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by quacked 4y ago
Management-speak drives me up the wall, as it generally has the following three qualities: - Obfuscates reality by avoiding discussing money ("our teams have performed wonderfully" instead of "you all made the company $X&quot
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by quacked 4y ago
I have seen non-American "integration" of foreigners, in Europe, Middle East, Asia, etc. In these places there are much more distinct mono-cultures relating to race than there are in the US. What is the dominant culture in NYC? Yu
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by quacked 4y ago
I don't think America accepts immigrants; in most places there's a pleasant apathy toward them. You're not really considered "American" by most born here unless you're born here and have the accent, and even th
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by quacked 4y ago
I agree with you and can't stand the fake-friendly speak many of my countrymen use. Additionally: > But if people are adults, having a little friction is not a big deal. We don't need to appreciate all behaviors to live togethe
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by quacked 4y ago
I don't think that other countries have had their social fabric broken down quite as far as Americans have. A big part of American fear is knowing that nearly every single person you interact with that isn't a friend of yours does
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by quacked 4y ago
Honestly I think you're making as many assumptions as the parent commenter--I agree you're right that the portrayal of the exec is really biased towards assuming stupidity, but it really depends on the quality of the executive and
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by quacked 4y ago
Eh, I think it depends on how canny the executive running the experiment is and how much experience they have in the particular part of the industry. I worked in restaurants when I was younger and now have done a lot of sales-side and logis
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by quacked 4y ago
If it makes any difference, the information I got was from ex-USSR citizens who went through the process as kids and then raised their kids in the US system. It's been corroborated by both Russian professors (of the Russian language) a
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> I find this strange. I have a lot of penmanship homework from my two years (!!) of kindergarten and first grade. I'll have to see if I can find the studies, but a lot of researchers have been finding that rushing to introduce kids
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by quacked 4y ago
I think the guy you're responding to isn't the one developing the system.
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I am curious about these layoffs; the number impacted in the past year seems to be between 100-250,000 tech employees. Are there that many good-paying jobs remaining within the tech industry that they can re-shuffle to? Are people finding p
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They're related in that both are downstream of industrialization, but changing climates aren't lessening insect biodiversity as much as overuse of various chemicals are.
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I think that will be true if meaningful rewiring of someone's brain becomes possible. One of the reasons these types of aberrant behaviors aren't "treated" is that no such treatment exists. (I know interventions can be m
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> Can you imagine if these were a product of 1980's AI research and codified some of that time's widespread ideas about sexual orientation or even atheism Spot on. There are a lot of people in every era who assume that whatever
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by quacked 4y ago
I'm not a dev but still highly technical, and devs turning their noses up at "CRUD stuff" always makes me laugh. It reminds me of the musicians I know who won't play in certain styles because it's not "meaningf
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by quacked 4y ago
I've read a good number of memoirs and biographies of both technical and artistic people, and I found "Creativity, Inc." to be a real snooze, except for the chapters about Steve Jobs and Catmull's own education history.
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by quacked 4y ago
Most of these types of articles take a "consumer" model of civilization: humans exist to consume, and the primary question is what they're going to consume and where they're going to do it. Labor exists as a phenomenon t
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Ask HN: Why are the Android phone apps (Contacts, Messages, etc.) so slow?
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by quacked 4y ago
The fact that nearly every test has a time limit isn't proof that time limits are useful. Furthermore the majority of tests taken in school are completely forgotten even a year later, meaning that students didn't "know"
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by quacked 4y ago
I just won't take any spreadsheet app really seriously until someone comes anywhere near the Excel table object (which is queryable with the built-in Power BI!). I do think Google Sheets actually is much more pleasant to use than Excel
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If you're looking to avoid burnout, it helps to think of your profession as something entirely separately from your identity. I'm not an "aerospace engineer" or a "project manager", I am merely a man who plies
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by quacked 4y ago
Who are the scum that program this? Surely they look at this site every once and a while.
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I'd take that bet, but more at like $300.
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You are obviously not a classical musician--live music in a concert hall is a completely different experience than listening to high-quality audio by yourself. I'd bet a thousand dollars that I can tell the difference between listening
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Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite novels, and I loved Snow Crash and The Big U. I find I find his current stuff unreadable, but I can't put my finger on why.
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It's actually become more bimodal when it comes to approaching women, or at least this was accurate between 2013-2020: There are largely two groups of men--sexual outlaws and polite society. Sexual outlaws (star athletes, musicians, dr
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by quacked 4y ago
"Whataboutism" is a made-up word to decry analogies. "You get ten years for dealing marijuana." "Well what about that rich kid that did the same thing as me that got no prison time?" "That's whatabout
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by quacked 4y ago
You're right. When I deliver the rant in the future I'll add that caveat. There are tons of domestic builders, drivers, operators, officers, longshoremen, etc. that work long, long nights and days to make society happen, who are p
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by quacked 4y ago
Okay, here's one: every single fast-food restaurant that uses unhealthy derivatives to create its "food", and all the work that goes into it, is bullshit, and if the entire industry was wiped off the face of the earth tomorro
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by quacked 4y ago
Whether or not something is 'work' has no bearing on whether or not it's bullshit. I am in perfect agreement that one hour of useful work requires many hours of equally useful thought-work.

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