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Aren’t these venues small businesses that very much appreciate whatever publicity someone sharing their venue on social media gives them?

I guess they can weigh that against their customers desire for privacy.

How many $1 million prizes were given out?

At on point I asked it for academic papers that said a particular thing, as best I can tell, only about 60% of the papers it cited actually existed

One thing I’ve noticed, is that at least in the free version, if you ask chatGPT for sources outside itself, ‘can you give me a link to somewhere on it internet where it says that?’, it won’t do that.

It is very much a black box in terms of letting you track its logic.

Seems like future versions should be much more transparent in terms of letting you track the logic of why it’s telling you what it’s telling you.

fwiw, there's a building my sister lived in in Pittsburgh, the Penn Garrison, it's downtown, not totally sure what the history behind its development is, or what the window related zoning issues are in Pittsburgh, but it has one-bedroom apartments where the bedroom doesn't have any windows.

If you're interested in what it looks like, at least the promotional version of it, https://www.pmcpropertygroup.com/properties/penn-garrison-lo...

If you put enough soft lighting up, it was perfectly fine

I'm too old to have done this when I went through school, but I suspect a good practice is to go through your syllabus, and but the major unit covered into the youtube search bar.

I suspect you get all sorts of parallel presentations of the material in a way that is quite helpful for retention.

Short answer, yes.

Longer answer - from my prospective - I enjoyed the first book Path to Power the most, which revolves around LBJs early life up to becoming a US Representative. I thought it was very on par with the Power Broker. That an the Power Broker would probably be my first recommendation to an ambitious college kid who wants to know the real Politik of how the world works.

The next book Means of Assent was my least favorite of Caro’s books, but still highly enjoyable.

Master of the Senate and Passage of Power are both great. But sort of specific to LBJs spot in life. Great, but I’m not sure they sparked my thinking quite the way the Power Broker and Path to Power did.

The Robert Caro books about Lyndon B Johnson detail his effort to force meme “LBJ” as a reference to him.

(Mostly in terms of insisting various communications employees use it in press releases and what not).

It seems he liked the iconography of it, especially in putting himself in similar company to FDR.

Both his daughters have the LBJ initials, his wife is mostly known as Lady Bird Johnson (a nickname that predates their relationship, but is not her given name)

At one point I was getting a lot of facebook ads for MTalyor

https://www.mtailor.com/how-it-works.html

which I guess is a digital app that will measure you for clothes.

I wonder if their percentages for returns are significantly different than industry averages,

if so, I wonder if the concept might not work as a add in across other clothing lines

Are you sure online shopping is killing the planet faster?

Whatever they're wasting in returns, they're saving something in reducing the need for physical stores.

I didn't see anything in the way of the discussion of these tradeoffs,

but physical locations for big box stores certainly aren't environmentally free.

For those not familiar with that blog,

She previously wrote a long series on Machiavelli which was a great deep dive into his life

If interested start here: https://www.exurbe.com/machiavelli-s-p-q-f/

The link doesn’t support the implication you’re making.

Another thought,

How much of the content you consume comes out of this environment?

Are you letting that content set what you imagine is normal behavior?

As a society, what role does the entertainment industry play in setting behavioral norms?

fwiw, ‘Storytelling’ is just one node of the larger ‘Pixar in a Box’ offering from Khan Academy.

Most of the other nodes are more technical in nature. Might be closer to what you were hoping to find.

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/pixar

Hmm, maybe its my browser, I'm still in Windows 11

Google maps used to have a feature where if you scroll back from street view you would get a 3D rendering before they gave you the 2D satellite view if you scrolled further back.

Not sure why that went away, but it was pretty cool, and I enjoyed exploring a number of places with the feature before it went away.

125 people can do a lot

I bet secrets are easier to keep when they don’t seem fun to brag about,

I suspect a fair number of war crimes and similarly un-fun secrets have been safely lost to history

I tend to go through long periods of writer's block

I have a lot of perfectionist tendency where I tend to be highly critical of early work

I have it in my mind as being a high effort endeavor

honestly, laziness

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looking at that list, none of those reasons seem very good, I should start (thanks for the prompt)

what exactly is someone who pays a (small sum) for a setup Twitter account expecting to receive?

I'm curious what exactly happens if say you get a 55K job doing 'marketing' at a startup

are they collecting 17% of your paycheck?

I’m not sure either

(My totally blind guess would be about half of your guess, which would be plenty high enough for your point to still stand)

That said, corporate headquarters get moved frequently enough that this is probably a question that Google could and would model out were such a move actually under consideration.

There was a thread a few months ago on HN about non-violent communication

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21263894

which elicited a lot of comments about how much they disliked this type of conversation

reading this comment makes we wonder if its not more a function of 'non-violent communication is a tool people use to bring up subjects they would otherwise avoid; there's basically no way to talk about a lot of these subjects in a manner that doesn't bother people; ->-> if these is something you're going to pay costs on if it doesn't get brought up, using the tool of non-violent communications is one way to handle these costs'

Nah, all the books you need to read about thinking were published in the past year.

