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SXSW Interactive kicked of right as this whole thing was happening. The mood is...complicated. https://twitter.com/vc/status/1634027714423267328?s=20
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Elder Postsman posted:the bank understander has logged on Just a reminder: This guy was the founding COO and product leader at Paypal.
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Truman Peyote posted:i know. for years i had thought there was one guy named jon favreau who directed iron man, then was obama's speechwriter, then wrote the mandalorian while also hosting pod save america. i found this to be a very funny type of guy to exist in the world The trick is to just refer to the guy who made Swingers, Iron Man, and the best parts of The Mandalorian as “Jonny Favors” (which was apparently his nickname back in his days in the Chicago improv scene, according to some folks I know who performed with him).
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Mar 13, 2023 23:16
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mystes posted:Strava effectively has a monopoly on cyclists virtually competing with each other for imaginary internet points Man, if somebody could make an app like that which is able to reliably and verifiably track weightlifting workouts, you'd be a billionaire from gym bros around the planet trying to show off/out-compete one another.
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Mar 16, 2023 18:29
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Beeftweeter posted:that doesn't matter. they are saying "everyone who deposits at SVB is fully insured up to any amount, which you will not get at another bank" I mean, the bank was still seized and their $6.3 billion in equity is now literally worthless, so it's not a case of "nothing will happen". Depositors being protected while shareholders get wiped out is not exactly going to cause other banks to decide that they can also just go buck wild.
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Mar 17, 2023 15:22
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Beeftweeter posted:what does that matter to the bank as an institution? they don't need the shareholders now, and the people working there are actually making 1.5x what they were I mean, if you just want to see people who work at a bank punished for the Manichean evil of being bankers, then I can understand how it is unsatisfying that they are not being put into mediaeval torture devices just so they can properly suffer. But for every other bank out there, they still have to answer to their shareholders (and, in fact, many of the bank executives also hold significant shares in their banks as well). Those shareholders don't want to get wiped out, the C-suite doesn't want the millions of equity that's included in their TCP to become worthless, and the fact that some of the management will temporarily make more money during a bank failure (until the bank is fully absorbed and they are made redundant in the new organization) is not going to present significant moral hazard.
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Mar 17, 2023 15:34
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:Yeah, especially since there is a lot of weird overwrought language from them about "we have fired the current mindgeek executives and replaces them all with a series of secret replacements who we will never reveal" This is likely a play to get Visa to start processing their payments again. They fixed the actual problem that caused the complaints a long time ago, but that didn't really move the needle (and of course it wouldn't, since the people who were writing NYTimes pieces about it didn't actually care about the revenge porn or rampant piracy of sex workers' content on PH, they just want to remove all porn from the internet). The frustrating thing about MindGeek is that, as much as they are the DeBeers of porn, they were generally more ethical than what came before them. I recently read Oriana Small's memoir Girlvert, and some of the stories she recounts about being in the porn scene in the '00s are just bone-chilling. Having MindGeek running most of the major porn sites/studios is a bit like all the Vegas casinos getting taken over by entertainment corporations once the mobsters lost control.
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Mar 20, 2023 16:20
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The_Franz posted:we'll know if something really changed if some new fetish starts pushing out the incest themed stuff, which was the old leadership's fetish Random internet post, 10 years from now: "Goddamnit, why do I have to search so hard to find a porno video that doesn't have somebody getting hit in the face with a pie?!? Surely people aren't really that into pies!?!"
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Mar 20, 2023 16:28
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Amazon’s latest layoffs cut 9,000 more jobs in divisions including Twitch and AWSquote:Amazon is laying off another 9,000 workers, according to a memo to employees CEO Andy Jassy sent to workers on Monday. The employees affected by the cut include those in roles in AWS, Twitch, advertising, and human resources. How profitable is Twitch, anyways? Also, I'm genuinely surprised to see cuts in AWS staff. That still seems like the big cash cow. I wonder if they're cutting engineering, support, or sales staff there.
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Mar 20, 2023 17:03
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Beeftweeter posted:like yeah it's kind of easily ignorable if you realize the performers are not actually relatives, but i still find it pretty weird and i don't think that's an outlier opinion At this point I just consider us lucky that nobody has figured out how to do A/B/O on video yet.
