing. Price wins over quality. It’s demonstrated time and time again.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
That stereotypical insecure sportscar owner is certainly real. But not every one of them is insecure. Some just feel like they’ve won and deserve the spoils. And of course there are far more variables than I listed. I was just making some s
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
A few weeks ago, no one would have predicted a major Google service going down before Twitter.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
The question about cars is largely one of personality. Who drives bland cars? People who feel social pressure to not stand out, possibly who feel powerless, or who appreciate anonymity. Who drives flashy cars? People who feel important, who
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I enjoyed the observations in this essay, but I missed the answer to the question in the title. I have a few thoughts in that direction. Neutral colors like greige are fitting for our hypernetworked, hyperconformist age, where eccentric beh
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
Google seems to be holding back due to AI safety concerns, and the problems inherent in doing anything at Google scale. I’m curious to see if potential market competition will change that.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I enjoy Rao’s writing, but he has a tendency to overindulge the occasional (and not particularly funny) mean-spirited joke, as well as over-stuffing his essays with half-formed ideas and references to his other work. His frequent insights m
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
That sounds like a bad experience, but it’s not universal. It’s challenging to understand a platform from our individual vantage points (without access to internal dashboards), particularly on a network with between 2–3 billion MAUs. And if
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I regretted the Twitter comparison as soon as I reread my comment. I was thinking in broader terms — apps where the bulk of users follow creators and not personal contacts tend to grow and sustain very differently. But it’s so obviously mos
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
It is remarkable how hard it is for a business to simply last a decade. To do it at the scale of the incumbent apps is astounding to me. While TikTok is growing quickly, we still don’t know its long term potential, how ‘sticky’ it is. I’d p
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I’d bet a solid majority, like it is on any social platform. Most users don’t post or engage. Biggest predictor for Facebook and IG use among my sample of friends is whether they’re married and have families, or in many cases, pets. In my s
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
One thing is clear: the problem—the problems—are too multivariate for any one solution. Programs like these are triage, the root causes are distant and largely unaddressed.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
That is a reasonable assumption, however, many opioid users deliberately use fentanyl. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09553...
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I’m far from bullish on meta long-term, but reporting like this would have you believe that nobody uses Facebook, and that Instagram is soon to share its fate. Optimists that they are, tech reporters overweight growth to absurd extremes. Ma
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
It’s an unpopular opinion but I find it all funny too, for the reasons you described. The degree to which people are experiencing self-righteous outrage over twitter is in direct proportion to how histrionic and annoying their personas are.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
I got to use one, and my impression was that it an expensive, impractical, heavy, underpowered machine with a low contrast lcd that made the cursor difficult to see when it was in motion. It was also cool, futuristic, like nothing I’d seen
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
The most persuasive argument for Apple as trustworthy on privacy was weak: that because they didn’t monetize data as rapaciously as Google or Meta, there was less incentive for them to spy on users. But once they introduced new privacy con
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
> Twitter’s policy has always prohibited impersonation, but the immediate action is new. As others have pointed out, this will become far more difficult to enforce as blue checks proliferate.
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by throwaway82388 4y ago
Twitter is a very successful product, but by most accounts a highly dysfunctional company. They have one hit product, the core microblogging service. It has evolved admirably. But new products and features introduced by Twitter have had che

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