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The author is trying to motivate kids, not make a case for the existence of math generally.

Seems this method is only successful at discriminating between extremes (of popular/unpopular) ...

>Staff from an online streaming service choose 24 songs for this study without input from the researchers. The streaming service also provided the definition of hits or flops. This resulted in a “clean” experiment as song choice could not be cherry-picked for the study and the criterion for a hit was established in advance.

There are good arguments to be made against the (hoover institute's) position but I don't see them here.

I see a lot of conflation between legalizing an activity and promoting an activity - the same sloppy argument made to prosecute the failed war on drugs.

I don't know how close AI is to replacing software engineers generally, but pretty sure this prompt engineer job isn't going to age well. And for extra irony, the better they do at their job, the greater will be the dependence upon the tech and the incentive to eliminate the middle-man (ie. the human).

I miss the days when systemic racism was known more specifically as poverty. Poverty, combined with the war on drugs that incentivized violence, dads in jail, and a hostile learning environment. That was actually actionable...maybe a little too actionable. The institutional racism thing is just amorphous enough to pit the lower class against itself and preserve status quo. Alas I'm not sure students today appreciate the role of the war on drugs or comprehend the concept of class and so they just role play.

Small, well named functions have served me well in this regard, eg.

if (theWhy()){ theWhat() }

Implosion and looting of the old empire, evicerated middle class now cannibalizing itself. Welcome to the fourth industrial revolution.

Everyone agrees socials are the scourge of the net, amplifying the most hyperbolic trash available, but they (seem to) increasingly just accept this to have been inevitable (or more erroneously, they blame human nature itself lol). This is actually worse than wrong because it creates apathy and hopelessness that re-enforce the problem. It's not difficult to find out who funded these virtual gulags or to imagine what motivated them to seek re-centralization.

lol no, totally different person

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I think the golden age of piracy ended when it became impractical for individuals to collect digital media. The streaming services deliver a convenience to consume anything, anywhere which is cost prohibitative for laypersons to replicate by other means.

So no - while I'm not opposed ethically, my family would be very frustrated with such a transition.

Amusing and yet I worry it's a straw-man for the contemporary issue of automation replacing human workers more generally (which I find decidedly less amusing).

This impending downturn is why I've tolerated a most unsexy project reassignment from my current employer over the last 9 months. Instead of data-driven green-fielding in AWS I've been brown-fielding in Azure where the current priority is dictated by the shifting demands of a single large customer. This all promises to be a nightmare if product doesn't realign and snap out of their identity crisis.

Serious question: why isnt online play excluded at this level of competition? Why not restrict these "pro" matches to regulated conditions as in any other pro competition?

We dont generally place full trust in online job interviews so why lower the bar to "honor system" when it comes to the most cheat-friendly competition in the universe?

I didn't downvote but there appears to be an unprecedented energy crisis on the horizon and I suspect this story is a taste of things to come. In that sense, being logically correct in assigning blame to the peasants might still be a bad look overall?

What if an AI is observing?

I'm not seeing the central issue (imo) discussed, ie. is there a conflict of interest given that the party facilitating death is reducing cost of operation by doing so.

You can't come to consensus (imo) without factoring the answer to this question into your argument.

Remote work has made me even more introverted than before and I'm actively searching for an in-office gig to help me muster the motivation to shower and dress. Perhaps you can relate.

Finding the right career path is hard and sucks but it is preferable to be doing this now as opposed to your 40's so count yourself somewhat lucky. There's always software development (an option most don't have).

When I feel uninspired by a song I'm writing, I shelve it and spend that time on one that does inspire me. I'll come back to it if the mood strikes me but never feel obliged. Maybe the side-project is like that.

Live a balanced and meaningful life now, via programming, rather than deferring satisfaction/contentment for some imagined future. If I retire some day, it's a bonus but I'm not waiting to be nearly dead to begin living in earnest. In other words, retirement is not a significant milestone when life is the journey rather that a destination.

Shifted my stonk holdings to the new (artificially) scarce things.

What's the name of the phenomena wherein people who once mocked the idea of this occuring now act as if it's obvious and unremarkable?

I don't even believe that consciousness can arise from matter let alone code, but IF this really transpired then color me impressed.

This seems self evident and im sure literature is the least valuable of the treasures lost to time.

Fascinating (if biased) history on Keynesian economics for the layperson. Certainly _feels_ relevent to the post-COVID economy though I'm not too sure on the "bitcoin will fix everything" conclusion. Malthusianism and eugenics aren't a good look for Keynes especially in light of his affinity for wealth division and central planning.

And that is how headbanging was invented

Not much pre-www experience here but I'll say "usually not". As a software dev, my approach has always been to just start doing the thing and search only when I get stuck on a specific concept.

And I say "usually" becase right now I'm learning a new cloud (Azure) and the docs insist on force feeding me, with equal parts minutia + core knowledge. I am indeed overwhelmed, trying to separate and apply the useful bits.

It sure is a fine line - putting your thing out to the world & trying to make more of the world appreciate the thing more. My hobby being an art, I get to experience this internal tug-of-war with each new work. If I do nothing, I may be the only person on earth to appreciate it, which feels really bad. If I promote with the handful of inadequate tools at my disposal, I may become lost in metrics and disappointed with cost/benefit.

This will never backfire. Yep.

Maybe a useful (if redundant) part of a multipronged approach for self-medicators but can't touch the reality-avoidance component of addiction - that maladaptive behavioral pattern which has more in common with personality disorders than "chemical imbalance".

Neat historical overview followed by bizzare conclusions based on a narrow sampling of second-hand experience. Author seems to lack awareness of their own knowledge gap here (Dunning-Kruger?), conflating specific cultures and implementations with the methodology and ultimately laying blame for corporate/managerial malaise at the foot of: a software development methodology.