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by awillen 6y ago
It's not about assuming that devs are only worth their coding skills, it's about recognizing that their coding skills are what they're hired for (and also what they're extremely highly paid for). It's fine that you
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I hope you have better experiences with product orgs in the future, because based on what you're saying, you have worked with some really bad ones. Requirements gathering is the main job of the PM, and it's most definitely not tec
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by awillen 6y ago
Seriously - the "Patent Author" PM may well have come to be that ways because if he doesn't, the engineering team just makes assumptions (that are wrong) and build the wrong thing, instead of checking with the PM. When I&#x27
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by awillen 6y ago
I spent about a decade as a PM at startups, so I can definitely attest they do. Obviously I'm biased here, but the PM role isn't just some spillover, it's work that needs to be done. Someone has to talk to stakeholders, gathe
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by awillen 6y ago
This guy thinks outside the box.
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After the over-the-top section about the bright lights and loud beeping, I started to imagine this as a parody of an English person complaining about stuff...
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by awillen 6y ago
Wow, only one comment on here and it's exactly how I feel, but articulated better than I would've. In a theoretical sense I can see how they'd be valuable - limited supply and high demand and all that - but in practice it jus
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by awillen 6y ago
I posted a comment on a thread about side hustles - it was about a new business I had just started. That got me a small but significant for the time number of sales (which were doubly important because most of my sales before that had been
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by awillen 6y ago
"If renting is less profitable, then supply of houses to be sold will actually go up." You wrongly assume that the landlord gets to make this choice. In this situation, the landlord does not - the tenant does. If renting is made m
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by awillen 6y ago
"Aren't you forgetting about the even less affluent people who wouldn't be able to afford a bigger apartment even at the same price per area as their current apartment and who'd be priced out of the market (a.k.a. forced
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by awillen 6y ago
I've also lived in rent controlled cities (like SF), and my experience runs counter to yours. Your experience is an anecdote, not data. I get the impression you didn't actually read the article. It points out very clearly that whe
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by awillen 6y ago
"You create an insane level amount of supply for homeownership on this market. An absolutely insane level." You're completely ignoring the fact that homeownership, even if prices aren't incredibly high, requires a large
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This is clearly not the case based on the singular form of the verb preceding the phrase.
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It also leads to fewer people being able to move. Have a kid and your one bedroom apartment is too small, but don't have enough cash to buy a bigger place? Unfortunately, you're going to have to move out of Berlin, because two- an
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by awillen 6y ago
So you're driving out renters, who are typically less affluent, in favor of the wealthy. Whether or not you call that success or failure depends on what you're trying to achieve, but usually these sorts of actions are trying to cr
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by awillen 6y ago
But how else would you know that the author went to college?!?! Edit: Also the third paragraph: "I concluded that the idea was arrant bonkers, as are most things Alexa-enabled." Arrant should be arrantly (or not used at all becaus
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by awillen 6y ago
Anyone who opposes the legalization of drugs (especially weed, but lots of others) but drinks/thinks alcohol should remain legal is just an absolute hypocrite.
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by awillen 6y ago
Look at the homeless guy who died because the weather was freezing in Texas, and he had nowhere to go. You're too invested in stories we tell ourselves that are rare exceptions and not reflective of the vast majority of reality.
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"All of the "responsibilities" you list are things you take upon yourself." Uh, food and medicine were in that list, so... no. If your argument is that people don't need to work because everything that requires mone
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by awillen 6y ago
If you think that we have anything resembling a healthy market of affordable education, I'm afraid we're not going to agree on much of anything. The point isn't about whether colleges are there for education or not, the point
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Nobody's saying we shouldn't have a well educated citizenry... the point that I was making was about whether it's worth going six figures into debt to become a well educated citizen. When you're investing that much money
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by awillen 6y ago
Realistically, the next great sociologist and philosopher is going to be an academic, and the amount of spaces for academics in those fields is so vanishingly small that if you went to a third-tier university, you're almost entirely un
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by awillen 6y ago
I don't actually think you're particularly far off from my point. In general, I think it's an ROI thing - the vast majority of non-technical degrees from low-tier schools have abysmal ROI. That said, ROI obviously depends on
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One million percent yes.
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Yeah, the four year thing is a great point. I got a psychology degree, which definitely could've been done in three (I know this because I switched sophomore year). I have friends in hard sciences whose mental health probably would&#x2
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by awillen 6y ago
As a couple of other commenters have said, lots of ways to get high-quality education freely/cheaply without going to a university. Beyond that, if schools put a big warning label on their recruiting materials that said "EVEN AFTE
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by awillen 6y ago
I think this is generally a good thing. I believe there are really two positive things that can come out of going to college - either you get a name-brand degree that opens doors and gets your resume looked at, or you get useful skills that
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by awillen 6y ago
Okay, fine, so an algorithm can't be at fault. Ultimately it doesn't matter whether it's an algorithm. The point is that at this scale, moderation mistakes will be made. Doesn't matter if it's humans or ML or what h
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by awillen 6y ago
People forget that they get these free services for free, and a big portion of that is because ML tools are able to cheaply do a really hard job of moderating. You hear about things like this because they're so unusual, which is a test
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by awillen 6y ago
Okay, fine, then the job of news is to get people to watch so they can sell advertisements. An enormous number of people want to watch news about sports. The logic doesn't change.

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