myroon5's comments

On: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

[myroon5]

casinos 'changed the conversation from a zero sum game'?

On: Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

[myroon5]

> couldn't be an evil mining company, use exploitative labour practices or generally be shitty.

ESG ratings champion companies in industries killing millions: https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/how-tobacco-companies-are...

reminiscent of the comic of people being bombed in awe that 'They say the next [bombs] will be sent by a woman!'

On: Facebook/Meta Transparency Reports

[myroon5]

Q3 2024 Top domains:

youtube.com 151.7M

gofundme.com 110.3M

media1.tenor.co 97.1M

tiktok.com 92.6M

cbsnews.com 84.7M

people.com 84.7M

today.com 80.4M

usatoday.com 77.9M

variety.com 77M

tmz.com 75.6M

dailymail.co.uk 72.2M

si.com 67.7M

nypost.com 63.5M

abcnews.go.com 62.9M

reuters.com 62M

amazon.com 60.2M

eonline.com 59.4M

zillow.com 55.7M

cnn.com 55.1M

businessinsider.com 54.9M

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Q3 2024 Top pages:

NBC Olympics & Paralympics 132.4M

LADbible 123M

ESPN 122.9M

ABC News 104.8M

UNILAD 104.5M

Dad Jokes 99.6M

People 97.8M

Eddie Gallagher - Navy SEAL Chief 94.8M

SportsCenter 94.7M

NBC Sports 93.9M

CinemaBlend 93.3M

Troab 91.8M

Today Show 90.9M

Memezar 90.9M

ESPN FC 90.7M

Entertainment Tonight 89.7M

Lessons Learned In Life 89.1M

Chefclub Network 88.4M

Team USA 87.9M

Netflix 87.8M

On: Facebook/Meta Transparency Reports

[myroon5]

https://transparencyreport.google.com/ discussed before:

Google Transparency Report - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20608535 - Aug 2019 (11 comments)

On: TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case

[myroon5]

Only one Supreme Court Justice has ever even been impeached (in 1804), and they did not receive a single conviction, let alone any sentencing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Samuel_Chase

On: How rich am I? (global calculator)

[myroon5]

A main point of that site is that different charities have orders of magnitude different impacts

GiveWell uses GiveDirectly's cash transfers as a benchmark and aims for at least an order of magnitude better impact:

https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...

and there's still trillions of USD worth of real global health work to do:

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge

On: Jimmy Carter has died

[myroon5]

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin

On: How rich am I? (global calculator)

[myroon5]

These results already account for different cost of living using Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

On: City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once

[myroon5]

links:

https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/populouscities

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Wrightboy05/50-biggest-cities-...

https://www.sporcle.com/games/Wrightboy05/100-biggest-cities...

https://www.sporcle.com/games/eliasostnas/top-100-most-popul...

https://www.sporcle.com/games/MapleLeaf/world200

https://www.sporcle.com/games/vanderbizzle2014/300-largest-c...

On: GPT-5 is behind schedule

[myroon5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem?

Many non-AI products already reduce chore time:

* Washer-Dryer Combos

* Soylent/Huel bars

* Self-cleaning toilets / automatic toilet bowl cleaners

* Robotic vacuums / mowers / pool/litter cleaners

* Pet/plant feeders

[antifa → myroon5]

> robotic litter boxes

Has successfully guilotined several cats.