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811.
by ponker 6y ago
Not sure what your point is. Zenefits was a company with major management deficiencies, so the CEO was fired and David Sacks was hired, in essence, to apply proper management practices like his "Cadence" (and more importantly, to
812.
by ponker 6y ago
Well, it’s like the question of what is better: a restaurant with 4.5 stars on 4 reviews or one with 4.2 stars on 1,500 reviews?
813.
by ponker 6y ago
Sounds like LinkedIn only found a way to exploit your pathologically broken budgeting system.
814.
by ponker 6y ago
Almost all enterprise software companies have more people in sales than engineering. Microsoft is one big exception but LinkedIn must have more sales than eng.
815.
by ponker 6y ago
Most of it is sales.
816.
by ponker 6y ago
I agree, but I was more talking about how those who would become self-styled enforcers of ideological purity tests often find themselves sufficiently impure and lose their heads the same way they took them.
817.
by ponker 6y ago
The "just mentioning it as an aside" doesn't really hold even a drop of water given the well-known implications of racism allegations. It's like spending a few hours covering someone's car in silly string (Very anno
818.
by ponker 6y ago
Just as I will have a talk with my son about how to interact with the police (the same one my dad had with me), I'll be sitting both my kids down at the right time to explain to them that they need to do the essential process of explor
819.
by ponker 6y ago
He should have "checked his online history" and realized that maybe he didn't need to write about another person's online history. I don't see him looking any better here -- he casually lobbed a rock at another man
820.
by ponker 6y ago
The leaders of "cancel culture" are usually destined to become a Danton, Hebert, or Robespierre.
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by ponker 6y ago
Just hearing the word damp house gives me the willies. Don’t know how the Seattle people do it.
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by ponker 6y ago
As someone who has run two startups, their security can be completely bonkers. Not saying that all startups are like this but we had a database completely open to employees and would frequent watch them in real time for customer insights.
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by ponker 6y ago
As someone who only speaks English... I'm fascinated by the concept of language that is difficult to translate. Can anyone direct me to English-language literature that is difficult to translate into other languages?
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by ponker 6y ago
The thing is that five years ago this stuff did not exist full stop. Five years from now it's going to be massively better. And societal institutions just don't respond to external shocks in five years, modern governance instituti
825.
by ponker 6y ago
That’s a little misleading though because the percentage of people who install the country’s contact tracing app is driven much more by the quality of the people than the quality of the app. So this app might be garbage, I don’t think this
826.
by ponker 6y ago
Outsourcing your infrastructure to others is an existential risk, no doubt, but virtually all of us do it in our personal lives -- we trust that electricity will be delivered to the plug and water to the faucet, and would die off in quite s
827.
by ponker 6y ago
Hmm, good point. We do refer to UUIDs at the office with things like "Look at the F6A request."
828.
by ponker 6y ago
You're going to have to copy and paste these anyway (no chance in hell of remembering them) so don't see what they get you over an UUID.
829.
by ponker 6y ago
If you are the replacement judge for a judge whose son was murdered you will probably save your own family and rule in favor of the powerful party that ordered the hit.
830.
by ponker 6y ago
Even better is to physically turn your phone off at least one hour before bed. If you need to be available for emergency calls then in do not disturb mode with your family set to punch through Do Not Disturb.
831.
by ponker 6y ago
Why don’t the services like Zoom and Teams fix this on the server side?
832.
by ponker 6y ago
Did you mean half of what sanitation workers make? Garbage men are making way more than $65k in urban centers.
833.
by ponker 6y ago
Going for a capture rather than a kill was the core mistake in this operation. Shoulda just droned him.
834.
by ponker 6y ago
I don’t think so. When you sell a company you are relinquishing control of it. The acquirer wants to turn around and sell to Uber that’s none of your business. You aren’t entitled to know the ultimate acquirer to set your price any more tha
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by ponker 6y ago
Isn’t Mexican heroin much bigger in dollar value than marijuana?
836.
by ponker 6y ago
The Away's CEO behavior sounds exactly like Steve Jobs' legendary quality-obsessive behavior, except that he would fire the responsible persons without giving them a second chance.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is not an ad hominem.
838.
by ponker 6y ago
It will do that with a few hundred square miles of solar panels.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well that’s just humancentrism. The meadow delivers value to me while the desert does not. And most environmental policy is about preserving the environment for humans — after all, if we stumble into population collapse the rest of the worl
840.
by ponker 6y ago
There’s a lot of desert. If a few lizards and cacti get their habitat fucked so that humans belch less CO2 in the air affecting every species on Earth it’s a tradeoff I support.

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