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logicalmonster

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About logicalmonster

I am not correct about absolutely everything. I welcome disagreements and downvotes that express your opinion in a polite and logical manner.

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    Comment #41048225

    If the person is able to complete the job, it's not necessarily fraud.

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    Comment #40740047

    The cold emails that are effective in getting the attention of my small business promise me some $25-100 gift card to Starbucks/Amazon in exchange for going through their sales dem…

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    Comment #40739929

    > Every single one of them were fully vaccinated. You don't say?!?

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    Comment #40738843

    What ScientificAmerican labels as "denial" might better be referred to as a "normal risk-management assessment". They're still hyping up the threat of Covid in the article for God'…

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    Comment #39909607

    > I can agree with you on all points above, but why is it more important to keep freedom from tyranny instead of keeping our environment healthy? Value is subjective, and anybody i…

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    Comment #39904948

    Are you counting jobs posted or total comments? The total number of comments should rise in a few days or so after as people comment on their experiences applying to a company.

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    Comment #39898321

    1) The real answer might depend on the time-frame you're considering. In the short run, crypto does use up a good amount of electricity, which nobody disputes. But in the long-run,…

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    Comment #39807321

    > I don't think the algorithmic nature is necessarily the problem. The monetization is. IMO, monetization was never the real problem. Everybody online was interested in making mone…

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    Comment #39608193

    Are there actually any good metrics that can be used to evaluate software engineers? If you rank them based on # of tickets dealt with, they're just going to take the easier tasks.…

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    Comment #39473191

    It would be helpful if you can post such a citation. I did a quick search and I'm not seeing "less suited" in his memo.

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    Comment #39472459

    > how a particular group of employees are less likely to be as proficient at their work as I am due to some immutable biological trait(s) they possess Is that what Damore actually …

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    Comment #39472195

    Anything is possible, but I'd say it's a safe bet that their bad choices will inevitably infect everything they do.

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    Comment #39469393

    Personally speaking, this is a blaring neon warning sign of institutional rot within Google where shrieking concerns about DEI have surpassed a focus on quality results. Investors …

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    Comment #39456258

    Would a company be liable to uphold its promises if a rogue human customer service agent promised something ridiculous such as 1 million dollars worth of free flights?

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    Comment #39443797

    I don't know exactly, but this article may serve as a prime example. https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/chatgpt-goes-viral-fo...

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    Comment #39443500

    The Turing test of the future is going to be start a politically incorrect discussion with a suspected bot and see if it treats different groups differently.

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    Comment #39443474

    1) You should consider yourself lucky that you (hopefully) learned the lesson that there's no such thing as a "safe career" before you got too old and were put in a shitty position…

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    Comment #39402755

    If the problem you're trying to solve is literally generating randomness, you might look into custom hardware. I think some companies have devices to measure subtle variations in t…

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    Comment #39402729

    Just a small bit of advice. A lot of companies use recent employment as a filtering mechanism: if you have a big gap in technology employment, you might have trouble getting interv…

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    Comment #39402603

    We're in a new trend cycle. Whenever some tech becomes trendy and people think they can make money off of it, it becomes a stupid buzzword that gets used just about everywhere unne…

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    Comment #39390721

    Assuming there are any, have you tried to address your concerns internally with any of the decent folks in management?

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    Comment #39385922

    > If viewing a gay marriage doesn't make you gay, neither does seeing someone complain about other races or LGBT people. This is a great line that probably pisses off almost everyb…

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    Comment #39383474

    Brave has done some very minor experiments with user control of the algorithm that yielded pretty interesting results. One strength of OpenAI might be allowing users to approach se…

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    Comment #39383433

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    Comment #39383397

    If your concern is quasi-anonymity, get a burner phone to create your social media accounts.