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3 months
@edzitron I think you just described the Midwest except add in some cheap window AC units from Walmart
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@GrantSlatton they do and then the wells break after about 2 months and they dont have the parts to fix them so they never ever get fixed and by month 4 all is forgotten
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So the chairman of the board did not know, Microsoft the companies largest investor did not know... wtf A professor and an actors wife, got together with the Quora (lol) CEO and decided to burn down one of the highest performing companies ever?
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After "learning" today's news? He was chairman of the board? Wasn't he in the room?
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@Noahpinion population alone is destiny? Why did it not flourish the last few decades and is suddenly all setup now to explode into greatness?
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@samuel_spitz Sorry already over at 22 if you did not win a math medal in high school and have two internships at top ML labs already
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@JimPethokoukis You might get the same surgery but you are unlikely to get the same surgeon or the same hospital experience
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@elonmusk you have I dont know 50k employees and $40B you cant just pick up the phone and get the answer to this in 5 minutes?
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@ZhaoMandi Do you want the real answer? It is that China has used many students as soft-spies over the years and so there is increased rigor the scrutiny. If China did not do this, it would be easier on you. Unfortunate really.
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@kylebrussell @edzitron fuck what the consumer wants here though right? like the actual hotel link instead it is who paid or not
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@Austen even more wild when people donate that $100m to their local hospital. Like I know they are super appreciative of the care they got or hope to get, but like donating $50m to a regional hospital system that does like $12b in billings each year? Like the what?!
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@BasedBeffJezos Because it is cheaper for these humans to do it than the automation to do it Tons of jobs only exist because of the economics of it not the lack of technology
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@GrantSlatton TSA is all $12/hr low paid security theater
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@micsolana it's not a mystery it is the 3000 people that work in the executive office of the president, just like under every single presidency $4t organizations cant be run by one person no matter how spectacular they are
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@paulg "sorry you are a white man, the rules actually still apply to you, and in fact apply doubly so"
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As ultra-elite as the talent going into OpenAI was. The board there was like D- talent at best. Almost every Series A startup has a more experienced board. It was/is bizarre at best.
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Seems like having the extreme left and the extreme right against Biden is a great case for his reelection for most Americans - it was kind of his whole appeal to a lot of people in 2020, moderate middle politician
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@micsolana @tomgara Going to save him so much money on severance
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@mims once delivered and setup, is there any chance ever that it gets moved again or do they just burn the entire house down?
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@RichardDawkins @DavidDeutschOxf here is the thing though - she is still probably not "faculty quality" in the qualities that they are looking for in faculty - which of course are qualities that dont correlate at all with good research.
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@tomgara or at least someone still living in their mom's basement
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@luke_metro because founders taking $200k salaries and owning like $10m in equity is not really scrappy underdog to the median or even the 90th percentile American?
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@AlanMCole @asymmetricinfo Why cant the average Trader Joes checkout clerk afford 4k sq ft with floor to ceiling windows on the 60th floor anymore?!
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@jdcmedlock This is absolutely not true at all. The devs doing the actual work are quite moderate to libertarian. The grifter product manager class is very liberal.
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@AlecStapp da fuck yes homeowners should all install new windows so people can continue ride 120db illegal bikes around
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@Noahpinion @cremieuxrecueil Cheap Android phones really had quite the impact on the world
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@mattyglesias you would at least think the state was interested in the sales tax evasion going on here....
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@micsolana The guy who has spent 20 years making sure no one can touch “his” beach is super open suddenly
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@Hamptonism "here is a 22 year old that just graduated 7 weeks ago to do your tech screen...if you have time at the end you can ask them about company culture"
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@conorsen "The fed may not realize" this thing that they literally explicitly talk about and that every Wall Street veteran knows?
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@WillManidis This is the huge challenge of a 40 + year career in software development - field is changing fast enough that your competing with literal kids
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@paultoo In a lot of cases Google does not have superior assets -- Boq, Angular, TensorFlow 2 all kind of garbage tools that massively slow down development cycle time in a big way and that internally developers constantly complain about getting in their way.
