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jppope commented on Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"   nautil.us/are-we-finally-... · Posted by u/fleahunter
jppope · 4 days ago
A woman got bitten by a shark pretty bad down the street from me about a mile away when I lived there: https://abc7.com/post/newport-beach-shark-bite-victim-recove...

I understand they are out there, I understand there is an ecosystem and they are important to that ecosystem... all that goes out the window when you see a great white cruising through the water. We're cool as long as they are out at sea and not where I'm at.

jppope commented on Transparent leadership beats servant leadership   entropicthoughts.com/tran... · Posted by u/ibobev
jppope · 10 days ago
Just wanted to provide a useful link on the topic of leadership. The US army publishes its doctrine for free and updates it somewhat regularly:

https://talent.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ARN20039_...

The doctrine is a no-nonsense, no-fluff document based on 200+ years of military tradition where the effectiveness of the leadership is actually life and death. Definitely worth a read if you are interested in leadership.

jppope commented on Gen Z and millennials are driving a great American drinking decline, Gallup poll   fortune.com/2025/08/13/ge... · Posted by u/randycupertino
jppope · 21 days ago
One of the things that bothers me about this (though indirect), which I say every time these articles are posted (about alcohol and health) is that we are working with an incomplete data set. It is absolutely true that the physical effects of any alcohol use are bad for your health, the problem is that we have no way to know if the social/psychological effects of moderate drinking outweigh the negatives... there has never been a longitudinal study on the matter, which is very frustrating.

We know that people who meet with their friends once a week for dinner are happier and have better health outcomes. We know that being married increases your lifespan. What story does alcohol with its deep cultural influence and use in social settings play in health outcomes - we don't know. We just know that alcohol is a poison, a poison that humans as a species have adapted to be able to consume and process better than other animals.

Speaking without any evidence whatsoever to back it up, I could totally imagine bimodal health impacts from alcohol where one group increases their health outcomes through moderate drinking as a social lubricant decreasing stress, increasing community, increasing the likelihood of marriage, and another group increases stress, isolation, and negative health impacts through excessive drinking.

Either way it would go, I would like real, empirical, LONGITUDINAL data to direct me on how to view alcohol, as opposed to the current state of things.

jppope commented on The realities of being a pop star   itscharlibb.substack.com/... · Posted by u/lovestory
jppope · 21 days ago
Courtney Love wrote a fabulous article explaining the realities of a million-dollar album (2000 - https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/) and it explains so much of whats actually going on that the public doesn't fully comprehend. Its a great read if you've never read it.

The realities are similar to what we are reading in this article. Most of what gets talked about is gross numbers not net. Most of the benefits of the job, are in the journey not the destination - if you're even into that stuff... i.e. having your music impact lives.

I wish sooooo much that people could read these things so when I go to a dinner party or random event, some GenPop person knew that JK Rowling makes billions of dollars but your average published writer loses money publishing a book. Your average NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL athletes are broke 5 years after they are out of the league. Fame, is mostly a curse.

Good on charli xcx for writing this and for writing period.

jppope commented on Markdown is holding you back   newsletter.bphogan.com/ar... · Posted by u/zdw
jppope · 21 days ago
Been constantly using it for ~10 years and it works great. I read the article and its not incorrect, but its also kind of arguing that markdown users have problems that they themselves would say they don't have. If you need something else, use something else. With all that said, great title, they convinced me to waste ~3-5 min digging in.
jppope commented on Why top firms fire good workers   rochester.edu/newscenter/... · Posted by u/hhs
jppope · 23 days ago
As I understand it, the process is known as up or out (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out) and exists due to a the known corporate structure required to do consulting work. I have no clue about its effectiveness, but all the work I've ever seen done by Deloitte, McKinsey, or PWC was mediocre at best which to me would signal that the process probably rewards a different incentive set than they intend it to. For the rest of us its likely a lesson in the power of branding. To quote Matt Damon: "(they are charging you for) an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library"

The only other thing I have to say about it is I have noticed a high correlation with the reports produced and the things employees have been telling management to do for a long time - that is to say, there is some utility to having an outsider provide the information... even if that information isn't novel at all.

jppope commented on An AI-Generated Country Song Is Topping a Billboard Chart   whiskeyriff.com/2025/11/0... · Posted by u/CharlesW
jppope · a month ago
I would love it if this was the turning point where people would go back to seeing live music. The sort of thing that can't be ai generated... the skeptic in me says we're probably just going to get 10x the slop now.
jppope commented on Top US billionaires' collective wealth grew by $698B in past year – report   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/mitchbob
jppope · a month ago
Less impressive but more accurate headline: The US stock market continues to go up, some people own more stock than others.
jppope commented on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty   therecord.media/us-declin... · Posted by u/pcaharrier
JoshTriplett · a month ago
> and the goal from the other countries perspective is to throttle the US. Like the Paris Accords.

Which is not inherently a bad thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

jppope · a month ago
Super weird that they don't factor in productivity at all. Don't take me the wrong way I hate the fact that the United States thinks the only way to do anything is to burn fossil fuels, but that doesn't change the fact that our output per capita has got to be 10x the countries we are being compared against in this article.
jppope commented on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres   topicpartition.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/enether
ownagefool · a month ago
The camps are wrong.

There's poles.

1. Is folks constantly adopting the new tech, whatever the motivation, and 2. I learned a thing and shall never learn anything else, ever.

Of course nobody exists actually on either pole, but the closer you are to either, the less pragmatic you are likely to be.

jppope · a month ago
So 1. RDD 2. Curmudgeon and 3. People who rationally look at the problem and try to solve it in the best way possible (omitted in the article)

u/jppope

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