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ADINSX posted:Also surprised, and a lot more worried about this round as I work for a not yet profitable aws service A few of my former coworkers jumped ship to AWS. Mostly sales/pre-sales folks, though. I should probably check in with them to see what’s up. Definitely glad to be in my company’s consulting division right now. I know exactly how much money they’re making off me, and I’ve already got the contracts and work lined up through the end of the year. Now, after that…
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:someone post that clip of the podcast dickhead talking about how if he was homeless and ask for books outside canary wharf station (London financial district) and simply get a job by "showing he was willing to learn" and not getting shoved into the river by the private security contractors that maraud the place The infinitely-better parody has already been posted, but here's the grindset original for those who haven't wretched yet today... https://twitter.com/TikTokInvestors/status/1630998838843686913?s=20
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https://twitter.com/business/status/1638902685960400896quote:Accenture Plc surged after saying it will cut 19,000 jobs — about 2.5% of its workforce — over the next 18 months, one of the largest rounds of dismissals in a consultancy sector facing strong economic headwinds. Wasn't Accenture the consulting firm that Facebook was using to outsource it moderation, in an act of supreme Elite University thinking that didn't even recognize the existence of the temp firms out there which actually specialize in filling out customer support type roles in most places? (After hearing that, I was almost surprised that Meta wasn't outsourcing their janitorial services to some white-shoe firm.)
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Mar 23, 2023 20:59
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Gotta admit, I don't like seeing the words "a consultancy sector facing strong economic headwinds", as I'm in that sector and currently only have 25% of my FY24 booked.
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Mar 23, 2023 22:16
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Beeftweeter posted:iirc mckinsey also laid off a couple thousand people last week Say a prayer for the literary agents that are about to be flooded with just the most god-awful manuscripts.
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Mar 23, 2023 23:09
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I was listening to the Ezra Klein podcast and he had on an AI expert who just started making all these absurd claims about how AI was already being used to code better AI and all these weird fantasies out that sounded like a mix of a LessWrong post and a pitch deck for some scammy AI startup. So I finally paused the episode and looked at who this AI expert was, and it was just some reporter from Vox who happened to write about AI a lot. Klein is a bit notorious for getting rolled by any Silicon Valley huckster who he interviews when the subject of AI comes up, but now he's gotten worse and gotten someone else who was also rolled by hucksters and brought them on to be an "expert". The whole thing was such a poo poo-show that I'm strongly tempted to start a change.org petition: "New York Times, we demand that you prevent Ezra Klein from producing any content related to Artificial Intelligence until he has completed at least 2 college level linear algebra courses."
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qirex posted:olpc intersects with so many bad things about the tech industry - the mit media lab, rockstar designers, open source zealots, harmful ngos, white colonializer brain, corporate reputation washing and so much more. it's like a perfect icon of everything we're doing wrong as a culture to try to "help" others I highly recommend Morgan G. Ames's book The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child. It's an academic text, so it can be a bit of a dense read, but the concept of "charismatic technology" that Ames lays out is pretty much spot-on behind 99% of the entire tech bubble. From the book description: quote:Drawing on fifty years of history and a seven-month study of a model OLPC project in Paraguay, Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for “technically precocious boys”—idealized younger versions of the developers themselves—rather than the children who were actually using them. The Charisma Machine offers a cautionary tale about the allure of technology hype and the problems that result when utopian dreams drive technology development. The author spent months in the countries where OLPC programs were active, and has a really detailed account of exactly how the program was failing to actually help the people it was meant for.
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qirex posted:every government they talked to was like "hey can we get cheap windows laptops instead so we can teach people useful and marketable skills?" ...and the nerdlingers in charge of the project were convinced that 1gb of storage was all that was needed, because they imagined that the kids using the laptops would be downloading lots of <1mb bits of code and hacking on open-source projects instead of doing what kids actually do and download games and media. According to Ames, even the teachers who were really positive on the OLPC program in their classrooms would usually have to spend a few hours at the beginning of class getting students to delete the videos on their computer so that they could re-install the programs that they were using for their lesson.
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Opened up Feedly to look over my RSS subscriptions, only to see this overlay on top of everything: Which linked to this blog post.  is Feedly getting up to, exactly?
