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by LargeWu 2y ago
"mistakes" It is often very, very charitable, even disingenuous, to call a lot of accidents the results of mistakes. "Willful negligence" is often a more apt description. Intentionally disgregarding safety in order to bo
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by LargeWu 2y ago
> I'm not depressed also you: > Every day feels like prison. > Most days I struggle to find any force to drag myself out of bed > After my day job I feel so exhausted that I can barely find desire to work on the business. I
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by LargeWu 2y ago
If you are feeling trapped, adding children to the mix are not what you need. I love my wife and family, but it is definitely limiting. Even changing jobs within my field is challenging because I've built a lifestyle around my family&#
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by LargeWu 2y ago
No, you're still not getting it. It's not that it requires less skill, relative to an average person. It's that skill is not the differentiating factor among elites.
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It's not so much that communicating in English is the problem, at least for me. I'm a native English speaker and have a reasonably strong command of the English language. I'm able to craft my words to convey specific tone or
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by LargeWu 2y ago
> Skill is highly correlated to physiology at the higher levels. Plenty of people practice as much as Messi, yet haven’t a fraction of his footballing ability. This is counter to your thesis. Messi's dominance doesn't come beca
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by LargeWu 2y ago
I think because there's less "skill" required, in the sense of hand-eye coordination, than ball sports. The predominant factor seems to be how hard and how long you can push yourself. Once you reach the human body's natu
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Because it's a commodity job where they can provide value to western corporations without having to be physically located there, and there's huge demand for them because of their low cost.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
It's not intended to be the only question we ask, it's just another data point. That's why you do a full interview. To your point, though, even saying 5 and not being able to answer basic questions would be a huge red flag.
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Agreed, it's a bozo filter. It's not intended to find good candidates, it's intended to weed out bad ones.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Additionally, even when they fail spectacularly, they often get golden parachute payments in the 10's of millions of dollars.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Google operates like a slot machine. They place a bunch of bets, some big, and some small, and see what pays off. Most of them don't, and they get shuttered. At the end of the day all Google cares about are the jackpots.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Congress doesn't amend the constitution unilaterally. The best they can do is propose an amendment. Amending the constitution today is effectively impossible.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
Similar. My parents were teachers, and my dad had dominion of the Mac lab, even though he wasn't particularly astute with them. But, since they were idle in the summers, he was able to bring one home. First Apple IIe's, later earl
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by LargeWu 2y ago
"So depending on the incentives and short term nature of the person deciding, there are a lot of incentives to not look too hard." This gets at what has been reported as the fundamental problem at Boeing: It used to have a safety
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The question is whether Boeing knew this, and used the parts anyway, knowing they were not up to spec.
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"cause if you fail you have to let people go" This isn't the founder's risk. It's the employee's risk. And it has the added bonus of, if there is a liquidity event, the employee's don't get the upside
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by LargeWu 2y ago
You'd be surprised how many people don't even consider the monthly payment. Not uncommon where I grew up to see guys making $50,000 a year driving $70,000 trucks. Because they "need it for work".
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by LargeWu 2y ago
It's also a mostly useless problem for determining engineer quality, in many cases. It tests for pure coding ability, when most organizations should be optimizing for engineers that are going to be productive-if-not-spectacular, that c
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by LargeWu 2y ago
The irony is that Musk was a folk hero in many corners of the internet because he was viewed as a visionary. And rightly so, because Tesla revolutionized electric vehicles and especially the charging infrastructure, and SpaceX is revolution
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by LargeWu 2y ago
You can get perfectly good 2000 SF, 4 BR homes in places like Fargo or Little Rock for $200,000. There are reasons housing prices in expensive areas are what they are. Some of it is poor zoning and land usage that suppresses supply, but a l
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by LargeWu 2y ago
You've just invented suburbs.
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by LargeWu 2y ago
I think it's important to remember that PG has deeply vested interests into making sure the billionaire class keeps their wealth and status. He's part of a big club that's all looking out for each other, selling everybody on
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by LargeWu 2y ago
You're making a very big assumption that once you get dropped off by the train at your destination that you aren't going to need a vehicle once you're there.
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I think there's appetite for it to happen. There's a new rail line going in between the LA area and Las Vegas. Amtrak is now running a new route between Minneapolis and Chicago. I'm sure there are more like this. Certainly th
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by LargeWu 2y ago
If this is so heavily traveled, then maybe rail is a better option. We need to dispense with the idea that auto traffic is the only option, or that we need to optimize for a particular mode.
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I sell on Etsy, primarily hand-printed t-shirts, and stickers. When I make a run of shirts, I might make a dozen or less. Being forced to send them to a fulfillment center means I can't sell them in person or on another channel. I also
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by LargeWu 2y ago
By this metric I think it's arguable that Musk himself does not deserve to work at Tesla.
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Hard disagree. On my teams, we're going to give you a problem with some slight ambiguities to see how you handle that. We're going to see what kinds of questions you ask and how you respond to feedback. We want to hear you walk th
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by LargeWu 2y ago
It's a hard way to make an easy living.

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