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The kiwi response states emphatically that they were deleted

"On June 21, Google parent Alphabet Inc. floated a plan to fix a problem it had identified in its spam filters. The solution was specifically aimed at political spam, the kind likely to pour in during an especially noisy midterm election season. Unfortunately for all of us, Google seems to have decided the problem is that it filters too much spam—and the solution is to let politicians run wild with polling updates, merch solicitations, and frantic fundraising pleas."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/gmail-spa...

The app works great for getting you to an intermediate level, which is all it claims to do.

"The payout is exactly the same"

Again I ask, is it really?

"Expected Value is complicated because a 50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $1000"

Is it though?

Hard to take anything the guy says seriously when he calls this tweet "objectively amazing" a couple of paragraphs in: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1470899663087747072

Flashing the high-beams to warn of police is a thing in the US also, although you can get ticketed for it.

(Apparently this has been successfully challenged in court as free speech though lol https://www.myimprov.com/flashing-headlights-in-florida-prot... )

I'd just throw in for context that BoP absolutely had more significance at the time than its sales numbers would show.

I feel for this guy, I get that the post comes off as narcissistic and myopic but it seems that he genuinely put a lot of effort into something with good intentions and came away disappointed. Something just leaves me profoundly sad after reading it, and I'm actually going to seek out a copy of the 'balance of power' book.

i hope it has fewer troglodytes hiding behind a misguided concept of freedom of speech

maga bullshit

I'm a native English speaker and I didn't get what their problem with it was either. I've never heard anyone voice such an objection to using the word outside of this thread. Bizarre reasoning imo.

"Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project" --- seems like a pretty accurate summary to me

Capital and Ideology - Piketty

very approachable for an intimidatingly huge book

trying to think of a lazier, more harmful analysis than this both-sides bullshit but I've got nothing

Excellent, something I definitely don't have to worry about.

sublime use of "Ear regardless"

yep, 2nd-ing, 3rd-ing, 4th-ing, ...nth-ing

Quoting "Art of the Deal" and extolling Trump's virtues as a dealmaker didn't really sway me. Regretting this purchase.

this is cool, i'm about to be doodling some animals

Its about animal cruelty for many people.

"nuggests"

H1-B mandates a lower than competitive wage that the recipient's get stuck in, this isn't the same situation as women / minorities gaining access to the workplace unless their access came at a mandatory much lower salary.

Looks cool, definitely some good ideas in there.

"Maybe there's something glaringly wrong in that particular paper, but these authors do nothing to actually demonstrate that."

He first states that the particular paper's flaw is the use of implausible statistics, then goes into more detail:

"There was also considerable silliness including claiming to have tactfully inspected the genitals of slightly fewer than 10,000 dogs whilst interrogating owners as to their sexuality (“Dog Park”),"

"Programmers do not need to write much code anymore; all they need to do in most cases is wire together already available components."

As a general statement, I feel like this is objectively false. Just look at how much code gets added to Github daily.

Seems right, but borders on being tautological.

This just popped up in my github feed, looks interesting.