throwboatyface

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by throwboatyface 3y ago
The one thing AI has done really well is generate all the signals of "intelligence" that SV tech folks care about. It's verbose and meaningless, confidently-asserted bullshit wrapped in the right packaging. It's like a M
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
I would argue the biggest issue for talented musicians is economic inequality and the rapid increase in the cost of living. If you want to do music as a main job you need to survive on your partner's income or have generational wealth.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Hormonal birth control is extremely common and generally presents minor issues. This is a relatively uncommon anti-seizure drug that has extremely high risks of causing developmental issues in children.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
You can file in small claims without a lawyer.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
What's the GDP of the Ute nation? It's probably quite a significant investment for them as well.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
There is no "removing Hamas from Palestine". The only way to remove the desire of the Palestinian people for freedom is to remove the Palestinian people themselves. And that is what the IDF is trying to do.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
In every startup I've been in, there was undue deference to long-time ICs. They didn't normally stir up public fights with execs but they would openly undercut line managers and then move around in the org as people tried to stop
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
In "The Population Bomb" (1968) Robert Ehrlich claimed that within 10 years there would be catastrophic famines because of exponential population growth. A lot of people have blind faith in just extrapolating numbers out into the
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
> I didn't get along well with this manager,The resulting conflict lead to a "performance enablement plan" Respectfully, in your post you literally say you got a new manager who PIPed you for being hard to work with. The w
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
My read is that he was one of those early employees that is a huge pain to manage. They want to do what they think is fun and interesting and they have strong opinions about shit that is ultimately inconsequential. It's a nightmare to
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Do you think the American government can't already find Russian ships? America gets their ass beat consistently in unwinnable wars against guerilla armies, but in terms of identifying giant warships I think they're pretty capable.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Chevron Reference is the idea that when a statute is ambiguous the agencies can interpret it according to their expert opinion. The alternative is requiring Congress to write every single rule explicitly and pass a law adapting to any chang
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Honestly in this day and age rolling your own k8s cluster is negligent. I've worked at multiple companies using EKS, AKS, GKE, and we haven't had 10% of the issues I see people complaining about.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
IME EKS version upgrades are pretty painless - AWS has a tool that tells you if any of your resources would be affected by an upcoming change even.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
As other people have pointed out, biological passports track markers across time. If you suddenly recieved a transfusion of your own blood it would be obvious from the sudden increase.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
It's incredible to me that anyone can defend the actions of the Israeli government and settlers at this point. They've murdered tens of thousands of civilians in the name of "fighting terrorists". History will look harsh
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
The difference is that Tesla's hardware is simpler in a way that's harder to use. Moving from indirect control to touch screens was great and intuitive for phones. Moving to touch screens in cars is more about cost savings than ma
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Would the world be better if there were incentives to promote skilled crafts instead of racing to the bottom to produce cheap shit at scale? I'm not saying to go back to the stone ages, but ultimately there have been movements to buy l
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
People in the thread are dropping all kinds of trivia about Pixar and BSD but possibly the biggest news about the subject of the article in the last 5 years is that he was ousted from his role at Pixar for sexual harassment. Feels relevant.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
He's been credibly accused by many people, it's an open secret in the industry, and he took a 6 month leave of absence and then never came back and started a new studio. Oh and he publicly acknowledged unspecified "missteps&q
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
I can drive my car over the land border between two countries and have to switch sides of the road. Or the speed limit can go up/down. Or they can mandate different safety equipment.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Some countries have roundabouts. Some countries let you make a right turn on a red light. Traffic law isn't any more universal than copyright law. All law is made up but that doesn't make it less real.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
John Lasseter is a creep who was ousted from Pixar after a long history of sexually harassing employees: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-las...
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Stop signs are made up too. See how far you get driving through all of them without stopping.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
You can't just write an unlicensed harry potter book, or make an unlicensed sequel to Fast and Furious. Why would you think it's broadly permissible to rip off someone's comics (which have an identifiable style but also chara
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
It's also early days - see in 10 years whether they're still doing a good job, or if they cut costs to the bone to preserve profitability.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Serverless is a paradigm where you pay for capacity, not for a specific number of instances. It's extending "cattle, not pets" beyond VMs to databases. In theory it provides better incentives for both parties: Customers don&#
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
Farmers protested the enclosure of the commons, Luddites protested the industrial revolution, trade unionists protested for a 40 hour work week. It's not foolish to imagine the world could be better.
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
The business model was never economical. But Bird was able to bribe these contractors with large initial contracts to trick them into making unsustainable capital expenditures. Then when the funding dried up (after a "successful"
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by throwboatyface 3y ago
All reports are that Netanyahu and the Israeli intelligence services knew this attack was coming. They've been promoting Hamas over more moderate elements in Gaza. The goal was to provoke an attack which would "justify" a cou

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