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by 40acres 8y ago
Yes, this is income inequality, generational wealth, and the racial wealth gap all rolled into one. The worst thing about it is that I've completely reoriented my free time to prepare for interviews so that I can double my salary -- th
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by 40acres 8y ago
Here's what I think happened: women become a hot commodity. Tech companies have been trying to get their diversity numbers up for years know and the best way to do so is to hire some URMs, but the supply is still low, thus the cost to
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by 40acres 8y ago
I was born in NYC to Haitian immigrants, if you didn't know Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of West Indian first generation children, a common theme for us was that we were
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by 40acres 8y ago
If anything, I would say that the markets are out of control. Many large companies are gorged with debt and are afraid of what higher interest rates would mean for that debt, and thus the market panicked at the end of Q4 which slowed down t
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by 40acres 8y ago
The prediction was that ride-sharing would become a winner take all market and that Lyft and Uber would fight it out to attrition, but I'm not sure if this is the case. Both of these companies are massive and I don't see one reach
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by 40acres 8y ago
I've seen a lot of MIT OCW videos on Youtube and also 3Blue1Brown, even then the comments don't have a wealth of information.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Does YouTube even need comments? I can't remember any meaningful discussion happening in the comments, it's mostly meme type stuff. Long term I can see this being the final resolution for toxic comments.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Decentralized currency is simply not viable for the mainstream, an economy needs institutions that can be relied upon and a certain level of centralized control to take the wheel when things go sour. There are still gains to be made via spe
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I typically put pink salt in my tea, does not taste great but after a few days it's legitimately satisfying. Amazing how your standards can change so quickly in desperation.
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by 40acres 8y ago
5G is the new space race and sooner than later we're going to have a Sputnik moment. Everything coming out of China needs to be taken with a grain of salt but it definitely seems likely that they will have a head start in 5G deployment
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by 40acres 8y ago
For me, not really. A live text interview is probably the worst medium for this type of content (exhibit A: Kara Swisher & Jack Dorsey). There is also a lot of subtly missed when comparing speech to text, and due to the time delay it gi
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by 40acres 8y ago
This is a strange comment and something I see a lot in online forums, I guess you could characterize this as the "slippery slope" or "worst case scenario" argument. Unions have no power in big tech right now, none of the
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by 40acres 8y ago
HN is fully of early adopter types so I'm not surprised to see the pessimism about the future of podcasts but this industry still has a long ways to go. Podcasting will probably never be as big as video (streaming, TV, YouTube, etc.) b
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by 40acres 8y ago
This has low key been a big year for labor in tech. First we have Amazon backing out of NYC partly due to political pressure from the unions and wins like this vs. Google. Full blown unionization may never happen but the forces of labor are
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by 40acres 8y ago
Equality of opportunity over equality of outcome is such a contrived argument. Equality of opportunity is arguably harder as it implies a just society. What are you willing to give for equality of opportunity? Higher taxes? More liberal zon
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by 40acres 8y ago
Rising inequality and the expansion of the welfare state have transformed "self-made" into an aspiration. Even prior to the gilded age being "self-made" was rare.. only a few people were able to pull themselves up to suc
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think this is more on the city and state government than Amazon itself. Of course Amazon was going to push for the sweetest deal they could get but Cuomo and DeBlasio bent the rules too far and the massive push back was justified, if I re
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by 40acres 8y ago
Does the UC system not count as "public infrastructure"?? I wouldn't be surprised if the UCs are the core driver for a lot of California's growth over the decades.
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by 40acres 8y ago
This whole conversation was the result of a cop out by Jack to avoid being interviewed by Kara on air. I'm a bit surprised because he's gone on her show / platforms before and even Zuckerberg interviewed with her after the 20
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by 40acres 8y ago
This thread has really opened my eyes. I was introduced to SQL on the first day of my first internship, it threw me for a loop and while the job was application development, the industry was finance so we were a very SQL heavy shop. That fi
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by 40acres 8y ago
If the US economy slows down to such a point where our ability to pay down the debt is compromised, doesn't that signal a much larger problem in the global economy that might lead to our debt being re-configured in such a way that the
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by 40acres 8y ago
Very discouraging. It's hard to see how we'll be able to reach any climate goals without world class high speed rail across the country. Perhaps the sticker shock and lack of political will is too much to tackle climate change bef
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by 40acres 8y ago
Not to go all MMT here, but so what? We print our own money, have the biggest economy in the world, and despite all the pearl clutching we're one of the most stable economies / governments in the world with a lot of highly skilled
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by 40acres 8y ago
Harvard doesn't have an admissions problem, they have an image problem that was brought to light by a controversial lawsuit. The institution known as Harvard is basically a massive investment firm that just so happens to run a school -
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by 40acres 8y ago
Part of me wonders if we are talking ourselves into a recession, the market is definitely spooked about how China's growth slowdown affects the global economy but in terms of wages and unemployment the US economy still has a long ways
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by 40acres 8y ago
Fat chance of happening, but it would be interesting to see a 2020 candidate run on the promise of convincing Amazon to put HQ 2 1/2 in a swing state.
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Generally I think here is where the FDIC and SPIC would come in.
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The elite are really the only members of society who can successfully dismantle tabloid media like AMI, see: Peter Theil v. Gawker.
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by 40acres 8y ago
As someone relatively new to following "public intellectuals" (think Tyler Cowen, Jonathan Haidt, Pinker, etc.) I've been surprised at who reductive their arguments seem to be. There is a lot of talk among this class of peopl
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think the fact that a gig economy company with fair (for lack of a better term) labor practices hasn't shown up yet (to my knowledge) is an indictment on the lack of vision from VCs and entrepreneurs. As a recent NYT article showed,

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