josh_fyi

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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Sure, a company can be pressured successfully. But if a company allows political pressures to distract it, it will not thrive.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
No company can thrive when putting politics over profit.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
The skeuomorphic pretence of "checking out" a book cannot succeed, especially as users discover how easy Library Genesis is.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
"Solve for the equilibrium": Only the tiniest fraction of superstars, those with nothing better to do, and foreigners from poor countries will go for a PhD. Beyond that, the talented will avoid the PhD.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
These will break more often, and be expensive to fix; the result will be that lots of cars will be on the road without a rear-view.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
The IRS has tremendous power. They can find small discrepancies (everyone has some) and tell you the penalty is 5 years in prison, or offer you the chance to pay $50K instead as a penalty, or you can pay $150K to lawyers to fight it and ma
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
I'm on your side. But some, maybe most people, prefer synchronous talking. And even with async, making a point of daily updates keeps teams focused.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
The sleaze will slime you, and it's hard to escape it, regardless of whether you use Infrastructure as Code or do things by hand. Even by hand, it would be easy to do destroy/create -- even if update would have been better -- and
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
The article makes good pro-mask points. But--as is not mentioned in the article--some such laws have been passed to stop violence from groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
I quiz people on how their part of the company is going. "So, are we making our quarter"? "What does the world think about our company?" "Did we really get the CD system working like it's supposed to?" Peo
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
> "Never open one of your 401(k) statements from the day you start work to the day you retire, 40 or 50 years later." Metaphorically, yes. But you absolutely should open them periodically. If there has been theft or an error, y
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
IBM products have no license-checking built in, on purpose. They want you to make more copies than your negotiated license agreement allows. Then, when the auditor comes in, they charge you the sky-high list price, backdating it as well.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
But it's a solar calendar! If you are going to make a calendar that's all about the moon, find a way to make it lunar or lunisolar!
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Israel has an old-school paper-based procedure, with cross-party observers present at every step. This wastes a lot of paper, but is very hard to hack. https://www.timesofisrael.com/can-israels-election-count-be-...
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Nepal should sign a Swiss concessionaire to turn Base Camp into a tourist destination and build a cable car as high as possible. Charge a lot. Limit the number of climbing licenses to what the mountain can bear and charge the market-clearin
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Why hasn't the city fenced off the knoll, and built something, say a utility shed, on it? It's good to see that you can fight City Hall and that City Hall can be incompetent in their brutality.
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by josh_fyi 7y ago
Why does Uber agree to pay most of the arbitration fee? Why don't they write a contract that requires drivers to pay it?
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
It's not just the potential sexual threat that generates discomfort. A friendly pat on the shoulder can also be interpreted as a dominance display.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
It's all about the requirements. For a first iteration, it can make sense to do things insecurely -- for example, to seed internal product discussion and for a partial testing of quality.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
The actual justification for non-directly-observable metaphysics is Occam's Razor.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
Great idea! But the vast majority of people will find that their family name is taken.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
What is the difference between libgen.io and b-ok.org? They both seem to be in the Library Genesis family yet not just mirrors of each other -- for example, there are some books that I can find on b-ok.org but not by libgen.io.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
Inpired by this classic from Steve Blank of lean startup Fame. https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
Great movie, though. Watch it!
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
This set of maps is a fabrication http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/07/debunking-map-that-...
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
Note that the "Anne Frank Center" is a political advocacy organization that simply uses the name, but has no real connection to the person beyond that.
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Ask HN: Office decision-makers: Why did you chose open space?
4 points by josh_fyi 8y ago|1 comments
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
That is strangely reminiscent of Larry Niven's "The Magic Goes Away."
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
You know a company is in its last legs when it turns to patent-trolling.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
The obvious next step is to buy a fake expensive watch. It doesn't have to carry a brandname or even a fake name based on a brandname. But there are dozens of luxury watch brands. So unless they are an aficionado, most people won&#x

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