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by alecbz 4y ago
Acknowledge their own agency and responsibility. Literally stop blaming with language like “GitHub deleted…”
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by alecbz 4y ago
Wow, you must be a miserable, wretched, shell of a person to possibly write something like this. It’s really sad no one ever taught you manners. Hopefully one day you learn to be happy and a better person like me. ^ this is not much better
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by alecbz 4y ago
I alias rm to `echo ‘use trash’`, and then use /bin/rm when it’s what I really want.
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by alecbz 5y ago
This (the Musk thing) isn't about that though, right? It's just him wanting the platform to be more open, not wanting the government to require that any particular platform be open.
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Did Amazon fail when it opened the flood gates to the mass market? Did eBay? Did Walmart? No. If Etsy can fit in just becoming another giant generic undifferentiated seller of things, then yeah, this all checks out.[0] But my question
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yes, but the interesting question I think is why the bean counters are given free reign to make decisions that ultimately lead to the company's downfall[0]. Like what if you had a fine dining restaurant where things are going okay, a
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by alecbz 5y ago
Well I'm not talking about people supporting Etsy though, I'm talking about Etsy itself. Like one possible story is that Etsy does this and it's shitty for sellers and maybe a lot of buyers too, but it ends up making Etsy suc
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by alecbz 5y ago
> This is not a group of competitors Why do you say that, just because things sold by Etsy merchants aren't sufficiently substitutable for each other? I think Etsy sellers are certainly less in competition with each other than say,
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by alecbz 5y ago
Though TBH I wish the infrastructure was there such that this could be a viable option. I feel like we're inching our way there with "no code" products.
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by alecbz 5y ago
Yeah... that may seem naive (to value the "niche" over actual revenue numbers), but once etsy loses its original niche, I'm not sure what differentiates them from Amazon/eBay/etc. => their brand dries up => re
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by alecbz 5y ago
I don’t think the joke is that funny but you can absolutely make a joke of this shape while having compassion for the homeless. If you strip away the context of Elon, it’s a joke poking fun at naive trivial solutions to homelessness, which
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by alecbz 5y ago
I’m not saying it was in good taste but he’s not intending it to be at the expense of the homeless, it’s at the expense of the “just give everyone $1000” people (who are much more fortunate than the homeless but still less fortunate than El
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by alecbz 5y ago
Personally I’ve found even 10 mins a day can be helpful, but absolutely it does have to be a regular habit.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I’ve not used headspace specifically all that much, but I do think meditation is very helpful. You don’t necessarily need an app for it[0], but they can help provide some structure. [0]: There are books you can use as guides instead, or loc
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by alecbz 5y ago
TBH (In bad taste or not) I kinda read this exactly as poking fun at those “give every person $1000” tweets.
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by alecbz 5y ago
Sure, but I think this is not the shape of situation people are generally facing when we say "you're not Google". E.g., often you see choices between NoSQL-esque solutions like BigTable, Dynamo, etc. and traditional relationa
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by alecbz 5y ago
As in, if a company as 500 (now 2000 I think) options-holders, the SEC will start regulating them as if they're public? I don't think that's true? Double-trigger RSUs are AFAIK just a way to avoid paying taxes on illiquid ass
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by alecbz 5y ago
TIL it's actually 2000 shareholders as of 2012. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/5/500-shareholder-thresho...
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by alecbz 5y ago
Wow there used to be good content on Medium?
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by alecbz 5y ago
But you do need to have _an_ argument for why using their tech is good. > benefit from Google putting a stamp of approval on certain tech and pouring resources into it On its own this is still not a great argument; Googling pouring resou
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by alecbz 5y ago
> you could be joyful but think your life is worthless I find this hard to believe. At a certain point I think a lack of meaning in your life is going to make you day-to-day unhappy, whatever you’re spending those days doing.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I don’t know if he’s saying he regrets it on net, just that he regrets the extent to which it’s contributed to this centralization.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think I’d phrase it as “status used to be more stable”. I don’t see why we wouldn’t call social positions that are perceived to be desirable as “high-status” just because they can change. All social status is based on social perception, r
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by alecbz 5y ago
Reading some of the comments is making me double-down on this. A lot of it reads like “yes, finally, someone who understands that the problem isn’t me, it’s everybody else”. Again, a lot of this stuff is subtle and I hesitate to paint with
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by alecbz 5y ago
Where there’s people there’s politics.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I feel like it’s a little bit of a flag in the latter section that they’re taking it for granted that someone is “just underperforming” and that it’s obviously not some other issue. Like idk, I do buy that managers might sometimes taper ove
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by alecbz 5y ago
> This sounds like an unsound result. If you select based on a criteria the correlation with the criteria is usually diminished and sometimes even reversed in the selected sub-population. Yeah that's very true and I think was part o
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by alecbz 5y ago
The bar below which HR has to be worried is not "we've scientifically determined that our interview questions lead to good on-the-job performance". There has to be some reasonable sense in which you could argue the interview
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by alecbz 5y ago
Those "mouse getting out of a blender" brain-teasers or whatever are pretty unheard of at this point I think. Most people complain about coding questions, generally leetcode-style questions I think.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I don't know if there's a _rising_ pushback but you definitely do hear a not-small amount of complaining about coding interviews on HN.

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