jollybean

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by jollybean 4y ago
Remove diplomatic status for anyone involved in such activities, put oversight on the diplomacy, make a big international public stink out of it (this matters), share intel with other governments and create a working body to root out this,
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by jollybean 4y ago
I don't think it's simplistic and certainly not orientalist, as it has nothing to do with anything Asian or Oriental specifically. That the CCP is an 'enormous and complex system with many debates within' doesn't ma
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by jollybean 4y ago
The US does not threaten to kill or arbitrarily imprison family members of those they wish to extradite, and does not clandestinely do even remotely such things with US citizens unless there are huge issues of national security, aka a US Pa
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by jollybean 4y ago
It's conspiratorial and misrepresentation to talk about this - to the point of it being a lie. If a very rich American went to South America for a decade and then bombed a building in Rio, he would have 'financial relationship&#x2
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by jollybean 4y ago
It should not be surprising at all - you are 'allowed' to do what you have the power to do and get away with. China speaks with one voice, Xi, everyone else a thousand voices. US has 10 000 people at least who make up the power of
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by jollybean 4y ago
It's common, in the open, and Western Governments are too afraid to do anything material about it. That tells you who has power. It's bad.
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by jollybean 4y ago
I object to the 're-write as function'. Functions come with abstraction overhead. You don't know who will consume them, so you may have to put up type checks, null checks other BS. Also - functions split up the logic all over
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by jollybean 4y ago
The value you add is not a function of how cool or curious your work is. Try to derive some satisfaction out of the fact you are doing something needed and useful and that your 'micro contributions' matter probably to a lot of peo
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by jollybean 4y ago
Is anyone bothered by the consistent lack of YC/PG's ability to coherently articulate all of these lessons pedagogically? Almost all of their advice, even Siebel, is in the negative: 'don't do this' etc. Siebel does
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by jollybean 4y ago
I think this is not so good advice even in 2022. A lot of disagreements are arbitrary, emotional, lacking context, moreover, in any organization of human beings, public disagreements can amount to populism, narratives which doesn't hel
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by jollybean 4y ago
I think the biggest issue not mentioned is to not do it in public. Public arguments can be perceived as a threat to power even if the disagreement is fully benign on both sides, it's hard to argue in the commons. Better to do it in pri
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by jollybean 4y ago
For every 'issue raised' people in power have 5x of that to deal with one layer up, 25x two layers up and 100x 3 layers up. It's a steep pyramid and one of the hardest things for people to do is put their concerns in context.
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by jollybean 4y ago
You can still read and write printed script and cursive. And if you had to do it for more than 3 days, your skills would be back.
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by jollybean 4y ago
Golden age was Silicon i.e. Intel, Silver age was Internet i.e. Google, Bronze age was Social Media / Mobile Apps / SaaS. We're now into some kind of 'common age' which I think will be different than before because
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by jollybean 4y ago
That was never a commonly accepted form of writing, which is a material difference. I think over 18 years of education it's reasonable to teach kids both forms of writing. There is no lack of curriculum space. Most things we learn we f
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by jollybean 4y ago
Companies web sites are private property, they should be able to do as they please as long as their policies are consistent. At some point, some services cross into the threshold of 'public good' - in which case probably a hint mo
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by jollybean 4y ago
We subconciously make associations, and this works on everyone. In magazines, advertisers might want to know what article is facing their ad. Or which show their commercial would be on. And advertisers are very cautious of being associated
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by jollybean 4y ago
It doesn't matter whether it's in person, or in messaging. It's perfectly acceptable for a manager, and not remotely 'lacking in manner or courtesy' for a manager to say 'Can we chat later at 1?'. I'v
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by jollybean 4y ago
The line of thinking that you assume anyone's grievances are immediately legitimate is ... 'bad'. People whine and cry about any number of things, we have to be conscientious about what constitutes a reasonable grievance. The
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by jollybean 4y ago
Thanks to Julie for this; but I'm still a bit confused. Does anyone share a suspicion that these myriad of anachronisms and bits of weirdness creates unnecessary complexity that swim through the system like a goblin in the machine? And
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by jollybean 4y ago
I'm not projecting, and not making it political. Maybe it's you that are possibly projecting here, by assuming that because I referenced a political convention, that I'm making it political. (EDIT: Yes, I did write 'poli
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by jollybean 4y ago
Of course it is. The fact that they would write an article about it and don't have the self awareness to recognize they have a problem - but worse - the number of people on HN that seem to think there is a material problem in behaviour
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by jollybean 4y ago
The manager's behaviour is absolutely appropriate, and not impolite. Also, someone with antisocial anxieties like this probably would have difficulty with that kind of confrontation.
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by jollybean 4y ago
It gets bad when people with odd anxieties project them onto everyone around them. There's an entire social (edit:changed that word from 'political' which I didn't mean to say) orientation around this. See the hilarious
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by jollybean 4y ago
There's not much of a story here. He's making it a non-profit effectively, so he's not going to be personally getting income, and therefore no tax. That the family controls the non-profit is one thing, but they're not go
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by jollybean 4y ago
They keep talking about technology but the primary issue here is social phenomenon, these are memes. Cryto Kittes -> Beanie Babies -> Cabbage Patch Dolls Cryto itself is like an ideological movement, a bit akin to the heady utopian po
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by jollybean 4y ago
No, integrity was there before the legal system. My grandfather used to do business out of his wallet with cash and handshakes. He would do deals with farmers to make things in his workshop, and then get paid in pigs/parts of cows 6 mo
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by jollybean 4y ago
We should, but the problem is consumers want the protections offered by PayPal and VISA who do fraud analysis and can clawback money etc. etc.. There's definitely a space for 'digital cash', for sure, but consumers will prefe
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by jollybean 4y ago
Crypto is the 'least good' solution for people in regimes with crap currency. There are at least a dozen 'very solid' currencies that people anywhere should be able to transact in, notably the USD. All of which you &#x27
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by jollybean 4y ago
Except when you can't and you must undo a transaction, and if you can't, you can't use it. Like for example in the world of finance, where you have to be able to backtrack. Meaning such 'contracts' are least useful

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