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by dasil003 4y ago
Agree with all of this, and it's even worse because collusion is not necessary. The profiteering requires no coordination at all. Just the narrative of inflation alone creates the smokescreen for individual corporations to all do this
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by dasil003 4y ago
It is pedantic because it's nitpicking my choice of words to make a completely separate point. This attracts people with the same concern (like you), but does nothing to bridge the gap to people with an alternate viewpoint (like the O
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by dasil003 4y ago
I feel you are fundamentally in agreement with my point and splitting hairs to satisfy a pedantic desire to make a very specific semantic distinction. It might feel good, but you're not going to win anyone over with this type of nitpi
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by dasil003 4y ago
No one group defines society. It's fair to say men hold a disproportionate amount of power, and its admirable to acknowledge your own privilege as you are doing here, but it's critical to not start believing that the cultural nar
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by dasil003 4y ago
This comment, though it lacks detail and is probably illegible to someone without the right level of experience, rings very true to me. The OA puts forward a reductive thesis that is easy to digest but doesn’t get to the heart of anything i
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by dasil003 4y ago
Never have I so reflexively pre-ordered a book I just heard about on the internet.
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by dasil003 4y ago
One thing that really came into focus for me once I got into my 40s and had had a chance to see all different manner of successful and dysfunctional teams from many different vantage points is that any binary assessment of an org as good or
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm extremely skeptical that this kind of study can tell us anything about the relative value of remote vs in-office work. When it comes to early stage startups, success is going to hinge on the founders and early hires ability to focu
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by dasil003 4y ago
Engineering managements job is to make sure the whole endeavor of building and maintaining the software is successful. In order to do this they must wield some power as necessary, but if everything is running smoothly as described above th
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by dasil003 4y ago
You’re not wrong, but there’s nuance here. A pessimist will often hide behind the shield of sincerity. But they are often no more capable of fixing problems than the cheerleader, which means not only are they ineffectual, they make everyo
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by dasil003 4y ago
It’s 100% a question of scale. And I don’t mean throughput, I mean domain and business logic complexity that requires an army of engineers. Just as it’s foolish to create dozens of services if you have a 10-person team, you don’t really ge
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by dasil003 4y ago
This has some truth to it, but it’s also a cynical middle-brow dismissal. Plenty of rich are ultra competitive and plenty of poor people are collaborative. Also, older are generally a bit mellower and reflective, but even teenagers can dem
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by dasil003 4y ago
Elon's response to this comment: "Hold my beer"
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by dasil003 4y ago
Keep in mind the exchange rate fluctuation makes the comparison between US and UK salaries harder to reason about. The british pound recently dropped as low as $1.07, but was $1.40 less than 2 years ago, was $1.70 in 2014 and was above $2.
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by dasil003 4y ago
No argument with what you said, but I give him credit for Tesla and SpaceX. Those are more ambitious than the vast majority of SV companies funded over the past couple decades.
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by dasil003 4y ago
You are unlikely to find empire builders in that size of company because they are too easily exposed and ousted by competent leadership. The real problems start once there is way too much going on for any one person to track the major init
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by dasil003 4y ago
I think both you and the GP are missing the essence of what Elon is. He is neither an amazing operator and businessman, nor is he a slave driving demon. He does have a huge ego and need for attention, I'll give you that, but fundam
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by dasil003 4y ago
Our statements are in 100% agreement.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I get that this is an advertisement, but the message lacks credibility. Workers that are most impacted and feel "betrayed" by layoffs are likely to value stability. Giving up full-time work is not a path to greater stability. If
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by dasil003 4y ago
The point of Mastodon is not for everyone from Twitter to move there.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Seems likely that some single cell life could survive in some deep cave system
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by dasil003 4y ago
This article is just pandering to workers who have been or fear being laid off. If you fire every tech CEO who overhired during the pandemic boom there wouldn't be many left. You also have to consider how their performance would have
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by dasil003 4y ago
You're bringing your own axe to grind to this conversation. I did not say anything was "problematic" nor do I believe anyone's agency was infringed upon here. Frankly, it's much weirder than that.
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by dasil003 4y ago
They answered it softly by saying "we hope YC can be that place". Softly is the key, because of course you can't actually tell non-conformists where to go, especially once you are an establishment power yourself.
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by dasil003 4y ago
> "People need social connections with their peers to work together successfully "
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by dasil003 4y ago
The obliviousness to the human element and power dynamics here is shocking. It would be one thing for an eccentric billionaire to do something like this; it would feel sort of par for the course and understandable that they don't real
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by dasil003 4y ago
> You're planning to scale to 1,000,000 or 1,000,000,000 users eventually? OK. Well, what's your service? Are you planning the next Facebook where everybody can talk to anybody? Then you have some challenges you better start f
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by dasil003 4y ago
This makes sense intuitively because the bulk of very high paying jobs are in large companies where responsibilities are diffuse and opportunities to leverage the brilliance out outlier geniuses are few and far between. Good leadership need
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by dasil003 4y ago
Right, that's what I was referring to. See also XMPP. But at the end of the day, Google's goal is not to kill distributed email. The risk reward in terms of anti-trust simply isn't there. The value from the data they get f
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by dasil003 4y ago
This seems like a very tortured extrapolation of what embrace/extend originally meant. They talk about Uber and Amazon but these are not implementing any open standards. Google has more of a history of this, but even there it’s not c

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