akozak.bsky.social
Fan of computers, empiricism, creativity, California. Consulting now, former: Public Policy at Google X, Google, Creative Commons
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That's a travesty of a combo 😂 I'm afraid to ask which was A side
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penicillin. how dare we fight natural decay! 😁
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Except he breaks in 2 seconds obv, episode over
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garden state and slc punk negatively polarized us into being normies
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I will admit that it's more efficient in reaching *a* moral conclusion 😁 But the correct one?
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I just find consequentialism to give a better steer on tech impacts longer term. Virtue analysis is Hard - ppl are always flawed, inputs are filtered through media, class definition is murky, they all come and go, pretending to care isn't caring + caring isn't morally sufficient, etc.
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That's a good q, have seen answers framed in terms of a2k or economics, and I do think the benefits are real. But my q wasn't to rehash the debate and more to probe you on - whether the solidarity framing makes empiricism moot in the first place? Is it just group affinity and expressivism?
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All of them - current (at least several hundreds of millions weekly actives) and future (we'll see).
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Hah yes, now realizing that is very ambiguous. I had users in mind :)
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Respect for putting your cards on the table and distinguishing the legal and moral debates. What would you make of people who feel a solidarity pull towards beneficiaries, also on moral grounds? Asking for a friend 😅
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The idea in the leak seems to be that SpaceX might operate the constellation (?) but DOD maintains control of the weapon. OK fine. But that raises all sorts of other Qs around system integration, order of operations, feasibility. SDI ran through all sorts of methods there that failed...
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speed work is via splits/intervals. here's decent guide + lots of good stuff on yt. a heartrate watch really helps track hr zones. its easy to hurt yourself tho (same with volume), so gotta ramp up carefully even if you're feeling good www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/...
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Ah, I see - I was reading "without any real social returns" as the system as a whole, but agree it happens in instances.
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The main thing that I think is unfair is not crediting our system of risk capital with any real social returns. I also wonder what the alternative is... I suppose you could design an risk taking machine that didn't expose much to the public (Google x?), but that also has its downsides.
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dividing by zero, creates a legal singularity
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www.washingtonpost.com/business/eco...
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My grandfather started writing his memoirs one story at a time, nudged forward by writing classes at his local community college. We'd each get a few pages in the mail every few months, written on a word processor and copied at the library.
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It can be fun in the rain! Ended up waist deep a few years ago in chabot, good memory
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Terrible (but sometimes in a funny way)
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Fair :)
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A lot of people can remember online discourse being better. It may be related to the upswing in grievance politics (I haven't read the citations here, but seems like a helpful way to understand the current moment) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...
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Kitty Hawk
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This right after your dopesmoker piece would all be suspiciously tailored to my interests, like is someone catfishing me
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Why are aggregate measures hard? (Genuinely curious ... I'd have thought that an overdose death is a relatively well tracked occurrence)
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IMO, the best training is asking for feedback, because it's all about meeting your audience. I've been told my emails are great, but also that they're too verbose, so the meta skill is to learn and adjust based on who you're talking to and what you're trying to accomplish.
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I think this was Google in the first couple decades. Org chat just didn't really exist as a category, and over-meeting culture was kept fairly well in check. (In fact, in 2011 or so Larry made 20min the default length in Calendar instead of 30.) I hear Stripe has a great email culture too.
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Queueing up games for cozy holiday wind down period is just the best feeling
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It's difficult to quantify, and you might turn out to be right with the same amount of hindsight, but I do know that books and search felt like a real fight to many