babesh

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by babesh 9y ago
It isn't just bad actors. Its our fawning nature. I think that many people were reluctant to question Theranos precisely because she was a female entrepreneur. Nowadays, you have many, many successful female tech entrepreneurs: stitch,
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by babesh 9y ago
That is gamed too. You just don't include the names of people you have wronged: the bugs you have left for others to fix, the undocumented code, the projects you were supposed to complete but got reassigned so that you could work on so
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by babesh 9y ago
It is usually because the design is some PM's means of getting promoted. It wouldn't look good if your work gets trashed. So it gets pushed all the way through and then they leave for greener pastures by touting the work they hav
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by babesh 9y ago
When you realize you are a battery in the Matrix... and then you realize it is a symbiotic relationship.
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by babesh 9y ago
That isn't possible. You got your Y from your dad if you are male. You got an X from your mom. So all siblings share mom's X and all sons share dad's Y. You also got your mitochondrial DNA from mom.
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by babesh 9y ago
Think hard where the new opportunities will be. Go back to school in that area. Take on federal student loans. You don't have to pay them back till you finish. Minimize monthly expenses. Rent out rooms if you own or vice versa if you d
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by babesh 9y ago
I am really interested in seeing whether the tech companies eventually bend the knee.
908.
by babesh 9y ago
If they actually followed their own rules they actually delete his account.
909.
by babesh 9y ago
Reminds me of GM buying LA tram companies to eliminate competition by shutting them down. Now it is tech companies and moguls instead.
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Tech buying out competition and shutting it down(sfgate.com)
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by babesh 9y ago
True. They are transitioning to a subscriber model though.
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by babesh 9y ago
The very foundation of these companies is influence peddling: pay me money to get people to do what they would not otherwise do. It obviously works else Facebook and Google wouldn't be worth north of half a trillion dollars each.
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by babesh 9y ago
It didn't take Russians to turn Americans on each other. Some Russians just gave it a nudge. Perhaps some Americans just wanted power and used an effective divide and conquer strategy on their fellow Americans. Perhaps some Americans n
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by babesh 9y ago
Disclaimer: I own Tesla shares. Tesla has a long history of taking far longer and far more money to achieve a goal than they forecast. They don't show signs of adjusting their forecasts based on previous misses. For the last couple of
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by babesh 9y ago
Institutional bias is perpetuated this very way.... Who do you think was more likely to go to the elite school given the same or inferior test scores?
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by babesh 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_multiplier_effect https://be.helpful.com/helpful-how-the-math-of-viral-growth-... Transitive property of dating. You might not date your coworker but you might da
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by babesh 9y ago
There are two other ways to solve the problem. Wait for a more software oriented company to eat the existing company's lunch and software as a service. The SAS approach seems to work best for large markets.
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by babesh 9y ago
I think this is to be expected from organizations that don't have software as a core activity. You don't attract the best people, don't motivate the people you have, and don't promote them. It has happened again and agai
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by babesh 9y ago
Yup. At least several kinds of fish are really good fresh. There is this Cantonese thing with live fish that are killed and immediately cooked... usually steamed but also pan fried. Delicious.
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by babesh 9y ago
Isn't that what Sony did? Don't they make the lens for many of the iDevices?
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by babesh 9y ago
I bet direct access to internal tools and databases.
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by babesh 9y ago
Yes when I went there but dependent on whether it was graduate or undergraduate and department. Undergraduate lower division CS classes were graded assuming a normal distribution (standard deviations from average). In my opinion, it was mos
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by babesh 9y ago
They started doing that relatively recently. Back then, it was a small grant, a job, and a large loan. Software didn't start outpacing other engineering professions' pay till the web boom. That was hindsight since I had the fainte
924.
by babesh 9y ago
Cisco has been circling the drain for a long, long time (far longer than Arista). They are close in mold to IBM with declining revenue offset by managed profits from periodic layoffs and outsourcing. Cisco would continually find ways to cut
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by babesh 9y ago
Yup, haircuts given by mother or sister and then even after a little money, trying to give yourself a haircut. Not knowing how to ask for a haircut. Travel circumscribed by how far you can walk. Being ashamed that your mother sewed up holes
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by babesh 9y ago
- Lying about where you grew up - Being ashamed of free school lunch - Being embarrassed and made fun of for wearing the same sorts of clothes every day - Not wearing a coat in winter because you are embarrassed wearing the same coat for ye
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by babesh 9y ago
There are plenty of 10x or more effects. Anything with a binary outcome can be considered as such. If you measure a person's productivity along those lines, you will get 10x or more output. Also, this characteristic isn't restrict
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by babesh 9y ago
I barely know anything about how self driving cars work so someone else should answer that. I am not affiliated with Uber or its competitors. Perhaps I should have said that its a hard light for humans but that I don't know anything ab
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by babesh 9y ago
I've run that light myself by accident. It's a hard light for humans too. This light is in the middle of a block rather than at the end. The area is full of activity including people walking but also popular sights. That brick bui
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by babesh 9y ago
I think I have seen a similar pattern in interviews where men actually give women higher scores for the same performance as men but women would have no compunction giving the same women the actual lower score they deserve. The reason is tha

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