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by erikb 8y ago
Maybe I didn't put it explicitely into the previous comment, but in my understanding there is only one system (power pyramid) and different flavors of marketing attached around it. "We are a transparent tech company that shares al
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A) There is a lot of democratic control actually. More than employees execute I would say. In a 90k people organisation even the most powerful person has much less power than a majority of the other 89.999 people. The founders btw own less
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In some US companies it is already like that, that citizenship is a priced good. Especially since most teams are a collection of differently sourced consultants. You rarely see any real employment besides the project manager. And yes, a lot
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Honestly, I work in a huge company (number three in comparison worldwide, >90k employees world-wide), and it feels like Socialism. We eat lunch together in a canteen. Everything we do and buy is shared ownership. There's false propa
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This is not a top-down problem, but a bottom-up problem. People want to feel meaningful, so they make up stories of why their job is important, why this or that task needs to get done right now, etc. The only things that are really urgent i
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Honestly in some regards step 5 might be much more successful than what most people do. Most people go to their manager and complain about Wu. Then the manager does nothing. Then they complain at the bar to their friends how their manager A
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by erikb 8y ago
> In an efficient market, why would profit-focused companies employ a bunch of people who by their own admission aren’t doing anything valuable? There are lots of reasons for bullshit tasks, I found. And let's call it tasks, not job
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Yes and so do all kids in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, China, etc.
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By having flat roads and the fact that bikes are cheaper than cars? I honestly don't think one needs to do much to create a biking culture. Maybe some investment and biking lanes separated from roads are needed.
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The central point is the content of your data. Also incomplete datasets should still work fine with both ledger and this analytics tool. So, not sure how it could be less centralized than this.
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It's loading two gifs for me.
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> I would expect pipes to be connectable and nestable. How would that look like? I mean a pipe is something where one writes data into and another loads data from in the same order it was written into. I don't see how that could be
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Afaik this one cannot connect to Ankiweb, therefore you can't sync your status with other devices.
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The iphone app costs like $25 tho.
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The funny thing is one barely realizes it when one is part of the future (e.g. when using the internet to write this comment), but one also rarely realizes it when one isn't part of the future (e.g. comparing the Chinese mobile world a
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I don't think there is anything that can be done, honestly. There are reasons for the current way of decision making: keeping the people in power who have been in power since the beginning. If the way of work changes, then also the lea
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I'm working in a company that is exactly in this same position, that HP was in apparently around the 80s. The thing is that these big companies one or two generations after the founders are mostly staffed with people who know nothing e
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I work in a completely different field and I can tell you, it's absolutely the same. I think the chance is quite high, that people in even higher positions know they can only keep their position stable by putting such kind of people in
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The moment I see this I will stop paying them.
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Is the xlib here as framework really the right backend? I have not much skill in this area so I can't say. In web development when someone claims he's written the shortest version of A and imports library B then usually the actual
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First google result already says different: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/market-size.htm... I woud assume it's not a term like "revenue" but more a general word. It's also not smart
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If he wants goverment support he probably is stealing IP from the american side and YC is either naive or knows this very well but is willing to trade IP for cashflow.
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Well, they are now an established business, the growth of US startups has dwindled. So what do you expect?
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The traditional startup also doesn't really work out in China due to the government wanting to be involved. It's much more suit driven over there and not possible just with t-shirts.
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China is a lot bigger market than the US. EU is slightly bigger. US is third. Maybe with extended markets (e.g. Central America and Canada for US, Eastern Europe for EU, Belt and Road area for China, US is number two). You need to consider
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I have a hard time understanding what the social aspects of a photo sharing site can be. Until now Instagram also had zero appeal for me, especially with such ideas like that you can only upload pictures from phones.
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Altogether such kind of searches are probably more about calming people's mind than actually finding something. Especially in this case where the human AND THE DOG went missing without traces. It's super unlikely that they both ha
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Replace "edge" with any other hot term and that's your IT market. Even without demand and even without innovation a lot of stuff is changed all the time. Current systems are centralized? Well let's decentralized everythi
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What research could be the research there, tho. It's a very simple principle.
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I would argue, though, that having some people actually taking it seriously and starting an implementation of that is awesome, part of the joke, and certainly sometimes even the source of some really cool stuff.

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