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git apologist posted:i have an aunt or uncle who are both phds and big achievers, my uncle started youthline in nz (like a helpline for young people) in the 70s and his written a lot of books and junk. he has 6 kids from two marriages and put zero pressure on them, they just flitted off and did their own thing, ranging from socialist academic to landscaper to software sales. it’s a good approach imo Yes, starting off with rich & successful parents is indeed a good approach.
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git apologist posted:just use apple maps Apple Maps: The Bing of Map Apps
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BMan posted:according to a new yorker article I read, you can get it much cheaper by having a sketchy pharmacy send you a kit with the salt form of the drug I've got a friend who is a nurse practitioner and has had to deal with insurance companies denying patient after patient that he tried to get on Wegovy. It turns out that even if a patient meets all the clinical requirements, if you aren't an endocrinologist they're likely to reject the prescription. As a result, his clinic is starting to talk to a compounding pharmacy who can basically assemble a version that's essentially identical but will cost about $200 for a four-week supply. Being on the stuff myself, it's not so much a cure for fat as it is something that makes the cure for fat that we have always had (eating fewer calories than you burn, and then only eating the number of calories you need to maintain the weight you've reached) actually feasible for people whose sense of satiation has been destroyed. I kinda knew how insanely over-blown my sense of hunger was, but it was only after taking the drug that I actually understood how far it was from normal. It was a bit like when I first got glasses and could suddenly see that there was all this detail in everything that had just looked blurry before.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:that just means bein fat is an endocrinological disease not a dietary one I mean, yes and no. If there were some hormonal imbalance that caused people to repeatedly smash their hands with a hammer, and the more they smashed their hands with a hammer the more likely they were to do it in the future; you wouldn't say that nobody needs to worry about the effect of hitting your hand with a hammer because these people's broken fingers are actually the result of a hormonal imbalance. Diet is still the mechanism by which all of this occurs. Also, having a better diet when young means that it is less likely that the endocrinological disease will develop.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:but you will agree that recommending hand-armor or softer hammers as treatment is worthless, just like excision for syphilis sores instead of antibiotics is basically worthless I don't quite get where you're going with the metaphor here. If you're talking about stuff like keto and other weird non-calorie-based restrictive diets, then yeah I agree that this really puts the lie to their claims when you see how effective a basic calories-in/calories-out diet can be (when the person doing that diet doesn't feel insanely hungry all of the time and thus isn't set up for inevitable self-sabotage). the panacea posted:does it work with weight gain related to anti-depressants etc? I don't know as I don't really have any experience in that area. I do think that if there are other things that could prevent someone from being able to stick to a diet while on Wegovy then it might be a bad idea to waste a bunch of money when you won't get the results. You can definitely still over-eat while on the drug, it's not like one of those stomach surgeries where it can be physically painful if you put down too much food. It's a lot harder to over-eat, since you'll feel very full, but it's not impossible. And if you eat the exact same number of calories after starting a semaglutide as you did before, then you won't really see the benefits. (Also, I absolutely dread the constipation you'll be dealing with.) So I imagine if there are other psychological issues at play that can complicate things then it will probably be worthwhile checking with the relevant healthcare providers for their take.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:maybe try getting drunk and taking your shirt off and then stealing someone else's girlfriend by accident? it worked for me! Bert Kreischer?
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Achmed Jones posted:christ it's called apollos belt, y'all nasty. i know rick and morty said it but that doesn't mean you have to repeat it Queer folks have been using the phrase "cum gutters" since long before Dan Harmon managed to sexually-harass his way into getting fired from Community and deciding to throw his lot in with a fellow creep who had been doing these animated parodies of Doc and Marty from Back to the Future at Channel 101. We're not gonna give up the phrase now because reddit discovered it.
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Midjack posted:spermaducts load-bearing trenches
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Expo70 posted:playing with an iphone recently, the app library/app drawer stuff is awful, you still don't have a back button, the keyboard sucks, and the ecosystem was kind of terrible beyond a few vaguely interesting apps that only really run properly on an ipad with a pencil What do you mean there's no back button? If you need to switch from the app you're currently on to the one you were on previously, you can swipe up and you can see the app switcher, where you can choose just how far back you need to go on previous apps you were using. Also, if you change from one app to another because of a notification, there will also be a button in the upper-left corner with the previous app's name and a back button if you want a one-touch way to get back where you were. Also, I can't imagine what you are thinking trying to say that the android keyboard is somehow better than the iPhone's. Android people have gotten so used to their atrocious, barely-useable UI that they have a hard time using a phone whose interface doesn't suck.
