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by mseebach 9y ago
The article isn't brilliant, it's a sequence of unsubstantiated assertions, although ones that seem to resonate with a lot of people. But, getting to the core of the matter: > You can't mute the whole organization. No, you
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by mseebach 9y ago
The idea of having easy to use single-use email addresses is good, but I don't think it's practical to run an SMTP server on a smartphone (you need the relevant ports open and forwarded through various NATs) and email anonymisers
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by mseebach 9y ago
Healthy teams have a dynamic where you can say what's on your mind and where you don't get fired for (single) mistakes. But this is not that. This is going to the board to get your co-founder fired . Damn right you better choose
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by mseebach 9y ago
These things generally aren't unique, and so it's relatively easy to establish a market price, and flag it if something suddenly sells for a lot more than that.
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by mseebach 9y ago
First, I think you're thinking of tax evasion, not money laundering. If company B's money is illicit, it doesn't become less illicit because it's used to buy art. Second, it's not quite as simple as that. Company B
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by mseebach 9y ago
The problem is, first you need a reliable measure of good and evil. Sure, most reasonable people can agree on some set of actions that are clearly either, but there's a lot in between. Working out this answer is basically the entire fi
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by mseebach 9y ago
The deeper point is that it doesn't matter if the promotor of a policy "are in fact good". This is largely unknowable and the tribe-based proxy that many people have come up with ("my tribe is good, so the policies my tr
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, I think you need to bound off specific subsets of policy initiatives and "the media" for this model to make sense. It seems to me that Fox News and MSNBC do this symmetrically to each other over the same policies - Fox: Liber
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's plenty, like a lot , of shale oil available at $80-100/bbl, which allows for significantly less than $10/g gas. The only meaningful challenge to $10/g gas is policy (ie taxation).
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's also something to be said for the importance of a certain fact. It's pretty harmless to be poorly informed about presidential history, unless you're a teacher of the subject or about to take a test. Significantly less
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by mseebach 9y ago
I have no idea what they might do, but it's not a law of nature that they have to crack down on access. They have tens of thousands of employees, a single breach isn't evidence that a trusting, open environment doesn't work.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The negligence was only in losing control of the code. I guess successfully maintaining tight control of the code would be a mitigating factor (or, more likely, lead to not getting caught), but taking the code from Apple for the purpose of
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by mseebach 9y ago
Could they, though? Uber's valuation is based on its taxi technology business. The self-driving stuff might be their long play, but certainly not the source of their value. I have no idea what kinds of damages Waymo might have been abl
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by mseebach 9y ago
The same way you defend them against all other sorts of attacks: you make sure the attackers don't get close to the target. Ie: good law enforcement and intelligence work. For a drone to attack and kill in seconds, you need to basicall
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's established early railway lingo in the UK. I'm not sure how common it is in casual non-railway usage, but apparently stations have up- and down platforms and staff might refer to the 7.50 'up' train.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Building toys probably requires the VC game. Ikea was never a toy.
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by mseebach 9y ago
"Pressure"? Probably not. If anyone was able to pressure anyone else, they would have managed to align the switchover dates (they're off by a week, making for two quite amusing weeks a year where everybody is late or early fo
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by mseebach 9y ago
Perhaps it's a way to throttle analysis of their pricing algorithm?
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, DST has nothing at all to do with solar time. It's a hack alright, but it's not fixing any problem introduced by time zones.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Fahrenheit is "tighter" and has a better resolution in the "human" range -- ie. 0-100 degrees fahrenheit is roughly the range of temperatures that humans can exist in, and one degree celcius is a bit too coarse for human
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by mseebach 9y ago
More people have a foot to hand (ha!), than have a meter.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I wonder how much money would be lost to putting together the system that will have to replace time zones because people will still have the problems that time zones fix (and then how much money will be lost to bugs in that ). The general
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by mseebach 9y ago
It doesn't purport to give a balanced analysis of pros and cons, it's a (tongue-in-cheek) outline of the downsides that proponents of timezone abolishment never seem to consider. Perhaps the writing is silly, but there's noth
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by mseebach 9y ago
The point is that "we" don't want a single global time, for those reasons you mention among many others. GPs point (as I understood it) is that those (relatively few) who need global coordination can just use UTC (and most al
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's a near-perfect instance of Chesterton's fence: https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ Also, I don't think the comparison with the metric system is apt. It took a pretty intuitive system and
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's the point, if there's a HappyOrNot terminal, you do .
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by mseebach 9y ago
That angle is just not covered in the article, but wouldn't it be safe to assume that there is some sort of algorithm cleanup of the data? Collapsing clusters of pushes, or something.
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's just cheap cynicism. There's also the positive reinforcement from being confirmed as having done a good job.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Because these people aren't doing NPS, they're doing cargo cult Goodhart management. NPS has ten steps because that granularity allows you to track improvements even in good teams. If all you're doing with NPS is taking peopl
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by mseebach 9y ago
I have no sources or data, so big grain of salt, but the dynamic as I heard it referenced was basically that Gen X developed "suburban angst" and sought out the rougher/more authentic life in the cities. This is not incompati

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