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by SubuSS 6y ago
I can sympathize with how this will work out for non-career criminals. How do you see this working out for repeat offenders? Seattle today has a mini-version of this FWIW: We have offenders who have 44+ counts of 'minor' arrests a
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I don't understand the advantage of rolling a 100side die vs 99% biased coin flip - assuming they are balanced right, both should be equivalent. I was just remarking on the outright pointers in those two points that status quo is bad &
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Weirdly enough, we see this all the time in large systems. When we built DynamoDB - the core 3-way replication is based on the fact that machine failure rates are something like 0.005, so we will need to be unlucky (0.005)^2 times. Guess wh
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by SubuSS 6y ago
> Second, it should be the default that the status quo is a bad thing; > Third, it should be the default to move fast, and value experimentation over perfection. These points are making me twitch: We have seen so many examples (even i
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by SubuSS 6y ago
A lot of the goalposts got moved there :) You mentioned talented artists, not self actualization. You are calling goods from jobs as invaluable - few may be. An iPhone is expensive but not invaluable. But art from Picasso is. I think by mo
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by SubuSS 6y ago
That leads to the angle where the animals wouldn’t have existed at all. Think horses in the 1900s (ubiquitous) vs now (rare pets mostly, may be used for some farm work). The utility as dairy or meat producer gives them life. Are you sure th
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by SubuSS 6y ago
If we are going by numbers, how many talented artists are indeed there? Of this how many are talented enough to be both artists and stock brokers AND are overwhelmed by stock broking so much that they give up on their Picasso like talents?
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Modern phones have done a tremendous job of taking the thrill out of various troublesome activities. You could let someone else play a game, you could let someone else risk STDs, someone else do the risky heists and killing etc all while wa
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Would you believe someone who reports back? FWIW I have a friend who is deep into spirituality, still works at a FAANG but definitely feels like he can attain higher states of awareness in his meditations. I don’t see him active on social m
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I am (not American) trying to see how framing this as getting pushed out of your house is better than saying 'being able to sell your house for a huge gain' is better. Yes this means folks will have to move, but again as cities gr
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Pre-2020 Seattle (I do believe a SF like reckoning is on the horizons for Seattle as well because of political overreach on corporations) in fact might be the exact talent sink and hence danger to Bay Area. Seattle at one point had Microsof
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I guess you should ask ‘Is click bait an accurate summary?’ Instead :) I think it will come down to how you define an object-I don’t think that’s a scientific term.
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by SubuSS 6y ago
How'd you incentivize someone to keep these machines up and running for eternity? Or is there another jump here that the machines will be eternal? There is going to be new threats that show up (covid is a great example / alien att
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Welp you're right: Maslow's. Re breaking rules: I think it is more of a spectrum. As you become richer, you become more able to follow the 'nicer' rules. Poor people generally don't go around murdering for example,
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by SubuSS 6y ago
> But the thought of "What would I do if I didn't have this job? I've got rent and food and car payments and bills, I'd be homeless and never work again!" works against this advice and so people compromise their
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Sorry am lacking reading comprehension- whose buttons are getting pushed here? I am a nerd, I do attend parties with all kinds of people - so you have my curiosity:)
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I think you mean resilient when you say stable: A stable system NEED not get back to resting state by itself. A resilient one does. Along these terms, I think equilibrium doesn't really make sense - it means stability in many definitio
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I believe it will go along the lines of a sting. Get enough complaints, send enough undercover cops on said bad rides (short routes / racial differences - whatever the drivers are being accused of) and get em.
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Could this be simply solved by having their star rating influenced by % ride drops? Uber can provide its price estimate as just that - a kelly blue book value so that riders can compare and contrast? Most customers will search for a range o
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I am probably not understanding something in the various wealth tax proposals: - How is wealth determined? The current billion numbers have a inverse relationship with liquidation: The remaining stocks will lose value as more get sold. (Put
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Don't most of these individuals hold bulk of their wealth in corporations? They are probably not sleeping on a few billion dollars :) When they have to pay this tax, they will have to dilute the company which in turn affects their cont
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I break up work and life with workouts. 30 min yoga in the morning and 1-2 hr bike in evening. Has been great.
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Prompt and heartfelt attribution of contributions + thanks/praise that helped you get your work done in public or to the donor's manager. Tacit feedback to the person in private as necessary. Even as the greatest developer, in mos
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I usually attach something fun to the tedious tasks: if I am to walk our dog in the rain, I am going to listen to armchair expert: I never listen to it in the regular day - so that acts like a treat. For biking - it is my fascination with b
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by SubuSS 6y ago
Have you worked in a company where the average age was that low? When I joined Snap about 5 years ago, I was middle aged compared to the average which was probably in 20s - even my CEO is reasonably younger than me :). The company was also
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I guess I have old school compunctions against discussing it, probably comes from generations of folks not talking about it and considering it impolite. I also have seen how people react when they realize there might be a huge pay variation
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I prefer not to discuss compensation - so will answer this indirectly. Few SDE3s definitely make principal salaries, Principals make millions and so on. I remember there was an ex amazon guy putting up the top end numbers on twitter which s
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by SubuSS 6y ago
I worked for Amazon (like you:) but that was 5 years ago. Things were a lot more breakneck then - but I can see how things could’ve slowed down with the 3x dev count now. As many have pointed out, it depends on teams. I have seen engineers
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by SubuSS 6y ago
FWIW I turned off suggestions and I don't get recommendations anymore. Doesn't solve the tracking problem though.
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by SubuSS 6y ago
It definitely starts there, it misses on a key aspect: 70k for how long and how assuredly? Usually once you start making that, your next goal would be - To ensure that is true for your life time. (at 4% reasonable return, that would mean $1

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