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Vonnegut – MIT Needs Oath (Fascism and Engineers)(tech.mit.edu)
2 points by pinaceae 9y ago|0 comments
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by pinaceae 9y ago
So why not encourage men to pursue careers in nursing and teaching?
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by pinaceae 9y ago
that's over 2 BILLION.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Not everyone at Apple is a coder. Not every job is the same. Note how designers and architects work in teams, in open work spaces. I have seen communication in a PM group go to shits because of a move from an open layout to a walled cubicl
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Quite frankly, any employee who posts a 10 page manifesto is deeply suspect. You're a fucking coder, not the founder. Don't like your gig? Go somewhere else. Grow a pair.
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A New Approach to Designing Smart Cities(medium.com)
2 points by pinaceae 9y ago|0 comments
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by pinaceae 9y ago
this is so old (2008, with updates till 2010). why is this up again? must have been on HN multiple times now.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
well, good news for the HN community! start your engines, reddit will do what so many user-driven content sites have done - light themselves on fire. slashdot, digg, they never learn. yes, the network effect is a huge moat. but then you act
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Exactly the same as explaining to a paying, non-technical customer why you haven't found the bug at the core of his issue yet and thereby given a fixdate is not possible right now. It's clearly broken, so why the hell is it not si
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by pinaceae 9y ago
not sure where the confusion is. below the marketing language this is exactly those 2 points. guess it is easier if you work in enterprise, this business speak is a different language. pretty verbose, low information density.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Funny humans care about their children. Nothing is scarier than birth-defects. Radiation causes very visible birth defects. Hence people are very, very scared of radiation. And rightly so. A windpark will not cause disfigured babies. Hence
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by pinaceae 9y ago
LinkedIn has two main functions: 1., Self-updating rolodex for sales people. 2., Recruitment tool. It works for both, no real competitor in sight due to the massive network effect. Some niche networks are doing ok, like Xing in DACH region.
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The startling history behind a new cancer blockbuster(forbes.com)
1 points by pinaceae 9y ago|0 comments
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Lawsuit challenges non-competes in US(m.sfgate.com)
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by pinaceae 9y ago
the previous user, here on HN. you're welcome. prove him wrong, using data if you disagree.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
he works for a16z, you'll see it reflected in their investments - or not. overall this is content marketing for a16z, right along their great podcasts, etc. attracting start-ups and good candidates to work for them. being a visible, re
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by pinaceae 9y ago
At the heart of it is piss-poor basic education. Math, reading comprehension, decision making, critical thinking. Budweiser is the king of beers, it says so on the label. The World Series is the world championship in baseball. etc etc etc.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Veeva, funded in 2007 - raised a total of 7m (3m angel, 4m from Emergence Cap). Now public at close to 9bn market cap.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
on the latter: is it more ethical to profit from curing a disease or from causing it? Pfizer vs. Red Bull. and if you can't become a billionaire from curing things, how will this sector attract the same kind of talent/genius like
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by pinaceae 9y ago
getting downvoted for asking questions. HN sometimes really can fuck right off.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
how much is getting cured of cancer at a very young age worth? dying vs. living another 80-90 years? less than a Tesla? more than a house? interesting questions arise around immuno-oncology. should Apple be the most profitable company - or
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by pinaceae 9y ago
The one upside is that all those suicide attacks slowly wipe out all young men mentally unstable enough to do this. Will be interesting to see if long term certain psychic diseases (bi-polar, depression, etc.) get less prevalent on the Arab
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by pinaceae 9y ago
It is tradecraft language from a different area. Just like most HN discussions sound utterly alien to outsiders. Sociology, Philosophy, Economics, CS ... all different trade languages.
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Well, I guess wonder.fm is getting screwed too. They've been futzing around a bit too, they started as WeAreHunted, then got acquired by Twitter to become Twitter Music, then shut down, then restarted as Wonder.fm. Making money in musi
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by pinaceae 9y ago
You think anyone of you guys would like to work in the SF East Bay?
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by pinaceae 9y ago
This is good advice, beware of seeing this as the whole story though. Once you play with the big kahunas, your prospects will be tightly controlled and briefed by their procurement teams. Which means most of the question techniques outlined
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by pinaceae 9y ago
The data space around this is so complex, it is simply not possible to come to single, clear conclusions. Lots of interesting questions, no answers to date: 1., Did the introduction of electricity and mass refrigeration amplify/cause t
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by pinaceae 9y ago
touchscreen as in stylus or touchscreen as in finger?
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by pinaceae 9y ago
Thomas Bubendorfer, recently got hurt badly in a climbing accident. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bubendorfer there is no English page for him He free solo'ed the south wall of the Aconcagua within a day in
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by pinaceae 9y ago
It is a short journey from fleecing investors to fleece the government.

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