killtimeatwork

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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Let's not forget the human factor. Presumably, an operation of this scale would require hiring help - potentially lots of it. How do you make sure that one of the workers does not just leave with the hard drive? It would require securi
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> His answer: "don't come. It's a mess and a revolving door of people" What isn't? I see trying to deliver value in spite of an dysfunctional organization a part of my job description.
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
They can get a dumb phone for the child then.
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
You don't track his Twitter closely enough then :) He was explicitly angry at people who say that it's impossible to be productive in coding for more than 30-40 hours a week. He felt that it's ingraining low expectations in y
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> It is said that 27 hours a week is optimal in tech, less than that you could get more done, but more than that you add no extra value, over 40 you produce negative value/bugs. That's probably true for typical people. There ar
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
It's the same for most of the FAANG giants. The Amazon Prime Video app for Windows is basically unusable (frequently lags, stutters, crashes). Google Drive Windows app frequently crashes (or crashed, I think they replaced it with somet
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Average global temperature stops rising?
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
I'm not sure it's conspicuous consumption. Cases of recent pure conspicuous consumption in the tech world, such as the "diamond app" (an iOS app that displays a diamond and costs couple thousand dollars) didn't real
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
In this case, it creates extra confusion and extra mental overhead, because of double meaning of "they".
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Like I wrote, for example Nelson Mandela lived in the same period and had much more impact. > My bet is that he will be remembered as a capital figure for putting half of the planet on a smartphone He may be remembered for that, but that
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> He's most certainly an important historical figure of our time I wouldn't call him that. He's in second/third leaguer at best. His impact on the world was minor. He deserves biographies for sure (people with much le
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
I get it, but I thought it's merited in cases where the gender of the person referred to cannot be determined - usually because the reference points to an abstract class of people of any gender ("a manager") and not to a part
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> We were already good friends, and I already had a crush on them. them?
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Good list. I'd add one more: - Hire someone above salary bands allowed by HR for full time employees (the salary bands are quite optimistic/unrealistic and are way too low for senior talent). That's probably most common cause
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Do you think they imagine the end result at the beginning of the process or do they just play semi-randomly until they find something that has potential, and then refine it?
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Being amazing at negotiating is a salary multiplier regardless of whether the job has meaning or is part-time... For example, as an absolutely amazing negotiator, you might get yourself a $1m full-time meaningless job or $100k part-time mea
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
It means that you'd probably have to compromise heavily on the third arm of the triangle, i.e. the salary.
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
You want meaningful AND part time?
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
I'm sorry, but living in a detached house with 500+ sqft per person, frequently eating out, changing cars every 5-10 years, having a closet full of clothes, eating food from all around the world etc. etc. is way above "basic survi
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> At the end of the 19th century, anarchist thinkers predicted with modern techniques we'd be down to 10h weekly work. Many people in the US could easily have 10h work week, if they could just reign in their creeping lifestyle infla
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
It won't be affected at all, only resales (not initial sales) would be taxed.
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
The taxation would be on resales only, not initial sales by developers. Also, if you increased the value of house (e.g. via renovation), the value increase would be tax-free upon resale, so that you can fully recoup the money you've pu
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> A "country" doesn't "decide" to make an asset class appreciate or depreciate. It's always been driven by supply and demand. But it does. The supply is partially driven by speculators who bet on the prices
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
State-funded university-level studies. State-funded health care. Brutal control over the flat rental market (at least in Stockholm).
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
I'm not sure about that. Norway or Sweden are infinitely more progressive than the US and yet people there are neither in poverty nor in Gulags. Are you saying it's only a matter of time until they end up there? What's your e
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Many/most teams don't have heroes at all, they only have noobs :) I.e. most people stay on a team for a year or three and change jobs afterwards - there's no chance of accumulating knowledge. Nobody is sure how things work an
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Sounds like a monumentally wasteful practice from environmental standpoint. Are these disposable houses made from wood, or brick/concrete?
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
I can't really see politicians allowing the inflated housing market to deflate. So many people will lose years/decades worth of saving this way - that would mean a lot of angry voters, not to mention another potential banking cras
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
Plenty of divorces are much much nastier than that.
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by killtimeatwork 5y ago
> big oil? Their products kill people literally every day. Does oil kill more people than lack of oil though? How many people would starve without synthetic fertilizers (made from oil) and without oil-powered farming equipment?

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