In the story of the scorpion and the frog I don't think you're meant to aspire to be the scorpion.
October 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
In the story of the scorpion and the frog I don't think you're meant to aspire to be the scorpion.
It's depressing to boil everything down to the metrics a product manager puts in their slide deck. Depressing and wrong.
August 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It's depressing to boil everything down to the metrics a product manager puts in their slide deck. Depressing and wrong.
As with everything Twitter was more than just # of users, that was just a metric that usefully corresponded to Twitter growing. If you mortally wound the community, the network, the habits, the social mores, then you can kill Twitter regardless of the user count. And they did.
August 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As with everything Twitter was more than just # of users, that was just a metric that usefully corresponded to Twitter growing. If you mortally wound the community, the network, the habits, the social mores, then you can kill Twitter regardless of the user count. And they did.
Where does this information come from Mark? If it was known when proscribing was first raised I would have thought it would have been shouted from the rooftops.
June 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Where does this information come from Mark? If it was known when proscribing was first raised I would have thought it would have been shouted from the rooftops.
How do you hire for diversity of thought, Michael?
May 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How do you hire for diversity of thought, Michael?
Frustratingly societal atomisation IS a thing that's hurting many would-be Reform voters, rather than immigration. It would be far better to make an island of strangers speech about re-centering community, rather than one about foreigners in Bradford (as Jenrick roughly put it).
May 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Frustratingly societal atomisation IS a thing that's hurting many would-be Reform voters, rather than immigration. It would be far better to make an island of strangers speech about re-centering community, rather than one about foreigners in Bradford (as Jenrick roughly put it).
If the phrase is about atomisation rather than immigration then why was it used in a speech about the incalculable damage caused by migration?
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If the phrase is about atomisation rather than immigration then why was it used in a speech about the incalculable damage caused by migration?
Is that partly because it feels like the only thing Labour has actually _done_ in gov so far...
May 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Is that partly because it feels like the only thing Labour has actually _done_ in gov so far...
Another way of phrasing it is that they could in theory add ALL those jobs and functions back at no ongoing cost. It's an advert for expansive government that works towards civic good.
April 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Another way of phrasing it is that they could in theory add ALL those jobs and functions back at no ongoing cost. It's an advert for expansive government that works towards civic good.
They don't just "loathe" that spam - it's not just personal preference. That spam wastes their time, damages their communities and makes them less safe. In your posts I feel you are trivialising the actual harms that motivate much of the opposition's position.
April 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
They don't just "loathe" that spam - it's not just personal preference. That spam wastes their time, damages their communities and makes them less safe. In your posts I feel you are trivialising the actual harms that motivate much of the opposition's position.
In Chamath's anecdote he doesn't give the caller the actions, they already know the three concessions they want to make. So why call Chamath? Because they wanted this "willingness" to get back to the Trump admin? Government business run through private citizens... perfect environment for corruption.
April 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
In Chamath's anecdote he doesn't give the caller the actions, they already know the three concessions they want to make. So why call Chamath? Because they wanted this "willingness" to get back to the Trump admin? Government business run through private citizens... perfect environment for corruption.
The Count of Montecristo runs for ~50 hours as an audiobook, and has 464,162 words. I'd expect a speech to be a little less word-dense, so I'd assume it should be close to 200k if non-stop.
April 2, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Count of Montecristo runs for ~50 hours as an audiobook, and has 464,162 words. I'd expect a speech to be a little less word-dense, so I'd assume it should be close to 200k if non-stop.
Dean, today there is reporting that a French scientist was turned away at the border because he had messages on his phone that were critical of Trump and so could be 'construed as terrorism'. We are no longer in normal times, and so talking about how ESTAs functioned previously is frankly naive.
March 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Dean, today there is reporting that a French scientist was turned away at the border because he had messages on his phone that were critical of Trump and so could be 'construed as terrorism'. We are no longer in normal times, and so talking about how ESTAs functioned previously is frankly naive.
