Here’s another hypothesis: Maybe Americans are down in the dumps because their perception of the “good life” is being warped by TikTok and Instagram.
Pundits who say say this probably never use social media much, or their social media usage is limited to Twitter. The vast majority of Facebook/Instagram/TikTok users are not famous or celebrities. Given the massive popularity of those platforms, we would expect the average user to be as successful as the median American, which is to say, a far cry from being wealthy or super-successful. Follow a hundred of so random people on Instagram or TikTok, and how many Google or AI employes are you going to find among them? Likely none, compared to Twitter , where everyone seems super-successful on there.
When I ponder this, the "Isn't it obvious?" frame ends up cutting both ways: ex. isn't it obvious this isn't actually an active thought when people make these decisions? (to wit, the theory cited is based on The Office TV series, which also never depicts this)
It's not illegal, period, because this isn't a regulated security. Prediction markets don't fall under these laws; in fact, insider trading is seen as a feature of these markets.
They took off from many different places so you'd have to somehow know that ~150 aircraft were taking off. If you happen to just see one spot, you'd likely just assume it was another bombing of a boat or a dock.
Or… someone seeing a bunch of commercial flights over the Caribbean getting cancelled. Could be anyone from airline ops to frustrated travelers stranded in Boston.
I guess... but I still think first thought would be just some more bombing. It's a big step to go from bombing boats, a dock, arresting and extraditing a foreign leader in the middle of the night.
I highly doubt that that's the case, given that taking a large and publicly visible financial position based on confidential information still amounts to disclosing information.
Or to say it in his own words: "Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come." source: https://addyosmani.com/bio/
Oh my god. I have never seen an about/bio page even half as gross and cringey as this. It's so obscene that it reads like a parody
> Colleagues often remark on Osmani’s humility
LOL! Who writes these things about themselves with a straight face?!
It also shows that taking credit for others' work is 100% his MO.
> Osmani’s team created Workbox, a set of libraries for generating service worker scripts that handle caching and offline functionality with minimal fuss. Workbox simplified what used to be a complex task of writing low-level code to intercept network requests.
No, Jeff Posnick (who I suppose technically was on addy's team) created workbox and it has been basically abandonned since he left Google.
I have to assume the rest of the bio, and his career, has been built off of usurping credit. He always rubbed me the wrong way, and this vindicates that sense.
many of the replies in this Hacker News thread read like AI replies too. I think the internet is dead as we know it. ~100% of content will be bots writing for ~100% audience of bots
I think it's inevitable everyone will use LLMs to assist with writing, such as editing, if it hasn't happen already. It's like having a free editor, beyond grammar or spell-checking.
If the only reason you write is as a means to and end, sure. Inevitable. If you pursue it as a craft then the struggle and imperfections are part of the process. LLM usage would sand away those wonderful flaws.
The AI slop voice is grating to me and many others. If you can avoid it or make it not feel like slop or make it feel unique, people will like it more. I don't care how you do that tbh
Pundits who say say this probably never use social media much, or their social media usage is limited to Twitter. The vast majority of Facebook/Instagram/TikTok users are not famous or celebrities. Given the massive popularity of those platforms, we would expect the average user to be as successful as the median American, which is to say, a far cry from being wealthy or super-successful. Follow a hundred of so random people on Instagram or TikTok, and how many Google or AI employes are you going to find among them? Likely none, compared to Twitter , where everyone seems super-successful on there.
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