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by asdf21 7y ago
>because they know their maneuverability is just about the same as that of the Titanic. I know this to be true, however I cannot understand for the life of me why this is the case. If I was the CEO or CTO and had, say, 5k people under me
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by asdf21 7y ago
The thing is, it works 98% of the time, the scrappy upstart gets laughed out of business. There is a sort of survivors bias in focusing in the 2% and assuming that's the norm. Corporations act this way because it generally works. Like
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by asdf21 7y ago
I'm going to go with the guy who seems to be successfully launching StarLink
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by asdf21 7y ago
This is getting into grey goo territory.
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by asdf21 7y ago
You really aren't using your imagination if you can't figure out potential uses for a hidden nanny cam. What if I want to see: * If my cleaning person is stealing? * If my cleaning person is using the right chemicals on my stove?
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by asdf21 7y ago
We have roommates who leave messes in the kitchen and blame others, have overnights guests more frequently than its allowed, etc. Don't even get me started on the uses for kids.
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by asdf21 7y ago
is being a genetic dead end really all that smart though?
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by asdf21 7y ago
You have multiple businesses, and sell assets between them... then bankrupt the lame ones. Example: Business 1 buys a $1M piece of equipment with 30% down and 70% credit. After a couple years, and knowing that Business 1 is not that profit
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by asdf21 7y ago
It's a belief system that is naturally selected for, for one thing. How many liberal atheists do you know with 4+ kids, versus conservatives?
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by asdf21 7y ago
There are strategic bankruptcies..
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by asdf21 7y ago
500 employees to 1,500 in 4 years is still extremely solid growth. Markets have corrections, if your company is providing something of value I'm sure things will be okay.
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by asdf21 7y ago
>How coordination problems result in profoundly suboptimal but very stable Nash equilibria That's a great title, actually.
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by asdf21 7y ago
>(google "american inventors") LOL, pretty funny results there. Nice job though, Edison.
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by asdf21 7y ago
"Meditations on Moloch" is pretty clickbaity.
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by asdf21 7y ago
The question is, are you auditing the final work being done by your "teams" and asking whether it could have been done more efficiently / simply?
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by asdf21 7y ago
I love this comment. So fucking dead-on in my experience. Not to mention, saying any of those things would make you a "bad culture fit" and potentially break the "no assholes rule" if you argued the point.
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by asdf21 7y ago
But there are tons of laravel sites, so there is a substantial profit motive to look for vulnerabilities in them. It's like, outdated Wordpress sites get hacked all the time, but if I just threw together my own shitty blog in PHP and M
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by asdf21 7y ago
Why is that unimaginable? Seems very imaginable to me, depending on the field.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Not much, considering that Alphabet is a part owner of StarLink... In fact, the easiest way to invest in StarLink is to buy Alphabet stock.
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by asdf21 7y ago
And how would that happen?
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by asdf21 7y ago
Wouldn't taking away the US's power just result in China (a dictatorship with organ harvesting concentration camps) accumulating more power?
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by asdf21 7y ago
Some people just also don't want to support Google, for various reasons.
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by asdf21 7y ago
YOu can't stereotype by breed as much as people think. I remember seeing some study about a dog IQ test (something like an oversized obstacle course in a barn -- but a legitimate study) and iirc Border Collies were the main subjects, a
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by asdf21 7y ago
There are... autophagy. Cannibalizes any under-performing cells.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Autophagy cures a staggering number of chronic illnesses and infections.
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by asdf21 7y ago
Moloch.
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by asdf21 7y ago
>More information has been flowing, circumventing traditional media, political and cultural establishments. But the result hasn’t been more democracy, stronger communities or a world that’s closer together. Countries with weaker social i
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by asdf21 7y ago
Yeah, whatever happened to Watson? I haven't really heard much in a couple years now..
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by asdf21 7y ago
>Now consider that Red Hat had a net income of $433m. I wonder how much of that is from IBM anyway..
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by asdf21 7y ago
Out of curiosity, does OpenBSD have anywhere near this many security issues?

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