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by PandaRider 3y ago
> There are doubts that industrialization can create the game-changing benefits it did in the past. Factories today tend to rely more on automated technology and less on cheapworkers who have little training. > Multinationals like
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by PandaRider 3y ago
https://archive.is/JdB26
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by PandaRider 3y ago
What I wanted (from Freakonomics) was to peer through "the hidden side of everything"... What I needed was the serenity to accept that causality is too damn hard. I appreciated the attempts by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner to c
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by PandaRider 3y ago
> No.6 Communicate clearly and concisely I have mixed feelings about this quote because I do not like when life writers write high-level statements such as this. Personally, I prefer very very specific suggestions on preventing very very
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by PandaRider 3y ago
But Hollywood is far from the only industry to have presided over such changes, which reflect a longer-term pattern: the fracturing of work into “many smaller, more degraded, poorly paid jobs,” as the labor historian Jason Resnikoff has pu
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by PandaRider 4y ago
Highly recommend the 2020 film by Pixar: Soul
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The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation(npr.org)
396 points by PandaRider 5y ago|497 comments
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by PandaRider 6y ago
Tim Bray predicted it! [0] > Certain (not all) Amazon warehouses seem to have per-employee injury rates that are significantly higher than the industry average, as in twice as high or more. Apparent reason: It’s not they’re actually dang
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by PandaRider 6y ago
Language. I've learnt several physical stuffs (e.g. bodybuilding, music), several emotional stuffs (e.g. meditating, music) and other intellectual skills (e.g. game theory, the humanities and programming of course...) and if I had to c
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by PandaRider 6y ago
> Many hardworking Singaporeans today resoundingly choose a government that promises economic stability even as censorship laws become more and more stringent and inequality is rife. As a Singaporean, this is the point that sticks out as
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Agency to end use of tech terms such as 'master/slave' over racial associations(politico.com)
1 points by PandaRider 6y ago|0 comments
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The Hard Truth of Poker – and Life: You’re Never ‘Due’ for Good Cards(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by PandaRider 6y ago|0 comments
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For Seoul’s Poor, Class Strife in ‘Parasite’ Is Daily Reality(nytimes.com)
1 points by PandaRider 7y ago|0 comments
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by PandaRider 7y ago
I attended an interview of a major non-tech CEO and he attributed the cultural attitude of Jugaad [0] as the reason why so many CEOs are of Indian descent. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
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by PandaRider 7y ago
Most of the comments offer broad strokes of advice. I'll offer some here with examples but a huge caveat is that I don't usually read full books so take my advice with a pinch of salt. :/ Type I books: Recipes refer to books
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Why Fixing Software Bugs Should Be the CEO’s Problem(hbr.org)
4 points by PandaRider 7y ago|0 comments
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Entrepreneurial Personalities(voxeu.org)
2 points by PandaRider 7y ago|0 comments
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Do Advanced Engineering Degrees Matter?(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by PandaRider 7y ago|0 comments
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How much money can you make writing articles on Medium?(medium.com)
1 points by PandaRider 7y ago|0 comments
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by PandaRider 7y ago
I'm shaking my head right now because I can't believe people at the top is still susceptible to sampling/survivorship bias. I've tried searching but cannot find a good empirical study of privilege and entrepreneurship c
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Windows 10 is getting a Microsoft-built Linux kernel(zdnet.com)
48 points by PandaRider 7y ago|27 comments
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by PandaRider 8y ago
If the objective is for applied research (research for the benefit of the economy), I disagree. My main argument is that we need domain experts outside of academia. Moreover, theoretical research in AI is very open and countries with limite
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7 Thinking Errors That Contribute to Mental Overload(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by PandaRider 8y ago|0 comments