mindvirus

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by mindvirus 4y ago
You're not wrong, but to make an analogy, someone who was hired to be a great runner can't really be blamed when they're forced to swim and they're not very good at it. You lose the race either way though of course.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I went through some pretty bizarre layoffs. A huge chunk of the ICs got laid off - so managers that had teams of 8-10 now had teams of 3-6. The product org was hit, but proportionally not as heavily. No projects got descoped. The end result
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Not unlike a junior engineer! :)
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by mindvirus 4y ago
They don't give enough detail in the article (Wikipedia has some more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_de_Berk ), but based on the chart I suspect it's something like this: Imagine someone goes to a casino,
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Plenty of people just put "non compete" for that span of time, especially in the hedge fund world where these are common (and compensated).
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by mindvirus 4y ago
It really does seem to me that the simplest solution would be to require non-competes to be paid at the maximum of the past ~N years total earnings (and benefits value), with a minimum of say $100k/year.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
If you want to learn how to build websites, start with React and a component library like mui.com or chakra-ui.com. These give you the building blocks to build complex layouts and you'll naturally pick up CSS details as you go. Here is
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Just tell them what you want. You don't owe them anything. Don't be needy, perhaps you want this job, but you don't need this job. "I really like this opportunity, the team and opportunity are great. I know I can have a
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by mindvirus 4y ago
It wasn't publishers, it was the Author's Guild, the union representing voice talent for audiobooks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/...
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Discipline > Motivation. I really enjoyed Atomic Habits by James Clear. He outlines both a philosophy for creating habits, as well as a toolbox of specific techniques to help you. I've found it enormously useful in my own struggles
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Stock exchanges are businesses like any other (albeit heavily regulated). Their main product is a marketplace for people to buy and sell stock. While they have many revenue streams, the typical ways they make money are through exchange fees
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I remember seeing years ago an interview with a Japanese clothing designer. When the interviewer said the text on his shirt didn't make sense, he replied "I know, but it looks cool and it sounds cool." Respect.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Become a CTO.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Wow thank you for the in depth reply! That makes a lot of sense about things happening on a cadence.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Out of curiosity, when you chunk it, what do you do about words (and maybe even sentences) that might get caught in the middle of the split?
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by mindvirus 4y ago
This is awesome. I could see using this to write code on my phone even.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
When I was at a FAANG, it felt like they had this down to a science. Promotions every 2-3 years. Raises once a year, a few spot bonuses throughout the year, ad hoc equity grants. People still quit of course, but looking back it felt very re
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I believe it but I wonder how accurate these stats are. I'm overweight (barely) by BMI, at 6'2" and 200lbs. But I wear size 32 pants and have 110/70 blood pressure. So I think I'm reasonably healthy. Curious if I&#x
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Love it. Throat mics and subvocalization are a place that I think would really change how we use devices. Genuinely surprised there's not more investment in this area. Imagine being able to use an audio interface without speaking, just
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I hear what the author is trying to say, and I might be missing the point, but it seems counter to what I've seen. In agreement that it's important though. Blockbuster movies by definition aren't the long tail. There are tons
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Has there been research on subsidized apartments versus paying people the difference and letting them choose where to live? Rather than applying for a subsidized apartment, apply for a $1k-$2k/month rent subsidy from the government and
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by mindvirus 4y ago
They're also the result of businesses creating regulatory moats. All this red tape to open a restaurant is great if you have a restaurant and don't want competitors spinning up left and right.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Maybe, but it's not always possible or straightforward. It's probably a much lower bar to streamline it like this. Fixing the system is often an uphill battle. Maybe existing restaurants will fight against it, cities need the reve
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I bet someone could make a solid SaaS business around streamlining this. Hard part would be recurring revenue, but I would bet there's a compliance play for long term revenue.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
I think people under estimate just how much cheaper it is. Conservatively, suppose the car lasts 100k miles, and costs $50k including maintenance. Suppose it gets 10mpg, and each trip is 5 miles. Gas is $6/gallon. 100k miles = 20k trip
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by mindvirus 4y ago
For sure. Plus it is 2 hour flight from Paris to Berlin, factor in extra time to get to/from the airport and 2 hours to get through security and the train isn't far off. I wonder what the price difference will be.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Oh how I wish laptops had keyboards like that, mechanical or otherwise. Framework is doing great work democratizing higher end computing, had no idea they released their mainboards separately. Really appreciated the build tour: https:&#x2F
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Yes, I think both are important. On fixing absolute poverty - it means children and adults don't starve to death or die of treatable diseases. Hopefully it's self evident why it's important to solve. On relative poverty - it
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by mindvirus 4y ago
Where did China get the money to do all of that? They're the poster child of benefiting from globalization and free-trade.
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by mindvirus 4y ago
That may be, but the other side of this is that global poverty has never been lower [1]. I think both absolute and relative poverty are important to consider, but generally the direction the world is going with respect to poverty is good. T

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