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Oh hey, new “worst possible person” just dropped… https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1646220398940307460
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https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1648030686811676672?s=20 https://twitter.com/mmitchell_ai/status/1648031643637268481?s=20 There's more in that Twitter thread, but it seems like Google has fully jumped into the "just lie about the product" phase of AI development. (Also, later in the thread op realizes that Bengali actually makes up even more of the training set.)
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hobbesmaster posted:if you have a bachelor’s in any subject you can become a NP in under 4 years online part time except ~500 hours of clinical time which is usually signed off on for simple shadowing shadowing. in some states after doing this you will have more prescribing power and independence than a newly minted MD I have two friends who are both NPs. One went through a full nursing program, and spent several years as a nurse while getting their masters and becoming an NP. The other followed a program a bit like what you mentioned. He was an EMT but stepped away from that and managed to go through a program that got him his RN and NP at the same time. The thing is, even though they are both technically nurse practitioners, the guy who has the actual nursing experience basically has his pick of whatever job he wants. The guy who hasn't actually had a lot of clinical and patient-facing time as a nurse (despite having been an EMT) can't get hired anywhere as a nurse practitioner. Every clinic looks at his resume and wants him to have at least a couple of years of working nursing experience. He spent the extra money to get his NP early but is basically in the same spot as a newly-minted RN. So while the accreditation may appear to be too accelerated, in practice clinics and hospitals aren't chomping at the bit to just hire anyone for nurse practitioner roles.
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hobbesmaster posted:they won’t get any extra experience in medicine (diagnosing, prescribing) from that extra experience Uhm... How do you think hospital patients get their medicine? Robots?
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Looks like more hammer-dropping at Meta... https://twitter.com/shiringhaffary/status/1648509148722774023?s=20
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Eeyo posted:it’s weird, i don’t see many nps or pas around here, except in psychiatry where they probably make up a majority. A big cause for this is how the AMA was worried that there would be a glut of doctors the same way there was a glut of lawyers, and so they lobbied to create the shortage that we have today. quote:Recently, Derek Thompson pointed out in the Atlantic that the U.S. has adopted myriad policies that limit the supply of doctors despite the fact that there aren’t enough. And the maldistribution of physicians — with far too few pursuing primary care or working in rural areas — is arguably an even bigger problem. Here's the Atlantic piece that is mentioned there, though it's behind a paywall. https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1493232914204606473?s=20
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ADINSX posted:I, rival co, have forgotten who my biggest clients are, can you remind me who they are and what I do for them? I, rival co, need a summary of our biggest advocates working for our three biggest customers. Please list them with their phone number, email, a short description of why they support us instead of our competition, and the the contact information for their direct bosses.
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It can be frustrating when my company's leadership is quick to hop on board various tech hype trains, but at least they were smart enough to realize the LLM hype was overblown and sent out a company-wide email a little while back specifically banning any of us from using any generative services for anything work-related.
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infernal machines posted:anguilla has a lot to answer for Oof. Now I'm trying to imagine the first poor soul who is going to try and get FedRAMP certification for some LLM system.
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Chris Knight posted:tech bubble v5.3: this just sounds like an inherently terrible idea
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The coding academy I went to as part of my re-skilling was also a coworking space, and had 1 beer tap that was unlocked each day at 4pm (and after noon on Fridays). The quality of the keg they had was a nice barometer of how close to bankruptcy the whole operation was. During the beginning of my time there the keg was usually some fancy local craft beer. Then it started being a generic big-name domestic. As I was graduating they hadn't replaced the empty keg for a few weeks.
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mystes posted:lmao Yeah, that place looks really nice. Though, if you pause the video as the camera turns from the graveyard to go back inside, you can see the next rowhouse over looks pretty dilapidated. You could probably buy it and renovate it up to the same level for the same price or lower.
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