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by hoaw 8y ago
More and more people I respect are becoming skeptical of Silicon Valley, or at least the attitudes attributed to it, to the point where I don't think convincing people is necessarily the problem any more. What is lacking is a solid pla
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by hoaw 8y ago
As others have said, working 12 hour days is likely your problem. You are probably naturally compensating to not get worn out by instead doing sporadic, low pressure, tasks. Think of it in reverse. What would a day look like if you really f
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by hoaw 8y ago
Unfortunately I don't think there are too many shortcuts. You really have to figure out what is important to you and try to stand by that. Doing something new can help you turn the page, but if it doesn't change your perspective y
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by hoaw 8y ago
I think an events like this challenges people's slightly suppressed sense of egalitarian randomness (random egalitarianism?) they favor in place of equality.
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by hoaw 8y ago
I am not sure I would focus on the money as a factor for Musk's success. There are a lot of rich, including newly rich, people who aren't Musk. The reason he isn't one of them is because he didn't want the money more tha
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by hoaw 8y ago
Yes, that is essentially the main point. I am just not sure it is that relevant. Even if science is getting harder, so is the utility by itself. Transportation is very useful everyday, going to the moon is (while impressive and inspiring) u
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by hoaw 8y ago
I don't know much about him, more than what I could find on Wikipedia. I just don't think most of these people have a significant enough hypothesis to warrant the expectation of breakthrough. If someone can propose the specific wa
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by hoaw 8y ago
I do think it is a bit ironic that it is, at least partly, economist raising these issues. Since in my view it is partly the misuse of economics as a way to decide things, rather than as a way to perform what is decided, that have left us h
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by hoaw 8y ago
> The vast majority of people working in technology are underemployed. I am not of the "startups do everything better" variety, but I do agree that a ton of effort goes into upgrading yesterdays ideas. Without going to politica
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by hoaw 8y ago
Could be the case for many people. I think the commonality between generations might even be declining in favor of other divides. It is in some ways assumed that many people are starting at the bottom and mostly share paths based on develop
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by hoaw 8y ago
I read the article from The Atlantic instead. While I disagree with their analysis, where I can't help thinking that they are just measuring the "wow-factor" which would diminish as more people are working on something in a m
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by hoaw 8y ago
I am trying to read transcript, but I can't really make sense of it. It seems all over the place. I mean, what is even the argument that society, or growth, is hard science bound? Maybe that isn't the point. Some things that defin
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by hoaw 8y ago
Ah, I get what you are saying. Certainly not a good situation either. I guess the UK is a bit ahead of its time on this front. I still think there is a bit of difference though. In earlier recessions there at least seemed to be some recours
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by hoaw 8y ago
It really shouldn't be called "unlimited PTO". Something like "unguaranteed vacation" would be more accurate.
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by hoaw 8y ago
I hope you are correct. Point still stands that professions like nursing to some extent have an inverse relationship between utility and cost. Everyone can't be a nurses with specialist education, a teachers at private school or a cons
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by hoaw 8y ago
Also one of the best examples of what you lose in this changing society though. The decline of the middle class in general is of course problematic, but at least some of these jobs weren't worth saving as activities (though probably as
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by hoaw 8y ago
I am not sure it is the same thing, but maybe in the UK it was. As you say there have always been turmoil. But most of the time the young were seen as getting a better deal. Factories closed and older generations suffered, but the young got
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by hoaw 8y ago
Generation X and Millennial isn't really a sharp transition. No generation is, but it is even more diffuse this time since there wasn't necessarily one or multiple "big events" at a fixed date. I don't know if paren
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by hoaw 8y ago
I don't generally think so. I'd be interested in an opposite opinion though. The end of the 90s was all about being twenty/thirty-something. Just look at popular shows like Friends, Seinfeld and Sex and the City. They are ess
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by hoaw 8y ago
It is almost impossible to have something mean the same to everyone. That it doesn't is sort of the point of having a discussion in the first place. There are plenty of evidence on hacker news that people will have different, let'
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by hoaw 8y ago
Presumably what is meant is PTO accrued over a year and a half of working, which would most likely mean a couple of weeks of PTO.
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by hoaw 8y ago
I am guessing they didn't expect to get laid off. Employment contracts can be tricky to negotiate, since at that point you usually want the job. It also isn't something most people do regularly or even know much about. Especially
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by hoaw 8y ago
> I believe they also say please don’t comment explaining why you downvoted. You shouldn't comment why you downvoted, so much on why you disagree in the first place. The thing is that there are always someone who disagrees. Especial
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by hoaw 8y ago
It isn't that the comments are extremely bad. It is that the same attitude of essentially "not caring about the community" carries over into less controversial discussions. Which makes hacker news very noise for people who do
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by hoaw 8y ago
People are definitely depressed, especially relative to how things should be. You don't see it much on hacker news, but you do on other forums. 20 year olds who are relatively well educated who see no future. I don't want to take
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by hoaw 8y ago
Or even worse, we still a lot of the really crappy jobs. Where people have no education and very little security. Basically anything that requires some sort of community seems to be diminishing. Which is really the multiplier for human acti
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by hoaw 8y ago
If that is the conclusion I think it is correct. It has been shown time and time again that countries become successful not by being productive as such, but by not being unproductive. The most important factors for success are: 1. Staying o
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by hoaw 8y ago
I think that was a bit of a weird conclusion. The "flame war detector" is terrible. What is does is cave to the will of the flamers and create a positive feedback loop for them. They will then go on to post on other topics, which
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by hoaw 8y ago
Accessible isn't necessarily the same thing as democratic. The future of the Internet was always decided essentially behind closed doors. No surprise that it is now being done at the big companies rather than 'by the public'.
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by hoaw 8y ago
I disagree with the premise. The threat from AI, while serious, isn't immediate compared to the threat of using thing like AI to justify inequality. You want to tell me that suddenly the global elite became concerned about relatively e

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