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by 21723 4y ago
Usually, when the money runs out, they return with their tails between their legs, often in shittier jobs that they'd have had if they'd stuck with it. You're right about the grass being greener. The tech industry is an absol
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by 21723 4y ago
I'd argue that, while it may not be selfish to have kids, most people who are having kids do it for selfish reasons. They don't want to "die alone". They want to show that they can afford it. They want to vicariously get
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by 21723 4y ago
The best route is either to roll your own or go with a service like Ghost. Sure, you'll have to pay hosting, but you're not going to have shitty ads run on your blog. Substack seems to be a decent technology; the problem is that i
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by 21723 4y ago
Our healthcare system is an absolute travesty for the poor, but it's pretty lousy even for people who can afford care. I know plenty of people with 7- and 8-figure net worth, people who have connections to the medical system, who'
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by 21723 4y ago
On the other hand, for-profit medicine is great for the shareholders.
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by 21723 4y ago
> I see that phrase thrown around a lot. It's a variant of "you're never going to be a billionaire (so you shouldn't be against X)." Why do people assume that you have to think you'll be a billionaire to be
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by 21723 4y ago
This is absolutely going to be used against unionizers, which is what's really meant by "colluding". In the US this is going to get a lot of people fired. In other parts of the world, it's going to get them killed. This
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by 21723 4y ago
> Considering that the US universities consistently rank among the top and they do produce the significant portion of the groundbreaking innovation and technology, maybe the American model has a merit? There's a long discussion to b
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by 21723 4y ago
I think this is a great idea, but for a different reason. "Elite college" is a relative and somewhat zero-sum term, since it refers not to the quality of education but the quality of job and networking opportunities that are avail
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by 21723 4y ago
The issue is that, while writing skill is rare and somewhat objective, writing performance is intensely subjective. The experiment's been done where people take award-winning novels and throw them at the submission process... and don&#
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by 21723 4y ago
> I bet there are also bodies of work by posters on internet forums, social media etc. that would constitute great works if properly compiled, edited, and promoted. I'd be careful. People get banned for merely mentioning that guy.
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by 21723 4y ago
Counterpoint: For many careers remote work deprives young workers of mentoring, relationship building, and learning by osmosis. This is already being seen at law firms for example. If the bosses (the higher-ups, not the middle managers) d
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by 21723 4y ago
The headline's a bit of a stretch compared to what is really going on. We're nowhere close to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and we may never get there, because humans with malevolent intentions, bolstered by algorithmic ut
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by 21723 4y ago
The other problem with the "we need to fix the system" arguments is that they often ignore the much greater problems in our society. Our schools, in the aggregate, aren't that bad. We have a broad spectrum and inequality is s
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by 21723 4y ago
> The article describes what it takes to getting published; ie, passing an ever increasing number of gatekeepers. Agents, "blurb writers", publishers, reviewers are all professional gatekeepers, organized in a giant, very stric
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by 21723 4y ago
I want to compare OKRs to Performance Reviews and Roadmapping. They’re all worthwhile ideas that can bring discipline and structure to the chaotic world of business, all dreaded by their participants for some reason. It's not mysteri
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by 21723 4y ago
Ball packing (no, it's not some new thing Bay Area VCs are doing--I mean, it probably is also that but it's not what I'm referring to here; rather, it's the n-dimensional analogue of sphere packing) gets stranger in n-di
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by 21723 4y ago
Casinos are regulated. Casinos don't dominate the economy. Casinos haven't wasted the bulk of a generation's top talent to enrich a small number of pederasts in a tiny geographic area. My view of "morals" laws is th
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by 21723 4y ago
Most venture-funded startups solve silly non-problems or in fact cause serious harm to society, but make billions of dollars in doing it. Meanwhile, we haven't been to the moon since the '70s, life expectancy in the US is declinin
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by 21723 4y ago
Ninety-nine percent of private equity profits come from taking strategies that are illegal with regulated, public companies and applying them to unregulated assets. And venture capital is a subset of private equity. Almost every conversatio
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by 21723 4y ago
It's astonishing how much money can be made while providing absolutely nothing of value to society.
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by 21723 4y ago
Capitalism isn't the cause of all police brutality, but the upper class deliberately divides working people against each other, which creates the racism and classism (middle vs. lower) that makes it commonplace and which make brutal, r
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by 21723 4y ago
It's not just B-school; the predictive variable is the social class of the students. In low-income public schools, the problems are systemic and have more to do with society than the quality of teachers (which is not as poor as the rig
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by 21723 4y ago
Disagree. Business schools have upgraded the "Gentleman's C" to an A-minus, due to grade inflation. (I wouldn't use the word "gentleman", though; most of the people today have no culture.) Even at Ivy League co
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by 21723 4y ago
One of the reasons the Soviet system had so many unpleasant years is that it was a system of economic totalitarianism. If Stalin wanted a road built in Siberia, he would make sure it happened. Your whole life belonged to the economy; people
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by 21723 4y ago
> Employed work is not everything. I could be wrong, but I'm interpreting the OP as expressing frustration not at the school system, but at a labor market that has no demand for creativity (except in the few remaining good jobs, whi
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by 21723 4y ago
> In my ~20-year career I have never once been in a workplace setting where creativity wasn't valued. Mayhaps, but if true this is atypical and fortunate. Ninety-nine percent of people get shunted into subordinate labor with no crea
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by 21723 4y ago
> The purpose of school isn't to create employees. I'm not OP, but I think his question is more, "Why does school set people up to be disappointed by the jobs available to them?" Not, "Why does school teach thing
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by 21723 4y ago
> It's not that employers don't reward creativity quite the opposite most do. Most employers don't reward or punish creativity itself. They don't care. As long as the boss doesn't look bad in front of his boss, n
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by 21723 4y ago
This has been studied quite a bit by sociologists. Schools in low-income areas tend to reward subordination and punish self-expression. Closed campuses, metal detectors, the start-of-class bells... the messages are clear. Schools in middle-

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