0zymandias

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by 0zymandias 5y ago
Yes. The police in the US explicitly reject people with high IQs. It has been challenged in court but upheld. https://www.kake.com/story/32508747/court-oks-barring-high-i...
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by 0zymandias 5y ago
Another tactic that Amazon recruiters use a lot to convince you to take a shitty role: "You are coming in at level X, but this role is actually scoped at level X+1." In reality, it means nothing and you can get promoted in lots of
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by 0zymandias 5y ago
I might be missing something with your comment, but there are obviously animals that live in and around oceans. So "just" flying at super sonic speeds over oceans seems like it could be a disaster for marine life. The disruption t
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Has anyone really summitted the 14 highest mountains?(nytimes.com)
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Pomperipossa in Monismania(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
"One former partner called the settlement hugely significant because it shatters the distance that McKinsey — which argues that it only makes recommendations — puts between its advice and its clients’ actions." So their defense wa
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
The takeover of tech by MBAs continues. It has now happened at the top 4 largest tech companies in the US. We will have Apple (Tim Cook), Amazon (Andy Jassy), Alphabet (Sundar Pichai), Microsoft (Satya Nadella & Steve Ballmer) all takin
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Why Amazon Smile Doesn't Make Me Smile (2017)(nonprofitchronicles.com)
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70 AmazonBasics products reported as burning or melting still being sold(cnn.com)
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
Imagine a market where there is one food delivery company rather than ten: a) at a restaurant, rather than having ten different delivery people pickup, One person can pickup ten orders. b) 10x more consumers means that the average distance
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
I am bullish on this as a recent shareholder. We are now in the consolidation phase of delivery service where fewer companies mean less competition, more efficiency and better economics. This is where Dara’s strength is. He has a history of
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Trump administration hires Anduril to build a virtual border wall(washingtonpost.com)
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
I am not a fan of Facebook and have deleted my account. But Zuck is right in trying to avoid policing political content. It just won’t work. Twitter’s attempts, although idealistic, are a complete failure. Some tweets that are sanctioned ar
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
It seems like people from other ethnicities/countries have done well in Silicon Valley, e.g. India, China, Iran. Notably, CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Uber and others are brown-skinned. Would they have done even better without the racism
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For Black CEOs in Silicon Valley, Humiliation Is a Part of Doing Business(bloomberg.com)
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
About 60 minutes
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
"A16z has $12 billion in assets under management across its funds, so a $2.2 million fund is not groundbreaking from a monetary perspective" The math comes out to 0.018%.
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
I trust Firefox as well. It was my second choice. I had two reasons for not switching to Firefox. 1. Firefox used a lot more memory & CPU on my MBP. Maybe that is fixed now. I remember reading that they worked on the footprint. 2. The l
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
This is why I gave up on Chrome and Android even though I loved both products. I don't know if this complaint is valid and what the exact scope is. However, since switching to Safari and iPhone, I no longer constantly need to be on the
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
Social media is a dead end. The results are depression and misinformation. Unless you believe truth can easily be determined, there is no tweak that Zuck and Jack can do to fix their platforms. At least Zuck is honest about it.
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
2800% is a much bigger number than 83%. But if you do the math using your numbers, you see that GE substantially underperformed the S&P since 1981: GE = (1+2800%)*(1-83%) = 4.93 = 393% appreciation since 1981. S&P = S&P has appr
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
I didn't come up with it. It is the yardstick that he suggested we use to measure his performance :) And it's a well-known issue with executive compensation that CEOs will juice numbers in the short-term to get their payouts which
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
Jack Welch retired in 2001 after twenty years as CEO. "Upon his retirement from GE, Welch had stated that his effectiveness as its CEO for two decades would be measured by the company's performance for a comparable period under hi
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
It looks like Dara is executing the Jack Welch & General Electric playbook [1]. Essentially, it comes down to "Be the #1 or #2 company in the market or exit" You can debate whether it was successful at GE. The criticism of Jac
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
The title underplays it. It’s more than just membership in a despicable organization. He has actively participated in violent hate crimes. Specifically, he was involved in a drive-by shooting at a synagogue. This is not the kind of backgrou
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
Both these things are true. 1. A line in the sand is arbitrary. 2. There are huge differences in the ethical behavior of companies (as there are among people) 2 is the one that is important to recognize and where we in tech should have conv
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
No. Don’t fall for this. Just because every company has some aspect that is bad, it doesn’t mean they are the same. You can differentiate. It is not hard. Some extremes: Patagonia vs. Outbrain. Gates Foundaton vs. Juul. Same? By that same r
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by 0zymandias 6y ago
Wow. What a mess. Telling people giant cuts are coming with no further details is a failure. Uber had as much time as every other company. I wonder what went wrong. This can't have been the plan. Interesting contrast in style with AirB
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Uber rides down 70% in cities hardest hit by coronavirus(techcrunch.com)
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Ride Hailing Increases Emissions and Climate Pollution(reuters.com)
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