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The TV adware industry is reprehensible. All major brands do this. I think I’ve disabled it on my TV but don’t think just changing vendors will help.

The CMO explains that hilariously the CEO is still wrong, but it was another ad agency that gets credit: https://twitter.com/kate_rouch/status/1495929301631475713?s=...

I wonder if remote work will start to correct for the height bias at least.

I want to agree with you but, uh, Google seemed to do fine, and they invented this BS.

Your point on leverage feels true. I just wish we’d use it to finally move away from the Google model of interviewing. Rather than having people do useless exercises on whiteboards we could do a 30m “are you a jerk” interview and then let the first year of job performance speak for itself.

What? In medicine it’s called “rounds” and it happens every shift.

Without more info it’s hard to say. When I felt like this, a manager recommended I start journaling my energy. I kept a Google doc with sections for each week. In each section, there’s a bulleted list of things I did that gave me energy and a list of things I did that took energy.

Once you have a few lists some trends become clear and you can work with your manager to shift where you spend time.

I think the main risk is that Google gives up on GCP overall, since it’s never been profitable and is still a long way from getting there.

I think our statements overlap. “Reddit moderators have better standards.” Is something I’d definitely agree with.

SEO is ads Google is failing to monetize.

That said, the reason the Reddit trick works is that it uses information Google explicitly excludes when ranking content (engagement signals).

Google has a bunch of “objective standards” that it uses to paternalistically shape what the web looks like. Many of these are divorced from what users actually want for pieces of content (https, AMP, a life story in front of recipes to demonstrate authorship, etc).

Oh totally. I was just annoyed that the prompt after that was “see! You actually don’t think torture is wrong!”

The site seems to think that morality is a set of unparameterized rules blindly followed. That is frustrating.

The arrogant tone of the website is deeply frustrating. Especially since their examples are full of false premises. For example, in the nuke question they estimate torture’s efficacy at 70%. That’s way, way higher than the actual efficacy.

There are interesting questions here presented very poorly.

At what point do you go “you know, the low severity problem we’re solving (finding my keys) is probably not worth creating high severity problems like stalking and sexual assault?”

Yeah, that’s why tech datacenters were up while people froze in their homes. Corporations know to negotiate these things. Individuals either don’t have the opportunity or prioritize price.

There’s something deeply funny to me about the world’s largest vendor of unregistered securities claiming to base their decisions on the rule of law.

Can’t Delta just keep its own no-fly list? They’re a private company. They have the right to refuse service, no?

I think traditional auto makers have done a much better job of communicating to consumers what the tech can actually do. We don’t have self driving cars (which implies that they can drive in those harder conditions). We have cars that are good at lane keeping on freeways.

I wish Tesla would celebrate that victory rather than double down on lies.

Oh sweet! When can skip the bullshit puzzle phone screens?

I guess for me “bodily autonomy” is not some bright line. We mandate other vaccines for school. We have loads of regulations around what goes in our food and water and air. Why is this suddenly different?

I think I’m as guilty as anyone at binarizing the issue though. You’re right that I have a low risk of death. We don’t have enough data around long-COVID to really talk about other risks. I’m not talking out of fear. I’m talking out of frustration that I’ve made lifestyle changes to help others who clearly don’t feel the need to reciprocate.

The rate is what matters. Vaccination is one of the easiest things we can do to affect that rate.

In terms of ethics, yeah I care what other people do. I also care that they stop at red lights so they don’t murder me with their car. We set rules as a society when individual decisions can affect group outcomes.

You got data on that? The studies I’ve seen show that boosters help slow the rate of infection. Ex. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

From the GitHub:

> One of IBA’s benefits is that it allows sites that are useful to the user, but perhaps could not be easily monetized via contextual advertising, to display more relevant ads to the user than they otherwise could, helping to fund the sites that the user visits.

Does someone have a good example of a site like this? It still feels like a solution in search of a problem. The TPA cookie people will just move to other fingerprinting techniques.

The obese can’t kill me from across the room. A better analogy would be smokers, who I am also frustrated with but at least nicotine is addictive.

For deaths. We don’t have nearly as good of stats on long COVID, which is not a lifestyle I would pick for myself.

The marshmallow test has been largely debunked by recent follow up studies. It largely acts as a test of socioeconomic conditions at home if anything. The analogy to COVID probably holds but not in the way you’re suggesting.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmall...

I wonder if it has to do with the type of food. “Hummus recipe” gets you the entire history of chickpeas: https://www.inspiredtaste.net/15938/easy-and-smooth-hummus-r...

It’s a good question. One answer could be “enough money to act as a deterrent” and “who cares, the govt I guess”.

EDIT: Could also do the student debt thing and have the fines pierce corporate veils and not be dismissible in bankruptcy.

Pay is more a measure of what the worker is willing to accept than a measure of quality or productivity.

This article misses both the PPP program and the drop in supply of immigrant workers. Seems like they wrote the conclusion before doing research…

https://www.cato.org/blog/us-issued-12-million-fewer-visas-w...

Oh sweet! Programming searches definitely feel underserved since Google isn't quite literal enough for me a lot of the time.

The concept is to build a search marketplace that feels like a normal search engine to the end consumer. The hope is that you'd build an ensemble of expert vertical search engines that each can get traffic because they're part of the larger exchange (rather than needing to build a general search engine to get any traffic at all).

You can look at my cringe video / code for the hackathon here: https://devpost.com/software/askbid-a-decentralized-search-m...

The basic idea is:

1) The user posts a search query to the marketplace. This starts a time-limited market around the question "which result will the user find most relevant for this query".

2) Search engines decide if they have a relevant result to that query. If so, they post their result(s) to the exchange, and mint and hold "yes" tokens or mint and sell "no" tokens against their result.

3) Other search engines / information traders do the standard prediction market thing and trade "yes" and "no" tokens for the various results posted to the exchange until price converges.

4) The user views a SERP that shows the results (probably ordered by descending price) and picks one.

5) The "yes" tokens become redeemable for escrowed crypto if that result is chosen. The "no" tokens become redeemable if that result is not chosen, or if the market expires.

I have a shitty prototype on Solana's Devnet where I need to fix and tune the rewards to each participant. I figured crypto folks might be into trying something like this, even if it really is just a convoluted way of calling Bing until I can convince people like you to join.

Right now I've been faffing about trying to find ways to simply explain this to folks to try to find people who are interested. Would love any feedback you have. :)