Adam Wespiser

Technologist, Software Engineer, and ex-academic.

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@baym @aemonten Emergent user behavior is impossible to predict. Folks have good taste, but don’t link yourself to an outcome that requires an individual to be unusually right…

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@JordanSchachtel Her story is one of obsession, perserverance, and loss. She’s already had the quiet moment of early retirement, and she risked it all to get back. That quiet moment this time will be the hum of an MRI. It’s a great story!

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@Oceanbreeze473 It’s consistent with her obsession, perserverance, and ultimately tragic loss

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@BenoitAntoine11 @LAPRUNE031 @TBT9_W9 @WespiserD @Dartigolles @Mdelormeau Merci pour votre soutien, les amis !

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@xenquant @MorbidKnowledge Last chance to affirm the narrative that Germany rightfully punishes itself for the Nazi's crimes, which is a hugely important idea in the modern German state.

It's about symbolism, education, and ultimate norm-setting.

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@gothburz @jadejebba The only illusion here is that there's some magical alternative power structure that both works for tech, and works at scale.

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@gothburz That perception exists for very good reasons: you need to both create organizations that "care" and foster individual autonomy while simultaneously have a power structure to weld control at scale.

Truth and judgement don't work, the only solution is narrative control.

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@krzyzanowskim LGTM

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@Markos_mom lol, just ask the Monty hall problem. You’d save several paragraphs!

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@elonmusk Institutions are the strength of democracy!

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@GergelyOrosz I just can't believe Postman is a cloud product.

I've developed web services for 10 years. Maybe I'm missing out on some great functionality, but curl and an filesystem is all I've ever needed.

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@DavidLochhead1 @interesting_aIl @elonmusk It's economically infeasible.

Musk doesn't care, he promoted it for attention, capitalized on it with The Boring Company, then bilked Vegas into creating a tunnel.

When he talks, it's not an engineer, but a snake oil salesmen.

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@shekfu @chrisbrunet @Harvard Ah yes, if life were only as simple as the LLM suggested

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@Chris99336 @chrisbrunet @Harvard It's a massive economic benefit to the US to invest in science, especially at school like Harvard.

We attract the best, we train them with incredible resources, then we can step back and watch them grow the economy.

Academic investment is required for our greatness.

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@DangItPeople1 @chrisbrunet @Harvard The endowment is to ensure preservation on the timescale of decades. This is bad for Harvard and US academic excellence, but none of it threatens continuity.

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@InternetH0F Cure >>> disease

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@ScottHanson What even is a catch? There's no good definition other than, "what the refs think is best for league"

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@P_Dubbin @erikbryn @elonmusk There are objective ways to draw the maps to be fair, like keeping cities/countries/areas together.

It's okay for the results to be arbitrary, but arbitrary because they are based on geography and result in a split as close to the R/D ratio as possible.

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@erikbryn @elonmusk The objective measures of gerrymandering suggest little of it is happening in New England, with only a slight R+ boost to Maine.

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@alshakero @benjamistan @GergelyOrosz JPM flagged the email/user lists after a marketing campaign. The response rate was just terrible!