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@ryanlcooper @TheStalwart we really need to take care of lifetime judge appointments and full prosecutor immunity
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@chr1sa @WeWork Laying out some desk space with a algorithm makes it a tech company?
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@michaelrbock Similarly if someone wanted to commit fraud, charging a bunch of random amounts to my credit card as "Amazon" would almost certainly not get noticed.
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Sam's next board is going to include: 1. His brother (who is actually well qualified) 2. His college roommate (actually qualified as well) 3. paulg@ ..that's it..
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I can’t figure out why some of these folks were on the board to begin with. Tasha’s claim to fame seems to be her marriage to Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Helen Toner is a director of grants at Georgetown, where she graduated from in 2021 with a masters in security studies.
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@abacaj People forget he does not write code
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@ChrisJBakke @WillManidis 3.5 Have your chief of staff schedule you on a dozen podcasts
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@WillManidis would not be surprised if his MIT experience as like barista at the union coffee bar at this point
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@JohnPompliano @nickjamesthe1 The rate of antidepressant use by the occupants there is likely over 50% that’s what
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@Carnage4Life I mean it would still work at Google today - the revenue per employee there is $1.6m But Sundar decided to fuck that all up, and instead supports a lot of rest and vest types instead of engineers doing really cool stuff
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@micsolana @paulg Ah yes the US judiciary famously controlled by Democrats
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@Duderichy Uchicago Econ dept alone does as well
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@justindross No matter what comes out honestly expect it to be hard for him to show his face anywhere in the valley again Also Quora is just a spam site that needs to finally die
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@DanJohnsonCRE @sfchronicle sounds good lets do it
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@danprimack corporate comms strategies today are so weird
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@WillManidis similarly you can just enter whatever you want for zip code or cvv code and a lot of purchases will go through
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@mims The chance that even one mile of this ever exists is what 5%?
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@realEstateTrent charging 75 cents to use a credit card when I just picked up a $60 bottle of wine with a 200% markup on it
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@netcapgirl this must be like a coding interview but for lawyers - explain how all of these entities interact
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6 years
How ineffective is SF city government? It is running homeless shelters “costing taxpayers about $700 for each person who spends the night.”
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@elonmusk also, you dont have executive concierge medical care where you can get a top doctor on the phone anytime day or night in 5 minutes? Those programs are great -
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@buccocapital Nike knows we are all very likely to move on entirely in a few weeks much like we entirely forget about Olympians 15 minutes after their event is over
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@EMostaque “Sam Altman approved this and said it is not a terms of service violation…”
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@Noahpinion It would be hard to tell that cars are banned on Market street based on how many cars are driving down Market street
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@yacineMTB @nearcyan lost most of it at the Horseshoe Casino there shoulder to shoulder with steel workers
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@kane honestly same with the Alphabet Workers Union could have focused on like you know layoffs but instead were off focusing on is there enough diversity on an internal only panel
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@GrantSlatton this was tried with X and with Area 120 - massive failures
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@mattyglesias being able to manifest like $5t out of thin air at will seems like it would carry a pretty high stock market valuation....
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@jduffyrice @tomgara Sometime in the last few years the police decided they just were not going g to do any work anymore and everyone was to scared to say anything because they are hero’s and the working man and well…
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@kane welp that is one way to bog down China when they go to try to run their stolen source code
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@Noahpinion "I am bi but I have never had contact with someone of the same sex..." ...but I totally check that box anytime it is advantageous.
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@eladgil is CA's overly complex vaccine rollout the first cases of 'woke deaths'?
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@courtstarr @Austen I book hotels over airbnb is the cost is even $30/night more now because the random owner cleaning commandments on Airbnbs get a bit much. Take out the trash, take sheets off bed, etc etc - you wonder what the $160 cleaning fee is covering @bchesky
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@mattyglesias Why wait to blame the senior staff?
