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by jmeister 5y ago
The technical term for “ghost knowledge” is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge
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>When board members suggested considering more diverse candidates for future executive roles, Gates would reportedly reply, “Are you trying to effing destroy the company?”
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Bill Gates was an office bully who opposed diversity efforts, report claims(nypost.com)
10 points by jmeister 5y ago|6 comments
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+1 from a 3rd world immigrant. I’ve been visiting these parts of the internet ever since PG started writing his essays. There is marked shift in the attitudes here, from celebrating success to hating it. This is of course not limited to SFB
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Her essay on self-respect? https://www.vogue.com/article/joan-didion-self-respect-essay...
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Very interesting references. Thank you.
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An excerpt: >Housing, education, and health care are each ferociously complex, but what they have in common is skyrocketing prices in a world where technology is driving down prices of most other products and services. (See chart below.)
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Noah Smith Interviews Marc Andreesen(noahpinion.substack.com)
8 points by jmeister 5y ago|2 comments
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This piece is all heart, no brain
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This is a theory book, aimed at complexity analyses, convergence proofs etc. Useful mostly to researchers. The 3 you listed are aimed at applications.
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It’s not that simple. Read Matt Yglesias or David Shor on the damage some progressive non-profits have done to the communities they intend to help, and their broader cause. I see many such orgs on Scott’s list. Negative ROI.
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The “bubble” you speak of find themselves censored out of the bigger bubble that is mainstream media/academia. You’re free to look away.
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Well, there is nothing stopping other cultures from depicting Roman aristocrats in their own image. Indian gods and historical figures are usually depicted as fair, in their own, contemporary art.
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You must not be American, definitely not Californian because the points you make are extremely taboo. In the US there are probably a handful of feminist-critics who dare to say these things in the mainstream, e.g. Camille Paglia, Christina
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Safetyism is in vogue. The J&J vaccine pause is another recent example. We have collectively lost the ability to think about risk-reward trade-offs in a mature fashion.
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by jmeister 5y ago
I’m sorry, but what was a 4-year old child doing near a switched-on Peloton? I cannot visualize a chain of events that leads to this scenario happening.
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Multiple rails core team members have bailed on the project(twitter.com)
3 points by jmeister 5y ago|2 comments
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A great thread on the tension between activism and open source project management.
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by jmeister 6y ago
Skilled immigration to the US is way harder than say Canada, Australia and even the UK, primarily because skilled-immigration reform is used as a bargaining chip in political negotiations involving the severely controversial illegal/lo
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by jmeister 6y ago
The UK is severely underrated by mainstream media because of Brexit and conservative govt: “I’ll say it again, whether it is AI, the Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccine, the speed of the current vaccination program, this switch to greener energ
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No, this is the illiberal left taking their tactics one level higher, to asking for psychological evaluation. It has caught the attention of many prominent free-speech activists in the country. Expect it to blow up further.
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“Lack of seriousness” ebbs and flows. Here’s DFW and his contemporaries talking about it in the 90s: https://www.salon.com/2014/04/13/david_foster_wallace_was_ri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jmeister 6y ago
People are voting with their TV remotes. Now the sports orgs have to wake up and stop politicizing their content.
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Good. People watch sports to escape from everything else. “Shut up and dribble” is the way to go.
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Great comment. Free market efficiency + redistribution via taxes+coupons is the way to go. Milton Friedman approves.
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People who have “peaked” have a lot of offer in terms of mentorship, connections etc. In fact, a concentration of people who’ve been there done that is probably that hardest thing to find in one place outside the respective central cities.
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by jmeister 6y ago
Goldman does the Lord’s work, the thankless but necessary work of facilitating accurate pricing in capital markets by ruthlessly arbitraging inefficiencies, and similar morally repulsive but necessary gutter-cleaning tasks.
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Was this motivated by the hostile meeting with China on Friday, and an expectation of worsening US-China relationships?
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The subtext for this article is the general pessimism about post-Brexit Europe these days: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/28/i-hate-to-s... https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com&#
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by jmeister 6y ago
“ Substack convinced me that I could make decent money here. With that in place, I felt like I could also take a chance on starting my dream business. ... So I'm going to try to start a medical practice that provides great health care

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