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by caffeine 4y ago
I don’t know what your service is but that’s enough traffic that you likely find a willing buyer? I recently discovered that there is a pretty active market in people buying/selling smaller businesses and websites like this. Whether yo
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by caffeine 4y ago
Basically Elon is the largest shareholder. If he wants to join the board, that is best for Twitter and Elon. If he doesn’t want to, that is also best. Whatever he wants is best because he is the biggest shareholder.
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by caffeine 4y ago
This entire comment is baseless ad-hominem and psychological speculation. It offers no useful point, and does nothing to advance the discourse.
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by caffeine 4y ago
> As someone who recently left a very well compensated position at a hedge fund Why did you leave?
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by caffeine 4y ago
> The real problem would be if the people making all this money just hoard it It’s not actually really possible to hoard money. A dollar is meaningless until you use it to convince someone to give you something. If you just accumulated
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by caffeine 4y ago
< Is that a common strategy? Yes. And it’s a good one. Even from the point of view of job satisfaction. The more $ you are paid, the more expensive it is for the company to waste your time. Also, it means you are working with other hi
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by caffeine 4y ago
> I just don't think many or most tech companies have anything positive to offer the world. All these companies simply exist to make money. IMHO, making money IS providing something positive to the world. A lot of people are employ
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by caffeine 4y ago
I understood “safe” means nobody from management is watching, and “real” means cult-mode is switched off.
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by caffeine 4y ago
Try making friends w some people in their late 30s / 40s and have a few beers away from bosses… I bet the charade comes off and you can meet some actual humans.
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by caffeine 4y ago
Agreed.
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by caffeine 4y ago
My fear here is: US government tells Elon to do this. Elon says no, I won’t build actual weapons. US government nationalises SpaceX. Now SpaceX is as effective as the US government (ie not at all) and can no longer produce anything useful.
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by caffeine 5y ago
It’s worse than that: the only people who hang around are the ones they probably wouldn’t want. Their hiring model is theoretically a bell curve but when you cut off the top percentiles it severely affects the resulting performance (ie you
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by caffeine 5y ago
Anyone have experience being remote cofounders in the very beginning of a startup? In my case it’s someone I know well but we would be located in different cities. Would love to talk to anyone who has experience with this.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Two things to think about: 1. Maybe steady-state “feeling happiness” isn’t a good goal? Like, so what if you “feel happy?” If that’s all you want, opiates are widely available. Maybe a better set of goals would be “peak satisfaction” combin
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by caffeine 5y ago
< Exercise will make you happy, but only while you're doing it. Getting a raise will make you happy, but only for a short time period after that raise. "Having" a relationship won't make you that happy, but the proces
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by caffeine 5y ago
I managed to read the first two paragraphs before being quite certain the rest would be a waste of time. As far as I can tell (not a psychiatrist), this individual is suffering from mental illness and could benefit greatly from cognitive be
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by caffeine 5y ago
I meant every word (and more.)
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by caffeine 5y ago
Can you post a keyword or something that I can use to find the tweet?
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by caffeine 5y ago
> it's hateful and has no place on the Internet. Well that’s where we (you and I, but also us collectively as a country, it seems) disagree. I don’t care that it’s hateful, and I think it should have a place on the internet, and so
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by caffeine 5y ago
This is great news! Twitter and the rest of the rotten and censorious platforms could use a proper shake-up. Hope the authoritarians and political repressives and anyone who works on the content moderation team all resign in protest! Goo
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by caffeine 5y ago
Real-world situations aren’t binary. They don’t just automatically go to the extreme edge case. It’s a common mistake of programmers whose brains are trained to think that way (mine included!) So when the government is bad people who hav
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by caffeine 5y ago
Based on the issue number, tongue is not in cheek…
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by caffeine 5y ago
This seems like a good use-case for the Google Spanner database.
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by caffeine 5y ago
It is possible to be disagreeable in a constructive way, combined with a “disagree-and-commit” attitude where the team’s success is the priority. However, I agree with you that it is also possible for a bunch of high performing individuals
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by caffeine 5y ago
> Why is it a bad sign if the situation doesn't come up often enough for a formal process to have emerged? It isn’t necessarily, like if you are about to be employee #1. But even then you want to hear that the person (presumably co
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by caffeine 5y ago
I think it’s one of the most important questions you can ask in an interview (as the applicant): does the organisation allow poor performers to stay in their roles? How is performance measured, and how is poor performance treated? Then you
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by caffeine 5y ago
This sounds like you are exactly the manager the article is about: who will not identify poor performance for what it is, and reframes it as an ego/communication/other character problem (usually on the part of the high performer).
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by caffeine 5y ago
That’s why I made the comment. One group wants to delete the tests because they think the test is racist. The other group wants to delete it because they are actually racist. I found the irony of it amusing.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Ha it’s actually sort of already happening with NFTs. If your celebrity status goes up your NFT value does too.
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by caffeine 5y ago
> And once you reduce your life to a neo-liberal economic model, is when you will finally grow up and become an adult I apologise. It’s not what I meant, in two different ways: 1. You’re not JUST a company. 2. The adult realisation isn’t

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