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You CAN turn off watch history in Youtube (not sure about Spotify). However, for better or worse revealed preferences seem to show that people prefer automatic content recommendati…

Not sure what the next best option here is. There was a thought experiment once where it would require the president to kill the key holder in order to launch a nuclear attack (the…

> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs. Salespeople are there to sell their product, and fundamentally don't need to understand what t…

There could be a common cause (all 3 cables terminate in the same city, could follow a similar path where a single event/failure occurred, etc.). Another possibility is that these …

I've only been in low stakes sales roles (outside of personal projects) so this comes from someone with very little "professional" sales experience: The good: setting a target comp…

Important distinction that a tax preparer != a CPA.

Honest question: Why don't more people (especially high earners) go with a CPA firm to take care of their taxes? With the amount of money involved, and the potential legal trouble …

Satellites provide humanity a ton of good. Would you say the bad outweighs the good overall? What would you propose we do instead?

A bit late, but I built a BattleBot back during the original show days. Never finished/competed though - I was in high school and couldn't make anything competitive with my birthda…

Honest question, should services that host user generated content be obligated to provide that content "for free" through APIs or scrapers? On one hand, users created the content "…

Is there something that the bused in/out employees could do to make a difference?

I'm pretty worried about this. The fallout/plume won't just be isolated to a region we can avoid or mitigate. It's in our waterways and in our air. I wouldn't be surprised if a yea…

Thanks for the clarification! It sounds like chatbots aren’t ready for adversarial conversations yet.

Ahh that makes sense. It wasn’t clear to me which parts were generated by the AI, AI instructions, or the human. I guess I got fooled by prompt injection too!

I don’t fully understand the prompt injection issue. In the bank example, the AI was previously told that a $1m credit was appropriate. There’s no context for whether the issue was…

The airline lost the bag. The customers entrusted it to them, and it's pretty clear the fault lies somewhere on the airline's side. Devil's advocate: The airline doesn't have acces…

#3 can be abused, but a 1 on 1 isn't meant to solve a bad culture. Think of it more like "oh yeah my kid just started soccer at school", "we found this neat new restaurant", etc. I…

1. Here's what I'm working on. (Is this a good use of my time?) 2. Here are my blockers. (Can you help clear the way so I can do my work?) 3. Here's what's going on in my life (rel…

I guess eventually the earth will be swallowed up by the sun, but for practical purposes economic growth happens when we rearrange the atoms and bits at our disposal into things th…

> This is an inane hypothetical. I’m sorry. You’re right. I did not mean to insinuate that Sam was embezzling from Twitter.

If I remember, a set of emails went out to everyone at Twitter. You either got the “we’re sorry” email or the “you weren’t laid off” email, along with instructions if you were a pa…

According to https://twitter.com/magey/status/1610856428646064129 the 60 day notice ends tomorrow, so it’s possible the payments are being sent at the last possible day.

Why couldn’t 1 person be terminated for cause, even in the midst of a layoff? Imagine a company going through layoffs when it discovers an employee had been embezzling funds. Does …

Was Sam laid off or terminated for cause (and was the cause justified)? Not a lawyer, but other than lying or an administrative screw up it seems like a for-cause termination might…

It's a nice data point, but it's not necessary to me. Do you have the source code to your mail service provider or your online banking software? [1] Having the source code availabl…