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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
You might not like it, but “we’re living in the worst aspects of capitalism” is an exaggeration for needing to pay to bring a bag on a form of travel that used to be a luxury only for the very wealthy, and has seen explosive growth and huge
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The first amendment issue is that he is doing it because of fear that the government will retaliate against his other companies. A lot of folks are exhorting him to resist in order to protect the norm, but it his true that _his_ choice is c
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Mask off!
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
So, he did win and a lot of bad things did happen. Trump withheld disaster aid from blue states: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-de... Trump already punished Amazon for the Washington Pos
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Sure but the concern is that he did it to appease the government which will retaliate against speech under Trump.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
But what about the rest of their coverage? Every article and its editorial promotion reflects a value judgement that basically has to be not neutral. This is unfortunately something newspapers like to pretend is not true but it absolutely i
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Newspapers should do whatever they want. The 1st amendment is kind of a big deal.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The effect size is actually pretty similar from what I’ve seen. Both are huge. Tech workers are cross pressured in that they are mostly male and mostly college educated.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Every choice of coverage is an opinion about what is important, and shapes the tone of coverage as surely as an editorial. This is actually a very common critique of the News Media, which loves to aggrandize itself by saying that it is neut
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
“Left wing publications caused right wing movements to be popular” is such a lazy trope and terrible “anti-anti-Trump” argument. Thinking that newspapers should stay out of publishing opinions about political parties is basically the most a
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
It’s… really not? The dude tried to overturn the previous election, and repeatedly threatens to throw his enemies in jail. Senior members of his own staff have flat out said he’s a fascist and he’s literally running on a promise to round up
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
People did warn about it at the time too. I fail to see why being upset about the bad thing actually happening means people didn’t think that was the plan.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
There’s not really any such thing as neutrality. Arguably universities can maybe step away from things (although this is complicated with departments that are inherently political), but “neutral” if you’re writing about politics always refl
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The worry is 100% that this is happening to please Trump. The evidence is that he hasn’t had a hand in editorials until now all of a sudden. It’s his choice I suppose but I don’t think it’s crazy to be worried about the precedent of a forme
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The key point here is that despite all their biases, the Washington Post and The New York Times were at least perceived as independent, with both of them famously publishing articles that would upset those in power. If their owners feel the
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
That’s a bit beside the point in this case. Newspapers are supposed to have a first amendment right to say whatever they want and the key concern is that Bezos spiked the editorial to curry favor with Trump.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
The reality is that no matter how much you decide to push authority down, at some point there will be conflicting decisions and you need to resolve that. Most organizations lean escalation upwards eventually to the CEO to resolve disputes.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
It’s less a question of if they should be managers and more whether there should be formal title recognition. Many companies have “distinguished engineer” positions or similar, and those people are often involved in high level conversation
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
This just sounds like PG overly fixating on “founder” vs “manager” as the distinction, when the actual focus should be on relative skills of delegation vs skills in the business domain. Whether or not you are a founder, if your strengths te
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
There’s not really a clear tension though. Procedures exist with an intent to get results. Airlines have lots of procedures that are carefully followed and the result is “the plane always arrives safely”. If you asked a pilot the question t
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Ironically to some degree things worked well because he had a procedure in mind already even though he didn’t tell everyone. Obviously the improvised fixes weren’t planned in advance, but it still speaks to having some process/plan bei
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
It’s not so much freedom to do their job as getting them out of the trained pathways that work well in the nominal case and _then_ letting them use their judgement. Requiring people to double check that someone gets the right meds is super
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
People are very (and possibly irrationally) price sensitive to airline costs, so they are willing to put up with a lot compared with many other goods/services.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Most banks charge a lot less for their customers. In this era of debit/credit cards that convert automatically, offering to do a currency conversion at a higher fee than basically any bank, and relying on customers to be not savvy enou
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
That’s probably what it is but there isn’t any reason for the German Red Cross to be embossing with the EU flag.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
I was responding to this person’s more precise comment with shorthand. But yes, specifically Europeans invented transporting Africans from Sub-Saharan Africa to plantations in the Americas to do labor intensive harvesting of sugar, tobacco,
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Yes but Black people in the US have been historically treated _worse_ than immigrants, which is entirely unnecessary and leads to a lot of efforts to fix the results of previous subjugation.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Yes Europeans invented slavery, but the deadliest war as a percentage of the population in American history was the American Civil War. This lead to a period of violent segregation and repression even after the Union won. In many places Bla
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
Yeah I think there are plausible arguments that affirmative action is not the right way to solve the problem. Mostly I’m trying to explain the dynamic that causes affirmative action to exist.
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by eapressoandcats 2y ago
This is done to every immigrant group, but generally most immigrant waves assimilate and are treated more or less equally. Through all those waves Black people were consistently and persistently treated badly, with things like official segr

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