jacobr1

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by jacobr1 5y ago
There are at least several ways to continue your analogy though. 1) Cars cause accidents, and modern safety improvements like pedestrian alert, don't make up for the responsibilities manufactures have for their death machines 2) "
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Because they weren't done. Not all change is bad. But for a "mature product," one needs to carefully consider the cost of bloat. Modular/plugin type systems (done well) can be one way to avoid this, since they allow user
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> Product schools This isn't really a thing. Oh there are few programs out there and there are some great private workshops, but there isn't degree you can get. There both are Design Schools, and Business/Management Entrep
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by jacobr1 5y ago
They have a lot of fans, of the type of people that haunt HN. High quality project that is useful for for small hobbyist projects, startups and large companies alike. Persisting data something that is used in probably the majority of softwa
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by jacobr1 5y ago
As a practical matter, what I've seen in SV companies, is that there are networks from folks that new each other in the service. Once one gets a role in a company, many other skilled veterans are sure to follow. The same thing happens
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The problem is more one of impersonal, emergent, bureaucratic forces. Any particular officer, defense contractor, politician, pentagon analysist, etc ... might want to change how the system as a whole runs. But they are other groups (who mi
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Ignoring the social benefits, how would that improve competition? Amazon already pays more that that, it would be their competitors struggling with increased costs.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
LOL But, you know, it sort of proves in an interesting point. Market/Technical/Cultural forces will push things one direction, but groups can choose to pay the higher costs to go in alternate directions. It will be interesting to
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> you can’t trust that the thing you ordered is what will actually be delivered I see this all over HN, news articles, and reddit ... yet I've never experienced it. Nor has anyone in friend/family circle. I don't doubt it
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by jacobr1 5y ago
And even more confusing, the positive and negative impacts are quite likely to be second or third order phenomena. Managing unintended consequences of complex systems is no easy task, even in hindsight. > A better question to me is, give
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by jacobr1 5y ago
I see a pattern where they are downvoted initially, then later return. I suspect type of people that read HN periodically are different than those that are refreshing regularly.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> seems like you could throw some work toward figuring this out. They already have a start - they push following categories. So presumably they are categorizing individual tweets into these categories. It should be feasible to both provi
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Same way shareholders manage their ownership stake now? They elect a board of directors that oversees the senior management?
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by jacobr1 5y ago
What does it mean to be "trusted?" Trusted to have a job? Get invited to dinner parties? Live without surveillance? Be in a position of responsibility over others, or to influence others? It seems like we profoundly don't hav
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Wasn't that because the virus has hit some kind of local maxima of morbidity and human-fear? If it was some kind "new ebola," I could imagine a much more aggressive response, with much less political polarization.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> This is the reductio ad absurdum that shows that it wasn't a valid point. I conceded, this is a convincing point. To flush out the argument though, it was coming from the perspective of the system consisting of the firm+employees
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by jacobr1 5y ago
They usually have both a flat-rate transition fee, and some spread they take on top of whatever open market exchange rate would otherwise be. For small transactions, you can have things like a $29 fee, for a $500 transaction, where the spre
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Or if you look at modern tools on the list, you also see golang and rust.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Not if you needed twice and many engineers, or it took twice as long due to a complexity. But that said, the overhead of the engineers energy consumption is overhead that probably turns to nothing over the life of a successful project.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The scarier thought is some kind of gene-targeted virus that avoids the blowback
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Big companies could handle this so much better. They are going to hire thousands of $role in any given year. Once an applicant gets routed to a particular team, they might not get picked in favor of another candidate, but that doesn't
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Also, if you are building upon the code from the prior review, and you need to shuffle things around based on feedback from the review, then your more recent work also must be redone, resulting in waste.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Having worked in startups for most my career, and now recently joining a BigTechCo, I think some of the cross-talk comes from the commingling of concerns within a PR. PRs are used to review architecture, enforce security/code-conventio
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Ironically, this reply is also an apology! No judgment, I just found it funny.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
That is for the EU. The equivalent regulations in the US are much more lax. > The only thing Docusign "proves" is that someone with access to your email signed the agreement. Also IP address and timeframe, which might be suffic
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Also there is a difference at a firm level and an individual user. If I have a company where this is used all the time (real-estate agency, law firm, etc) I might want the all-you-can-eat subscription model and not worry about usage. In fac
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> For signatures, I think this works. I don’t think I would skimp on important, non-commodity things. But it doesn't really work for signatures. If I'm signing things related to my mortgage, or VC financing, or an affidavit or
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by jacobr1 5y ago
It can go either way. There are certainly are creepy demands from bad managers. But there also are extroverted people that like to talk. They like to talk so much, that as an introvert myself, I find it exhausting. But that doesn't mea
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by jacobr1 5y ago
There are plenty of extroverted people in service industries that just plain like talking to people. I'm not one of them, I'm an introverted engineer type like many others here on HN. I shouldn't work as a server. But that ki
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The OP pivoted to restaurant service. In this case, I'm paying for the experience of nice meal. Having a pleasant server is part of that experience. Nobody has a perfect day, everyday, but someone performing this kind of service should

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