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Needs to be more hostility for Biden inner circle that is propping him up & perpetrated the fraud of hiding his condition-all so they can personally cling to power Steve Ricchetti, Donilon, O'malley Dillon All need to go down like Clintons as villains unwelcome in the D part
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Needs to be more hostility for Biden inner circle that is propping him up & perpetrated the fraud of hiding his condition-all so they can personally cling to power Steve Ricchetti, Donilon, O'malley Dillon All need to go down like Clintons as villains unwelcome in the D part
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@CaseyNewton @hknightsf seems like he might have been better off just opening it up without any permits and using the $200k to just pay city fines or not pay the city fines at all and then just close at some point a few years later.
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@iowahawkblog I bet Clark makes more money today than Taurasi does
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@juliagalef @SpencrGreenberg teach them Kenyan style corruption at a young age? Each crime there has a price tag - pay it and the police let you walk. Not sure its a good ethical model.
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@Noahpinion @bindureddy lot of FAANG directors and VPs making $3m a year tc to make 4 powerpoint decks a year, and bloviate on Zoom calls for about 25 hours a week
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@ZhaoMandi something triggered the extended check in your file could be a family member that works for the gov, a friend that was suspicious, online activity, really anything...
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Longest, most expensive, private research project to become a commercial success? "it took ASML $9 billion of R&D and 17 years of research, a nonstop spree of experimentation, tweaking, and “aha” breakthroughs. EUV is now here"
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@patio11 So funny story about American kanpo. There is a certain segment of old people that are lonely and go to the doctor mostly to talk to someone. They want something prescribed for some mostly imagined malady.
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@Noahpinion SF needs a ballot initiative to ban the city giving money to any nonprofit
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@aaron_renn A lot of this is not labor cost or materials cost but city mandates cost - all over any project is 100 rules that drive up the cost because someone thought all housing must be very nice housing not just basic housing
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@CJHandmer The south west does not need more water it needs less dynastic alfalfa and almond farming Does not matter how cheap desal is - all the free water should not go to 100 families for eternity
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@Austen Mark Zuckerberg has a mortgage on his house. We know because they are publicly recorded.
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@chr1sa There are no regulatory hurdles to building megawatts of solar and batteries if you don’t hook them to the grid and just power your own data centers with them
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@justGLew How many people will this tweet end up killing? Hopefully it is 0 but I would not bet on it.
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@Nowooski @AlecStapp responding to heart attacks but with more manly trucks with ladders and axes on them
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@Noahpinion not ambitious enough - you could have totally been a Slate writer exclusively covering what your friends complained about at brunch last weekend!
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This is 100% what the Huawei debate is about.
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@paulg but did you tell them about Martin Luther King Junior?
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@patio11 My parents are both pharmacists. I spent a lot of time as a small child wondering around the pharmacy and always loved when someone got some Placebocap because it meant I got the other color m&m’s left over!
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@asymmetricinfo Exactly what behavior would be so egregious that immediate prosecution would be warranted? Genocide? Literally taking billions and pocketing it? Something must cross the line.
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@thegpatty @AlecStapp Because people are cheap and won’t switch to something better
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New trend: People saying they "work in Menlo Park" instead of saying they work for Facebook.
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@mattyglesias @firasd He did not support gay marriage until he was in the White House for two full years!
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@DKThomp oh 1000% usually boards fire people all the time for stuff like that and just whisper network it out to say that out loud in the statement is biiiiiigggggg
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@devahaz - lists what number they were on a team “4th marketing hire” - “founding” subtitle ie founding peru market manager - list’s “acquired” on LinkedIn for a company that had 4 people and zero press
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@tszzl Worst job in all of tech is first engineering hire
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@kane @sfdbi @SFDsrvsBttr also lol at the fact that the inspector is available on the phone 2 hours a day.
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@ejzim the Google -> employee salary -> landlord pipeline is strong even if GOOG shareholders get a cut along the way
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@JackK 👋 racist models
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@pschofie79 Make it 5000 assistant provosts and many would take the deal immediately
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@paulg 17 that they were caught and later convicted for. The number is certainly higher than 17 given that very few crimes result in an arrest and even less result in a conviction - especially now with many areas having an unrelated wildcat strike by police
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@eringriffith @kateconger well at least they are not sending guys out with bats like they used to, to break unions I guess?
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