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by paggle 7y ago
The electoral college gives extra votes to certain people. Why stop at rural vs urban? Why not give extra votes to people shorter than 5 feet? To people with black hair and blue eyes? To people who can wiggle their ears and roll their tongu
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by paggle 7y ago
“Tech” is now a requirement of so many different businesses that the concept of a “tech” company needs to change. There is now a spectrum of “techness” where your companies like Spanx are on the left (still needing marketing automation, log
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by paggle 7y ago
I agree with most of your comment except that installing a bed in a private jet is pretty normal.
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by paggle 7y ago
Not just a child sex trafficker, but the most infamous criminal since Osama Bin Laden
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by paggle 7y ago
Wow... reads like a core dump
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by paggle 7y ago
I can understand not hiring remote generalists into an office based company. The main value of a generalist is that they can spot opportunities that others can’t. To spot these opportunities they need a lot of exposure to various surfaces o
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by paggle 7y ago
When audophile marketing gets into every industry
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by paggle 7y ago
So a product engineer is a PM and software engineer in a single body. In an organization with actual PMs the CEO doesn’t tell this to a software engineer they tell it to a PM. The PM interviews the CEO, customer support team, and engineerin
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by paggle 7y ago
Tesla is only incidentally a car company, it is primarily a battery company. If any of these competitors really scale up it will be because Tesla chose to sell them the batteries.
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by paggle 7y ago
There are some areas where 100x improvement is almost inevitable: self-driving cars, facial recognition, etc. You don’t need to be a genius to see it.
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by paggle 7y ago
Because the US has so many successful corporations, its politics is controlled by corporate interests to an extent not seen in most other developed countries (where the political “right” tends to be the nativists and the propertied class).
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by paggle 7y ago
If it’s not competitive then don’t take the job. An engineer should be able to evaluate the difference between Toptal and the other offers they have, with the caveat that stock is hard to predict (the Silicon Valley mantra that “equity is w
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by paggle 7y ago
I can’t feel bad for the employees. They signed knowing they weren’t getting any stock. What’s wrong with Netflix style all-cash compensation?
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by paggle 7y ago
Only Tesla had customers who will give them even an inch by even knowing who the original manufacturer is. What does it matter? A company should be an abstraction that hides its implementation details like an API. The vendor is responsible
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by paggle 7y ago
It’s not luck as much as it was realizing early on that parallel computing was going to be big and getting CUDA out there before the world needed it.
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by paggle 7y ago
Read Alex Karakatsanis
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by paggle 7y ago
Thanks but it was just illustrative. I was not trying to start that debate. Only to highlight that the “conversations” that the author wants to see are largely just echoes of the same opinion, not an actual lively debate about who Sansa Sta
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by paggle 7y ago
And debate isn’t what the author wants. How would the author feel about a debate about whether black people are statistically more likely or not to experience police brutality? People feel like they can debate what happened to MH17 or who A
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by paggle 7y ago
I was downvoted because the same people who have the influence to legalize their crimes have the influence to make the public believe that it is right and proper.
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by paggle 7y ago
The thing is that the big owners of office space don't want to be bothered with doing anything. They have made vast sums of money for decades by doing as close to nothing as possible -- they just hold the real estate, and rent it out o
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by paggle 7y ago
I mean... it's neither? It is a real estate company. Why is everything a "tech company" or a scam?
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by paggle 7y ago
Courts have ruled that punishment must be both cruel AND unusual to qualify. These sentences are unusual but not cruel. Prison may be cruel but is not unusual.
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by paggle 7y ago
Clearly whatever people at MS made Teams do not talk to the people who made VS Code
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by paggle 7y ago
A organized plan to break the law is called a criminal conspiracy.
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by paggle 7y ago
Well user familiarity is important but not paramount. The Navy uses Xbox controllers in submarines and found that the learning curve for 19-year-old men is much better that way
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by paggle 7y ago
When you balance it against the health benefits in expected Quality-Adjusted Life Years I’m sure it’s net positive.
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by paggle 7y ago
One comment from "toxic myth" to "welcome to all countries."
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by paggle 7y ago
You could do that if you enabled per-minute and per-meter billing for usage of municipal resources like driving on shared roads.
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by paggle 7y ago
In no US jurisdiction are you allowed to cut out someone's heart and store it under your floor. You're also not allowed to threaten someone that you'll do this to them, or incite others to do the same. You're not allowed