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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I've never seen this. Is this some weird right wing talking point? I have seen a disconnect between what is covered in ethics classes and the types of scenarios students will encounter in the working world. My (one) ethics class was us
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Most?
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I'd hate to work at a place where the backlog comes from the PM and the requirements come from a mix of PM and UX. Do you really think your PMs know that much more than your Engineers, Data Scientists, Ops/Business, etc.? This jus
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I do. At Walmart. It drives me slightly insane. Wish I could turn that part of myself off more often.
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
There's some truth to this but it's also an anti-semitic trope. There are a whole bunch of Jewish people on the Left that don't support the current Israeli regime.
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Tell that to every startup out there
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Yes! And stakeholders will come to you with tasks and expect your team members to deliver as fast as you used to deliver. Sometimes they will ask you to put another "resource" on the task to make it go faster. Which is not how any
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
You and the other replies focus too much on the Jewish community within the US. Support for Israel is very strong in the US, particularly among Republicans, because of the rise of Evangelical Christians. Evangelicals have ... religious reas
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Was it really the Zionists that did this? Or a Trump administration that enjoys disrupting academia and experts in general.
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
It's not as bad as the article makes it sound. It is an operations research program with some startup-y courses tacked on. The post is just LinkedIn style cringe mixed with the hubris of Stanford alumni. The authors seem narcissistic b
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
are we going to overlook the big orange elephant in the white house? listen to him talk. it's hard for me to believe he wouldn't be labeled a moron by most if he wasn't the President.
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Hmm... as someone who lives in LA... I think your news stream is polluted. There were maybe 100 bad actors. Responding to people in military gear vanishing day labourers and fruit sellers and seamstresses. Bringing in 10,000 National Guard
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
So much of academic life revolves around bringing in grant money. This is particularly true in STEM fields and at the best research schools. There are ever increasing administrative hoops to jump through to bring in that grant money. And gr
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
There's been a ton of research on this and the conclusion has been that light rail does indeed attract more development than bus rapid transit, but that there is no net gain in development across an urban area. It just shifts developme
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I worked on the earlier iteration of this at Uber. I was curious why more people didn't call it out at the time. Yes, using cell phones and Uber's market share to make demand responsive microtransit is an interesting idea. Yes, it
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I both agree and disagree. Microtransit is based on several small innovations on traditional fixed route bus service. Uber didn't invent microtransit.
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I kinda love this idea. I wonder if there would be any additional value to having the AI access the departing employees documents and/or code. Or maybe coming up with a first draft of certain materials for the departing employee to cor
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I would guess that we will be in this phase for awhile. HN seeing just how much AI can do and possibly seeing fewer jobs for developers. The Economist seeing flat productivity and employment numbers, adjusting for other factors. My educated
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Can any controller or person who otherwise works in this area comment on the tracingwoodgrains blog post? I always see it linked on HN, but never mentioned anywhere else. Seems like there would be a huge scandal with lot of commentary and l
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
I haven't been able to find it since but at one point I came across a quote saying that NextGen was the "greatest failure in the history of organized labor." Or something to that effect. A bit of an overstatement but I have t
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Love this! A really concise way of summarizing something that's long bugged me about how Silicon Valley operates today.
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
"Not to learn from history"? We're in the twilight zone now. It's the right wing that is currently enacting tariffs, scapegoating immigrants, pushing for appeasement in Ukraine, etc. The Republican party traded logic for
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by kj4211cash 1y ago
Do you really believe this? I've never met anyone opposed to birthright citizenship for the US. Our shared history, values, and national culture are all about immigration so this isn't computing for me. Plus the law seems settled
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
This is a really interesting take. I find the argument that AI will lead to mass unemployment both historically and economically illiterate. There will always be some things a person can do that a machine can not (yet) do that is worth some
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
There's very little in the way of evidence demonstrating your "sensible" hypothesis. On the other hand, a lot of ICs have experience working in office and at home and have noticed we do better work at home.
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
They don't proffer a reason that makes sense because they don't really need to. They make the rules. They can BS their way through a question at the All Hands meeting or on CNBC. It's pretty apparent that at many companies th
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
I agree. Just goes to show how difficult it is to have lasting, fundamental societal change. I will say that zoom fatigue is real and remote work can be problematic for people that are mainly in meetings. But we could have solved this with
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
Exactly this. I've worked at a few places now where there were RTO policies that many workers ignored. But periodically low performers and/or people that had lost political battles were denied promotions or fired and their poor of
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
Loved this comment. I'm 46 and dislike my job at a mega corp, especially as compared to my previous startup job. There are way too many cooks in the kitchen on every halfway interesting project. But the mega corp job pays too much to l
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by kj4211cash 2y ago
It's interesting how many commenters are defending PIPs. To me it shows an inability to think beyond the ways in which many tech co's operate today. There are so many better ways to deal with an employee who is failing to meet exp

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