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I don’t know. I think you’re right that the root cause is low EQ either way, but at least the low EQ used to be expressed in each’s own personal manner. Your friend/ex/family membe…

Source: I am an Amazon employee. I’ve been here for ~4.5 years, on 3-4 teams across 2 different orgs. I work as an applied scientist (i.e. data scientist who meets the SDE bar, and…

I don’t think GP’s claim is entirely accurate. Bing is an input into the results, along with other inputs (Bing is less than majority responsible in most cases iirc). I don’t remem…

I feel fairly uneasy about my ownership of my cat. I live alone (besides the cat) and am probably gone 12/16 waking hours per day and obviously asleep the other 8. During the remai…

The pure mathematician is a relatively recent beast though, and most non-graduate students of math (i.e. almost all of them) study mathematics that almost exclusively was developed…

Does this resonate with anyone else? Is there any studies on this? I’ve had a similar experience over the past few years — a ton of work focus (at a FAANGM as an ML scientist/engin…

I would fairly shocked if the CCP didn’t issue guidelines for history textbooks in addition to a post-publication review for approval.

Sure, I might be okay with that for a niche community. But social networks tend to be monopolies or oligopolies due to network effects and general audience social network apps (whi…

Did you miss the section about Hong Kong and the blanket ban on political/protest content? The latter is very Brave New World-esque in that it both “keeps the app fun” and acts as …

The designer of the software should be liable for bugs that cause life and property damages. This makes sense morally, and the costs incurred from damages should be factored into t…

I have no idea what relevance trade history from hundreds of years ago has to modern geopolitics and economic globalization. Historically, Europeans didn’t know North America even …

“The government” is not a homogeneous entity.

The brain-dead obvious response to this is that Jeff Bezos isn’t hiding his money under a mattress. He’s (directly or indirectly) investing in ventures that employ people anyway, a…

> Thomas Picketty did great research in this area. My understanding of the general consensus of economists on Piketty is that his data collection efforts were great work, but his a…

Isn’t figuring this problem out what the FAA has been doing for the last five years? If we’re going to have public nuisance drones at the end of the day anyway, why they just let i…

Unfortunately though, whatever natural selection that occurs in a post-civilization world is might be sort of orthogonal to improving human civilization when civilization returns. …

> It's not so much China as it is Xi and his minions. There are 1.2 billion hostages under the control of Xi. You’re vastly underestimating how successful the CCP’s propaganda camp…

I don’t think the government has shown it has a position on the issue really. China is not a gay-friendly place though — gays often hide their homosexuality from their parents and …

From what I’ve read in mainstream US news sources, Europe, NATO, and the US have no faith in Turkey’s ability to execute its plan. And setting up a mini-state isn’t something you c…

Because there’s only 24 hours a day? Because my tax dollars are often funding this research? Why not take this farther and just do the research myself, eh?

The app developer supposedly made $150 before the app was taken down. Hardly a successful cash grab. If people didn’t feel the app provide value worth the cost of its services, the…

As I mentioned above, the Chinese are undoubtedly extremely sensitive about HK (I would argue due to propaganda but that’s irrelevant to the question). There is some amount of auth…

While this definitely exists, I’m not completely convinced the true intensity of the Chinese exactly matches the front that Beijing allows forth. I’m confident that most Chinese ar…

Apple only has its self to blame when it doesn’t necessarily get the benefit of the doubt as far as potential Chinese policy influence goes.

FOIA doesn’t usually involve my personal data as a typical private citizen. Personal data that can potentially be traced back to me and affect my life in negative ways. It usually …