ixtli

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by ixtli 7y ago
Honestly Taleb's cult is pretty disconcerting.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Heh. Should be noted that basically every top comment here says the same thing in different ways about Taleb.
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by ixtli 7y ago
I'm wary this might end up aggravating the subset of Taleb adherents on here but from what I've seen of him (segments of some of his books, tweets, essays) he cultivates a pretty brazenly idealistic / ideological (as opposed
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by ixtli 7y ago
I have some issues with aesthetic decisions used in Black but the degree of head-nodding on the top answer in the SE post you linked is really disconcerting. The person basically says "well you're the boss so you should kindly rem
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by ixtli 7y ago
No question. Personally I think the first and most important step is getting everyone in our industry to admit that they have deeply internalized biases that they're not likely to be fully aware of and that they have a real effect on i
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yeah that's fair. Im just frustrated with how low-bandwidth those things are. I definitely get a bit of a sense of how a person thinks by watching them do those CS 201-style problems, which isn't nothing.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yes but my point is that in my 8+ years in the startup world it has a very specific connotation that is, as someone else said, a vehicle to legitimize really inappropriate biases into hiring.
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by ixtli 7y ago
I edited my top level comment for just this reason. Interpersonal communication skills are extremely important to evaluate for any position. But the person you're replying to is saying, correctly, that this isn't what people mea
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by ixtli 7y ago
Completely agree. I've been lucky to have been surrounded by pretty reasonable people in my 8-10 years in the startup world on the east coast but "culture fit" was one of the rare situations that I got in a really impassioned
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by ixtli 7y ago
An extremely underrated point: Hire. Generalists.
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by ixtli 7y ago
We need to admit that the interview process isn't about determining the relative qualifications of the applications in the pool, because we all know that 3 hours and whiteboard can't tell anything you need to know about whether or
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by ixtli 7y ago
Agree. iTerm2 has been doing rendering with opengl for years. If you're on OS X its unclear why something like Hyper is necessary.
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by ixtli 7y ago
I sense an implication that it’s not possible to evaluate the ends either group is voting for in this example. The nobility of the action depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Also, don’t mistake me for someone who’s interested in the d
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by ixtli 7y ago
This confirms a whole host of my baseless presuppositions about things. Mostly Texas.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Yup! I would also predict this. You simply can’t engineer your way out of needing better living conditions.
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by ixtli 7y ago
You'd be shocked to know how long after this was shown academically to be a Good Idea™ it took to get it into operating systems like Windows. The reason back then was because application programmers depended (incorrectly!) on sequentia
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by ixtli 7y ago
It's pretty great. As someone said below: I'd buy a tshirt.
528.
by ixtli 7y ago
Someone should really fix this, because clearly they're connected to Natasha Allegri now who'd make a killer design.
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by ixtli 7y ago
Of all of the places a Bee and Puppycat fan might expect to find Natasha Allegri's work ... release art (?!) for OpenBSD 6.5 is perhaps the last I would have expected.
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by ixtli 7y ago
You're right. The downvotes here are telling :)
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by ixtli 7y ago
This is a bit misleading. It doesn't mean that the rich are predominantly rich (though this could be the case): that map is also basically a population density map which is, according to what i've seen, the only clear predictor of
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by ixtli 7y ago
Well certainly working up from nothing in America is still better than certain places an immigrant can come from but i do increasingly feel bad for people who do this when they're not from a war zone :/
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by ixtli 7y ago
Don't even get me started. I did a year and a half of university in Tokyo and I used and paid for the health care system there a few times. Cavities filled for 20 dollars at high end central Tokyo offices. Skin doctors for zero dollars
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by ixtli 7y ago
Neither: I care that the fellow next door has access to first world quality food, shelter, education, and medicine without means testing. I also see no evidence that this desire is at odds at all with my lifestyle as a quasi-middle class pe
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by ixtli 7y ago
I mean if you graduate college, get a finance job and live and work in lower manhattan i could see this happening. Might not be a very good idea but its still certainly possible.
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by ixtli 7y ago
So the marxist line is that you dont feel upper class because you're not! I mean by some older definitions you're not even really middle class. The "orthodox" explanation of this is that if you own land you're middl
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by ixtli 7y ago
Fair point but I think you can make the same claim if you only compare to countries of equivalent "first world" status. EDIT: It is still a potentially deceptive visualization though.
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by ixtli 7y ago
My intuition about this as someone who grew up in America and has traveled internationally quite a bit is that nowhere else on earth are the middle classes so convinced that one day they will be "millionaires" than here. This caus
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by ixtli 8y ago
That’s a fantastic argument for communal ownership! Thank you <3
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by ixtli 8y ago
Because once the state says you have legal ownership of something it means that 1) it was always correct for you to have owned it and 2) it will always be correct no matter what! Private property ownership is the means AND the ends!

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