Rahul Sethi
@sethi.dev
Londoner. Previously Principal Engineer @Cloudflare Workers
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this might be orthogonal to the actual OP, but i really worry how often people are sold on the performance of intellect rather than its outcomes, and maybe this worry is misplaced
June 18, 2025 at 4:54 AM
this might be orthogonal to the actual OP, but i really worry how often people are sold on the performance of intellect rather than its outcomes, and maybe this worry is misplaced
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The Trump regime is deliberately deploying ICE agents at immigration hearings so they can more easily detain migrants.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
June 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The Trump regime is deliberately deploying ICE agents at immigration hearings so they can more easily detain migrants.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
Armed, masked men abducting people from courthouses —and arresting those who ask why — is the stuff fascism is made of.
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The real problem boils down wealth inequality and the complete lack of social mobility making people feel increasingly hopeless. The people who did make it to the top will never admit it was mostly luck or privilege, because it doesn't serve their interests. So they peddle this nonsense. 1/?
March 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The real problem boils down wealth inequality and the complete lack of social mobility making people feel increasingly hopeless. The people who did make it to the top will never admit it was mostly luck or privilege, because it doesn't serve their interests. So they peddle this nonsense. 1/?
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pretending you have convictions, and then designing your campaign by focus group and doing whatever you think is a convolution of policies that hits all the core points is not actually successful
March 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
pretending you have convictions, and then designing your campaign by focus group and doing whatever you think is a convolution of policies that hits all the core points is not actually successful
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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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Musk's approach to finding fraud is like bringing in a crack team of dentists to fix a broken Wifi router. Where are the forensic accountants?
March 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Musk's approach to finding fraud is like bringing in a crack team of dentists to fix a broken Wifi router. Where are the forensic accountants?
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This is appalling. Whether or not something is "settled science" doesn't depend on whether *laymen* are skeptical.
This is settled science. All studies disprove the initial faked study that started the controversy.
This is settled science. All studies disprove the initial faked study that started the controversy.
According to a former editor of JAMA, we need more studies on whether or not vaccines cause autism.
What mistakes does he make?
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What mistakes does he make?
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March 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is appalling. Whether or not something is "settled science" doesn't depend on whether *laymen* are skeptical.
This is settled science. All studies disprove the initial faked study that started the controversy.
This is settled science. All studies disprove the initial faked study that started the controversy.
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A lot of researchers and scientists in general tend to be on the spectrum, so it would be more correct to say that autism causes vaccines.
March 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A lot of researchers and scientists in general tend to be on the spectrum, so it would be more correct to say that autism causes vaccines.
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the specific millennial anxiety that both your kids and your parents are clueless about basic internet safety
March 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
the specific millennial anxiety that both your kids and your parents are clueless about basic internet safety
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Next, researchers will work to design bispecific antibodies that would be effective against all coronaviruses, the virus family including ones that cause the “common cold,” MERS, and COVID-19. This approach could potentially also be effective against influenza and HIV.
March 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Next, researchers will work to design bispecific antibodies that would be effective against all coronaviruses, the virus family including ones that cause the “common cold,” MERS, and COVID-19. This approach could potentially also be effective against influenza and HIV.
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For years I was inoculated from ads with streaming subscriptions and YouTube Premium, but they’ve bled back through on Amazon Prime. I feel like I’m having an alien experience, I didn’t realise how strange advertisements were. Do these work? They feel like licking a battery
March 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
For years I was inoculated from ads with streaming subscriptions and YouTube Premium, but they’ve bled back through on Amazon Prime. I feel like I’m having an alien experience, I didn’t realise how strange advertisements were. Do these work? They feel like licking a battery
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The 3.5 percent solution
“In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict“, Chenoweth and Stephan analyzed 323 political and social movements that challenged repressive regimes from 1900 to 2006.
bigthink.com/the-present/...
“In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict“, Chenoweth and Stephan analyzed 323 political and social movements that challenged repressive regimes from 1900 to 2006.
bigthink.com/the-present/...
To overthrow a tyrant, try the 3.5 Percent Solution
A study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.
bigthink.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The 3.5 percent solution
“In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict“, Chenoweth and Stephan analyzed 323 political and social movements that challenged repressive regimes from 1900 to 2006.
bigthink.com/the-present/...
“In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict“, Chenoweth and Stephan analyzed 323 political and social movements that challenged repressive regimes from 1900 to 2006.
bigthink.com/the-present/...
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This is such a great point because here we have the world’s richest man and the president of the United States and they’re both idiots, and there’s a cognitive dissonance where one can argue “they can’t be idiots, look what they’ve accomplished.” But yet still they are idiots
They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
February 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is such a great point because here we have the world’s richest man and the president of the United States and they’re both idiots, and there’s a cognitive dissonance where one can argue “they can’t be idiots, look what they’ve accomplished.” But yet still they are idiots
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
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A common trap for PMs is when you keep making slight adjustments to your product roadmap to address roadblocks (e.g. removing feature to hit deadline, changing another due to tech feasibility, etc) but don’t realize that your product has strayed so much from the original vision to be unrecognizable.
February 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A common trap for PMs is when you keep making slight adjustments to your product roadmap to address roadblocks (e.g. removing feature to hit deadline, changing another due to tech feasibility, etc) but don’t realize that your product has strayed so much from the original vision to be unrecognizable.
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Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
But what the autistic people in your life hear when you spread that widely debunked misinformation is that you would prefer to have a child die a painful death from eradicated communicable disease than to be like them.
That's nasty work.
Hope this helps!
But what the autistic people in your life hear when you spread that widely debunked misinformation is that you would prefer to have a child die a painful death from eradicated communicable disease than to be like them.
That's nasty work.
Hope this helps!
February 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
But what the autistic people in your life hear when you spread that widely debunked misinformation is that you would prefer to have a child die a painful death from eradicated communicable disease than to be like them.
That's nasty work.
Hope this helps!
But what the autistic people in your life hear when you spread that widely debunked misinformation is that you would prefer to have a child die a painful death from eradicated communicable disease than to be like them.
That's nasty work.
Hope this helps!
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Is this how I find out bellbottoms are back?
February 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Is this how I find out bellbottoms are back?
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It's a thin line between "fully automated luxury space communism" and "working to the bone to buy peanuts at the global company store"
January 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's a thin line between "fully automated luxury space communism" and "working to the bone to buy peanuts at the global company store"
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y'all need to learn to stop treating attention-getting bs
as worthy of attention
as worthy of attention
January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
y'all need to learn to stop treating attention-getting bs
as worthy of attention
as worthy of attention