tj-teej

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by tj-teej 3mo ago
How many providers do you have to pay for to watch your favorite teams play in all their competitions now vs 20 years ago? How different is the experience booking an economy flight today vs 20 years ago?
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by tj-teej 3mo ago
"Truly capable engineers are able to achieve more business outcomes with less code / fewer moving parts" I'd simplify to "Truly capable engineers are able to achieve more positive outcomes" - half of what makes
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by tj-teej 3mo ago
I've been screenshotting twitter since 2016 when Brexit happened and with the goal of one day putting together some kind of art piece. The world and our discourse around it has changed so much over the past ten years and now with this
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by tj-teej 3mo ago
The most interesting point here is to look at Women's Soccer. Soccer has always included lots of psuedo-nationalist reasons why different countries are better (or why the dive, why they play conservative defense, etc). But when you loo
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Ask HN: How to get involved and meet people in AI in SF?
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by tj-teej 4mo ago
I think the better analogy is "you could give me an afternoon in the studio with Jimi Hendrix's sound engineer and the record we create would sound very different from Jimi's albums."
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by tj-teej 8mo ago
After Snowden's leaks don't we know the levels of spying that's already happening today? That was a decade ago, what has changed?
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by tj-teej 8mo ago
And (with a heavy dose of purposeful suspension of disbelief), if ICE does deport those people they've determined are "illegal", does anyone believe that the agency will scale down and stop? There will be new "enemies of
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by tj-teej 8mo ago
Isn't this the intent of a prediction markets? IIRC the original prediction markets existed to try and get as close as possible to finding the true answer to open questions. Someone willing to bet a lot of money on an outcome (becaus
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by tj-teej 1y ago
A missed aspect of "are right, a lot" LP is that the great leaders are able to quickly realize when they're wrong and get on the right side of the argument. It's not "are right from the start, a lot", it's
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by tj-teej 1y ago
It's actually very straight-forward. UBI still means that most people's money eventually flows to the rent-seekers (Billionaires). Socialism (and I know this is not the Socialism Mamdani is proposing), means that most people own t
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by tj-teej 1y ago
I toured Stanford Bridge in the middle 2010s, they actually found uncomfortable away dressing rooms weren't the most effective as it either got the other team to go out and start warming up or riled them up. When Mourinho started he br
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by tj-teej 1y ago
If Google just copied and pasted the content from my blog and put it on their own website which had ads that paid them, preventing customers from going to my blog (and thus seeing my ads which I get paid for), that would be obviously wrong.
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by tj-teej 1y ago
I think the cruelty is the point
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by tj-teej 1y ago
Reminds me of a joke: Bill: "I used to think Correlation implied Causation, but I took a statistics class and I now know that's not true" Bob: "Oh wow, sounds like that class helped!" Bill": "..maybe!&quot
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by tj-teej 2y ago
My favorite feature is that the little mic next to someone's name on the roster goes red when their internet is spotty. No ambiguity on who's internet is spotty ;)
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by tj-teej 2y ago
These kinds of articles always make me feel like I'm living in Bizarro Land. The Snowden revelations were over a decade ago, we know the capabilities the US Govt has, how is this even news?
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by tj-teej 2y ago
Because the US has a constitution. Congress (not the Executive branch) allocates funding and the Executive Branch (in this case a Billionaire who's friendly with the President) cannot decide not to spend the money Congress has already
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by tj-teej 2y ago
I was an intern at eBay in 2012, I was at an on-campus event and chatting with the VP who was our college sponsor. At one point he shows me his phone, someone had bought a $100K Porsche on the mobile phone app ! It blew our mind.
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by tj-teej 2y ago
I am riding the Caltrain south, we slowed to a snail's pace and they said it would take 2hr+ to get to Palo Alto (from SF). A bunch of people got off, and then the conductor comes back on the PA system to say the speed limitation had b
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by tj-teej 2y ago
I wonder how much of a relief the belief that when you sit on your deathbed you will be woken up again would provide. Even if the tech doesn't work, I wonder how much relief from suffering the idea that it will in a hundred years cou
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by tj-teej 2y ago
It's because he's not a "free speech absolutist", does he think felons should be able to vote? Of course he doesn't. His "free speech absolutism" is a way of signaling the kinda guy he is and the kinda guy
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by tj-teej 2y ago
As a T1D I empathize so strongly with this comment. There was a promising example in China where Scientists cured a single woman who had T1D. It's n=1, but the first step to a cure is curing someone :) Source: https://www.na
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by tj-teej 2y ago
If anyone is curious, a Meta Data Scientist published a great piece about how the facts about what LLMs are actually doing (and therefore able to do) and how it's papered over by using chat bots. It's a long but very engaging read
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by tj-teej 2y ago
It's the local, when you drive you don't stop every 5 miles and pick-up/drop-off a couple dozen people :) The bullets (limited stops) is actually really fast (~45 minutes MTV to SF). At rush hour when it's 1.5 hours from
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by tj-teej 2y ago
Musicians need to live near each other in order to collaborate. Cities are too expensive for artists to live and the rehearsal spaces are too expensive as well. Maybe the technology is better but you have to consider the macroeconomics as w
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by tj-teej 2y ago
You wouldn't block an ambulance from getting to a hospital. You wouldn't block a mother from hugging her child. Why would you block an ad??
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by tj-teej 2y ago
I went to UIUC for CS ('14), in our Systems class we had one project where we had to write our own version of malloc() in C. They made it into a competition and it was so much fun (graded on latency and efficient space usage). I rememb
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by tj-teej 2y ago
It is still acceptable to make "don't drop the soap" jokes on mainstream non-edgy (Think Jay Leno, John Stewart, or Jimmy Fallon) talk shows in the US. Our Criminal System and the lack of mainstream antipathy towards it is ho
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by tj-teej 2y ago
I saw a Huberman clip this morning where he said that because women under thirty have a 20% chance of getting pregnant after a single attempt that they should try five times before seeing an OBGYN because 20% x 5 = 100% and that six times w

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