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by padobson 10y ago
Is there some mad outbreak of fascism I don't know about? Anyone who regularly reads the Guardian and takes it seriously is probably locked up in a seed bunker somewhere. I certainly agree there's been a slow erosion of civil libe
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by padobson 10y ago
The parents of ordinary children had an average of six rules, like specific schedules for homework and bedtime. Parents of highly creative children had an average of fewer than one rule. I grew up in a household where compliance to parent
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by padobson 10y ago
Can you really expect high school students to perform well in online classes? Does it matter? At what point do we put the failure of the student on the student? Education being unaffordable is a broadly sympathetic position. Not getting a
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by padobson 10y ago
50,000 seems reasonable to me. A congress member could have a townhall at a football stadium with every one of their constituents in attendance. It's unlikely there would ever be that level of interest, but it's nice to know it&#x
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by padobson 10y ago
70 years of being a family-owned, regional playing-card company is pretty much the definition of stagnation. Hiroshi Yamauchi deserves credit for having the vision to expand into electronic games, but nothing they did before Miyamoto could
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by padobson 10y ago
Exactly this. Nintendo and Twitter are extremely similar. Twitter lucked into an AAA product, and management hasn't been able to leverage it to anything like the Facebook competitor it should have been. Nintendo lucked into hiring a ga
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by padobson 10y ago
I hate it too, but the UI is about discovery. Facebook stopped being cool when they stopped focusing on colleges and opened up to everyone. There's nothing wrong with that, boring companies tend to make more money than cool ones. But S
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by padobson 10y ago
This is why a good CTO or VP of Engineering or whoever the team leads are reporting to is important. Someone has to keep the big picture in mind, both from a product and engineering point of view. A good leader can guide teams in the right
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by padobson 10y ago
>I wonder if a lot of it stems from the fact that sometimes you have to relocate for a new gig, and making friends at work is easier. I like this. Because it could lead to some interesting demographic shifts as more people go remote and
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by padobson 10y ago
This is true. As someone who's worked remotely for the last four years, I can say that you want to be in the room for decisions that are made in the room. For those who are thinking of going fulltime remote, I recommend doing so at com
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by padobson 10y ago
Timely and useful. Something like this could really help morale, especially if used on special occasions (e.g. Wrestlemania weekend). Anytime I've entered a room to selected theme music (weddings, recreational sports, a roommate watchi
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by padobson 10y ago
I wonder if the increase of size of seed round corresponds to startups waiting to seek funding until they are more mature. The second seed round, makes me even more suspicious of this: are we simply renaming A and B rounds to seed 1 and see
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by padobson 10y ago
I've read a lot of the same slowing entrepreneurship statistics. Ben Casselman[0] over at FiveThirtyEight has written some good pieces about it. It seems to be directly linked to personal debt. Most individuals are more risk averse bec
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by padobson 10y ago
You nailed it. Look at the jobs he cites as meaningless: It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish
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by padobson 10y ago
According to economic theory, at least, the last thing a profit-seeking firm is going to do is shell out money to workers they don’t really need to employ. Still, somehow, it happens. I think that's, at best, a twisting of any econom
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by padobson 10y ago
A theory among some employees is that IBM is using co-location as a downsizing effort. I hope it's not an accurate theory. Downsizing this way means your most self-motivated, productive employees are likely to leave long before those
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by padobson 10y ago
The later bit on Schopenhauer expand on this: Schopenhauer does have a reputation for being pessimistic. But he really wasn’t. Because he also believed that there’s a way to leap off the wheel of desire. That way is the contemplation — the
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by padobson 10y ago
> One way or the other, the effort will bear fruit I think Or even if it's just to give us agriculture, mass production, electricity, sabremetrics and iPhones.
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by padobson 10y ago
In the context of living a debt-free existence, I have to disagree. In the monetary policy environment we live in, having debt is the most sensible way to build wealth. Dollars are a terrible store of value. Dollars invested in a savings ac
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by padobson 10y ago
You only have to spend a little time consuming digital media to understand that products that rely on advertisements for income suck. As soon as subscription services started offering ad-free versions of their product, I started buying them
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by padobson 10y ago
There's some interesting ideas here. The suggestion that the Enlightenment may have erased several millenia of human wisdom is interesting - it's reminiscent of coming across a piece of legacy code, erasing it, and starting over.
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by padobson 10y ago
>I can argue that they shouldn't break the law. And if you had done that, I'd have never responded. What you said was: >You're advocating for wealth being over the law. Which no one has yet done, not even close. Justice
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by padobson 10y ago
That's now what this is. They're breaking the law and willingly serving the penalty. You can argue that the penalty isn't strong enough, but then your issue is with the legislature, not the criminal. What you're saying i
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by padobson 10y ago
It's a bit esoteric and perhaps adds unwanted levity to the proceedings, so I get it. Worth the downvotes? Absolutely.
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Fal-Kan punch!
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by padobson 10y ago
I live in Trumbull County in Ohio, the dark red county in North East Ohio. We recently had 23 (non-fatal) overdoses in a two-day period[0]. That's roughly .01% of the county's total population - so yeah, it's getting bad here
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by padobson 10y ago
It seems like the big question that YC is trying to answer, but few articles like this seem to touch on, is what will a person's economic output look like when they have tons of free time? I think if you asked enough people about the t
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by padobson 10y ago
While it's true that there is a bit of incumbent/disruption element involved - the American south was probably the most advanced agricultural civilization ever, while the north invested heavily in the very disruptive industrial re
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by padobson 10y ago
Allowing remote work is a good signal for process quality too. Distributed teams don't share code on thumb drives or assign undocumented tasks at the water cooler.

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