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by fatdog 10y ago
While IQ is a blunt instrument, saying giftedness doesn't matter is like saying money doesn't matter. It doesn't, but it does. Compare the purchasing power and variety of options for solving problems of a millionaire to someo
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by fatdog 10y ago
I've been in a number of companies where there was an obvious IQ-gap. Some people could watch everyone else like mice running a maze but couldn't explain to them how to succeed in a way they would understand. Someone with an avera
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by fatdog 10y ago
So the reason men kill themselves is "because, men?" I get that is sufficient for the sort of people for whom, "because, women," or "because, men," is explanatory, but maybe something social changed in the last
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by fatdog 10y ago
Some design patterns for founder equity allocation based on these principles would be useful.
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by fatdog 10y ago
I'd say diversity and immigration are separate things. America does a good job of assimilating immigrants into the american tribe. Diversity tends to mean giving power to people who have for whatever reason identified as outside that t
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by fatdog 10y ago
Most of the examples of trusting strangers I have seen reduce to some kind of internal notion of tribe and tribal continuity. Conference goers are a great example population, since they are from everywhere and have no connection other than
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by fatdog 10y ago
Companies in Canada don't pay as much because a) there is a talent pool who will take what they are offering, b) they don't make enough revenue from a given dev to justify high salaries, or c) their investors do not see the risk&#
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by fatdog 10y ago
What are the attributes of a crappy manager? A lot of people say what they hate, but there is a theme I have seen in tech. When you think of these managers, you need to ask, who are they? Where are they from? How did they get the job? What
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by fatdog 10y ago
Encryption is political engagement. Loosely translated, TLS and PGP have historically been computerese for "get a warrant." Of course the deep state will use politicians to assert its power, and if politicians do not work for us
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by fatdog 10y ago
Consider that to verify these ID's they would need bi-lateral agreements AND api access to each issuing authority for the cards to lookup up the card to verify it against the "real" data. Unlikely they have achieved that give
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by fatdog 10y ago
Few object to fascism when it was _their_ fascism. When you use it as a catch-all euphemism for evil, sure it sounds bad. But more often than not, fascism is a trope held up to make otherwise totalitarian ideas seem moderate. I have no love
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by fatdog 10y ago
a blockchain social network? Someone has to have done this already and then abandoned it because it failed to thrive.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Brings up the question of what are some good tools to manage this kind of risk. You need your contacts, email archive, another credible email address to re-establish contact, alternate credentials for SSO sites, and it needs to be somewhere
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by fatdog 10y ago
Patterns are descriptors for how things relate, and arguably what makes someone smart or stupid is their ability to parse the dynamics of relationships among things. There are a bunch of concepts from multiple disciplines that get used in c
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by fatdog 10y ago
These are fairly standard concepts for architects. Engineers deconstruct problems into implementations. Architects abstract problems into the rules that govern them. Both arrive in similar places, but usually for different reasons.
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by fatdog 10y ago
Agile, like anything, is perfect when you implement it perfectly. Nobody does, but it's not the method's fault, the method is perfect. What I have seen is it used as a chip on the shoulders that makes product meetings feel like de
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by fatdog 10y ago
Why do people sleep on benches instead of shelters? When you look at a typical homeless person nest, it is arranged to protect them from theft and violence. It's either in a well populated place, usually with middle class people who wi
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by fatdog 10y ago
TL;DR; What you learn in an Economics degree.
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by fatdog 10y ago
The naivety of warrant canaries shows a kind of desperate denial, especially in the wake of Snowden. Warrant canaries are more about preserving the myth of a principled legal system than a real rebellion against deep state surveillance. I
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by fatdog 10y ago
If engineering were lower status work than a lot of people think it is, it would provide a more viable explanation than the effect of a conspiracy. Men in engineering on average aren't as smart as they think they are, and given the per
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by fatdog 10y ago
Before reaching for explanations to reinforce hackneyed oppression tropes, there might be a more economic reason women leave engineering and STEM fields in general. Engineering is about developing skills, and all technical skills have a rel
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by fatdog 10y ago
Yes, the problem with societies is the security of their voting mechanisms. Physical ballots are manipulated and forged all the time. Doing it online just dispenses with the pretense of legitimacy altogether. In the majority of elections,
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by fatdog 10y ago
What precisely could benefit from clarification?
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by fatdog 10y ago
Seconded on risk aversion. Toronto is just not sexy. When you go to pitch a client in a top tier city and you are from one, the client assumes that if you can survive in SF/NY/DC/LON etc, that they should hear you out. In Tor