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by lkrubner 4y ago
An interesting fact that I learned from the book Metazoa is that biological diversity was greater in the seas than on land, until about 130 million years ago, and then the explosion of diversity on land, at that time and still now, was beca
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This part of the essay admits that everyone tends to have their own interpretation of what Scrum means, and success actually comes down to whether you have the correct interpretation: "Creating your own version of Scrum is a rite of pa
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"One is a group of humans and the other is a group of machines, the rules/expectations are 100% different." This is exactly what they were saying in the comment you are replying to.
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Truly Agile development revolves around one-on-one meetings, not daily standups(smashcompany.com)
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I reject most of the agile rituals, including daily check-ins and weekly or two week sprints. If I personally have to check with someone, each day, to get good work from them, then my preference is to fire that person and hire someone else
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Is the Era of Low Interest Rates Over?(nytimes.com)
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Before 1800, and especially before 1500, the monetary economy was so small, and the barter economy was so large, that these economies did not have recessions as we understand them today. A modern recession, as we've understood them for
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by lkrubner 4y ago
You keep making the same mistake, which is to assume the existence of feelings disproves the existence of an objective reality. Reality exists outside of our feelings.
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The ancient Greeks did not define a recession as two quarters of negative growth— that has never been the definition of a recession, even if you go back several thousand years.
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That has never been the definition of a recession. All recessions are declared by NBER and NBER has always used a large number of metrics in their calculations. You can see the official list of "peak months" and "trough month
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"column oriented database" We all have our specialties, and that is fine. It is a common pattern that a developer gets comfortable with a particular tech stack, and then uses it for many years without seeing the need for much else
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You are simply playing with words in a manner that is pointless. There are clearly objective facts about this universe that can be plainly stated. And there are rules of logic that allow us to objectively identify certain sets of assertions
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"Not everyone agrees on what's great because it's subjective and different people value different things." You are confusing people's disagreement with the competing definitions of "objective" and "su
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"which I blame for the annoying verbal tick we all tend to get when explaining things where we say “Basically it’s…”, or “it’s really quite simple…”" Very true. I notice this in books on advanced deep-dives on graph theory, queue
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And yet, in my career, I've noticed the rewards are increasing for being the person who is willing to focus on one thing for a long time (for several weeks, or months). For instance, I've never been the kind of software developer
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It's incredible that he would say that, and what is worse is that he apparently also believes that. But self-selection never works out for a company. It is the most talented people who leave -- the least talented will hang onto their l
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"GloboHomo" makes clear what your agenda is.
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As pharrington points out, your words imply that you agree with me that terrorists are reprehensible people, or you are trying to argue that terrorists don't actually exist. Which is it?
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Shame them for their bad behavior. It does not matter how many of them there are. It does not matter if I am the only person in the world who knows what right behavior is, I still must follow my conscience.
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Shame them for their bad behavior.
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I envy your innocence, but sadly, the world has many reprehensible people in it.
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As the article suggests, these "diversity and inclusion" initiatives have negative effects when they become institutional mandates. And yet we can all agree that there is a strong moral argument in favor of ensuring that each prof
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> You're talking about destroying freedom of association and expression in order to root out reprehensible people with the wrong values We all have a strong moral obligation to root out "reprehensible people with the wrong valu
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> Q: Who gets to define "relatively harmless"? Each of us defines this for ourselves, using our own moral compass.
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In the USA, President Biden leads the Democrats and Mitch McConnel leads the Republicans, and both of them have been eager to send tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine, so it seems the center of both parties support Ukraine, and therefore
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This part is an accurate description of both parties on the far left and far right: "But any objective observer can see that there are a number of ideological elements—a tolerance for street violence; a desire to censor opposing viewpo
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Unless you've recently watched one of your own children starve to death and die then you are not on the Paleo diet. Before the Industrial Revolution (and linked Agricultural Revolution) humans spent roughly 10% of their lives facing fa
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Democracy for Realists, 2016 Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government By Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels Page 112-113 Scholars who have quoted Key’s colorful phrase have mostly failed to note that he used it derisively
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Something I wrote before: "One of the interesting things about Sarah Chayes book is her description of the relationship between the CIA and the military. In her view, the military was relatively powerless, and lacked the ability to fig
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How to handle an engineer who lies about bugs(smashcompany.com)
3 points by lkrubner 4y ago|0 comments

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