That might be an accurate comment about the past, Dean, but we don't live there any more. This thread is specifically about how border agents have changed how they handle a variety of situations. "AFAIK, ESTA is fine" is not worth saying, and you shouldn't give spurious advice on a topic like this!
March 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
That might be an accurate comment about the past, Dean, but we don't live there any more. This thread is specifically about how border agents have changed how they handle a variety of situations. "AFAIK, ESTA is fine" is not worth saying, and you shouldn't give spurious advice on a topic like this!
Perhaps students perceive there to be more/easier cheating by others, and so it removes social barriers while also increasing feelings that being left behind is a real risk.
March 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Perhaps students perceive there to be more/easier cheating by others, and so it removes social barriers while also increasing feelings that being left behind is a real risk.
Totally. Would have been fun to have questions that tease apart what level of programmatic involvement meets the threshold. Random dungeon every time, through to algorithmically generated dungeon that was "locked in" as dev's choice, through to "anything with a shader is conceivably proc gen".
March 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Totally. Would have been fun to have questions that tease apart what level of programmatic involvement meets the threshold. Random dungeon every time, through to algorithmically generated dungeon that was "locked in" as dev's choice, through to "anything with a shader is conceivably proc gen".
I could have gone for another few pages of questions. Hope I make the leaderboard!
March 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I could have gone for another few pages of questions. Hope I make the leaderboard!
If they violated the appointments clause, which of them is at fault. Would there be any repercussions coming Elon's way, or is the person who directed him (Trump?) the responsible party?
March 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If they violated the appointments clause, which of them is at fault. Would there be any repercussions coming Elon's way, or is the person who directed him (Trump?) the responsible party?
We've all heard the Macron phonecall with Putin in 2022 trying to "engage" with him to avoid a conflict. It feels like it's working, then it fails catastrophically.
February 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We've all heard the Macron phonecall with Putin in 2022 trying to "engage" with him to avoid a conflict. It feels like it's working, then it fails catastrophically.
Trump can delegate "go tear up USAID" or "make the Kennedy centre republican" to any old henchman. But would border related hijinks involve an explicit and un-delegatable chain of command back to POTUS that might limit Trump's ability for the fire-and-forget orders he seems to like?
February 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Trump can delegate "go tear up USAID" or "make the Kennedy centre republican" to any old henchman. But would border related hijinks involve an explicit and un-delegatable chain of command back to POTUS that might limit Trump's ability for the fire-and-forget orders he seems to like?
From UK's experience, the country becomes paralysed by lack of funds, which is then further used by right wingers to justify cuts to the state. Doom spiral.
February 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
From UK's experience, the country becomes paralysed by lack of funds, which is then further used by right wingers to justify cuts to the state. Doom spiral.
Did you design it all in one go from scratch then implement it, or did you have a simple version with more limited constructions that you then evolved over time to be more expressive? I don't think my brain is good enough at words for either really...
January 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Did you design it all in one go from scratch then implement it, or did you have a simple version with more limited constructions that you then evolved over time to be more expressive? I don't think my brain is good enough at words for either really...
Substack payers might also LIKE that their money isn't being allocated in some hidden way to click-driving expensive columnists. Maybe a coop/syndicate model would be nice. Like current substack but with option to pay a little more to fund a network of writers.
January 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Substack payers might also LIKE that their money isn't being allocated in some hidden way to click-driving expensive columnists. Maybe a coop/syndicate model would be nice. Like current substack but with option to pay a little more to fund a network of writers.
You can even move them during a round, between hands! I think this mainly exists to create huge amounts of regret when you lose a run because you forgot to rearrange...
December 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
You can even move them during a round, between hands! I think this mainly exists to create huge amounts of regret when you lose a run because you forgot to rearrange...
Seen some Labour and Lib Dem MPs over here... what about Conservative? Will the shift to BlueSky reveal just how aligned with the US right wingers they consider themselves to be?
November 14, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Seen some Labour and Lib Dem MPs over here... what about Conservative? Will the shift to BlueSky reveal just how aligned with the US right wingers they consider themselves to be?