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by exelius 8y ago
It’s less “meeting in the middle” and more “agreeing not to bring any of that stuff up in public because we both have better things to do than have the same tired argument again”. At a certain point you have to put ideals aside and meet oth
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by exelius 8y ago
I agree with this sentiment, with some caveats. I think Americans are totally done with identity politics based on race, gender, religion, sexuality, etc. We’ve had those arguments and the battle lines were drawn, but at the end of the day
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by exelius 8y ago
Right to all of these; which is why you have to make it the hiring manager’s job to be very involved with the process. HR should be involved for governance purposes, but the manager and the team need to be involved with hiring new team me
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by exelius 8y ago
That was part of the conclusion of the definitive piece of journalism about the crash: Air France had a habit of training pilots fresh up on a jumbo jet, accumulating the required flight hours in a certified simulator (the “company babies”
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by exelius 8y ago
Yeah, the entire HR process at most companies is so incredibly broken for technical candidates. One of the problems IMO is that HR doesn’t know shit about tech, and dev managers don’t know shit about HR. A dev manager who needs a person tel
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by exelius 9y ago
Especially with taxes, the area between “creative” and “fraudulent” is very murky. I also doubt Trump himself has a distinction between the two based on every single account of the man I have heard. And he’s been busted a few times in the p
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by exelius 9y ago
Everyone has always cheated on their taxes; thanks to years of cuts the IRS audit rate on individuals is so low that you never get caught unless your finances get reviewed for some other reason. I don’t personally do it because my job aud
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by exelius 9y ago
I am actually worried about Trump from a solvency standpoint. Hear me out on this. Trump has unquestionably shaken faith and trust in government. To the point I’m willing more than a few voters are thinking “jeez, if these guys are gonna sc
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by exelius 9y ago
Modern jets are actually pretty easy to fly, as long as nothing goes wrong. To the point that when Mythbusters tested that “guiding a passenger through landing the plane when the pilots die” myth, they interviewed ATC who said something alo
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by exelius 9y ago
Values will always be secondary to money in this world.
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by exelius 9y ago
Exactly; I’m not saying natural language is better, just that you can’t really do any better without running into the same issues around discourse/rhetoric.
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by exelius 9y ago
Ironically, I took multiple philosophy courses at the university of Texas taught by both Bob Solomon (one of the “eminent philosophers”) and his wife. I graduated from the philosophy program with a profound distaste for analytical philosoph
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by exelius 9y ago
Reddit is much, much bigger now than Digg ever was; and there’s no viable platform for most to move to. Its communities are decentralized, and moderation is a function of the network, so Reddit as it exists is effectively the only thing hol
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by exelius 9y ago
This is a nonstarter because it doesn’t solve the media measurement problem. Everyone in the advertising value chain has a financial incentive to run their own metrics. Nobody trusts anyone else’s metrics; and publishers will overstate view
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by exelius 9y ago
Same thing happened in Philadelphia with Italian communities / restaurants being replaced by Mexican immigrants. This has led to a few pretty righteous Mexican pizza joints. Pizza al pastor is surprisingly good. Its also changed the fl
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by exelius 9y ago
Oh I know you can still do this; but the UX is deceptive about it. And one day they may just force the field to be “required”. Anonymous posting is the core feature of Reddit, so if they kill that the site is dead. It’s also Reddit’s bigges
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by exelius 9y ago
Agree Reddit is pretty bad for “technical” information that doesn’t change much over time (or that changes minute-to-minut). It is basically an unfiltered stream of consciousness. Because of this, I like to think of Reddit as a deeper versi
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by exelius 9y ago
How long do you think the API will continue to exist? All of Reddit’s recent moves have shown me they finally realized that much of the DNA of the site (no account verification required, “questionable” speech being semi-tolerated, a dense U
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by exelius 9y ago
This can be true in a lot of areas, but honestly the LGBTQ subreddits (and to an extent tumblr) are far better than most community discussion sites. I’ve made a ton of real-world friendships that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. In so
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by exelius 9y ago
Such regulation has to be sufficiently unambiguous that companies don’t find loopholes around it.
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by exelius 9y ago
There is definitely a hive mind that is reinforced by the mods here. Reddit is far worse, but realize that Ycombinator has certain goals as an organization and if your comments stray into direct opposition, they will delete things. I don’t
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by exelius 9y ago
Not when decisions like this are funneled through the CEO. You can be effective if both startups are in fundraising mode: you’ll be having a lot of the same conversations with the same people. That’s a relationship game.
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by exelius 9y ago
Totally different things and it’s almost an offensive comparison. Someone’s HIV status, for example, could definitely expose them to social stigma. Is that a problem? Yeah; but it doesn’t change human behavior — there are some things we w
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by exelius 9y ago
I think you actually have the relationships reversed. Military power paves the way for projecting culture, not the other way around. Realpolitik is meaningful; and everyone on the left seems to have forgotten about it (I say this as an unab
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by exelius 9y ago
Reminds me of the relationship between the Mafia and the homosexual community of the early-mid 20th century. The Mafia didn’t particularly like gays, but they ran all of the gay bars because it gave them the opportunity to blackmail their p
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by exelius 9y ago
These specialized teachers are non-existent in many schools. You may have a PE teacher, but they may or may not already be full time. Art teacher? LOL Many school districts around the country are far too broken to worry about start times. T
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by exelius 9y ago
From what I’ve seen, Musk has actually been flying Japanese engineers into the Gigafactory (no joke!) They literally have their own buses going back and forth to the airport.
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by exelius 9y ago
Is it just me, or is there suddenly a lot of media backlash against the wunderkind of yesteryear? Holmes, Zuckerberg, Musk — all sold impossible visions but they were just crazy enough to think they could pull them off because they were t
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by exelius 9y ago
% of overall profiles is probably low; there are a lot of bots on these social networks. But real, active users? Once that starts to decline, Facebook is dead; and I’m not sure they can tell bots from humans very well. Facebook has a lot
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by exelius 9y ago
Less Instagram and more snap for the younger kids. In general, I find each generation has its own preferred social platform — Facebook for generation X, Instagram for millennials, and Snap for whatever we’re calling whoever comes after. Eac

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