TimPC

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811.
by TimPC 5y ago
Quality is definitely above quantity in academia in almost all disciplines. The issue is citation count is used as a proxy for quality and its a poor one in many respects.
812.
by TimPC 5y ago
I know a person who got published in high school. They did so by working closely with multiple professors on various projects. You don't have to do a PhD to do this especially if you're a talented and motivated youngster.
813.
by TimPC 5y ago
Some quality journals and conferences have double blind reviews now. So the work is reviewed without knowing who the work belongs to. It's not so much the politics of the system as the skills required to write a research paper being ha
814.
by TimPC 5y ago
Research is far better than a random claim making machine even if some of it has errors that have caused the replication crisis. It's easy to overstate the level of the problem even though it's fairly severe at this point. "W
815.
by TimPC 5y ago
Overproducing PhDs seems to be a necessary aspect of how research is conducted in the current university. Most serious lines of work are pursued by a PhD student or Postdoc and advised by a Professor. They need a critical mass of PhD studen
816.
by TimPC 5y ago
I don't think UBI works well here because in most fields the level of success that the precarious group experiences in industry is substantially higher than a guaranteed minimum. A lot of people have identity aspects tied to their univ
817.
by TimPC 5y ago
Smart isn't the biggest criteria for success as a professor. The PhD degree is a good filter because it trains and tests research aptitude, work ethic, ability to collaborate, ability to focus on a single problem for a long period of t
818.
by TimPC 5y ago
I'm not so sure it's a VC-scale business. Maybe if it's useful for weightlifting and other vertical markets. That being said I wouldn't be quick to write it off as a failure. Most of the climbers in the thread are chimin
819.
by TimPC 5y ago
I think he mitigates that by NOT talking about his product. Just because he has a product doesn't mean he's a marketing dweeb. He probably made such a product as a climber scratching his own itch. If he isn't a climber he sh
820.
by TimPC 5y ago
This is very dangerous advice. In particular at the price point the OP is selling they need marketing not sales and need to know the difference before hiring. They need to do at least enough of this themselves to be able to hire well when
821.
by TimPC 5y ago
That’s not how math works. 10x improvements don’t necessary capture 10x revenue. And 100 experiments don’t necessarily cost 1x revenue each.
822.
by TimPC 5y ago
One I see left out is good benefits. Having good health care, dental, etc. that isn't what you get in a one-person package is a big plus for some employees, especially older ones. It was a big pain point when I was doing contract wor
823.
by TimPC 5y ago
A very smart professor of mine once thought "They added pictures to hypertext, that's sort of cool I guess." Looking backwards definitely biases you to seeing things you didn't see at the time. Even memories get tinged.
824.
by TimPC 5y ago
I don't think most crazy ideas crashing and burning is good enough to disprove the thesis. Even if 1 in 100 ideas that can bring about 10x change in important areas are all that succeed, we need those ideas to improve things. I think
825.
by TimPC 5y ago
I find this genuinely hard to believe about Gates. There is a lot not to like about Microsoft but I find it hard to believe the net good of who wins in technology is going to be larger than projects like curing Polio, effective sanitation i
826.
by TimPC 5y ago
Average Income in the US is $68,703 which certainly doesn't pay a mortgage in most big cities. So I think post scarcity is a tad optimistic. If nothing else there is always going to be a shortage of non-apartment housing where people
827.
by TimPC 5y ago
There seems to be an argument to be made that sharing an article resembles saying "I heard that X" where X is the contents of the article. It seems a bit dumb to have the heard that distinction and not apply it to sharing on soci
828.
by TimPC 5y ago
I highly doubt writing texmacs or other complex coding for diagrams leads to the same memory retention as plotting by hand.
829.
by TimPC 6y ago
Most people want to hire the best candidates they can despite some of the misaligned incentives. You don't want to spend overtime on someone else's bug because you hired poorly. The risk of a smaller bonus or less promotion chan
830.
by TimPC 6y ago
As much as at first blush progressive taxation based on lifetime earnings might seem fairer, it has extremely dangerous consequences. Having your tax bracket go up throughout your life creates major complications in saving for retirement (
831.
by TimPC 6y ago
I've had a significantly different experience with this. I know a few men who self-deprecate when they make a mistake, but I know more women who do. I haven't seen it turn into a competition on who's done the dumbest thing
832.
by TimPC 6y ago
No interest in money is an extreme position to take. Small differences in interest can lead to big differences in outcome. There is also some time lag with this data, studies have shown boys doing worse academically over time (relative to
833.
by TimPC 6y ago
You left out one of the biggest causes of this. For many people in that 56%, the year they end up in the top 10% is the year their last surviving parent passes away. Inheritance is a big one-time windfall for many people. The other mislea
834.
by TimPC 6y ago
If they rule it doesn’t get around binding arbitration then there is no method for Robinhood to aggregate cases and they might face the costs of having 25,000+ cases to deal with.
835.
by TimPC 6y ago
It's a lot more complicated. Sometimes staff is set by the budget. Sometimes a business needs a certain amount of staff to function and can't get away with employing less. In a lot of cases, staff is set by the latter, and raisin
836.
by TimPC 6y ago
I'll try and offer the more controversial point. Good software development can slow the web down. People are often optimizing for code reusability, code quality, ease of debugging and other advantages of some heavyweight frameworks ra
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by TimPC 6y ago
Classifying awesome engineer = founding engineer of company seems to be a category error. It might be the case that female engineers are even more absent using this metric due to biases in venture capital and different risk taking preferenc
838.
by TimPC 6y ago
In all fairness there is a case to be made the first iPhone was non-disruptive. It would say the real disruptive technology was the app store not the phone itself. The first iPhone didn't have the app store.
839.
by TimPC 6y ago
The only thing I can come up with is that being aware of the damages in advance of a purchasing decision might in some cases serve to limit said damages relative to being unaware of them. Not sure it applies in a monopoly setting where awa
840.
by TimPC 6y ago
Twitter has done far more than silence Trump. The NY Post article they shut down before the election turned out to be more true than false. It wasn't an attempt to incite a coup, it was an attempt to report some inconvenient facts ab

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