I actually happened to read The Goal a few weeks ago, I take you think It’s Not Luck is a worthwhile follow up?

normally this comment would sort of annoy me,

but its not obvious what the point of this story actually is

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looking on google

Imogene is about hour outside Omaha

is about 15 minutes away from the nearest Wal-Mart

Kids from Imogene appear to go to school https://www.greatschools.org/iowa/shenandoah/1244-Shenandoah... (which happens to be near the Wal Mart)

there does not appear to be an abandoned main street or factory in Imogene

from the article itself, unemployment is under 2%

what exactly is so terrible about life there?

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Imogene appears to be a small, somewhat out of the way place, and that appears to have always been the case

what exactly is so terrible about that fact?

Those ideas aren't mutually exclusive.

Sometimes people are more receptive about suggested solutions after you've expressed some solidarity.

"Yeah that does suck"

"That situation happened to me, it was a pain in the ass, I tried to do X, it didn't work that well, then I tried to do Y, it seemed to work ok, if I'm in that situation again, I'll probably go with Y"

are you positive that B and D are rule out A and C?

maybe a slight more productive way to have these conversations would be

"I thought about A, it didn't seem like a good idea to me because of B, what do you think? Am I thinking about this wrong? Is there some reason why B doesn't prevent A from being a good idea?"

subtle difference, but it signals that you value their input and ideas, and leaves open the possibility of you learning new things about your problem

(if you don't value their input and ideas, perhaps you shouldn't share your problems with them)

To the degree to which we interact with the world and create our own reality.

It's lower effort to turn a pessimistic outlook into reality than it is to turn an optimistic outlook into reality.

I've been ready the Wayside School books to my daughter for bedtime recently, the character Kathy demonstrates this pretty well.

From https://wayside-school.fandom.com/wiki/Kathy_(book_chapter) :

"The chapter opens by mentioning that Kathy doesn't like you, and that you are the stupidest person she doesn't know. She also thinks you are the ugliest person she doesn't know, and she doesn't know a lot of people. Even the people she does know she doesn't like. She thinks D.J. smiles too much and hates John because he can't stand on his head.

After the introduction, the chapter talks about a time Kathy had a pet cat named Skunks. She was afraid he would run away, but Mrs. Jewls told her that he would stay as long as Kathy took good care of him, and remembered to give him plenty of food and water. However, Kathy thought Mrs. Jewls was wrong, and to keep Skunks around, locked him in a closet, sometimes even forgetting to take care of him. One day when Kathy was looking for her other shoe, Skunks ran out and never came back. Kathy bragged to Mrs. Jewls, claiming that she was right all along, and tells her that next time she gets a cat, she'll kill him so he never runs away.

Afterwards it talks about a time Dameon was trying to teach Kathy how to play catch. Kathy complains that she'll just get hurt, but Dameon states that as long as she keeps her eyes on the ball, everything will be okay. However, worrying that she'll be hurt in advance, she closes her eyes and the ball lands in her face. She claims that Dameon was wrong and she was right as she runs away sobbing.

Allison thinks that if she is nice to Kathy, Kathy might be nice to her in return, so she bakes her a cookie. Kathy however, thinks it will taste terrible because Allison made it, so she keeps the cookie in her desk. Three weeks later, she decides to eat the cookie, which is now stale and dusty, and as expected, hates it. Kathy says that she was right about Allison's cookie, then the chapter cuts back to narration, explaining that Kathy thought she had very good reasons for hating everyone in Mrs. Jewls's class, alongside a very good reason for hating you. She knows that if you met her, you would hate her too, and already knows she's right. The chapter ends by saying it's weird how someone can always be right and still be wrong."

On Morey, sure, basketball fans know who he is, and he’s a respected guy, but relative to say LeBron or Harden, in a list of Q scores, he’s certainly behind at least hundreds of other NBA personalities,

And this was a 2 line tweet,

Which again is blocked in China.

I maintain that had the Chinese government just ignored this, or stuck it behind the Great Firewall,

This would be a complete non-story.

Now millions of Chinese citizens are wondering why exactly they can watch the NBA games they enjoy (even if they don’t agree with Morey at all).

The Chinese government's reaction to this seems extraordinarily strong to me.

The NBA is hugely popular there, don't they risk annoying huge chunks of their own population by taking it off the air?

Morey is not even an especially notable NBA figure, Twitter doesn't even work in China, it would have been easy to block news of this in China. It seems like the reaction would cause a Streisand effect there.

Isn't a backlash among the US population over this plainly foreseeable? That doesn't seem like its in their interests.

Working off the assumption that the Chinese government is rational, why is its reaction here so strong?

What other things are about to happen, that make this reaction make sense?

ctrl+f "free speech"

comes back empty

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The 1st amendment only protects you from the US government, not the Chinese government

this seems like a good example of why we need to rethink "...but not the consequences of that speech!"