dmschulman

The incentive many times is to create a scarcity of talent for other tech companies by hiring as many experts as you can. Facebook, Amazon, and many others have been employing this strategy for over a decade, but now that the era of cheap money is over we're seeing a pivot away.

Eh, if this is true then IBM and Intel would still be the kings of the hill. Plenty of companies came from the bottom up out of nothing during the 90s and 2000s to build multi-billion dollar companies that are still dominate the market today. Many of those companies struggled for investment and grew over a long timeframe.

The argument is something like that is not really possible anymore given the absurd upfront investments we're seeing existing AI companies need in order to further their offerings.

Regional Rail runs a little on the expensive side. Round trip from Philly back to the suburbs is $17.50. I take that to get to work sometimes. The bus, subway, and trolley are extremely affordable for what they are.

Over 1/4 of the residents in Philadelphia live at or below the poverty line so services need to reasonably priced. Some data from Pew: https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2019/07...

Can't find it right now, but I also remember a study that compared funding for other major metro transit agencies, and SEPTA ranked very highly for offering as many transit options for the amount of riders they handle given their relatively anemic budget (compared to NYC or Chicago).

Pennsylvania could be so much more for its residents but we're a state bogged down politically by rural districts that do everything within their power to kneecap the our two major economic hubs/cities: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Our governor backs mass transit, but state reps will not budge on funding as SEPTA only services Philadelphia and the counties immediately adjacent. One politician, Cris Dush who represents the 25th district in the upper most part of the state, released a letter to concerned citizens and characterized the issue as a preferrence for keeping tax dollars in his own district as there's no mass transit available to his constituents. In his view, he's not willing to pay for other people to be "chaffered" around on public transit: http://crossingbroad.com/news/trending/pennsylvania-state-se...

Until Pennsylvania's statehouse can overcome their misguided idea of what it means to levy and collect taxes, PA will continue to lag behind other states in the northeast in terms of basic services and economic competitiveness.

not once, but twice with iraq in 1990 and 2003 (just to name one). but you still haven't fielded my question.

name one instance where congress wasn't involved in decisions around war powers.

just a quick googling: https://www.newsweek.com/who-curtis-yarvin-conservative-link...

Russia noticeably absent from the global and per-country tariffs

hmm what could have happened in the last 3-4 years that would impact US life expectancy? also a huge part of that decline is preventable death due to drug overdose.

Like every smart device, the Snoo isn't actually that smart. We have a 1 month old and bought a Snoo second-hand in anticipation and way before they changed the terms of their app.

Where you'd expect the Snoo to dutifully monitor the baby and gently increase the intensity of the motion to soothe the baby, it rapidly goes from a baseline to the highest level of motion and sound within a minute or so, which is both annoying for the parents and stressful for the child.

The motion locking feature was how we got around that poor excuse for engineering, but now that pretty basic feature is now behind the paywall. We just use it as a standard bassinet.

I haven't signed up for the added features yet, our kid is a pretty good sleeper at this point, but those features are a necessity to operate the Snoo properly, so I'll end up paying the premium (begrudgingly). As a parent I know companies are doing everything they can to get my business, so I'm not surprised by this behavior, but it's just a disappointment and annoyance.

Bell Labs, the historic headwaters of so many inventions that now define our digital age, is closing in Murray Hill, its latest owners moving to more modern headquarters in New Brunswick. The Labs should be preserved as a historic site and more. I propose that Bell Labs be opened to the public as a museum and school of the internet.

Very shameful the US government would post Santa's assassination coordinates.

This is common in reporting "human interest" stories. If you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who is up to something unique, is that any different than getting a tip from your community?

This is not a story of consequence but it does speak to an important issue of our day. It's not as though this is the only kind of reporting NY Times does.

Take the commentary on Reddit with a grain of skepticism and an understanding that people are speaking from a personal point of view, not an expert point of view. I treat the information I find via Reddit as a strong data point, but not the end of the search.

His right to privacy isn't being violated by ElonsJet. The information being used is public knowledge.

I'm confused by their introduction. The author cites changes in family structure in two specific neighborhoods (Fishtown in Philadelphia and Belmont in Massachusetts) but uses this data point to imply an unsubstantiated national trend. And all the while overlooking any other reasons why the presence of fathers declined in one white community after the 1960s.

