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by klenwell 6y ago
On my team, we call this the "Jobs Rule" (i.e. Steve Jobs). As opposed to the Elon rule: promise the moon (or Mars).
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by klenwell 6y ago
> Gut feel, I'd guess that we might see as many serious long term effects as we see deaths - but there is a long way to go before we can prove or disprove that - I really hope I am wrong. I hope you are wrong, too. But this is anoth
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by klenwell 6y ago
Yes, this has been going on for a while. From 2013: Wall Street played a central role in the last housing boom by supplying easy — and, in retrospect, risky — mortgage financing. Now, investment companies like the Blackstone Group have swo
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by klenwell 6y ago
It looks to me like most Stross's predictions depend first on the event of the Brexit, which has not occurred yet as far as I know. Here's a map the NY Times published on 6/15/2005: http://graphics8.nytimes.co
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by klenwell 6y ago
I agree it's important not to underestimate Covid. It's occurred to me that one of the things that makes it so insidious and effective is that it is easy to confuse with more benign common illnesses like flu or cold. If it had the
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by klenwell 6y ago
My favorite example of this is Pasteur's revolutionary work in immunology itself: A careful reading of Pasteur’s presentations to the Academy of Sciences reveals that Pasteur was entirely mistaken as to how immunity occurs, in that he
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by klenwell 6y ago
I agree and have wholeheartedly embraced this idea as a manager. At the same time, I once had a manager who dinged me in an annual evaluation for asking too many questions and not knowing as much as I should about our applications as a seni
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by klenwell 6y ago
In a similar vein: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations I'm not convinced all of these are spurious.
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by klenwell 6y ago
There's also the rabbit pandemic covered in this recent New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/the-rabbit-out...
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by klenwell 6y ago
That bleak graphic at the top with all the out-of-business signs captures one of my biggest long-term worries about the pandemic. This passage, while not quite so bleak, sums it up: There is something utopian about Reef’s project, which in
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by klenwell 6y ago
> I've been in a couple industries and never seen the same. People hate their job/occupation field/company, and stay in it for a million reasons. The military is nicely set up to spit out those who won't buy into the
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by klenwell 6y ago
> That's more or less what some cities are going for albeit with shifting the released funds to community support programs, training, and other resources instead of into the pockets of donors and the rich via tax cuts and putting th
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by klenwell 6y ago
> Is it not possible to imagine effective laws? Good question. The Defund the Police movement should take notes from the conservative Starve the Beast movement. Defund the Police: Because Our Modern Supercriminals Are Too Smart for Law E
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by klenwell 6y ago
I agree that going outside, especially when wearing a mask and staying socially distanced, does not seem especially risky. Public officials in Southern California have generally been accepting of outdoor activity, so long as it hasn't
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by klenwell 6y ago
I would posit a couple reasons: 1. Death is a lagging indicator. Based on new cases here, I'd predict an upswing shortly: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQSSp19amBFU... 2. Some reports i
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by klenwell 6y ago
This is the part that gets me, too. Here's a summary I put together of where the US stands on the latest "reopen" benchmarks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQSSp19amBFU... It
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by klenwell 6y ago
My company also rushed to reopen our home office today. I and most my team are not located there so we continue to work remotely. But many of my co-workers were puzzled by the rush to get people back in the office after 3 months of working
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by klenwell 6y ago
The lesson here reminds me of one of my favorite Malcolm Gladwell essays about McDonald's failure to market healthy fast food back in the 90's: The McLean was a flop, and four years later it was off the market. What happened? Par
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by klenwell 6y ago
From thread: So a big part of right-wing troll culture centers on dogwhistles: something that regular people would see and think, "I don't see what the problem is," but has a less wholesome meaning underneath. For instance,
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by klenwell 6y ago
Good tip, but I thought you were going to go a different direction with this. More like: - Don't bother memorizing trivia. At least for work. Save room for the pleasurable trivia from your private life. Convince your team to set up a k
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by klenwell 6y ago
> So obsolete that you'd never guess that Wodehouse would outlive Orwell himself by 25 years. That is one of those "Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids" facts. I just looked it up. Wodehou
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by klenwell 6y ago
I guess you could call Orwell's essay an exoneration but it is, to my reading, no defense. It strikes me as sharply political and moral. And, I agree, scintillating literary criticism. Your excerpts go to the heart of the argument. If
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by klenwell 6y ago
I'll add that the punchline to the brief tossaway scene with the banjolele ensemble at the beginning of that episode elicited a full-scale guffaw from both wife and me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPNit4yev_4&t=
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by klenwell 6y ago
There was also an interesting New Yorker article on Wodehouse recently about his experience as a Nazi captive: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/01/wartime-for-wo... I never picked Wodehouse for
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by klenwell 6y ago
My grandmother spent the last several years of her life living off a fixed income happily occupied with continuing education classes at the local state university. It seemed like a pretty appealing lifestyle to me. It occurred to me that yo
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by klenwell 6y ago
The daily numbers are often misleading due to patchy reporting, lags in test results, and the vagaries of weekly testing patterns. New case numbers are often not put in context of number of tests being done. There are lots of pretty graphs
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by klenwell 6y ago
This New Yorker piece is a comical riposte to the NY Times article cited in the epigraph. I remember the original Times article well because it was discussed here on Hacker News and inspired this extraordinary comment recommending its own v
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by klenwell 6y ago
I actually like the quote. But there are a couple reasons Rumsfeld deserves to get raked over the coals for it: 1. The Bush Administration lied like war criminals to lead us into the Iraq War. So even though he may have been referring to te
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by klenwell 6y ago
The two Stitch Fix stylists that I've known both worked remotely and I got the impression that most of them did. Is that not true? If it is true, how do you relocate a remote worker?
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by klenwell 6y ago
Didn't Reddit do something like this with one of their April 1st experiments? What ever happened with that? Ah, here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit) Looks like it lasted about 4 months. So

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