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by lkrubner 3y ago
Painting all experts with such a broad brush leads to what is an epistemic waste land in which you are cut off from everyone else's knowledge, since you can dismiss any belief you dislike by simply declaring it expert knowledge.
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Keep in mind these things: 1. Fully understood, respectful leadership means respect for everyone, not just the person I happen to be talking to right now. Aggressively pushing Jerry to be more honest in the future was, in part, how I demons
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by lkrubner 3y ago
That's mostly the fault of the Republicans. After the crisis of 2008 we could have bounced back using either fiscal policy or monetary policy. Congress could have spent a few trillion in stimulus to get the economy back on track. By 20
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by lkrubner 3y ago
If this subject interests anyone, I have written a great deal on the topic: "Why are you lying to me? What the hell is wrong with you?" https://respectfulleadership.substack.com/p/a-true-story-sof... "Ho
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by lkrubner 3y ago
We should ask, when will AI make a discovery on its own? For instance, computers should be able to understand numbers, and run analysis on numbers. Computers have complete access to every fact that humans know about numbers. So numbers shou
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by lkrubner 3y ago
See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_modern_humans This population in Belgium and Spain seems to have died out: "Earlier EEMH (10 tested in total), on the other hand, did not seem to be ancestral
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by lkrubner 3y ago
My own guess would be the final years of the Ice Age saw too many changes in the northern hemisphere, erratic weather that wiped out everyone, but I have not seen that in an official source, except in discussions of Neanderthals. Modern Hum
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by lkrubner 3y ago
I've been meaning to write this up in one place, and maybe this week would be a good time to do so. I thought the news from Morocco was now well known, see here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22114 H
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by lkrubner 3y ago
At this point the argument isn't that people stayed in Africa, but that everyone outside of Africa died. At this point the 3 oldest fossils we have that look like homo sapiens are all from Morocco or the Levant or Greece, suggesting ho
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by lkrubner 3y ago
I worked on a "Salesforce killer" that was actually meant to make Salesforce stronger by fixing its biggest known problem: that sales people hate using it. Our goal was to let sales people send text messages, which we would then u
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The Dangers of an Illiberal Democracy(demodexio.substack.com)
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I recall the negative reaction I got, on Hacker News and on Twitter, back in 2018, when I made the point that the Python community was one of the main groups driving the adoption of Docker: "Package management in Python is so hopelessl
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by lkrubner 3y ago
But people didn't rely on search, as much, back then. I belonged to a few forums, and I'd visit one or two portals, almost every day as my starting point on the Web, and from there people would be recommending things, and I'd
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Seething with rage, he attacked my work, to hide how urgently he needed my help(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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"More time" would equal "lower ROI" unless there is some magic inflection point that would cause a dramatic upward leap in gross margins. Gross margins, in this case, is mostly cost-per-user-acquisition. But "this n
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Some of the best people will say all of the wrong things during an interview(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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Is it possible to use logic, rigor, and debate to understand people?(demodexio.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 3y ago
Journalism is essential to democracy. Without journalism, democracy must die. See here for details: https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-an-illiberal...
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Full of contempt, she refused to talk to the engineers(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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How to deal with weird passive-aggressive text messages from your co-workers(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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What should you do when an engineer resists all feedback from the product team?(respectfulleadership.substack.com)
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by lkrubner 4y ago
We need a more sophisticated debate about the impact of the Internet. It has been a failure by any measure, especially given the high hopes we had for it back in the 1980s and 1990s. Here is productivity during the 25 years after each date
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by lkrubner 4y ago
Why was this downvoted? Everything I wrote is factually accurate, and I linked to my source.
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by lkrubner 4y ago
They have a system of referendums that should remind everyone of why Plato and Aristotle of the dangers of the tyranny of the majority. An especially awful example has been Switzerland's treatment of women. In 1958 the men voted on the
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language, condemns the effort that succeeded." That's incorrect on a few levels. Aaronso
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by lkrubner 4y ago
You have a weird theory that ignores actual history. Most of the West was able to offer society affordable housing for much of the post-war period. And you are, again, confusing a preference with "unaffordable" which is an absolut
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"All else being equal, we would expect 50% of homes to be unaffordable to a median buyer." Unaffordable? Why? There is a difference between "dislike" and "unaffordable." I'd expect the median buyer to want
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by lkrubner 4y ago
"talk to teammates about their lives" Building stronger ties with teammates is part of work. Progressive companies encourage this, and this is why some progressive companies have pushed people to return to the office.
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by lkrubner 4y ago
People take a lot of time off when they work from home. I am as guilty of this as anyone. People tend to focus more on work while they are in an office. Also, it is much easier for managers to organize the work when the people being organiz
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by lkrubner 4y ago
In his book Metazoa, Peter Godfrey-Smith mentions that life in the ocean was more diverse than life on land, until a 130 million years ago, when diversity on land became exceptional, mostly driven by a feedback loop between insects and plan

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