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But this is something that enterprise customers keep asking for. I think the "pain point" is well known: companies can easily spend $10 million or $20 million customizing their Salesforce implementation, but then the salespeople h
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Having worked at startups that wanted to take Alexa into the enterprise space, I'll say that Amazon has been absolutely opposed to the idea, which feels like a missed opportunity. Up to a point, I can admire the product discipline that
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I worked at WineSpectator.com in 2012-2013. I'll say this in their favor: the wine tastings were blind. A bunch of interns would set up the wine tasting, pouring the wine into glasses and then hiding the bottles. Only after everything
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I strongly agree with this: "In contrast, I have felt very burned out in relatively nice jobs - thoroughly pleasant environments with minor workloads." For me, I feel the most intense burnout when I see stupidly wasted opportuniti
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Back in the 1980s Apple used to write checks to the people who were coming up with the fundamentally important pieces of its eco-system. Bill Atkinson (Hypercard) got money even after he left Apple. The application switcher, the drop down m
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10 years ago I was at a place where a new CEO came in and fired 80% of the tech team. It was a hard scramble for the surviving engineers, including me, and we had some episodes of being down, but we pulled through it and the site survived.
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"but there's nothing ambiguous about "look it up on the wiki" That is ambiguous. I would assume you were running a personal wiki project, and you meant that, or you meant the wiki at your place of work. This isn't l
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Strongly agree. In normal times there are scammers and people trying to set up Ponzi schemes, but they don't typically fool sophisticated investors. These last 30 years have seen the markets grow increasingly deranged. In that sense, B
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The historical evidence suggests otherwise.
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The law matters. Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act matters. And in the old days, for several centuries, the laws regarding libel and slander mattered, but of course at the moment they are not being aggressively pursued. Nowadays you
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In her book (and later a television show) "Call The Midwife", the author Jennifer Worth recalls that while she was in school she picked up a medical book from the 1890s and she read this sentence: "Should labor continue for m
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Regarding economics, the economist Paul Krugman was the first to say it, in an essay in 1994, when he suggested that the slowdown in Japan might reveal what was going to happen to all other advanced nations. It was an idea he then developed
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My worst prediction ever was at the end of my book, when I struck a positive note about voice interfaces. The startup I was at in 2015 had the pitch "Let your sales people talk directly to Salesforce" and we pushed the limits of w
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"US culminating in the crash in 2011" The official date given by NBER says that the recession began in December of 2007, which put the economy into a fragile state, which was intelligently managed for another 9 months, before circ
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Again, your dates are badly wrong. You might want to research this subject before you comment on it. In terms of the Eskimo and other aboriginal people who migrated into or across Beringia, the relevant dates would be: "It is believed
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Your response is incoherent. Are you saying that a person in France, at latitude 48.0, gets less in UV rays than aboriginal people living north of the Arctic Circle, up north of latitude 67.0? A simple explanation based on UV rays would sug
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The extreme whiteness of modern Europeans is thanks to the Gulf Stream, which was not necessarily working at the same level of intensity in the distant past, especially during periods of glaciation. As such, the skin color we should expect
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If a Western nation joins the fighting in Ukraine, what will happen?(demodexio.substack.com)
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I believe that is what Baybal was trying to say, though perhaps they could have phrased it more clearly.
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If anyone is interested in some speculative explorations of scenarios, to game out the end of the Russia-Ukraine war, then you might be interested in "If a Western nation joins the fighting in Ukraine, what will happen?" https:&#
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About this: "Studies of these bones’ isotopes have shown Neanderthals in northern Europe got 80-90% of their protein from animals. That’s up there with the wolves and hyenas. In the arid southern parts of Europe we’re not so lucky. Col
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baybal's comment is now dead, I'm not sure why. It has some grammar mistakes, but I've seen much worse comments on Hacker News get upvoted. I think baybal was trying to make the point that Ukraine needs a large volunteer forc
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Elon Musk has now taken several steps that make advertisers nervous (this step one included). As such, by his own admission, Twitter is now suffering a massive fall in revenue. Therefore, such cuts are the very definition of "penny wis
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The first season was very, very good, the second season I could tolerate, mostly because it felt like it was a transitional season, and perhaps the 3rd season would be better. But then the 3rd season went off a cliff. I watched the 5 episod
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Just for the sake of argument, I'd ask everyone to consider the counterfactual. Let's talk about a normal year, for starters, to have a base to talk about. Suppose we have: 5% increase in nominal money supply Which breaks down int
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"We’ve had artificially low interest rates (+ QE) for over a decade now." No, you misunderstand the situation. We had artificially high interest rates for at least the period from late 2008 to about 2014 -- if we assume the Taylor
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"When you can't fix the economy" The GDP was expanding at a fantastic rate, at the time. The 1960s were the last decade of strong economic growth, the USA has not seen anything like it in the last 50 years. Only the end of th
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"Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success" -- that is the original article on Hacker News, under which we are having this conversation.
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While RFK sometimes got help from Edwin Guthman and Peter Edelman, he also spoke extemporaneously sometimes, most famously when he had to announce the death of Martin Luther King to a crowd that hadn't yet heard the news: https:/
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Robert Kennedy, on the campaign trail in 1968: "Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $8

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