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by ekster 5y ago
Also interesting! I am still unsure though how losing weight is like climbing mount everest without supplemental oxygen. Can you clarify that part?
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by ekster 5y ago
Ok interesting, but I still wonder if that’s really analogous to choosing to eat less food? That the person who did it has their own Wikipedia page makes me think it is probably harder.
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by ekster 5y ago
If you are happy as you are and don’t want to lose weight, why would you be eating less in the first place much less running into psychological problems preventing you from doing so? If the part I don’t understand is that there is no such
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by ekster 5y ago
Honestly I am doing quite well by following those simple practices. But creating wealth out of nothing is surely more difficult than eating less of what you already have access to. Anyway, the point was that being ok with being obese becaus
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by ekster 5y ago
Is choosing to eat less really analogous to choosing to be able to breathe without oxygen?
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by ekster 5y ago
Some people preferring being obese because they are happy about eating lots of food isn’t really a counterargument to the fact that losing weight is as simple as eating less.
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by ekster 5y ago
It’s so cool how even when teams of scientists have failed there is a random commenter on HN with the answer.
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by ekster 5y ago
Portland has a lot of problems compared to the last time I was there five years ago, but it's not in quarantine lockdown or anything like that.
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by ekster 5y ago
Isn’t that what is happening? I was just in the US for a couple weeks (Portland, OR) and rules were minimal and optional everywhere. Not the kind of thing that would drive mental health issues, as best I could tell.
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by ekster 5y ago
I am surprised it isn’t tied in to US politics somehow.
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by ekster 5y ago
Is this an actual conspiracy theory?
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by ekster 5y ago
Ben Eater’s YouTube videos are a great crash course on how computers work, and will make this kind of stuff (and much more) way more obvious if you watch.
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by ekster 5y ago
I am renouncing for these exact reasons. I am lucky enough not to be rich enough for the exit tax, though.
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by ekster 5y ago
He seems like a genius but he has also stated that he is mentally ill. This article seems to mythologize the mental illness parts in a really off-putting way.
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by ekster 5y ago
I would like to attend a meeting organized by Satan from Master & Margarita. Everyone’s wishes are simultaneously realized and all hell breaks loose.
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by ekster 5y ago
Thats a quite different statement from vcs not being a tool you use. At least how I read it.
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by ekster 5y ago
Just in time for lots of jobs to go fully remote so you can do this without lots of complicated or risky steps. I hope lots of people try it!
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by ekster 5y ago
Would you use an accountant who doesn’t think it’s important to know how to file documents, or that their file cabinets are even a tool of the trade?
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by ekster 5y ago
You could convert it into weird housing and make a mint. Rich people would line up to own a condo there.
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by ekster 5y ago
I left a C level position over going back into the office even 2 days a week. There were plenty of options to go to an all remote company - I had three offers before choosing where I would go. There are just a ton of permanently remote jobs
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by ekster 5y ago
The companies are going to lose. There are too many good companies offering flexibility now.
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by ekster 5y ago
Well it’s waste in the sense that you are spending lots of energy to calculate magic numbers, which don’t have any other value except to prove you own bitcoin. It is or is very near a tautology. In contrast to energy credits in scifi which
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by ekster 5y ago
It’s too bad we didn’t go the scifi route of having money be energy credits and instead went the route of proof of energy wasted.
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by ekster 5y ago
I started at the very bottom (build engineer) and transitioned on the other end to management. It wasn’t SE0-SE10.
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by ekster 5y ago
This is not how your typical scrum master interprets it. :)
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by ekster 5y ago
It sounds like you are conflating scrum and agile. Lots of companies are still doing agile, few innovative ones (including the ones on this list) are doing scrum. Given that scrum is defined by its very specific rules and quite zealous abou
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by ekster 5y ago
You could in theory help train them learn to do something more useful.
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by ekster 5y ago
Alternatively, agree to have an agenda for every meeting and then skip the scrum master.
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by ekster 5y ago
You can be quite far from perfect and not need it. And they quite commonly can amplify the disfunction in a team with issues. This is made worse at a lot of companies by hiring the absolutely cheapest person for the role.
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by ekster 5y ago
The way I have seen the role these days is Agile coach, who teaches the principles of lean and agile as needed and helps teams diagnose problems they are too close to to solve, which is a valuable service. There’s usually one per few hundre

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