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The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke

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107 points·by jamesfe·4 years ago·118 comments

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jamesfe
·4 years ago·discuss
This exactly. I once tried the twitter game, I thought it was important to have a big following or say clever things, whatever.

I was lightly burned by a tweet (of my own authoring) once, and I thought "I make $XYZ per year, twitter pays me nothing, this joke tweet caused me a lot of stress, the odds that being on twitter will get me cancelled will cost me $XYZ are non-zero and I don't control them"

Then I deleted all my tweets and my twitter account (8 years ago) and life has been really nice without it!
jamesfe
·5 years ago·discuss
What you really want is NROL-11 which inadvertently revealed the classified location of the payload: https://gizmodo.com/decoding-hidden-messages-in-those-geeky-...
jamesfe
·5 years ago·discuss
TL;DR "People watch fewer videos if they see more dislikes which means we make less ad revenue, the result of this A/B test is we will continue to optimize for ad rev"
jamesfe
·5 years ago·discuss
Is it? How do they bill you without knowing how much data you transferred? How do they debug what went wrong with your connection without logs?

This stuff is barely scratching the surface of the data those companies collect and maintain, likely for long periods of time, just to analyze and improve customer experience.
jamesfe
·5 years ago·discuss
I'm not sure I understand - it took me 28 keystrokes to type 13 characters. The value must come from somewhere, where is it?
jamesfe
·5 years ago·discuss
The author makes one mention of New York Times, the target of his confusion, but only in the very last sentence. Maybe he's the bad writer?

Cherry-picking ten bad sentences from tens of thousands written per day seems like a long-tail metric or anecdotal at best.
jamesfe
·5 years ago·discuss
You are right, but she is a GCP ML advocate, so her job is to distill this stuff down into blog posts or 45 minute talk tracks.