reb

9 ms·

61.
by reb 4y ago
The Gervais Principle comes to mind.
62.
by reb 4y ago
Another skill that'll be pretty valuable in this era is one many of the best technical leaders possess: the ability to coach desirable outcomes from squishy autonomous black boxes over time. Getting excellent, exact performance out of
63.
by reb 4y ago
Worth calling out here: that "nearly double" rate is specifically for the 10-14 age range; the next group up is up 30–50%. I say that not to minimize at all... if anything I'm more shocked by this steep rise in younger childr
64.
by reb 4y ago
I don't know if it's really even reflective of any particular social group, as opposed to a reliable rhetorical maneuver that's just too effective to die out. History is made by people and organizations who use this One Simpl
65.
by reb 4y ago
Breaking news from HN user ActorNightly: Anti-AI Visionary Elon Musk is a woke soyboy now. Will antifa's reign of terror ever end?
66.
by reb 4y ago
The person you’re responding to is talking about other organisms (ie not the tree), which seems compatible with your observation here. Trees might be screaming/bubble-popping into the abyss for simple physical reasons, but if cavitat
67.
by reb 4y ago
The letter-fetishists strike again, waging their dishonorable war on the visual arts (and our spare time).
68.
Universal Paperclips (2017)(decisionproblem.com)
3 points by reb 4y ago|0 comments
69.
by reb 4y ago
Low barriers-to-access for tooling absolutely democratize the creation of things with said tools. But. It doesn’t meaningfully shift the underlying economic mechanics we live under, where people with access to capital can easily outcompete
70.
by reb 4y ago
So we can just calling time-of-death on the United States' social tech dominance now, right? Domestic tech companies shamelessly sold access to American users for manipulation by "foreign adversaries" for years, made billions
71.
by reb 4y ago
It’s rough out there. Be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and try to remember the people around you are just, like you, people. We’ll figure it out in time.
72.
by reb 4y ago
The idea that our two choices are “abandon capitalism” or “allow children to be devoured by it” is… unhinged.
73.
by reb 4y ago
You’re talking to another person who started working well before turning 18. I lived and worked in a few places as a teenager, including one where many of my teenage coworkers ended up dropping out of high school to work as close to full-ti
74.
by reb 4y ago
Making children and adults compete in the labor market so business owners can protect their profit margins doesn’t seem off to you? I wouldn’t want to subsidize some company’s low wages by lending them my kid at a discount rate, but that’s
75.
by reb 4y ago
Again, I haven’t seen (or can’t recall) seeing anyone credibly make the case that the concern was unreasonable. I have seen some saying that promoting the concern within Founder’s Fund triggered the bank run, but that seems like a distin
76.
by reb 4y ago
Plenty of startups fit that bill and will nonetheless be impacted by SVB’s failure, while the most pointless businesses surf by on their founders’ access to inherited wealth and political power. Any revenge on them will be short-lived and w
77.
by reb 4y ago
Is that how people are talking about it? At this point the thread of most conversations here seems to follow this pattern: lots of deposits > overallocated to interest-rate-sensitive long-term bonds > short-term withdrawal pressure fo
78.
by reb 4y ago
I'm going to remember the comments I'm reading here for the rest of my life.
79.
by reb 4y ago
Does the money make them crazy or does the system reward the crazy? Markets can produce some unexpected winners...
80.
by reb 4y ago
I'm pretty confident there's good evidence supporting a connection between "early childhood adversity" and the development of schizophrenia, but I'm inclined to agree: once the system has gone off the rails, it&#x27
81.
by reb 4y ago
Norms against flame wars and the old "don't feed the trolls" made for some really excellent experiences growing up on forums as a kid (and instructive experiences when I ignored that advice). It's too bad we weren't
82.
by reb 4y ago
I'll bite: what do you think?
83.
by reb 4y ago
That’s kind of my point: the work is mainly vulnerable one-on-one conversations, listening to people who are struggling, and then advocating for them in an environment that isn’t terribly concerned with worker happiness (corporate America).
84.
by reb 4y ago
> Hmm. I am currently participating in a group that uses a more, lets say aggressive, interpretation ( white supremacy is pervasive and all that ). It gets old fast. Go read my reply again, I namedrop the kind of people who fixate on thi
85.
by reb 4y ago
This just isn’t true. At the core of DEI is the understanding that negative cultural biases make life worse for everyone. These cultural biases (which differ individually based on a million factors) are an unavoidable part of the human expe
86.
by reb 4y ago
"Free speech maximalist"
87.
by reb 4y ago
[flagged]
88.
by reb 4y ago
The person you're replying wrote no one wants to study the effects of nootropics in healthy adults. Sick people with insurance, particularly chronically ill ones, or those with illnesses that threaten their lives, are where I'd
89.
by reb 4y ago
Mmm, but a signal is a signal, even if it's a duplicitous one.
90.
by reb 4y ago
Reading the replies to your comment is so grim. I think, more than anything, I'm floored by the level of arrogance that permeates seemingly every conversation on HN lately. I'm spending less time here than I have in years because

More ›