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by 5thaccount 24d ago
I've reached that point as well. Is there a preferred model and prompt you use for that?
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by 5thaccount 2y ago
> doesn't this feel a bit short-sighted Absolutely feels that way... but it may also be VITAL. The first (really only) goal of a company is to not die. I call this the SHL rule - as it was recommended several times to SHL that he ki
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by 5thaccount 6y ago
Have you tried doing freelancer stuff? When no one will give you a chance, giving yourself one is probably your best bet. I have no idea how well that would work, but it seems like the only variable you can control.
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
In my experience, a lot of corporate entities have bad rules like "30 days to review patches before they go live", or "no patches not reviewed by team X" that slow down changes. These sorts of caveats are both hard to ch
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Think how much regulatory red tape there must be for that to be a better way to do things! There is the point at which laws designed to protect people end up hurting them. The Seattle minimum wage experiment is a good example: http:/&
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Is any of this supported by evidence that "a big chunk of the economy (will be) powered by gigs"? I doubt it is true, and I believe your conclusion is likely off, even though I agree with (what I think are) your implied goals. Let
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
No, it is destined to succeed (IMHO). The massive-growth-model of startups dictates "YOY, double revenue on a 50% cost increase. Rinse and repeat until profitable". As long as the funding holds out, this model is mathematically so
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Not "an", as in singular measure, no. But what about several? Is there a single metric for "heathy"? Someone can be OK in almost all ways but have a broken leg. Are they "healthy" by a single metric? What abou
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
That's pretty rare! Almost all great teams have great players - and the teams that don't, usually have chronically underrated players, e.g. the Pistons with Ben Wallace - one of the greatest defenders ever. HOWEVER, I will say tha
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
It's not my claim, it is Tyler Cowan's claim. In case you are unsure who he is, pretty much everyone who is anyone holds Tyler as a hero, Malcolm Gladwell for one. So not ridiculous, not held by a random internet nobody, but thank
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
So, you want less meetings for women? Scenario with a female founder: "Listen, I want to meet you but as we have an at least one woman present policy for any meetings with female founders, adn all the female partners are booked for the
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
You are placing normative (meaning "you should do") moral judgements on a descriptive (meaning "this will happen") moral statement. My prediction isn't what SHOULD happen, but what I think WILL happen. My personal o
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Which "study"?
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
These articles also sell it without a solution. "It isn't X, it is Y. I have no idea how to fix Y, or a single policy idea to suggest, but, yeh, definitely Y." We are all obsessed with what policy makes us feel, rather than i
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Do you know what amazes me about comments like yours? You don't have to agree with a course of action to accept the reality that certain things will happen. > I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money ... will continue
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly. Not because they are likely to be problems, quite the opposite I'd wager. That's going to be the rather depressing and sad reality of the shakeout of this.
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
> Building affordable housing isn't a priority, But why should it be? Why is creating low cost housing in the bay area better than spending that money in, say, Sacramento? What are the individual, societal and area benefits of doing
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/patrick-collison... is a great take on this. From the transcript, and yes, this is a long quote, but I really love Tyler, and what he says always is considered and interestin
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
This is ludicrous! "Culture that creates wealth needs to change because one CEO resigned". Because the finance industry is now perfect after the 2009 meltdown, so we can all look elsewhere, and the massive task of creating billion
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
> there is no evidence that it is profitable nor (far more worryingly) that it knows how it can make itself profitable. I'm sorry what? I keep reading these sorts of sentiments, but they sound, and I know this is insulting, they sou
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Wall street?
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Coverage of political machinations is pointless, but information on political outcomes is invaluable - there is a massive difference. Chomsky has said the only paper that tells the truth is the Financial Times, in part because you don'
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Why restrict it to the nation then? Why not city currencies? There are lots of countries - like India and China - where the gap in income between regions is larger than between countries. It's a weird concept money, and I wonder what t
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 is a great example (spoiler alert: DropBox)
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
> makes me want to gulag the rich and seize the means of production. I feel the opposite way. This sort of thing rarely happens in the west, but quite openly happens in other places, and that fact makes me want to help fix the inequities
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Depends where you define Asia as. Saudi Arabia plays in the Asian conference in FIFA, but so does Australia. Australian and Saudi values differ ever so slightly :) This idea is definitely more acceptable than it is in the west in all the wo
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
> But I haven't found a good alternative "productive" time waster for when my mind needs a short break. Hacker News? I mean, you posted this right here!
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
Maybe a dongle/phone you can connect to, but don't use? Fun (semi-related) story, I once had someone steal my mac power cable on a bus ride from Quito to Banos, Tungurahua in Ecuador http://bit.ly/2olVpLT and had
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
> Is there any evidence that people participating in gig economy are former blue-collar workers with 15-20 years of experience forced into it because they were unable to find any other jobs? ... so I wonder, are there any data on it? JIC
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by 5thaccount 9y ago
So without this trend, the world would have had more middle class and lower unemployment? My question more specifically is whether this trend is the cause or the effect? I'm not convinced in either direction BTW, I'm genuinely ask

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