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by mvkel 3y ago
Fascinating ideas. Thanks for sharing these - will check them out.
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by mvkel 3y ago
There are more than a few studies behind it. Is that "scientific"? Remember that viral story about the guy who made the min salary in his company $70K? What did he base that number on, do you think? Separately, if someone said tha
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by mvkel 3y ago
If they leave you fulfilled via purpose...
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by mvkel 3y ago
I was not insinuating that. The bigger you get as a corp, the harder it is to do have a mutually beneficial relationship with your employees, -because- market forces dictate so much of the strategy. So, that Walmart is the literal biggest c
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by mvkel 3y ago
That article is from 2014. The average Walmart employee rate today is $17.06. And a non-zero amount of those employees can someday make a lot more. How many other companies of that size can say the same? I'm not saying it's not a
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by mvkel 3y ago
Certainly a possibility, but that's everywhere. You trot out the Blue Angels to get people to sign up to the Navy.
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by mvkel 3y ago
It's been described as another way to hit rock bottom, because you realize that even after "making it" it doesn't make you happy. So NOW what do you do?
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by mvkel 3y ago
That's been my ongoing frustration with climate tech. Problems need to feel urgent enough to gain sustainable support from society, but climate change doesn't feel urgent, despite it being a five alarm fire relative to the last fe
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by mvkel 3y ago
Yes! Very well said. Autonomy/agency, however small in the grand scheme, is so important.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Credit to Walmart for creating an environment where a person can still love their job after years of service. That stuff can't be faked, even with a high salary. Before you say, "it's easy to say when you're getting paid
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by mvkel 3y ago
This still puts most of the load on the customer in terms of building out dunning schedules, handling renewals, etc. And "beauty" in invoices is not a value proposition. An invoice sitting in someone's inbox is ugly, no matte
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by mvkel 3y ago
Right. Hence the required breakthrough
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by mvkel 3y ago
Yes. Short of a tech breakthrough, the cost isn't dropping quickly enough. Although we humans are known for tech breakthroughs. Ironically, afforestation is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to install air purifiers at scale.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Right! Fast enough is fast enough.
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by mvkel 3y ago
Because they're sustaining record quarterly profits. Ask the average person: "would you rather pay $200 more for the base model, but get 8gb more ram?" The person would respond "what is ram?" People say they hate ho
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by mvkel 3y ago
The advice feels solid, well at least it speaks to Chelsea's personal approach to making a presentation. Authenticity counts for a lot. But those slides; the walls of text. If I'm reading what's on the slide, I'm not lis
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by mvkel 3y ago
Smart
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by mvkel 3y ago
I share a lot of this experience. My fix for "Lesson 4: GPT is really bad at producing the null hypothesis" is to have it return very specific text that I string-match on and treat as null. Like: "if there is no warm up for t
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by mvkel 3y ago
1. Frame.work looks to be all about modularizing laptop hardware, but it doesn't have particular support for any linux distros, and a quick glance at the forums ( https://community.frame.work/c/framework-laptop&#x2F
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by mvkel 3y ago
Well you don't need to be on video calls if you're in person.
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by mvkel 3y ago
lol, this sounds exactly right. Vertical integration in computing is a feature, not a bug. It's amazing windows can do what it does on virtually -any- hardware. I do wish Linux distros had some kind of "guaranteed hardware" s
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by mvkel 3y ago
Sort of. An imperfect analogy: a small neighborhood of ~15 houses is under construction. Normally it might have a 200kva transformer sitting at the corner, which provides appropriate power from the grid. But there is a transformer shortage,
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by mvkel 3y ago
Well said. The inherent flaw in anything digital is the inevitable bit rot. 30 years from now, it'll be interesting to see which ancient file formats can still be read by anything. Or maybe it won't matter by then, because it&#x27
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by mvkel 3y ago
This is arrestingly beautiful. I kind of want to get a print or two of some of these. Even the color choices are magnificent
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by mvkel 3y ago
Push notification from what? Another app? How'd you get that app? Imagine needing two apps to login to one app
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by mvkel 3y ago
1. Traditional way: - type email/username - type password - click submit 2. 2FA way - type email - type password - click submit - switch to secondary email/text app - wait for email/text to arrive - copy text string (not con
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by mvkel 3y ago
People will always choose convenience over security. I'd figure out what the least-technical person (with data access) in the company needs to do their job, and find the friction points that prompt this person to find the path of least
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by mvkel 3y ago
For me it was the top window gradient. I think in win98 it was 256 colors and in windows 2000 it was 16-bit
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by mvkel 3y ago
Interesting. Would you say this means Intel is "back," or just not completely dead?
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by mvkel 3y ago
$125 million dollars. To "help" a friend save face? When a similar acquisition was made a year ago? And it perfectly aligns with a their stated thesis that texting becomes a CLI in the future? The more successful an entrepreneur,

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