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by awillen 7y ago
Those children didn't die from a vaccine, and you're fundamentally wrong to imply that they did. They died because of human error administering a vaccine. If you put some vaccine into a bullet and then shoot someone in the face wi
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by awillen 7y ago
Calling this a study of managers is quite a stretch... it's an arbitrarily designed game theory problem in which some people are labeled "managers" and others "workers" with no real relationship to those titles in t
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I didn't even realize schools started before 8... I believe that's when my high school started. Thinking back to the useless slug that I was in the mornings as a teenager, I can't imagine this will do anything but help learni
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by awillen 7y ago
Damn, I guess I got too excited and skip the subhead that calls her a student of ninja history. I do think it's wildly misleading to call her a ninja student in the headline, though... Dreams: crushed :(
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by awillen 7y ago
I have so many questions: - Ninja student? Is there a ninja school?? - How do I go to ninja school?! - Is ninja school considered elite, and if so has there ever been an Operation Varsity Blues type admissions scandal? - What is the post-ni
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by awillen 7y ago
Sure, this is true, but it's a totally unoriginal thought: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/669-why-enterprise-software-s... https://medium.com/@jeffbrydon/why-most-enterprise-software-... htt
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by awillen 7y ago
Yeah, I've always said the best exercise plan I ever started was getting a dog who had severe separation anxiety and would destroy all my shit if left alone even briefly without adequate exercise (and he's a young husky mix, so we
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by awillen 7y ago
But the issue is that putting together a collective to lease the facility at no profit plus take over everything else he's doing (finding insurance, handling janitorial and maintenance work, marketing, etc.) is a lot of work, and it&#x
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by awillen 7y ago
This is fine, but it just seems like a general extension of the well-documented fact that your brain works better when you're well rested. If you asked entrepreneurs (or anyone) to engage in a relatively complex mental activity, they&#
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by awillen 7y ago
Came here to make this joke, glad someone beat me to it :)
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by awillen 7y ago
We tried various iterations of this when I was a PM a Blue Jeans (enterprise video conferencing company). We always called it the virtual water cooler - a place where people on distributed teams could just pop in and ask questions/chat
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by awillen 7y ago
This seems like a weird theme for a job board. You're lumping in high-level execs at all kinds of different companies with very high-level engineers and finance folks and anybody else who makes this kind of comp. If an engineer of that
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by awillen 7y ago
The Norway example is misleading for people who are primarily familiar with US sentencing. Twenty one years is the maximum sentence one can be given initially, but it can be extended five years at a time at the end of the sentence. There ar
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by awillen 7y ago
One of the great challenges of long vacations for me is knowing that work is stacking up while I'm out. If I take a four day weekend, I can completely disconnect from work, but if I take a two week vacation, I'm either checking my
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by awillen 7y ago
Figuring this out really blew my mind. All of these giant corporations from Apple to Chevy to Starbucks are just a bunch of people trying to figure stuff out. When I was younger, even in college, I really thought of companies as these perfe
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by awillen 7y ago
Well inasmuch as he's talking generally about index funds and where money is going, he's going to be talking about the major ones, like those that track the S&P.
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by awillen 7y ago
As I read it, the word bubble in the Burry interview was really just used for clickbait purposes - his argument wasn't so much that index funds are overvalued, it was that there's opportunity in small caps because they're und
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by awillen 7y ago
Basically all the user stories/tickets.
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by awillen 7y ago
As a PM, I've generally used JIRA because most of the people using the product are engineers, and that's what eng management pushes for. I have generally found that most PM-oriented products like this just require me to duplicate
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by awillen 7y ago
The justification is that better ads convert more, as he mentioned in his post. Making ads more efficient means a small, niche business can effectively spend money on ads that drive business. If you can't target well, then giant compan
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by awillen 7y ago
This looks nice, but when you say "you'll enjoy using" it sounds like the "you" is a salesperson. As an enterprise software PM who works with a lot of CRMs from a partnership/integration perspective, I can tell
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by awillen 7y ago
On the plus side, this is the top comment, so the silent majority seems to agree with you. Art just isn't critical to making amazing games... some old BBS games like Tradewars 2002 will always be among my favorites, and their ASCII ima
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by awillen 7y ago
When you have difficulty getting out of your house and there aren't many other activities you can do? Obsession is a state of being actively preoccupied with something - it's not defined by an amount of time spent doing something.
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The use of "obsessed" is a pretty aggressive conclusion - just because people do something a lot doesn't mean they're obsessed. I'm not obsessed with laundry and vacuuming because I have a dog that sheds a lot. When
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I quit tech last year. Moved to San Diego. Currently in the process of opening a dog boarding business. So far the first big lesson is that landlords don't want to rent to someone who's going to put 100 dogs in their building, but
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by awillen 7y ago
As a PM, for any big project I always try to get a good developer a full two week sprint to do nothing but whatever research he or she feels is appropriate after I have a basic framework of the functionality built out. I'm convinced th
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Seems weird that you have to do it to stay employed. If you're a middle school science teacher for several years, why would they fire you for not getting an additional credential just because you've been in the job for a certain a
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It wasn't until I dated a middle school teacher for a while that I realized how crazy the pay scale is there. Her pay would automatically go up for any grad degree. She was teaching middle school science, but she could have gotten an o
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by awillen 7y ago
For the average person, the fed funds rate is a complicated thing that requires background about how money moves between financial institutions that most people simply don't have. The HN crowd is going to be fairly educated, but for th
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by awillen 7y ago
This is a really interesting thought - even having DAs spend 10% of their time on the other side of the aisle would probably help ensure less of an us-vs-them mentality. Plus being on the other side once in a while would likely make them be

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