throwawayknecht

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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
By discussing things with them like a regular human being and giving them opportunities to try things they are more comfortable with. Good management is not, ironically, rocket science.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
That's not the same at all, though. The prison is doing the same thing they would be doing, only on a different schedule. Tesla has demanded that firings be carried out at the same rate as average attrition for poor performance, even t
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
How would it be different if a hospital murdered X% of their worst-prognosis patients every January 1st, rather than letting X% die over the course of the year regardless of interventions?
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
The counter to a move like this is trivial, but they are banking on surprise and that you won't have any Popper to actually pull it off in your evidence on-hand. (I haven't paid attention to policy debate in 15 years and now I won
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
On the other hand, focusing intensely on "critical thinking and argument" is detrimental to the purported goal of debate as a civic institution - rather than a high school sport - which to educate, seek truth, and ideally come to
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
This is the exact opposite of my (now two decade old) experience. We had a team (honestly, one guy) who did the most ridiculous meta Ks and the LDers were almost scornful of it. Their debates were ideological and drew from a much wider rang
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> So essentially what they're saying is a woman would be chosen over a more highly qualified man simply because she has a vagina. I don't have any personal experience, but I've heard many women without vaginas talk about h
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Both of these practices are extremely unfair and should be eliminated. I realize this is Hacker News where everything must be rederived from first principles every single thread, but really, these practices exist especially to eliminat
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Most nurses are women, maybe we should favor men in the hiring process there? Ah yes, the inevitable "I didn't do any researching at all but WHAT ABOUT THE NURSES" post. Most areas in North America and Europe want more m
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Why Isn't the Construction of CRUD Web UI's 90% Automated? It is, several times over. Using SQL or some other domain-specific query language against structured records? That's the first 90%. HTTP and hypertext? That&#x27
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
"What kinds of questions do you propose these bigoted people are asking?"
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
If the US is any example, it is the worst-trained scaredy-pants who walk up to every traffic stop with their hand on the holster, and the cops most "up to the job" who are willing to engage suspects with words, time, and humanity.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
It's not a matter of when class war will break out in the US, but rather when enough of the working class will realize they've been losing it for decades.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Why immediately turn this into a racial issue? Gun control in America has always been a racial issue. Black people have never been able to own guns as freely as white people, from the Black Codes to the Mulford Act to Marissa Alexand
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Unfortunately, it's not just the politicians. Key to the making the buyback work was that people were willing to sell. If you tried it in America you'd get white militias in standoffs - think a new Cliven Bundy every week - and co
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
I support the EU, but it's not clear to me that they are the primary entity responsible for peace in Europe between 1945 and 1991. And I think they have acted especially parochial and conservative during 2007-2012, the period prior to
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Somewhat bizarrely, though, he is Basque and it's suggested he's wildly divergent genetically (though it's not clear if it's really suggesting that, or just Hel using it to rile him up - Hel is enough of a Marty Stu it&
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
"Moral revulsion" seems reasonable to feel at Kissinger's win. Obama's is meaningless, even if you believe he did contribute materially to international peace (he didn't) he hadn't done so yet, with less than a
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
It's already done in other countries. http://www.royalmail.com/personal/identity-verification https://www.deutschepost.de/en/p/postident.html (Deutsche Post also runs a consumer bank, an
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
I can't speak for adnam but I would consider YC's cannabis-related investments questionable for reasons beyond just "it has to do with pot." If you are going to make your fortune selling pot, IMO you have a moral obligat
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
I felt like the GP's citation was probably enough - "pg and Jessica have written about YC's philosophy multiple times in greater detail over the years." (Graham is regularly quoted on HN without citation, especially in t
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
But that seems to be entirely driven by the current small size of the company, which is fundamentally anathema to YC's conception of a startup, which is a company that is growing as fast as it can. If you want to work at a small compan
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Also payday loans. Also, repeatedly, laundry services that fail to scale but shut down all local laundromats while they have the money to price below-cost. I would again recommend this Atlantic article about how Silicon Valley interprets &q
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
My bullseye metaphor was maybe a little off; the "target" I was talking about was not economic success, in which case YC hitting it is indisputable. It's the idea that this essay contains the principles necessary to achiev
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
It absolutely is. The culmination of the "why" section is basically "because you will run a business better": "In any competitive field, you can win big by seeing things that others daren't. And in every field
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> union for startup founders. "Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups... industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone."
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
What's in this article has been said before, but not everything said before is in this article. Paul threw a lot of darts, and while they do have clusters, this is just as much him drawing the bullseye. His comments about naughtiness &
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Even in the US the current conception of "free speech" - both culturally and legally - only goes back to 1964.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> His point has been for quite a while that if you're a young man, and you're unhappy with your life, the way to fix that is to work on fixing your life, not joining some far-right movement. Weird, then, how as soon as somethin
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> This is not like England and Scotland, is more like Manchester wanting to leave England. In what way? (Let's ignore for now the fact Manchester did have a semi-serious independence movement during the Scotland referendum, and no p

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