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by subradios 4y ago
And yet, MacArthur has been proven historically prescient.
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by subradios 4y ago
A lot of the Netflix one or two season shows got cancelled when they were finally finding their legs too.
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by subradios 4y ago
Doubt, those companies are in an even worse position - all the money that rushed in to fund them just got turned off. The ones that will do well for the coming economic cycle are the ones that are the IBM/Oracle/Cisco tier. Micr
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by subradios 4y ago
To add to your point, even "professional" software engineers are a lot of times in a role where they are in 9 ecosystems in an average workweek. I've used poetry, even loved it - but without being able to control the project
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by subradios 4y ago
The industrial revolution moved 90% of workers out of farming, yes 90% of employment in 1870 was agricultural, literally producing calories. We sometimes mourn for this in the form of back to the land pastoralism, but quality of life empiri
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by subradios 4y ago
Google does not have evidence that their outrageous salaries couldn't be cut some and still maintain the line outside of the door. The gyms and perks are not purely a cynical ploy to make people stay later. Google wouldn't make th
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by subradios 4y ago
You have to show they actually benefit the members as a whole. Union laws in the US are extremely strong, and anti union sentiment is largely a hangover from the 70s, where features of unions limited our manufacturing sectors ability to com
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by subradios 4y ago
Unfortunately when unions are weak, they are negative value - and when they are strong they are the UAW. Workers are not a firm, and structuring labor as it's own firm is known as contracting and or a guild.
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by subradios 4y ago
I think we can give Google executives a little more credit. They care a bounded amount. A rough approximation of how much they care would be the rational incentives to not produce a culture of fear in the regular workforce + the amount of b
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by subradios 4y ago
It's not a recent myth, saying that the purpose of an organization or class of organization "is" something depends on legal and social context. Friedman popularized the idea of fiduciary duty in the field of economics, and ev
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by subradios 4y ago
I am not on coinbase's side, because the advent of cryptocurrency, should it work - will make it trivially easy to avoid nasty letter regulation as it exists today. They are taking steps to comply with a regulatory policy that is not v
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by subradios 4y ago
They absolutely have, just gotta dig. Remember the wave of people being in hot water over tweets sent in 2008?
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by subradios 4y ago
Taking Gebru's word seriously here is reason to discount the entire argument. Gebru is a part of a clique that is devoted to an entirely different set of ideas around AI Safety. The two basic movements here are: 1. Be very scared of AI
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by subradios 4y ago
Admin tools, particularly federating admin actions in a distributed team - will never not happen. Their shape may change, but devoting time to building the first version will give you the harness you need. Source: I am writing three ser
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by subradios 4y ago
HN posters are not my example of a typical customer. The typical customer does not understand what an OS update is, or what it entails. They know "man, my computer freezes" and "man, I keep hearing about this vuln/oh no
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by subradios 4y ago
This is encouraged by the incentive structure, ship and gtfo is the way to advance. You will never be punished for shipping, and always punished for not-shipping.
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by subradios 4y ago
You think of it that way, the customer doesn't.
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by subradios 4y ago
More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users. So people actually learned how to do stuff, and that in itself was fun. Whereas the current low frict
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by subradios 4y ago
More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users. So people actually learned how to do stuff, and that in itself was fun. Whereas the current low frict
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by subradios 4y ago
Coinbase is a double exception, they didn't just ask for regulatory approval for their lending product, they asked for permission to file the application. Can't wait for the next round of crypto hype, excited to see mew use cases
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by subradios 4y ago
Don't forget crime and startup business. I ordered equipment for a company from a European seller , and because I wasn't a VC backed technology startup, instead focused on physical goods- there was no army of people to help me set
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by subradios 4y ago
The surprise over the $3 fee indicates just how many tricks of the light are used to hide exactly how bad finance is, then make dishonest comparisons to crypto markets.
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by subradios 4y ago
There's an element that all the silliness of the LAN party was technically necessary for the production, and as a grassroots thing the hardship added to the buyin and culture.
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by subradios 4y ago
Smart, well adjusted drug people will frequently point out that most common drugs they use (LSD, MDMA, MDAA, psilocybin, etc) have an orders of magnitude better risk profile than smoking or drinking. The latter is essentially socially ubiqu
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by subradios 4y ago
The issue is that it's very difficult to tell trade secrets from expertise in certain fields. In a field that is sufficiently niche, like non flagship chip production - a lot of architectural ideas are well known across the industry ar
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by subradios 4y ago
That is not what I wrote. I wrote that the NY State courts made literal millions of these internal documents public. The community as a whole has had collectively more than a year to pore over them, with billions of dollars of risk includin
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by subradios 4y ago
You misunderstood what I am saying. I am suggesting that quants and financiers have no special, privileged access to information. You can make spooky suppositions about Tether fraud, but if millions of documents disclosed didn't reveal
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by subradios 4y ago
What happened is that crypto is very cool. There's a not unwarranted perception amongst people in the United States at least that banking regulators are conspiring (or prospiring) to create the financial meltdowns we see, and give peop
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by subradios 4y ago
I think comparing the trades to the hottest intellectual profession on the planet with extremely heavy competition is extremely misguided. The whiteboard torture test exists because there are tens of thousands of candidates and only hundred
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by subradios 4y ago
This is true and false, the "blue haired feminist" crowd tends to have the most sympathy on this topic, but has solutions or ideas that treat men as broken women - which is a major problem that most men deal with all the time. Eve

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