carmen_sandiego

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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
The UK is basically 'at will' for the first two years. I've never worried about getting fired in that period. Just pick who you work for carefully and make yourself valuable.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
It is specific to that part of the world. He's not worried about African chip manufacturers, is he?
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Yeah... they might very well just view this as added extortion.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
What's included in a transaction? Your name and address listed alongside all the medical treatments you pay for?
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
> Who is "we"? Classic Neoliberals, as stated. Or, people who like evidence-based policy in general. Cities are more efficient in terms of output per resource input, environmental externalities, etc. China has some of the mos
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Cities are generally considered efficient and good. We want people to live in them. In traditional Neoliberal thought, anyway. Tons of people move to cities in China though. Shenzhen is basically dead when everyone goes home for CNY.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
My company does this, Doordash included. I still hate it. First of all, the effort of orchestrating the food delivery through you is just annoying. Buying food on my own app is trivial and you pay me enough that it barely registers as hav
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Ours literally has a list of attendees and we go in a circle, each having to speak in turn. Usually about something personal. It’s dire.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
> But you get prestige and awards on "the free market" for all kinds of publications. Yeah, but those are for the low end of the hiring market. Personally I mostly just ignore 'awards', unless it's a Nobel Prize
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
I would say tech startups are beyond mainstream and are pretty clearly a bubble, at least in the informal cultural sense. In some ways, like you say, it's easier to take advantage of all the extra ecosystem that comes with that and to
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
I switched from being on hyper-stock Android for a decade to the latest iPhone last year. I use OSX so wanted to get more out of the ecosystem by matching up. Mostly I'm enjoying it, but I really hate the pointless infantilizations iO
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
I personally wouldn't do YC these days. Just based on my impressions of how it is though, so I could be totally wrong and bone headed, but: (1) It does feel like a conveyor belt that works well for YC and its investment funnel, but no
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
The City of London Police are often involved in nationwide fraud issues, consulting with other regional police forces, etc. They're a leading UK center for it just because they deal with it so often. This is all a bit "you wouldn
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Depends how much I want to use the website. More than I want to keep my nose?
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
If you really work on tech nobody else knows or wants to do, that might be reasonable leverage. Ask for more money, if that will make you happier, or even just to save a bit extra and buy yourself time for what you want to do next, maybe?
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Congrats. Are the companies the same size/industry/etc, or did you totally switch it up?
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
A bunch of people quit and now I'm the most senior engineering person around. But I'm not senior _enough_ to stop the non-tech founders and other C-levels from doing the wrong thing, and it feels like most of the stuff we do day-
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Technically I'm not sure it's really true either way. Well, there's some debate that we could get bogged down in, but really I'm just an old Math major having fun with that comment.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
> competition is good For the users, possibly. Not for someone who wants to start 'Quora, but a little different'.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
> The fallacy pertains to people who argue that a causal chain will necessarily play out, or that a particularly implausible chain will play out with high probability. Isn't this exactly what I described in that comment? I'm c
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Ah, I was aware it was vaguely about cloning but I haven't read it yet. Sounds like I'll enjoy it then.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
I haven't actually worried about putting my email on the web for years now. Google's spam filter is good enough, I think. It might be nice to have an anonymous ID that can forward to a (possibly changing) underlying address. But
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
We’re talking about growing a clone of yourself, so significantly better outcomes than a random donor.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
If we're being pedantic, I just consider Logic a branch of Mathematics.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
I'm not sure it's quite immortality but yes, the stakes are pretty high. It seems likely that you'd not go public if you did this, though, so it's possible someone has already tried. There are probably people ruthless e
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Proof is a Math thing. I'm comfortable with the weight of evidence from all the tests we devise for this purpose, combined with the fact we actively strive to show the consciousness of animals in a way we never did with slaves. You&#
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Intentional attempt to court controversy aside, I'm not sure it matches up to this discussion thread. Even if you believe China is harvesting the organs of what they consider undesirables, the parallel accusation is that they are _redu
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
Slippery slope is considered a fallacy because not all things vaguely similar to previous paths to X result in X, obviously. Nobody looks at a well-run public rail schedule and thinks 'uh-oh, Fascism is just around the corner' [1
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
The difference is, we know that slaves have equally developed consciousness. So that wasn't based in fact. Animals don't have human-level consciousness. We're not going to discover some day that they do.
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by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
> "Those who look/think differently than me aren't human." Sure, if by "think differently" you mean "don't think at all". There's a big difference between "eh, Jewish brains are not

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