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I think there is a large gap between "go solve this large engineering problem, how is up to you" and "here are pre-groomed tickets, do not deviate from them". Do you disagree?

Accounting has a clear career path though...english doesn't. Unless things have dramatically changed since I graduated college.

I was the other way. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, but my university had extremely competitive programs, so getting into the CS program was nearly impossible, even if you were already admitted to the university.

> Very few people answer to no one and the rest get told what to do, all too often, throughout their lives.

I don't know about this. I run a team of ML engineers, and the ones who require being told what to do in order to be productive are simply worth less to the team. Sure, the scope of work is very specific (often limited to the teams purpose/mission), but autonomy is very much sought after and rewarded where I work. I simply don't want to work on a team where I, as the boss, am the sole person responsible for finding high leverage problems to solve, and have to then package the work then assign it.

What do you mean they aren't being ridiculed? Biden's approval rating is literally worse than Trump's was -> https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?...

Additionally:

- Use a python script to switch heating from my heat pump to my gas furnace when energy prices invert. - Have live monitoring of my HVAC pressure health so that my servo controlled actuators don't bork my system.

Python would like a word...

Nah, you're not. I just gave up on mine and have a schedule. I also turned off "pre-cooling" because it would just kick on at like 6pm to "cool" the house for bedtime. I also bought several temperature sensors to use, which are fun. At night I have the thermostat use the sensor in my bedroom, then goes back to the main thermostat during the day.

This isn't completely true. What you're talking about are called "echo chambers" or "filter bubbles", and there are ways to make sure they don't negatively impact users.

Additionally, studies have found that (when A/B testing recommender system vs no recommender system) users create their own, more localized "echo chambers" in absence of a recommender. This is measured by the "diversity" of content consumed, which decreases if a user is their own recommender.

On an unrelated note, I wish that author's who aren't Gibson would write novels set in Night City. I love Gibson, but often find his stuff hard to follow, and would love an escapist level novel set in a Gibsonian setting.

> And instead we're congratulating ourselves on building electric status symbols

Isn't this how you drive change? You have to give people the desire to change before they can actually change...unless you think authoritarianism is a solution (not saying you do, but I'm not sure what other options there are other than 1) give people the opportunity and desire to change, or 2) force them to change).

The speed at which we are changing aside...we ARE changing as a society, and that should be celebrated.

I'd actually go one step further and say that these ARE needs, if the goal is to live a fulfilling life that is worth bringing children into...and what are we if not tools for propagating the human race?

Woof..."Smart" is a really charitable way of describing this.

> Come up with a good headline. A big idea that hints that here is something your reader really, really wants (and can get from you).

So many words for such a simple concept.

> that hints that here is something

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I'm confused about what you are trying to imply with your question.

Either you are making an argument for "Netflix/AirBnB are considered tech companies, so why not WeWork?". Or you are saying that Netflix/AirBnB aren't actually tech companies? Or are you implying that given enough time, WeWork would have become a tech company, despite its non-technical beginnings?

To compare AirBnB/Netflix to WeWork from a technology standpoint doesn't make any sense IMO.

> Progressive causes are near and dear to my heart. I am a feminist and staunch Democrat. As a federal public defender turned law professor, I have spent my career trying to make change in a criminal legal system that is riven with racism and fundamentally unfair to those without status and financial resources. Yet, as someone who understands firsthand that the fundamental rights to free speech and due process exist only as long as competent lawyers are willing to vigorously defend extreme positions and people, I view the ACLU’s hard-left turn with alarm. It smacks of intolerance and choosing sides, precisely what a civil-liberties organization designed to defend the Bill of Rights is meant to oppose.

What an incredibly level headed take. It's so level headed that it seems fake when projected onto the landscape of modern political discourse.

Sometimes I want to work in an office, therefore I don't value my "life outside" (whatever that means). What an odd conclusion to jump to...

The measure of "harder to quit" actually takes into account more than ones physical ability to actually give something up, all else equal. Social acceptance, availability, the time horizon for negative health impacts, and money all count toward how hard something is to quit.

Nicotine is actually the hardest thing to quit when taking into account all of the factors that lead to continued use in the face of adverse consequences. It's everywhere, a large number of people do it, it's relatively inexpensive in comparison to other vices, the time horizon for negative impacts is VERY long, and it's in general socially acceptable (depending on where you live).

Cool, why?

666 cm

> So tell me, what harm have I done to myself by sharing this information?

This is irrelevant.

The conditional probability of my willingness to post this information, given your willingness to post this information, is equal to the the probability of my willingness to post this information. P(X) = P(X|Y). This means that just because you are okay with it, I'm not...and additional people being okay with it doesn't change my opinion regardless of harm.

The QFC (Kroger owned grocery stores in the PNW) by me had to close early this past Sunday because it ran out of people to run the store. I had been there earlier in the afternoon and the site of bare shelves and lines as long as the entire length of the store was actually unnerving.

and only 10 months ago...

I'm curious now...got any source for you "Mafia in the USA runs health care and show girls" statement?

Vile hatred? It's a joke website.

Also, if you truly believe in a technology and its future, doesn't "everyone hating it" just widen the inefficiency gap for some folks to make a bunch of money on a technology they are certain will be valuable one day?

> By purchasing an NFT you have the right to say that you are the person that purchased that NFT.

Tell me more....

There is no such thing as "emotional addiction" or "physical addiction". There is addiction, and some substances have withdrawal symptoms when discontinued.

Or that the culture surrounding them pushes people in that direction?

I do shrooms with people who work in tech (just did them last Wednesday). We talked about the intersection of "intelligence" and "emotional vulnerability", and why are group of friends gravitates toward and attracts people who have a healthy dose of both. No woo-woo love chants...just some deeper conversations, below surface level that provided insight into who we are.

You are a civil servant, why are expecting outsized profit from running our country? Our current political climate attracts folks who are excited to become wealthy and famous from running our country, when we should want people who are excited to run our country.

Why can't I use the back button on this website? It just goes back to the same site. I've noticed this behavior across other websites lately as well, is this a new design thing?

This is a really interesting point. While some "social media" hubs are much more toxic (think 8 chan), their reach is largely neutered because the upside just isn't there for the average citizen.