karl11

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by karl11 6y ago
Employees can ask for better, but when you already work at the company that pays and treats their employees like Google, I'm not sure what more you are entitled to. It seems clear to me that these are people who are unwilling to sacrif
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by karl11 6y ago
Exactly - people don't want to sacrifice their paycheck for their principles, so instead they are forming a union so they can try and change the company and have it both ways.
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by karl11 6y ago
Don't think we've ever seen Hollywood in the modern era without unions, so not sure how you can claim it's "undeniable" the industry is better off. We basically have no clue if it's better off or not. Unions ar
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by karl11 6y ago
I can only assume this is California’s version of seppuku.
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by karl11 6y ago
You're right that it's not how this works. Media organizations are not interested truth or accuracy of their stories, but simply how many ads and subscriptions the stories can sell. And that's not the say they are motivated b
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by karl11 6y ago
Morgan Housel consistently writes great essays. Crazy to me how much he puts out at such a high quality level. I have submitted a few and upvoted a few but think this is one of the first ones to make it to the front page.
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Facebook says Apple rejected its attempt to tell users about App Store fees(reuters.com)
4 points by karl11 6y ago|0 comments
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by karl11 6y ago
So good
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by karl11 6y ago
Of course. As I stated, it is a trade-off. I think the most important thing is that everyone is honest about this fact - nothing is free.
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by karl11 6y ago
Incentives are powerful, and typically get the result they are incentivizing in the end. All taxes are a form of incentive, we should always be careful of taxing things that we want more of. If you favor a wealth tax, you are implicitly arg
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by karl11 6y ago
Everyone building no code tools is learning or will learn that the problem most businesses have is not a lack of coding skill, or the inability to build the algorithm, but rather how to structure and model data in a sensible way in the firs
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by karl11 6y ago
I don't think the author is advocating that founders take on a ton of of personal debt, just that historically it was a filtering function that is now absent. I would imagine that this filter function can be replaced by something else
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by karl11 6y ago
I think this is right, but would add that it is also key that the vast majority of here have a lot of trust in YC + moderators and nearly universally view them as good faith actors. This wouldn’t work on CNN.com.
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by karl11 6y ago
This is gross.
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by karl11 6y ago
Hasn’t anyone read The Dark Forest?
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Slightly Skew Systems of Government(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by karl11 6y ago|0 comments
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by karl11 6y ago
They aren’t being consistent. Basecamp is monetized identically and is in the App Store. So is Fastmail. So is Slack. Etc.
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by karl11 6y ago
They aren’t being consistent. Basecamp is monetized identically and is in the App Store. So is Fastmail. So is Slack. Etc.
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by karl11 6y ago
That is some nice looking code!
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by karl11 6y ago
Just like how TV shows died once they became exclusive to one network or streaming service!
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by karl11 6y ago
Small, local, and diverse are antifragile qualities - farms with all their eggs in one basket are suffering, and those with optionality and flexibility are thriving. Like many things in life.
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by karl11 6y ago
Roam Research is awesome. The lack of pretension around structure and hierarchy of your data is so refreshing. I have used Notion extensively and still think Notion is superior as a place to house canonical unstructured data for groups. But
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by karl11 7y ago
Based on this and all the other anecdotal studies plus all the people treated with it for other ailments, it seems fairly certain that at a minimum this treatment is not causing more harm. Given that plus all the indications that it seems t
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by karl11 7y ago
Kind of a misleading headline. Elliot has a long history of activist investing primarily motivated by profits and having nothing to do with politics.
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by karl11 7y ago
I have basically stopped buying anything from Amazon that I can just buy direct from the manufacturer. Especially clothes, kids toys, etc. Most online stores now have shipping that is almost as fast, and 9 times out of 10 an extra couple of
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by karl11 7y ago
Bloomberg still has not retracted their spy chip story ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h... ). Until then, I would take anything you read in Bloomberg w/ a grain of salt.
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by karl11 7y ago
Medicine comes down to human-to-human interactions (doctor and patient) and those are really hard to scale. One Medical is basically a novelty offering nice offices and predictable visit times. It takes some of the most common complaints y
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by karl11 7y ago
My takeaway from this comment is that you didn't really read what he wrote. An accidental moderate, by his definition, could hold zero moderate opinions. E.g. it is possible all of their opinions are 0 or 100 on a left/right spect
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by karl11 7y ago
High Output Management by Andy Grove, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz would be my top 3.
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by karl11 7y ago
Sounds like there should probably be multiple ICAAN organizations. They have been a relatively benevolent monopoly but that is unlikely to continue forever.

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