EchoChamberMan

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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
https://archive.is/IGEXC
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Nevermind. The downvoting is wild. This is how you end up in a bubble.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
> We have trouble finding good engineers to hire... You're not looking hard enough.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Do you think there could be external factors influencing the women?
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
You have a spelling error in "Wanna by a Micro-SaaS" - you mean "buy" as in purchase.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
"Ghosting: Founders Edition" brings me a little schadenfreude. Getting strung along is not fun, but it's the norm for a lot of people these days.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
https://archive.is/3XRe9
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
"FanDuel founders to receive no cash from sale to Paddy Power Betfair" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17485246 (July 8, 2018) Shamrock Capital Advisers and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are the two mentioned inves
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Are NATO's borders not simply the union of its constituents' borders?
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Deferring the discussion over a supposed lack of evidence is disingenuous. There is plenty of evidence in the article, though the Economist article provides very little. Given economics is not a hard science, there will never be enough evid
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
What do you mean by "sector" here? The only ones doing well are massive corporations and their stock owners.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
How about this one? "It’s now significantly more deadly to be homeless [in Cali]. Why are so many people dying?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39578218 The idea wage increases are inflation is a disgusting.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
So the guillotines are coming?
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Most businesses have self-imposed requirements that make it impossible.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
It's happening. Most 1st world countries have extremely low birth rates and are heading for extinction.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39533166
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Until the whole thing collapses and blows up in your face.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
They also don't know fact from fiction!
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
What a joke. Corporate personhood should be illegal.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Starving your workers to death is not a good long term strategy.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
I read about an analogy - people are climbing a ladder they don't really understand, and become rather shocked upon reaching the top and realizing it didn't take them where they wanted to go.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
I would have thought some of these "well educated" people would be able to list even one of these reasons before spouting off at the mouth, but I guess that requires trying first.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Profit at any cost is absolutely a problem.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Unlimited year over year growth is cancer, and it's killing most of us. A lot of other companies are raking in records profits as well. [Edit] Much of these profits have just as much justification as pg&e - "I want more.&quot
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
You focus on individuals, completely ignoring the team dynamic, the systemic nature of things. Do you think teams, sports, military, corporate, or otherwise, who develop teamwork and comraderie would mind if you switch their captain? Repla
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Mike Judge has got to be one of the most observant people around; he just nails it over and over again. Hilarious.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Sure, you could. I was answering the question "why do iq tests rely heavily on pattern recognition?", and I think one big answer is that symbols don't need to be explained. Reflecting and reading your answer, I think ease of
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
https://archive.is/TiiWA
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
Or, like in most of corporate America, they default to picking Harvard alums, or similar, because they look good on paper. Statistics would be great, but I don't have them.
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
I don't know how much information you have to reveal, but you could be giving away a revolutionary idea for "free." I've heard this was/is a popular Google and Amazon strategy: say you are considering a buyout, get
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by EchoChamberMan 3y ago
It's not actually spray and pray though; you can bet money the people being selected are "...individuals who may look exceptional on paper but might lack the essential qualities... that define true entrepreneurs."

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