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by heymijo 6y ago
Some of this thread is conflating being an asshole (subjective) with being abusive. Jordan was abusive and thought that was the way to get the best out of those around him. So it's worth remembering that The Last Dance wasn't Jord
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by heymijo 6y ago
Hey man, that really sucks, and I'm sorry to hear it. I have a bunch of follow-up questions I'm curious about. I know HN isn't the best way to track replies. I've got heymijo.hn at gmail set up if you want to shoot me an
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by heymijo 6y ago
You're between a rock and a hard place. The rock are the incentives, how your performance is measured, and the short duration you will have teaching these students. The hard place is students who have likely spent 13 years in K-12 lear
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by heymijo 6y ago
Hi Sriram, a teaching system can incorporate both! Apologies if my original reply made it seem like it can't. Why don't teaching systems in America incorporate both the majority of the time? Two major reasons: 1. Cultural inertia.
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by heymijo 6y ago
That all makes a lot of sense especially in light of the lack of urgency to bring things to market that has been reported about Google X throughout its history.
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Durable and flexible knowledge... After reading your comment and ansible's reply [0] I wanted to pause and comment on this. The United States Air Force Academy found that its cadets who took their first calculus class with a professor
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by heymijo 6y ago
Fossuser gave the best answer thus far to your question. [0] A few confounders I haven't seen though: 1) Waymo is its own entity, but its brand is linked to Google/Alphabet. A reader of this article will be clear on that by the ti
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> Now, Youngstown’s approach to economic development is coming under greater scrutiny as the city’s former finance director and a prominent developer prepare to face trial on public corruption charges. At the heart of the case are alleg
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Thank you, that's helpful. Is a Mealy state machine implied in your description?
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> One change would cause another issue, or regress a bug. > made a chart of every path and pattern of events > It never had to be addressed again Am I reading you correctly--every possible issue was knowable and preventable w
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by heymijo 6y ago
Board of directors are like courtiers of old in a monarch's court. They are there for the proximity to power. They scheme, connive, and work to improve their own position. In the court of Zuckerberg, the courtiers exist at his behest,
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by heymijo 6y ago
This is true! However, it ignores a few things. There is always an advantage to being ahead, even at state schools. Come in with more AP credits or college credit plus? - Get priority scheduling over your peers Get priority scheduling - Mo
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> being young in 2020 in the hyper-competitive culture of major coastal metro areas of the US I think you'd be surprised how many 8th graders across the country are already stressing about SAT/ACT scores in places like southe
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by heymijo 7y ago
What do you think enabled the analogy to work for you even though you hadn't heard of Mary Lou Retton?
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by heymijo 7y ago
That's a good point about "famous olympic gymnast." I wonder if being familiar with the olympics is enough? Also, with Simone Biles in the popular zeitgeist I wonder if someone not familiar with Mary Lou Retton might picture
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by heymijo 7y ago
Were you familiar with her prior to the lecture? Did the point he was speaking about resonate with you?
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Agreed. He did explain, and still I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of someone unfamiliar with her. If I have never heard of her, how strongly does that anecdote land to convey the message about knowledge being a big K in the formu
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by heymijo 7y ago
Communication is perception. Whose perception? The recipient(s). I'm 2 minutes in. Lecturer revealed a formula for quality speaking. Knowledge, he says, is the biggest of the three components. He then takes about a minute using an anec
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This lines up with a principle from the Toyota Production System (TPS) in manufacturing--reduce complexity. In TPS, they found that a focus on reducing complexity leads to improvements in the metrics you'd want to measure: better quali
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by heymijo 7y ago
What of the employees? Five days ago the Financial Times reported on Airbnb lowering its internal valuation from $31 billion to $26 billion. They also mentioned the delay of any IPO and said this: > The push to go public was motivated, i
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by heymijo 7y ago
Serendipity. I was just looking for something like this. Looked in to blockchain.poker and PPPoker, but all I really wanted was a way to re-create an in-person poker game with friends. I look forward to trying this out. Thanks for sharing i
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by heymijo 7y ago
> 2) do companies want to pay you as much if you work from home? Is there anyone out there with a good argument for why remote workers should be paid less? Especially interested in hearing from anyone not incentivized by this practice
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I think this is an excellent comment when taken by itself. As a defensive human however, I think it assumes something about my original comment that is not there.
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You are correct. > The US Navy is replacing touch screen controls on destroyers, after the displays were implicated in collisions. Unfamiliarity with the touch screens contributed to two accidents that caused the deaths of 17 sailors, s
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by heymijo 7y ago
I see plastics as our generations asbestos. Analogy isn't perfect, but it's a material we saw as benign that could end up having untold impact on our bodies.
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> (like "The Goal" ... These last two books are classics dealing with physical production. The Phoenix Project is a 2013 IT/DevOps version of The Goal [0]. It's an easy read that would be a complementary follow up t
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> At least they can stay on their health insurance. FTA: At least through May
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I think this seems like a good critique, but as you noticed this is a nascent concept for me. As I learn more, I'll have this critique in mind.
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1) Ownership Nationalized companies are owned by the state. AT&T had/has private shareholders. 2) Control With ownership comes control. The U.S. government granted AT&T a conditional monopoly. In the early 20th century it was i
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by heymijo 7y ago
This sounds like the phenomenon dubbed Chesterton's Fence [0]. A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making th

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