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by paggle 7y ago
Yeah it’s not that the post is immediately bad. It’s that I had an alt account for a completely different side of myself and made one errant post with that alt account to a forum linkable to my real identity. So it’s not a serious concern b
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by paggle 7y ago
Yes - taking a job as an early startup employee is 99% of the time an idiotic move.
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by paggle 7y ago
I don’t want to draw any attention to the post. It’s made it ~15 years in silence so I don’t want to make a change of strategy.
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by paggle 7y ago
Forgot the password to the account.
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by paggle 7y ago
Startup employee is a job you take for the fun, not for the money. That’s why it’s predominantly taken by twentysomethings looking for adventure, and why so many of them crash and burn for lack of even an iota of relevant experience, both t
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by paggle 7y ago
I am a self interested party, but I’m personally glad since there’s a post in a Yahoo Group that’s findable through Google, that would absolutely ruin my reputation and life if discovered.
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by paggle 7y ago
That’s why even for creative work, getting into a repetitive work rhythm is important. Most high production authors like Stephen King have a strong writing routine like, wake up at this time and write for four hours using this pen at this d
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by paggle 7y ago
How did this professor get his hands on $10m of Twitter stock?
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by paggle 7y ago
Yes that is worrying and true. And it means that the upcoming century won't be America's the way that the previous ~century was. But that doesn't mean that we should just embark on the boondoggle anyways. If a once-capable pr
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by paggle 7y ago
Can't work anymore because these days nobody is allowed to say who is and isn't a woman. I could request an Uber and a guy could show up but we could both say that we identify as women. Who's going to touch that one with a 10
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by paggle 7y ago
Also, she is “dumb,” because poverty is exhausting and exhaustion lowers your IQ massively. Have everyone in this thread run away from a mass shooting and then ask them to debug a deadlock.
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by paggle 7y ago
That doesn’t seem to be what he’s suggesting at all. It seems like he’s suggesting they relocate to a place where they can make a better living, like my parents did by moving to the US in 1971.
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by paggle 7y ago
The price/performance ratio of kiosks etc will fall so fast that the difference between $8/hr and $15/hr will only make a 5 year difference in the adoption of the kiosks.
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by paggle 7y ago
The model for Mavis Beacon?
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by paggle 7y ago
Turning things into competitions often has extremely negative externalities. The desire to be the richest, or have the biggest house, or the fastest car, or drink the most alcohol, etc... destroys lives. And this kind of status scrambling i
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by paggle 7y ago
Can someone explain in one simple paragraph what this is?
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by paggle 7y ago
Doctors are “magically” smarter than developers. They have to clear a huge amount of training before they get to call themselves “doctors.” It’s like if someone had to reach L7 at Google before they could call themselves “developers.”
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by paggle 7y ago
The items already cost what the customer will pay. Jeff Bezos cares if he makes that much less profit. Also, there is more fixed cost than the labor (facility, lights, certain robots, etc).
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by paggle 7y ago
It’s like being a poker player, but you probably get paid more.
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by paggle 7y ago
I cannot understand the people who believe it’s their absolute right to use an ad blocker (a position I agree with) but then don’t believe it’s the site’s absolute right to decide whether or not they will serve you content.
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by paggle 7y ago
All desirable properties of a job are either going to come at the cost of fewer desirable properties elsewhere (including lower salary) or at the cost of making the job more desirable and harder to get (both because more people are applying
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by paggle 7y ago
I already have a house full of switchers, with all the wall warts! I've got at least 15 that are always plugged in.
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by paggle 7y ago
I think the article is a great example of what happens when American attitudes get applied to Eastern traditions. Turmeric with black pepper in milk has long been a traditional "comfort drink" in India. Does it work? I think it do
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by paggle 7y ago
Not if you has an in-wall supply in each room.
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by paggle 7y ago
Sometimes, though, getting noticed is the hardest challenge a company can face. In these companies, name brand recognition is worth more than a billion dollars of funding. Kylie Cosmetics is just one example.
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by paggle 7y ago
If I built a new house today I’d wire 12 volts DC in addition to 110VAC. Safe for kids and fewer unsightly wall warts.
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by paggle 7y ago
Is their name really important? The deaths weren’t from a bad programmer, they were from a lack of software quality methodology. The entire field of software quality assumes that all programmers will write bugs.
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by paggle 7y ago
The concept of signing into untrusted hardware to get access to your entire digital life was interesting in around ~2004, when people had enough stuff online to be useful but laptops were heavy and didn’t have network access. With a modern
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by paggle 7y ago
Some things like Slack and Microsoft Office show your initials and full name (space permitting) which isn’t as irritatingly faux-familiar.
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by paggle 7y ago
Right but you can park a car in a cheap area and then drive it through very expensive neighborhoods in downtown San Francisco cooking and delivering food while a non-motorized food vendor would need to pay through the nose for that space to

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