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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Actually, he won thanks to ~63,000,000 votes. You’re also trying to make it sound like there was something uniquely nefarious about his campaign. He used the same marketing tactics that all recent campaigns have used. The same tactics that
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I don't understand this line of reasoning at all, but it's getting repeated a lot on HN. Is the AI expected to hit cyclists, but not pedestrians? Shouldn't it consider any moving object to be a hazard?
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
>but it's now blatantly clear to me that he deliberately used authoritarian tactics to win the election. How on earth is such a baseless comment voted to the top of this thread? The truth is that this is a scandal, only because it i
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Compare your straw man to a CEO, who’s responsible for 10,000 families being able to pay their bills and feed themselves. All you’re describing is being lower down a hierarchy, which naturally tends to come with poor stress management and h
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Putting aside the matter of competency for a moment (which I think is being too oversimplified in this discussion), this kinda touches on a positive feature of a free market. Which is that large organisations are by nature less efficient th
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
But we're not talking about how stressful a job is. You said being a CEO would be fun. For starters, unless you've got a lot of executive experience, if you had to turn up to work tomorrow and be the CEO, you'd be awful at it
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
You're really only talking about a minority of CEOs here. Most of the time, failing as a CEO will mean the end of your career.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
The CEO job is the most high pressure job in an organisation, and by definition comes with the greatest level of responsibility. Statistically speaking, you would likely be a terrible CEO, and hate doing it.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I don’t know where the metaphor is supposed to go, but I’d imagine that the next stage for AWS is to move further into SaaS products, and to introduce new products and features that lower the engineering overheads of operating on AWS.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Surprising or not, AWS makes a lot of sense when you look at Amazons core competency. Logistics. Look at any individual AWS service by itself, none of them are all that groundbreaking or innovative. What is groundbreaking is that Amazon has
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
He absolutely was. Personally I think one of the saddest things about this is that Susskind has lost his greatest (friendly) intellectual rival. Those two spending years arguing with each other over the information paradox was absolutely fa
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
It's the one thing I really miss about Spotify. When I got into work on Monday, I'd just fire up the weekly playlist, and it would always have enough new content I liked to keep my playlists fresh for the week.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
>Apple Music seems to ignore what I dislike, and will recommend it anyway Before I moved to Apple Music, Spotify had spent the past several years trying to get me to listen to Fleet Foxes, no matter how many times I asked them to stop. A
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Where I currently work, we teach all of our BAs (regardless of how technical they start out), to use SQL (with redash), and some of them use Tableu. As this approach has been running quite smoothly for us, would SAS offer anything that a te
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
My mother in law has taught me a bunch of her recipes, and a lot of them have a step that she describes “...until it has a smell”, like “fry the spices until they have a smell”, which is actually a specific aroma, but I have no idea how to
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Now that I think about it, a lot of the people I most enjoy working with in the office are parents, and the kind of parents who are obviously really good parents.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
My own (non-scientific) opinion is related to this. In my experience, resistance to negative emotions is a much more crucial ingredient to happiness. As I’ve been gradually maturing during my life, I think the biggest improvement is that I’
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I’ve always understood that one of the most important pieces of the PM role is to act as a sort of negotiator between design/development and all other stakeholders. Customers and everybody else in the business all want their own things
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Ya got me. “All” is a hyperbole. But it is undeniable that contemporary feminism dominates universities, you really have to be quite blind to miss that. It is also the dominant culture in Silicon Valley, of which Alphabet and Amazon are maj
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Yes, decades of enrolment data is what we would call ‘empirical’.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I know who Daniel is. We’re all free to disagree with the moderators, you know?
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
The poster was asserting that market forces don’t determine remuneration according to their satisfaction, and that instead people should be remunerated according to what the poster thinks they deserve. How is criticising this as communism n
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I’ve made an entirely valid and civil criticism of another posters utopian musings, and all you’re interested in is trying to figure out how you could twist it into being against the rules. Why don’t you contribute something to the conversa
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
The evidence is clear in the choices people make. There are very clear gender differences in what people choose to study, and the jobs they subsequently pursue. You can’t simply blame ‘systemic oppression’ or ‘hostile environments’ for this
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I was referring to companies that are perceived to have ‘cultural issues’, like uber. Not companies that have a few dickheads working for them, which is going to be just about every company over a certain size. The presupposition is that th
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Market forces decide what people get paid. The poster I replied to is suggesting that instead people should just do what ever jobs they enjoy, and should be paid some amorphous idea of what they ‘deserve’. That’s exactly what communism is.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Everybody gets paid the same, without any consideration to their productivity, or the level and scarcity of their skills. Congratulations, you’ve invented communism.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Except there’s plenty of evidence for the former, and close to none for the latter. STEM is a field that has embraced diversity and equality of outcomes, with a genuine sense of desperation. STEM and especially technology companies are comp
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
The best managers I’ve ever had were blunt and somewhat disagreeable. The person I currently report to is like that, and I absolutely love it. Both of our time is valuable, and I never have to muck around with him. He tells me what he wants
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
What you've described is essentially just a high risk strategy. Work at a bunch of different start ups, and hope that eventually you end up working for one that doesn't fail, and yields some returns. The greatest predictors for su

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