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The way people become corporate Cassandras is by doing the hard work for a while and building a mental model that is more influenced by the grit of the real work and unfiltered cus…

The replies here arguing we should publish it all are wild in the worst kind of first-order thinking way. It’s a census: it just asks questions. If you start publishing and weaponi…

1. If you are proposing something even stricter than previous antitrust rules, great. But getting back to antitrust itself is actionable is step 1. 2. You don’t have to prevent eve…

The OP explicitly answers this: go back to pre-80s antitrust policy. Companies can be bought and sold but not if it creates concentrations of economic power that allow them to dict…

Yes it does. Today on X, people are having fun baiting Grok into saying that Elon Musk is the world’s best drinker of human piss. If you hired a paid PR sycophant human, even of mo…

I also have an OM System camera (OM-5) and never get corruption this bad but occasionally got one row of green pixels at the bottom of a photo during import to Photos. I thought I …

You can know almost all you need to know about this article from this sentence: > This is even more true today, when the intersectional grid draws rigid lines between “oppressor” a…

$5 says this is one support rep (or AI tool) just getting it wrong.

There are some similar-ish systems with alpha-level install instructions: https://folk.computer/pilot

This part is so important: > The adults in my life were largely not mad at me. They asked me to knock it off, but also made me a t-shirt. I don’t think I’d be doing what I do now w…

The amount of work to be done isn’t constant. If you make it cheaper to do a unit of work (less labor per unit) then the market will demand more of it. Look up the unintentional im…

These are more or less the first people to think about geometry rigorously as an abstract system. Anyone previous would have just pointed to the hypotenuse and said “it’s that leng…

What is counter-intuitive? In a triangle with sides A=1, B=1, then C=root(2), so C/A is irrational. That's what was so impactful about the discovery. Imagine not knowing about irra…

"As Franz Kafka awoke one morning from uneasy death he found himself transformed in his coffin into a software project"

If you're interested in this topic but want more, I recommend "Cognition in the wild": https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262082310/

I’m a remote product engineer with 15 years of experience, including leading teams at Stripe building their payment UIs. Location: Atlanta, GA Remote: yes, please Willing to reloca…

In disagreeing with the phrase "traitorous slavers" used as a pejorative, you've decided to nitpick the less-important part.

Go is a constructed game with a precise definition of the rules and victory. The real challenge with AI helping experts is whether it can correctly help them balance their own valu…

Also very curious about this. I’ve been slowly building one myself and would happily give up if another good one already exists. Tried searching the web and can’t find it.