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I think that removes agency and responsibility from the public.

The truth is that people like outrage and outrageous content.

Boring, even handed content does not get engagement.

We have to call out human nature to be able to reckon with it.

I agree the world was better with chronological feeds.

But humans prefer to spent more time on enraging/outrageous content.

So in a competitive social media environment - the platform with the most engaging content will win.

When TikTok launched short form Video - instagram’s choice was to copy or lose.

Cloudflare didn’t join MongoDB, did they?

As much as I wish that were the case, the recent episode with students and their deportation suggests otherwise.

I think that almost definition implies you didn't post anything that disqualifies you. It's probably really easy to circumvent too if you're committed to (e.g., deactivate your account)

If it's not diet and exercise, what is it? Obesity is a relatively new problem. GLP-1 also seems to work - primarily through addressing diet. So again, curious what you mean when you say "diet and exercise" do not work.

It is an interesting space - where do you think it'll play out from here? Lots of money quietly flowing into the space from big players.

TikTok forced instagram to go down the route of short form videos that source content from outside your immediate network.

The most attention capturing innovations will take the market. If Facebook didn’t stay on top of it, someone else would.

Just in time works until it doesn't. For the last decade plus companies made outsized profit by squeezing their supply chains to the bare minimum.

Then covid hit and it all fell apart. Companies that had resilient supply chains made outsized profit during this time.

Companies are all about making bets on where they make more money. If you were in the hot seat to maximize quarterly profits would you make the first or second bet?

A lot of people were smithing in the English world. Or perhaps they were just especially fecund.

I'm not white and I don't find it awful at all working with white men.

From a purely logical point of view - there's not much point to anything humans do.

Can you break down what the logic of pride should be? Any who determines what that should is. You seem to imply that there's an objective standard for that.

Not sure yet. I got a starling hub, which makes my google devices HomeKit compatible. So maybe something by Abode... haven't thought it through yet.

Glad the industry is moving towards Matter / Thread - but things not quite there yet.

Pride or shame is by definition a feeling not legal culpability. A feeling.

Human brains seem wired to have strong feelings about their kin or tribe. So, yes, I would think having neutral feelings about your parents would be a hard thing to understand for most people.

After years of investing into Google Home, I'm trying to unwind it. The assistant devices have gotten buggier and less responsive. The TV is bloated with ever more ads and suggested videos. They end of lifed the nest security system.

Not a good trajectory.

Frame your argument a little differently - you're saying you can't be proud / ashamed of anything your parents have done (that you didn't contribute to).

Makes sense - if I look at the overall Japan numbers, they look pretty flat (seems like foreign nationals are plugging some of the decline).

Curious what happens when there's a real demographic nosedive.

Curious how all these advanced economies will deal with structural deflation when there is decreasing customer demand and consumption for most types of goods.

Example - do house prices start falling?

Right, said another way, is driving a completely deterministic activity or does it sometimes require general intelligence. If it's not completely deterministic, then you might need a human in the loop.

I don't really know what the LLM of cryptocurrency would mean. With AI the goalposts are very easy to understand. What is a better crypto?

Are we waiting for, some novel computational model? If its use-cases, cryptocurrency is more than a decade old. You'd think that someone would have figured it out by now.

Commercial loans are priced higher than residential. The higher risk of default is built into the economics.

The bank also has rights on the property after it goes into default. They don't lose all their money.

People can delude themselves into thinking they have an edge in sports prediction skills. There's no analogous delusion for lotto.

I think sports is much easier to understand than shitcoins, and the payout cycles are much faster than waiting for a cryto vehicle to go up over an unspecified period of time.

The B58 is such a great all around engine. Performance, reliability, efficiency, upgradeability. Heck, even Toyota used it in their sports car (Supra)

Hard to tell what's happening here without more context. There's no dearth of Pro-palestinian viewpoints being shared on Meta platforms - so 1 account being banned is likely just issues specific to that 1 account.

Agreed. As an immigrant myself - I think this gets lots on both sides of politics. Everyone talks about how the country is being ruined - when really its got the most advantages relative to the rest of the world.

Are you being cheeky - I can't tell. Many people would argue that cities developed after the advent of the car are not as livable as cities developed before cars.

It's been true for a long time that people working at that store couldn't afford to live nearby (in general).

What changed in the last few years though?

Harvard tries to be a pretty progressive organization - the way they justify legacy admissions is probably by arguing that the large endowments let them fund underprivileged students with needs-based programs.

They’re also in the literal business of prestige. They use mega-donors for mega-endowments which allows them to attract and fund mega-researchers. It’s also why it needs to be super exclusive (small class sizes).

Knowing when it was global issue #1 would have been a catalyst for much strong go-forward mitigation.

It’s very important to know how this happened, especially if it wasn’t an accident.