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by 001sky 12y ago
* disposable workers that they can easily swap in and out as the political winds inside a company changes* This is a very underestimated point. most hiring is not about skill or productivity. But about building a political base within an or
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by 001sky 12y ago
Looks that way...? And not just p.1, for the first ~60 stories there is not much newer than the 18 hours give or take.
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by 001sky 12y ago
I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to say. The article submitted here is pretty weak, but the operational issues about the subject were quite real and genuine problems in the "field". That has largeley been solved wit
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U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers(dealbook.nytimes.com)
182 points by 001sky 12y ago|159 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
Agree, but the current version omits all numerical point data and the repeating #comments 30 times uses alot of pixel space. I'm wondering if there's not a hack or abstraction that might benefit the layout.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Nice, that a toss-away handle is getting you off.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Naive theory is the worst kind. The behavioural assumptions of NC econ are naive in this dimension. Infinite rationality is easily affordable in theory. In reality, both the approximation of it is expensive, and the hack/exploitation o
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by 001sky 12y ago
> Show HN is for sharing your work. Please read the [guidelines]. A list of the most recent Show HNs is [here]. . . . Looks good, nice and concise.
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by 001sky 12y ago
They should force sales and claims to be the same person. Problem solved. Right now, its good cop/ bad cop. Insurance only works in this framework if you have a lawyer to advocate for you...otherwises its endless dark-pattern fighting.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Maybe the guidelines should be stickied up top, along with the current explanation text, at least while this gets going! https://news.ycombinator.com/show =/= https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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Louis Zamperini - obituary(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by 001sky 12y ago|0 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
Finally some data. Most of the big companies with "real jobs" top out around 300K. Of course its easy to create "mc-jobs" or the equivalent.
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by 001sky 12y ago
"An oligarch desires to enslave the rest of human being for its own amusement. And the rest of human beings are willing..." That's not how slavery works. "I feel if the oligarch overplays the enslavement, everyone can
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by 001sky 12y ago
There's no empirical data, at least not in the fortune 500, that show a company with more than maybe ~500K employees. So the headline point is easily rejected at that level. If the concept is to "create an ecosystem" that has
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is a bizarre tangent. An oligarch could just enslave people through brute force or more subtle means of mental and psyhcological manipulation into working feverishly in a self-defeating system of exploitation. Is that "creating de
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is not quite on point. But thanks for sharing.
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Canadian Antispam Law Whips Up a Storm of Last-Minute Messages(nytimes.com)
2 points by 001sky 12y ago|0 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
Useful website, but only 6.57% of YC companies have "died" according to that data. Even for a (beyond) successful fund, that number/dataset seems a bit contrived, and it should perhaps be taken with a grain of salt.
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by 001sky 12y ago
The fonts spacing on posthaven (eg 'facelift') seems a bit unique/interesting. Its not the serifs itself, IMHO.
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by 001sky 12y ago
What's the point of a comment like this? It just undermines the value/integrity of your earlier one. You're also missing that the executives personal interest dont per-se align with those of their parent. So its quite possibl
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Facebook 'Permission' for 'Research' 4 months After Emotion Manipulation Study(forbes.com)
9 points by 001sky 12y ago|1 comments
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is an important point. There are times when confidence in your future enables a longer term investment horizon. And from that good things may often follow. But neither that confidence nor the good things may be enough to keep any socia
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by 001sky 12y ago
"Why will high Debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession?" You're confusing the short run and the long run. In the long run there are more degrees of freedom. In that context, this quote simply seem
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by 001sky 12y ago
US GDP growth in real dollars is low (and trending down). It was 2.9% for Q1 2014 after the second official revision [1]. If it’s down again for Q2, we’ll be in a recession. Just a nit, but to be clear... 1Q 2014 GDP #s (revised) growth
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by 001sky 12y ago
Intelligence is certainly still a door-opener. But it will never get the job done on its own. Diligence, rigour, a reliable network, and finally not being a dick are essential qualities of not just software engineering but any profession t
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by 001sky 12y ago
Yes, these are only the headline grabbers. This is an old story. London has had this problem for over a decade.
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is also happening in Vancouver, BC since the 1997 era. A lot of money is "parked" there, and asset prices are way out of line with local income levels.
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by 001sky 12y ago
"The major players in those industries are not opposed to reform ... but they want it to be aimed narrowly so as to not disturb things in their industries." Non-disturbance of the status quo ? I'm sure there is a more origin
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by 001sky 12y ago
The headline isn't deceitful, but similarly its not completely unfair for the reader to expect an (Economist style) explanation of "winning" in any race with such a headline. FKTs on routes like trans-oceanic voyages are stil
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is a very interesting post. Very few people tend to go back and look at their thought process historically like this. Not just evaluating a single action, but a portfolio of ideas and stand them up to the tests of time. So kudo's

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