throwk8s

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by throwk8s 4y ago
If anything, people with a track record of amassing wealth should be treated with more suspicion on entering public service. If all of their other decisions are geared toward increasing their wealth, one has to wonder whether the decision t
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by throwk8s 4y ago
People don't want to do their jobs, but that doesn't mean they're completely unmotivated. Many people with jobs they're indifferent to, also have hobbies they pursue relentlessly. If you want people to take a deeper int
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by throwk8s 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but the article points out that disclosing your salary is protected by law. > ...disclosing her salary is federally protected by law under the National Labor Relations Act
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by throwk8s 4y ago
Many of the people who lost more than they can afford to lose were naive, not greedy. I believe that's the author's main point. The problem is that cryptocurrency purveyors have marketing budgets, and cryptocurrency skeptics do n
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by throwk8s 4y ago
I looked at the two-line code sample at the link, and it is extreme.
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by throwk8s 4y ago
There's so little content to the references to WHO's COVID handling that I can't tell whether they mean WHO over-reacted or under-reacted to COVID.
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by throwk8s 4y ago
I find that terseness has a real downside when debugging code. If you need to get down to the level of what is actually executing, having to unpack all that compact code involves many more things than I can keep in my short-term memory. Co
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked... From the company's perspective that's certainly true. As a regular person I'm more worried about the companies whose unit economics work too well. Comp
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by throwk8s 4y ago
If they said you would "lose service", and you did not lose service, wouldn't that count as making a false representation?
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> Whereas if we do actually do it, we might fail, which will be hard to take. It's hard to take because unless you've already got substantial financial security, you may end up broke, and may no longer have any readily availabl
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> 4. You're not up more than 1 week per 1-1.5 month. That seems excessive if you're expected to be able to log into your work system within X minutes. Having to be essentially home, near a computer, 25% of the time (1 week out
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> Anyway the IA will remove everything with a very simple, automated text file placed in the root directory. What if the site is simply gone, or now belongs to someone else who is not the owner of the archived content?
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> if we looked in the opposite direction (where such light originates from) we would be seeing stars and galaxies at much more recent time (now) If the preferred/non-preferred directions were "toward you" and "away fr
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> And the award for Most Condescending Comment goes to... I probably could have phrased that better. In any case I don't think what we're saying is incompatible. One has no choice but to keep up with the cost of living. My p
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> There is no "displaying their success" or "keep winning bigger" mentality to be found They may not realize the game they're in. But as long as the cost of living keeps hitting new peaks, inevitably people need
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by throwk8s 4y ago
People that want to be conspicuous have to display their success where it's going to be seen. Living in a place that is "central" in so many ways is a competition to see who can hang in there. The only way to stay is to kee
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> 18 TPH is what I expect from first class cities in developed countries. Silicon Valley isn't arranged like a city at all, it's almost rural except for the traffic jams. (San Francisco is another story, but even SF is a very
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by throwk8s 4y ago
Where is that return of 2% per month coming from, and why are they giving it to you?
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by throwk8s 4y ago
Why is it baffling? GitHub and GitLab have embraced and extended git so much that it is no longer independently visible to most users. If you didn't already know git was independent of the SaaS products, you'd have no reason to s
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by throwk8s 4y ago
I don't think that necessarily contradicts his point. It may be the case that the long tail/niche market/counterculture market is also winner-take-all [1], so that non-mainstream content is much more available, yet almost no
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by throwk8s 4y ago
Anyone who wants to experience volatility can start wagering money in a casino though. If volatility was the objective then investment companies could more easily find it in coin flips, instead of capitalizing new ventures.
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by throwk8s 4y ago
That's trading a temporary advantage for a long-term disadvantage. Eventually labor costs will even out globally, meaning moving manufacturing to countries with a 30:1 ratio isn't a long-term benefit. But "onshored" ma
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by throwk8s 4y ago
> It's always taken on from the position of "well, it didn't make my specific use case easy" For customers, their own specific use cases are the only ones they should care about. I don't know why there isn&#x27
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by throwk8s 4y ago
Just to ask the most naive question possible... is this $170M of real money? Like someone put an amount thousands of times bigger than the average person's total savings into this, when they could have put it elsewhere?
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by throwk8s 4y ago
A news organization needs to attack its owners more often, not less, if it wants to maintain credibility.
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by throwk8s 4y ago
I would think that... 1) awareness, even without a sense of self, would still count as consciousness, and 2) describing consciousness in terms of awareness doesn't help to define it, since awareness is a subjective experience that cann
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by throwk8s 4y ago
This post really begs the question as to whether having "top talent" results in positive outcomes for an organization.
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by throwk8s 4y ago
I never registered for Clubhouse, and forgot about it so completely I can't remember why I wasn't interested. There was a reason but I forgot what it was. In the meantime I listened to a few interesting current-events discussions
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by throwk8s 4y ago
That's horrible news for the Democrats. If they refuse the donations, that's a strong statement on cryptocurrencies, which is a controversial issue they'd probably prefer to ignore, since it's not particularly relevant t
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by throwk8s 4y ago
If looking at percentage of the whole, there are a lot of companies tied for the "win" at ~100%.

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