hectorlorenzo

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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
> does that make companies overstaffed or just mismanaged? Good point. The end result is the same: inefficient allocation of resources that could pass for productivity. Weird incentives at the management level.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Sorry to hear that, best of luck looking for a new job. I hope the following comment does not come off as offensive. Do you think that this work that had to be done was business critical? My experience while working at FAANGs is that everyo
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Wouldn't upper management be in charge of taking the decision of replacing upper management with AI? Or is this only applicable to small companies (or workers' cooperatives) that had access to these functions from their foundation
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Yes, this. I've recently been reading a lot about OSR and indie zine-like TTRPGs. Almost indiscriminate link-clicking seems to be the safest way to end up in the weird zones of any hobby. The beauty of it (in this specific case) is tha
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Tangentially related, I recently learned of Alec Garrard and his model of the Temple of Jerusalem (through "The Rings of Saturn" by W.G.Sebald). He spent roughly three decades building it: https://craftsmanshipmuseum.co
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Please do not spread rumours.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
What do you do when both are happening at the same time?
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
As nice as this sounds, I do not think I follow. Can you elaborate?
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
This question might be a binary over-simplification. We currently do not have the tools to measure who is "the most competent people running a business". Markets are never pure so I do not think that the current situation (predomi
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I agree.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I don't think I ever said that passing this law was correct or that governments were free from bias. I just questioned whether it was a good idea to let markets make decisions and expect them to be optimal, or whether optimising for co
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
Get it, then I think disagreement runs deeper than I thought. As a sibling comment mentioned, I believe that markets are meant to serve humans, not the other way around. Edit: typo
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
I understand now. However, I think it unfairly assumes that markets are run (or executed?) by rational actors that always make optimal decisions without getting bogged down by biases or passed down wisdom.
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by hectorlorenzo 4y ago
How would that happen? I'm curious because I've never seen markets as being specially good at enforcing policies that (some or most) parts of society see as morally good (as vague as these terms are). For example, markets never ma
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
Although I really like the idea of 18th century aristocratic Bros. Bumping gloved fists, downing full kegs of claret, and quoting Thomas Hobbes instead of Simon Sinek.
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
I just recently came across these two videos. Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M Counter-rant from Jonathan Blow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
I'm unsure I've understood the premise: does it all boil down to "the morally incompetent considers problems as personal challenges, while the morally competent considers them as a societal responsibility" (which of cour
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
It reminds me of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Borges [1]. If I re-write Ulysses from scratch, line by line, is it still the same book? Is mine better than Joyce's? 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
He is not afraid to break these social norms either.
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Hating Code of Others(statemanagement.substack.com)
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Employability and "Boring Technologies"(statemanagement.substack.com)
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
Usually Net Neutrality is not about having or not political leanings, but making sure that everyone has equal access to internet regardless of them (as far as I understand it). > Net Neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits inter
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by hectorlorenzo 6y ago
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” - Woody Allen
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
Some really weird behaving fishes.
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
If in 2 years the building collapses, and they find out that one of the welders had no certificate, how would the public react? How would you react? (even if the collapse had nothing to do with the welding itself)
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
Well, I guess that workers demonstrating publicly against your own policies doesn't do wonders for public image.
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
Because no one in big corps would then fight for these kind of issues. Amazon changing parts of its business to be more sustainable is probably more impactful than dozens of NGOs at full speed.
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
"'100 million people rally to implement measures to prevent climate change'. Well, I guess that 7.43 billion people are ok with climate change..."
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
As far as I know, this is not true. The person I got the email from is still working at Amazon.
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by hectorlorenzo 7y ago
Karma-eager people, or karmeagers.

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