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by cynusx 7y ago
can you elaborate on this? I am not familiar with how dodd-frank and other regulations impact building
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by cynusx 7y ago
As an early employee you have a lot of credit with the founding team, if you aggregate the concerns of others and go talk with them that the team lead is overtly negative and weighing down team morale then they will probably listen to you.
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by cynusx 7y ago
Understand the emotional intelligence matrix. It is almost trivial to learn but since it's not taught in computer science schools, I had to spend a decade learning its' lessons the hard way. https://positivepsychology.c
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by cynusx 7y ago
It does, but it also creates an investment opportunity for cases where the chance of winning is high. The problem with each side paying their own fees is that there is no such beneficial investment scenario for the party that eventually win
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by cynusx 7y ago
There's a similar scam in europe with trademark registrations, funnily enough there are more than one operator trying this so you get 3 or 4 of invoices to register your trademark after you've registered your trademark.
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by cynusx 7y ago
I'd rather manage nuclear waste in a remote site for 10000 years than needing to build up a permanent desalination effort to keep mankind supplied with drinkable water. Don't forget that there are already nuclear waste sites that
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by cynusx 7y ago
My point is that there is a difference between giving an estimation of time and a commitment to deliver over a certain time. The parent assumes that just giving the estimate is the same as making the commitment. The distinction between hard
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by cynusx 7y ago
I think you are assuming that just because you estimated the work to be done that that would lead to a hard deadline on that day. In my experience hard deadlines are a bad idea but estimating work is also necessary to allow the organization
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by cynusx 7y ago
The inverted pyramid answer is a great one, I wish that was the default in interviews in general
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by cynusx 7y ago
As an engineering manager, I prefer to use the word lean instead of agile because even if the agile manifesto is a great manifesto, the word really has been hijacked by people in suits who live in their own world far away from day-to-day en
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by cynusx 7y ago
I wonder if they tried selling it off first, surely somebody would want a minor social network
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by cynusx 7y ago
yea, there's also one if they have a painful reflux. Luckily my child was a happy refluxer.
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by cynusx 7y ago
That's right, we learned a lot from this youtube video on baby sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P4Kjh-GX3c It's helpful as it shortens the elimination process you'd have to run to figure out which one
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by cynusx 7y ago
There's some chapters on emotional development in the book emotional intelligence that's a summary of social sciences. It's about nurturing empathy and socializing behaviour. There's also some materials on how to counter
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by cynusx 7y ago
These discussions of "unintended consequences of AI" always seem to ignore that those behaviours emerge during the training phase of the models. But then generally you take a trained model and deploy it into production where it do
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by cynusx 7y ago
Yes, distributism has been a founding principle of post-war europe. Not just in Germany but in all of western europe. That said, the governance of Libra is setup with distributism in mind. Facebook has set it up explicitly so they don'
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by cynusx 7y ago
The sad part is that the US will only change their policy when from an demographic point of view they need to generate higher birth rates. For now, the US population is increasing without any stimulus. In Europe, aging populations have push
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by cynusx 7y ago
If Tesla stock is at lower multiples it would become an interesting take-over target so I wouldn't worry about this
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by cynusx 8y ago
It's deposits in a bank, yes. Many banks charge large deposit holders a negative interest rate. The alternative of holding it in actual cash, comes with security costs, storage costs,... The negative interest rate is still cheaper then
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by cynusx 8y ago
There are many things that he wouldn't know because he gets presented a filtered view that makes his direct reports look better 1/ how processes actually work (theory versus reality) 2/ inefficiencies (wasted time/wasted
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by cynusx 8y ago
whereabouts in Spain?
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by cynusx 8y ago
That's impressive. I always wanted to have an approval-flow for payments for company cards, would be a great addition. I'd be fine issuing cards to everybody in the company as long as I can prevent the expense before it happens (a
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by cynusx 9y ago
They should probably take a page from Waze and allow drivers to report areas where autopilot doesn't function properly. Fleet learning but not crowd sourcing?
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by cynusx 9y ago
I don't see why he doesn't use first-generation anti-histamines instead. They are not sleeping pills and not controversial, they just make you sleepy.
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by cynusx 9y ago
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by cynusx 9y ago
Well, the only reason I can think of that voting while disenfranchised would be a felony would be to extend the total period of disenfranchisement. Surely voting by itself doesn't warrant a 5 year jail sentence
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by cynusx 9y ago
I never quite understood voter disenfranchisement. Some quick googling tells me that 6 million people are disenfranchised in the US, which out of 235 million voting-aged population means 2.5% of the US voting-aged population is disenfranchi
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by cynusx 9y ago
The goal of that would be to extend the total disenfranchisement period
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by cynusx 9y ago
There are elections on March 18 in russia, this is just Putin rallying his base.
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by cynusx 9y ago
I don't think it's a difficult tweak to the feed algorithms to allow for 5% (picked randomly) of diverging viewpoints in somebody's feed. It might even be good for their engagement metrics.

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