lostinquebec

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by lostinquebec 5y ago
That's the weird part. The argument seems to be that any temporal failure of a system means we need to change the system wholesale. There is no argument for why a different system would be better, merely the belief that the current sys
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
I think "stems from" is complicated in this instance by how much changed and how fast. Systems can take only so much change in a set period of time, and we've had a hell of a lot of change in under 2 years. Populations moveme
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
Read this before you start negotiating: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ It covers salary history and much more, all of it useful.
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
STEAR - not technically a word, but it is accepted, and hits the most common vowels and consonants.
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
I often wonder: wouldn't fines paid as a percentage of stock be a better deterrent? Taking stock off shareholders changes the fraud equation from risk of fine vs the profitability upside, to shareholder's losing real value. That&#
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
AFAIK Musk didn't found Tesla (nitpicking I know): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
I think the articles problem is the lack of a definition of "crisis", and that leads to a bad mismatch between the headline and what is a reasonable look at the data. My issues with the article are: It starts from a too high aggre
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
I think it's a veiled reference to traditional college?
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
> last time I checked, SpaceX wasn’t promising 80% of its rockets would work back in its early days. Is your criticism that these places are making false promises, or: > “Move fast and break things” doesn’t work when the “things” are
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
I wonder how https://vimeo.com/636460268 matches up to this? Tyler Cowen seems to have a slightly more sane response to a lot of this.
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
Your first point is very hopeful, but not what I've experienced. The bigger the company, the more slack for bad decisions. Your other points I think relate to scale. No advice can be universal, and if you read the article as absolutist
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
That's the right direction, but the wrong policy. Basecamp's "no talking politics on work channels" is more likely to be effective, in part because spending work hours on other things - e.g. a political non-company slack
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
> Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012) <------ 2012. Can you name a travel planning startup in the last 9 years?
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
.. and how many Ballmers!
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
And the most humanising 5%, the 5% that you use to either keep your head above water, or buy a tiny luxury you never do, like a meal out or even a steak to cook at home. I lived by myself on welfare in the last 12 months of university, and
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
The election wins of Trump, Boris Johnson, Brexit and The Liberals in Australia show that data collection really matters. Similarly the financial crisis of 2009 shows that missing data can really matter. That's the key point of the quo
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
The articles gets things right as well. Cuomo's decisions were atrocious and clearly wrong without the need for hindsight. School closures in the US are odd, and varied to the point of following no science and in large part being polit
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
By that logic, if the run rate > earnings on endowment... fundraise?
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
The 1% don't WRITE, so much as things like formatting, grammar and spell correction. That is important, but it is not the writing of wikipedia.
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
That's not an example because: 1. Basecamp is not OSS, and the people involved were all employees. 2. As employees, if you worked with someone for years,"it came out just how problematic they were" is a stretch.
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
I don't understand how this works, so forgive my ignorance. Wouldn't the Wuhan lab be able to disprove this really easily? How often do they sequence viruses? Couldn't they show categorically that COVID-19 is not a descendant
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by lostinquebec 5y ago
Isn't there a tax implication? Tax is one reason part why people choose non-monetary remuneration. I'm not American, but my guess is in all jurisdictions that tax would vary based on the type of non-monetary remuneration.
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by lostinquebec 6y ago
Do you have a counter factual? It seems to me too early to predict a lot about Eastern Europe. < 20 years is not a long time. 2007 means that the first children born after Romania joined the EU are 8 years away from leaving university. Y
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by lostinquebec 6y ago
I think it is likely an attempt to beat the echo chamber. If your interests are niche, the only ways to avoid showing content that is, well, cliched is to latch on to the one offs and show a small percentage of those, or show truly random c