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by pembrook 2y ago
The “higher-ups” you speak of are just the top PowerPoint jockeys who get promoted extremely fast — all professional services firms are highly incentivized to give people fancy titles so they can bill them at higher rates. Even the senior m
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by pembrook 2y ago
Calling the 20-somethings who choose the MBA route and all start their career in consulting “the most ruthless business minds” is giving them wayyy too much credit. The majority of McKinsey employees are fundamentally risk-averse kids choos
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Again, same can be said for humans.
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So are all the humans in this thread. Except, human mimicry of "reasoning" is usually applied in service of justifying an emotional feeling, arguably even less reliable than the non-feeling machine.
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by pembrook 2y ago
Thinking a law is dumb is not the same thing as “being surprised that there are laws.” The whole point of the Uber and Airbnb strategy was to force each market to re-evaluate whether long-standing laws (protecting special interests like the
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by pembrook 2y ago
Seems good that people would discuss and make value judgements on said policy. Europeans seem to have no trouble loudly voicing their opinion on American law, and I don't see Americans getting thin skin about it. Why should we operate
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by pembrook 2y ago
Sorry, but comparing the living/working standards of [developing country] to the wealthiest nation on earth is a silly 1990s emotional appeal ignoring the reality that, every society has to climb the ladder. And actively harms this pro
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by pembrook 2y ago
Front running customer purchases is not the concern. In the running of an index fund there’s many levers you can pull to create revenue streams that don’t show up on expense ratios. Funny business can absolutely be pulled during rebalancing
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by pembrook 2y ago
Ironically, aristocracy has more in common with the communist theories in this thread than it does with capitalists giving their kids inheritance. Both communist seizing of assets and aristocratic control of them are about centralized contr
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by pembrook 2y ago
Using this logic, having good genes represents an even greater injustice. As you have said, money is a fuzzy representation of at least some value created via societal transactions. Genetics, on the other hand, are wholly undeserved, ev
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by pembrook 2y ago
There's a deep irony in both acknowledging that humans thrive on cooperation and building on the work of those that came before us, and yet also wanting to forcibly disrupt that process and centrally re-distribute wealth to less effici
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yep, and good looking people don't deserve all the preferential treatment they get in the world. Those genes were inherited from their parents. We should do plastic surgery to the best looking children to make them average-looking...it
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yes, it makes perfect sense. Don't address any of the counterpoints I raised, ignore the implementation details, and just keep repeating that. It sounds like a really great idea. Artificially creating fairness by eliminating success ha
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Yes, let’s further remove everyone from nature’s only real instinct for selflessness (familial bonds) so we can all become disembodied laborers for our true family: the central planner class in Washington. I’m sure creating a strong disince
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by pembrook 2y ago
What I find interesting about these cases and the seemingly unrelated United Healthcare CEO assassination is that all were committed by extremely online data scientists who went to elite universities. I’ve been fairly skeptical of the right
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by pembrook 2y ago
There is no such thing. Humans are giant bags of emotion and pain avoidance. Pessimists get the warm satisfaction of knowing their choice to not try anything interesting and never take risks in life was correct…most of the time. They cheer
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yes, I'm fully aware the market for building commercial jets is probably one of the most locked-down on the planet. But hard things have been done before. Throwing rocks at the people trying doesn't do much to help them. They&#x27
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by pembrook 2y ago
Yes, I'm sure for the rest of human history we're never going to break supersonic flight commercially, after having done it already for many decades. Because "regulation." It's not like we'd have the power to c
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by pembrook 2y ago
Endless pessimism, even in the face of evidence to the contrary is a hallmark of HN. Thank you for continuing the tradition. May you never hold out hope for anything positive in the future.
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Peugeot used to be the best but apparently have degraded quality over the years. Zassenhaus and Zwilling are both German options of the same quality or better.
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by pembrook 2y ago
To me this comment reads like a lot of bending over backwards to try to the justify a gut feeling of “yea but for sure this time is different right??” Tech elites on HN worrying about the moral fortitude of the unwashed masses in the face o
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by pembrook 2y ago
Doesn’t need to be a pet theory, that’s just an accurate assessment of reality. I’m sure in Finnish business schools they spend a lot of time hand wringing over the question of why their domestic champion Nokia failed. What they should inst
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Classic innovators dilemma. The entire point of an organization is to systematize, standardize, and make reliable something that is working. When that thing stops working, and the wind changes, that organization is now a giant anchor full
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by pembrook 2y ago
Whether it's "fixing" H1B or expanding O1, it doesn't matter. Having more industrious high skilled people in the economy makes us all richer. The job market is not a zero sum game.
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If you're of working age, you're going to likely be alive for say 30-50+ more years. And your kids for maybe 70-80+ years. Tech adoption is now faster than ever, so there's numerous examples of Silicon Valley companies going
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by pembrook 2y ago
I know this will probably be an unpopular take on a forum of American software engineers —- but the reason the US even has a tech industry in the first place (and why the top 10 most valuable companies in the world is basically a list of fo
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by pembrook 2y ago
This was always a myth and never a real thing, except for at the highest, bleeding edge talent levels. Especially for Enterprise Saas companies like Salesforce/Microsoft/Oracle/etc who know full well that their real competenc
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by pembrook 2y ago
Every study done on the topic of “people judging the stupidity of other people” always proves this comment incorrect. With or without AI, we have always thought we are of wildly above average intelligence and that “all the other people are
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by pembrook 2y ago
The problem is the best way to weight the accuracy of results (as you say, SEO exists) is with skin in the game. A bidding-based advertising system ultimately results in the most valuable solution winning, since the ad spend will be margina
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by pembrook 2y ago
Except they do. They help connect buyers with needs/wants to sellers with solutions. I know this breaks HNs brain so I don't expect to win this one however. Can ads encourage people to buy stuff they don't need? Yes. Like mos

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