Henderson suffers from the same research bias as Charles Murray, the author of the cited study. I don't disagree with Henderson's conclusion in general, but the journey from A to B is inconsistent as Fishtown and Philadelphia (the poorest city in America) as a whole are substantial case studies on deindustrialization and the impact those lost jobs have on a once thriving community.

This deindustrialization is also partially responsible for the increase in drug use and drug activity in Fishtown during this time of unprecedented job loss. Fishtown used to be the opioid capital of the country in the 1970s. This activity has since been pushed into the adjacent neighborhood of Kensington [1].

The impact of deindustrialization and the loss of good paying factory/union jobs has more to do with the breakdown of the family unit in the last 70 years than any of the other idea Henderson cites.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/magazine/kensington-heroi...

You can 100% mute and block people on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, most main line social media platforms. Hell you can even mute keywords on Twitter and never have to deal with seeing another tweet about Will Smith slapping someone.

Should one user be able to decide if another user should be expelled from a platform? That leads to a lot of sticky problems, so no, they shouldn't have that power. Should a user be banned if they violate the terms of the platform (roughly what mods on IRC would do when a user was banned)?

Yes. Yes they should. And they do. It's a liability for platforms to not enforce their own rules.

A lot of the Ceephax aesthetic is taken directly from the BBC's Ceefax service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax

It goes even deeper, Legowelt is Xosar's husband.

Free speech

Considering there are all kinds of egresses to different sections of the store as you wind your way around the marketplace, it's ridiculous for this article to harp on how IKEA forces you to go only in one direction and in a single file line.

"Alternative treatment" implies an unapproved, off-label use. Maybe you meant "promising therapeutic" or something along those lines? Throwing around the term "alternative" is dicey, especially in a world where people take advice about COVID vaccines and "alternative treatments" from podcasts hosted by former comedians.

Once enough studies have been done, this off-label use for fluvoxamine will likely be blessed by the agencies that regulate these sorts of things and at that point it will become an approved treatment for long COVID symptoms. Most things spoken of as "alternative treatments" don't even get to the first stage of this process (since they can't be substantiated with evidence).

I've been to Ecovillage on a few occasions and it's a very walkable community. And not only that, it's about a 20 minute bike ride to downtown Ithaca. The town is quite walkable and bike friendly, if you don't mind the hills of course.

The video doesn't take you through the entire community, but I'm not sure why people are left with the impression Ecovillage is in the middle of nowhere.

Not entirely https://www.pbs.org/passport/videos/

There's lots to read about the tuning systems Aphex Twin uses across his catalogue. Alternative tuning scales definitely add to that otherworldly yet familiar feeling.

There will always be a collector class with any category of designer product. Established manufacturers (Nike, Monte Blanc, Omega) are aware of this and directly cater to those customers. I don't think this was TE's intent when they launched their synthesizer.

The OP-1 is an incredibly well designed product that stands on its own as an instrument. The device has taken on the life of a status symbol somewhat in 10 years, but is that due to TE or due to the quality of the product? Synthesizers have their own collector class after all, but I don't think you can accuse TE of intentionally catering to those folks when they made the OP-1. People like good design for many reasons. The OP-1 has an undeniable aesthetic quality but it's a versatile and flexible (and portable) instrument under all that.

If anyone would like their own full size copy of the work to do their own analysis on, here you go: https://ipfsgateway.makersplace.com/ipfs/QmXkxpwAHCtDXbbZHUw...

This is pretty much what they're already doing. It's all a throwback to a meme. Meme "investors" turned meme "philanthropists"

Curious, what spaces did you know about in Ithaca? I can think of only one or two establishments from around that time that loosely fit the description (The Haunt being one) but interested in comparing notes.

Twitter or most other social media platforms do not have a problem with conservatives (or "the opposite political party" as you put it). Was deplatforming anyone but blatant white supremacists even a conversation before 2017?

Most mainstream conservatives operate accounts on Twitter without an issue and a fair amount of libertarian and conservative-identifying individuals have used Twitter for years without being banned for their views. Framing this as a problem with political viewpoints doesn't do much besides serve a false narrative.

If you read Twitter's rationale for banning Donald Trump it didn't have much to do with his viewpoint. It had everything to do with implying and promoting violent acts. Putting deplatforming in terms of "censorship of political views" is a seductive argument but it falls apart when you recognize the content of those viewpoints have less to do with a matter of policy opinion and more to do with an unhinged ideology based around waging civil war against your opponents.