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by ardy42 6y ago
> Ideally their kid should still have access to public school education, with all the tools needed to go on to become successful themselves. Ideally, but in reality public education is not an equalizer like that. Wealthy parents give th
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by ardy42 6y ago
> So do most batters in Major League Baseball. VC is the batter, though. They're interviewing people to be their balls.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Since the only way this happens is by funding founders who go on to build big successes, you're confirming what pg said. He seems to be trying to make a general statement about billionaires or becoming a billionaire, but he's
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If your startup makes your investors billions, you are probably becoming a billionaire in the process or pretty close. Most startups fail, though.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But aptitude for exploiting people is not what Y Combinator looks for at all. In fact, it's the opposite of what they look for. I'll tell you what they do look for, by explaining how to convince Y Combinator to fund you, and
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Idea for the solution is to get everyone together to opt-in to a value system that demonizes excess accumulation. > I'm glad people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates have billions of dollars - they're solving some of the w
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I was also going to say around 60-70 pct, but for a different reason: what's left in my code is mostly checking of assertions, debug logging and handling rare errors, i.e code that's not supposed to run. I grant you assertion
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I wonder how hard it'd be to create an extension that renders all alphanumeric chars in a font of your choosing, and all other characters in the font the webpage wants. I'm not too familiar with the details of the icon fonts,
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by ardy42 6y ago
> But at the end of the day they have to do what's best for the business, and I'm afraid those of us who like the old interface aren't large in number. Do people actually prefer the new interface [on its merits], or do t
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Display 15.6″ 1920×1080 FHD, Matte Finish They really need to ship a 16:10 or a 3:2 screen. Those are for doing work, 16:9 is for watching movies and is way too short.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I've been experimenting with having custom fonts disabled (that is, fonts I don't have locally), and it feels to me that page loads are much faster, and in some case more readable (pages feel 'cleaner'?). That might
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by ardy42 6y ago
If you make the changes and they sign (or maybe even just signal acceptance), then I think they accepted them.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If getting your health insurance through your employer creates dependency and gives your employer more control over you (and it does) then why is it a good idea to give this power to the government? Does your government have due proces
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Well if you thwart union formation and legislation by using communication to persuade people that you're right and to vote for your side, that's called democracy. That's neither here nor there. The point I was disputin
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by ardy42 6y ago
> To the advantage of union organisers, mass communication and organisation is a lot easier today. But that's a double-edged sword. It's also an advantage to employers and businesses . And recent history has shown they have
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by ardy42 6y ago
> “What did you expect?” is my least favorite conversational trope (it’s more disappointing on HN because in general I have higher expectations here, but it’s common everywhere). > On the surface it sounds smart and world-weary. As an
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by ardy42 6y ago
>>> We need to note that Amazon is an NPR funder. > You actually believe that Amazon has editorial control over NPR and specifically exerted that leverage to make this article incoherent? You don't have to have editorial co
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Here's a really short video of what used to be a "company town" in Appalachia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCxG_SCnQE That's a great video.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Private enterprise was usually castigated for not being racist enough. Economics was the 'dismal science' because it didn't support racism, segregation, and slavery. I had slavery in mind with the private enterprise comm
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Unions have historically been some of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in the USA. The USA has been pretty racist in discriminatory, and I think it's disingenuous to single out unions for that history. I mean, w
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by ardy42 6y ago
> No, like work you want to do. It doesn't work like that for most people. > Imagine everyone around you is allowed the opportunity to choose their career. You however are the son of a plumber, and have no choice but to be a plum
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I would hazard to say it is only in relative recent history (and in capitalism) that new and adventurous = prosperity. For much of history, leaving behind what you know was no guarantee of success (and maybe great risk of material pove
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by ardy42 6y ago
> The documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi has a poignant commentary on this. Jiro's oldest son is expected to eventually take over Jiro's sushi place, so as a result essentially is toiling for his father into old age. On the other
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by ardy42 6y ago
> It sounds like he didn't just ask for a contract change: He simply crossed it out and expected them to take it. I believe that's how one typically asks for contract changes. https://blog.pandadoc.com/what-is-
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'm definitely not defending the actions of Google here but I do understand them - it's quite likely this HR rep couldn't legally agree to this contract modification and it's entirely possible that when it was forwa
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by ardy42 6y ago
> That's very.. one dimensional point of view. You can't just call something a success when you made other people worse off in the process and simply ignored it. Not really. It made people better off in the way it was designed
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by ardy42 6y ago
IMHO, it's not any more of a security risk than a keyboard and mouse, which is literally what it is.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Wtf? So you take the statement that we can recover and shouldn't believe in doomsday as let's just kill each other? What are you, a Stalinist? ... But I guess you want that since you're a nuclear war advocate. Do you und
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> More Americans have died from COVID in the last 9 months than the Americans who died in WWI, and we've surpassed the American South's Civil War deaths, and are approaching how many died fighting for the North, too. > O
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> The captain doesn't need to understand the calculation that goes behind the optimal arrival time of his ship. But now he can't monitor its performance and intervene when it's wrong or offer feedback. He's turned in

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