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Another one is nemesis, which now refers to a long standing enemy, as well as the older meaning of a Greek goddess of vengeance. Don't imply or wink and nudge. Say what you mean to…

Anyone who would fund or build this is, in my mind, taxonomically evil. Maybe not irretrievably so, but YC would need to do a lot of work in my mind to not be "that form that belie…

There's a very common and often discussed concept called wage slavery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery Which is different from chattel slavery, of course. But it's sti…

What do you think the purpose of VC vetting is? It's right there in the name: Capital. You know the thing they optimize for is capital, right?

#1 reasonably high? We turn down plenty of Stanford grads. What's their GitHub like? #2 degree basically never comes up, except if someone is saying they had an atypical degree pat…

Sure you do. The poster was polite, got an extremely rude response, and has no obligation to be polite afterwards. Airing their shit out is a disclosure of a vulnerability, and it'…

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This assumes the genocide has ended, which it very much has not. In what year did Native American parents receive the right to choose not to send their kids to a boarding school? 1…

I don't think it was lack of experts. I suspect the UI people are professionals. I much more strongly suspect it was "we're going to hire one person to do the work of three" and th…

I agree, sold my car awhile back. It's not really needed.

Not in my industry (software engineering). Hiring managers barely care about what school you went to. It might afford you more career fair opportunities, but that's about it. Now, …

Bragging about where your kid goes to school is extremely common. It signals not only what can you afford (like a car), but also lets you buy and display a bunch of gear. (Universi…

I mean, put some live shrimp on a plate and I'm sure people will not feel great about it either. People have eaten bugs around the world forever, from prehistory to modern times. S…

Good luck to the people being held prisoner in these hubs. Hopefully they can escape the abuse and violence, and not just be trafficked to another hub.

Where your kid goes to school is a status symbol. And like most status symbols, it is a foolish and conspicuous waste. Americans love to root for teams and build their identities a…

Better batteries require less frequent charging, reducing pressure on networks. But also, better batteries enable electrification of other modes of transport much more easily. Cars…

It's wild that people buy these, let alone feel comfortable wearing them. I'm already pretty strongly anti Meta, I can't imagine buying a mic and camera they control and bringing i…

I mean, it is kinda quacky to treat someone with that until it's demonstrated by science. I'm open to the idea that light is an important regulator, but that effect should be easil…

Bigotry causes cover for this shit. If trans people were just accepted for humans who just want to live their lives, then the pattern matching defense wouldn't need to exist. There…

AI doomerism I've seen largely boils down to pretty standard critiques of capitalism -- who controls the means of production (the capital class), who will benefit most from increas…

They're obvious hyperbole complaining about how you can't immediately have access to high res, high frame rate footage of a disaster with casualties. Maybe people think you are kin…

Yes. The term of art for this is "demographic bias" and it's exactly what you describe -- the population set has itself a skew for or against some demographic. An ML image generato…

Who, it should be noted, is not a leftist. Let alone a radical leftist.

> It's a statistical model, and of course there are more black rappers and white investment bankers Yes, this is what the author is pointing out - there's a statistical bias in the…