mandelbrotwurst

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by mandelbrotwurst 3y ago
> solve poverty How?
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by mandelbrotwurst 3y ago
One way that I sometimes think about this is that we are all of these things, and that being one thing need not preclude being another as well.
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by mandelbrotwurst 3y ago
Nobody is getting so much food stuck on their teeth that it's having a significant impact on their overall diet and metabolism.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
The dehumanization in your message really detracts from your argument.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Yeah, I tend to take the position that the only appropriate way to request code style adjustments is via automation.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
What action could he take that would substantially shorten the duration of a nationwide economic downturn?
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Most likely he's not and the article contains an inaccuracy.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Interesting, any idea why? Did the executives struggle to focus individually or only as a collective?
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
> I have a private office already; it's in my house Not everyone has this. Commuting isn't free, but neither is a spare room at home.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
They can build housing that they rent out for below market rate. They can't build housing that costs below market rate to construct.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
> a period of rapid US economic expansion Over what time period? GDP growth is in a long term (i.e. multiple decades) downtrend. Growth is up over the last couple of years if you cherry-pick and use the COVID/lockdown crash the star
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Equally common I think are engineers who care where and how things run, but are either disincentivized from or even disallowed from working on those aspects of systems.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
The article states that they are not in the sentence immediately below the part where this quote was sourced.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
One of the arguments is that people do not objectively determine performance and value and are likely to become biased by spending time with people in-person.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Yeah, maybe also those folks are the target audience and enjoy reading content that reinforces their way of thinking?
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
The advantage is that you save money by not needing to pay rent.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Would you mind elaborating a bit on what has changed from your perspective please? I have never visited Mexico and would love to although I will admit hearing things of this sort and some of the footage I've seen of carjackings and mac
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
...and on top of that, many founders do want this for good reason! Even with "laser vision" with respect to the future of your product, it's likely that you'll benefit from advice from someone with decades of experience.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
More granular targeting is potentially concerning in itself depending on your threat model - e.g. if it's only possible to attack an entire town, then you're safe as long as any actor is not willing to attack the entire town, and
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
What does raw traffic that is not in the form of logs look like? Maybe you mean that they are streaming logs in real-time rather than sending log files in batches periodically? You don't mean sharing raw traffic as in forwarding actual
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Hi, why would beekeeping harm wild species please?
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
> I believe we are succeeding That's great, congratulations and keep it up! > To the latter part though You're right. I certainly didn't mean to imply that I would necessarily be entirely successful. I'm keenly awa
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
It isn't, but even if it were, the fact that alternatives exist isn't an argument for getting rid of something.
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Culture shifts are real. That doesn't mean they're justified. It's certainly not a topic without nuance, but I will say that if and when I have children I will do my best to ensure that they are capable, aware, and that their
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
Wait, what?! A 15 year old cannot be left unsupervised? The parent can't leave to pick up a loaf of bread and the child can't walk over to the neighbor's house? That's a horrible law and I sure hope there are no states w
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
We definitely agree and I also wouldn't exclude that! I tend to speak this way because I lean towards discussing near and mid-term futures as opposed to longer term ones in many conversations for a number of reasons. I do this in part
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
You're right. You need quite strong leadership from upper management to accomplish this as middle management will tend to bias for increasing their own headcount now. It's not even necessarily out of selfishness per se - more just
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
That's definitely frustrating feedback. Even so, I would consider asking for specifics about those opportunities were, potentially even reaching out to individual interviewer engineers who are more likely to share as opposed to only th
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
> these are probably the same companies that say "competitive work environment" somewhere on the job application so maybe employees should expect it Anecdotally, I've seen touchy feely corporate tone along with this strate
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by mandelbrotwurst 4y ago
They're not primarily about individual performance, but if a company decides to cut X% of some group, it's going to make an effort to cut those it can most afford to lose, which is going to tend toward those they evaluate as lower

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