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by gyulai 5y ago
> jumping ship and capturing the payoff for my investment all for themselves? Tragedy of the commons. Coase theorem. > what's to stop Reciprocity. If an employer is good to me, I'm inclined to be good to that employer in r
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by gyulai 5y ago
I knew that someone was going to pick up on the scent of Bayesian fallacy here ;-) ...though I think there's probably an economics-style-argument that can be made here that a market where companies reject a lot of candidates won'
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by gyulai 5y ago
Companies nowadays seem to have a fixed expectation that if they're not rejecting 99 candidates for every candidate they hire, they are somehow not doing it right. Looking at it from the candidate's point of view: Being rejected
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by gyulai 5y ago
The theme that resonates most with me here in the comments is lack of willingness on the side of companies to actually develop talent. For example a personal career goal of mine is to finally bridge the gap from individual contributor into
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by gyulai 5y ago
> hiring a few JS bootcampers to build one react UI that works on every platform is extremely cheap But this is the point: Technological development could go in one of two directions: Allow skilled people to build increasingly bigger an
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by gyulai 5y ago
I don't think it's hard at all to imagine scenarios where his other assets could benefit from a player like Signal competing with Facebook, even if Signal is non-profit. This is similar to how Google Docs competes with Microsoft O
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by gyulai 5y ago
I think 501c3s should be barred from taking huge donations like that in situations where it's not 100% clear that such a donor couldn't end up personally benefitting from influencing the charity. For example, I stopped giving mon
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by gyulai 5y ago
I find it pretty hilarious that he's picking Perl as a prototypical example of "today's" technology and the article is also blatantly advertising Perl books.
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by gyulai 5y ago
> 95% of people I talked to were non-technical Made me think of https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11 The vast majority of the engineer/non-engineer speed dates that I remember from the Cambridge University ent
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by gyulai 5y ago
Several years back, I wanted to know what the hype was about with regard to Rust and started looking into Rust a bit. In the process I also stumbled across Nim and decided that Nim suited those needs that I might have had for Rust even bet
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by gyulai 5y ago
One of the photographed slides [1] seems to portray it precisely as a two-part strategy. The right-hand side mentions "Förderung/Entwicklung nutzbarer Lösungen" (The word "Förderung" means "advancement" u
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by gyulai 5y ago
"Learned helplessness" as a psychological phenomenon relates to situations where the individual assumes they are powerless to change certain things, but they actually are not. A lot of the time, when one is an individual contrib
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by gyulai 5y ago
I don't see anything much that's non-obvious here. - Go small to go big = It's easier to be CEO in a smaller company. Kind of obvious. - Inherit a Big Mess = It's easier to be CEO in a situation where nobody wants to
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by gyulai 5y ago
> "Many saw a concerted campaign to discredit [Annalena Baerbock, ] a highly accomplished woman" The problem, in my opinion, is with the new type of the "young politician": This is someone who is the absolute opposite
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by gyulai 5y ago
Thanks! That's a neat legal mechanism there. Should have thought to look there myself.
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> > If you speak the right incantations at the counter, invoking the relevant legal reference > What are these? "Basiskonto nach § 31 Zahlungskontengesetz" [1], and tell them that you are aware that the regulator BaFin ha
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by gyulai 5y ago
Not only is it not just hearsay: In some European countries it's even enshrined in law. For example in Austria, the leader of a company ("gewerberechtlicher Geschäftsführer"), including sole traderships, partnerships, and le
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by gyulai 5y ago
I'm wondering if this actually implies that Y-Combinator is willing to touch even with a 10-foot-pole companies incorporated in jurisdictions where company law works very differently from the U.S. For example in Germany & Austria,
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by gyulai 5y ago
Not just a rumor. If you speak the right incantations at the counter, invoking the relevant legal reference, a bank in Germay will be obliged to give you a "basic bank account" with no credit facilities of any kind. There's
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by gyulai 5y ago
It's a pretty regular occurrence for the political PR machinery to try to get stories published that basically say that (thanks to some politician's doing) European region X is now going to be the next silicon valley. ...none of
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by gyulai 5y ago
It might be worth considering a change of framing: Instead of helping researchers find a company to commercialize their research (solution looking for a problem), give companies a way to find researchers who can help them solve their probl
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by gyulai 5y ago
But the thing is: GS doesn't have a reputation among the general public. 60% of people probably never even heard of them. Another 35% of people have come across them on the news somewhere and probably have negative associations
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by gyulai 5y ago
...but the economics of such an attack are still very different from when the same thing happened to chase.com or td.com or some other bank that had consumer banking. Because you can send phishing e-mails to the general public and get a pr
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by gyulai 5y ago
Former GS-employee here: The relevance of "gs.com" to the business of Goldman Sachs is pretty much zero. When I worked there in 2010 I was told somewhat tongue-in-cheek-ishly that up until the 2008 financial crisis, the telephon
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by gyulai 5y ago
Insist on talking only about the "what" and make the "how" a non-negotiable? That doesn't tend to fly when you're a techie in a tech-environment with a manager who usually has a tech background -- typically 10
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by gyulai 5y ago
I totally agree. The jobs with the most creative technical problem solving tend to be the tech jobs in non-tech environments. The best job I've ever had was doing Data Science consulting for an insurance company with no Data Science
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by gyulai 5y ago
You have to be extremely senior these days to be in a position where they actually let you solve problems of any kind. (The paradox is: At that level of seniority, you are no longer capable of actually seeing the problems). I'm a soft
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by gyulai 5y ago
> Why would business environments care that their workers' have to make a Microsoft account to log into their work laptops? One case in point would be: If that business happens to be located in the E.U. where GDPR prevents employers
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Yeah, I'm not suggesting that they would have done anything nefarious with that information. I'm just saying I liked the transparency of the Cambridge system. You'd hold an admission letter in your hand before anyone had as
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by gyulai 5y ago
That's not only a side effect, but a stated principle: After you gain admission, you have to prove that you have the money you need to sustain yourself either through a scholarship, or you have to literally show a bank statement that

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