koonsolo

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by koonsolo 4y ago
> This is exactly what the people who currently hold bitcoin are suggesting to those who don't. I never suggested this, as you could see a few replies up: > Right now, you came late to the game, so don't expect a x100. The r
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Your argument is that once it's high risk, it's gambling. Sorry but that is just not the case. It's a ratio. If you don't understand this, then I agree that you should stay away from anything that involves risk managemen
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by koonsolo 4y ago
The reward/risk ratio of lottery tickets is very well known. And it's obviously not in your favor. So it's basically a no brainer not to invest in them. Things like startups for example also have a very high risk rate, but al
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by koonsolo 4y ago
No it stays the same if you have an investment portfolio and only invest max 5% in high risk assets. Assume you invest 1% of your portfolio in Bitcoin. What is your downside? 1%. Not that high, is it? What is your upside? Maybe x100, so dou
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by koonsolo 4y ago
I agree with you on the El Salvador part, but not on the investment part. > Investments are sound based on probability and risk beforehand. Investing in bitcoin had a limited downside (lose 100%), but a very high upside (reaches it'
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Motorcycle physics are very interesting to say the least. My favorite is this: What happens to the suspensions when you brake? Front one compresses while the back one extends. That one was easy. Now this: What happens to the suspensions whe
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by koonsolo 4y ago
You made a generic claim that different cultures bring different ideas and skills. I have a hard time understanding what that means in practice at the workplace. That's why I'm asking for an example. I still don't see how it
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Ok, another problem a software engineer could encounter then?
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Damn I'm over 40. I lost my edge there. But on the bright side, I can score an extra point during the hiring. Crazy.
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by koonsolo 4y ago
So how do these companies know the sexual preference of a candidate? They just ask in the interview?
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by koonsolo 4y ago
That is true. Surprisingly we have a pretty diverse team, so no questions there :). But let's assume that wasn't the case and questions are asked. I think I would move a big part of the interview process to a standardised written
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Developers are in high demand in EU, so I wouldn't worry about that. Besides, if you don't hire for skills but for optimizing some unrelated statistics, you will need plenty of good developers to clean up the mess.
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Can you give an example?
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Can you give an example on how a white male software developer would develop something differently than for example an asian woman, and how the cultural difference would translate into a different approach of writing code?
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by koonsolo 4y ago
I do a lot of hiring, and co-hired a lot of my colleagues. I would never hire for diversity, and would explicitly refuse to do so. Why? Everyone in my team is hired for 1 thing: excellent developers. Nobody is questioning why they are the
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by koonsolo 4y ago
The Coconut Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sl8KJDOqK4 Wikipedia: a 2001 multi-award winning documentary film about the struggle of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island during the Bougainville Civil Wa
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by koonsolo 4y ago
So do you want more socializing, or are you OK with your current situation?
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Doesn't this all come down to the separation of powers? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as citizens can vote on their leaders, you have a democracy. This has nothing to do with how much power the government has or wants over its citizens. As long as they can vote on different represent
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by koonsolo 4y ago
I think the "innocent until proven guilty" rule that we have in our justice system prevents things like this to happen (best effort of course). But for these companies, it's probably easier and cheaper to do the "guilty
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by koonsolo 4y ago
I still feel football coaches bring more expertise on the table. They handle the strategy used and which player does what. For software development, those things should be in the hands of the developers and architects.
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by koonsolo 4y ago
> Similarly, being closer to "the knowledge" tends to make you poorly informed about other important aspects of your business, almost unavoidably. This information is often critical to actual success, more than IC's/e
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by koonsolo 4y ago
I think a lot here miss the main point of the article. Managers used to be smarter than their subordinates, so they could steer the work. With knowledge work, as soon as you turn manager, you're away from the knowledge. That means all
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by koonsolo 4y ago
A single case doesn't invalidate the statistics of a larger group. You being top 1% should know that.
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by koonsolo 4y ago
I'm willing to bet most gifted kids are born in the first half of the year, and most not so smart ones in the second half. Same in sports by the way: most "gifted" players are born at the start of the year: https:/&#x2F
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by koonsolo 4y ago
One of my daughters is 8, and she scores very high in school. Relative to my other kids way better at that age, and relative to the other kids in school too. You might call that gifted. Surprisingly she is also taller than most kids in her
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by koonsolo 4y ago
There is another way, and I know they sometimes use it in Belgium: let the smarter kids help out the ones that still struggle with the material. That way they learn how to properly explain things, teach others. Maybe they don't see mor
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Giving it a 1/10 score just means that person is very angry for some reason, not because they objectively evaluated the series and gave it a 1/10 rating because it's terrible on all fronts. Giving it a 3/10 means that se
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by koonsolo 4y ago
Same here, I think I will enjoy the rest of this series too. From what I observed, the negativity stems from a few different groups: - Tolkien fans that are very critical towards derived works. - anti-woke groups that take offence in racial
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by koonsolo 4y ago
For me, writing code is mostly about communicating with people and less about communicating with the computer. I try to structure my code in a way that my future self or any other colleague can understand what's going on. Of course the

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