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by rifung 7y ago
Is it? My impression is that nowadays people accept hard work and persistence are still necessary but no longer sufficient.
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by rifung 7y ago
> I know that it isn't binart but I can't help but note the irony: if they don't last forever and their demise isn't from obsolescence but a competitor isn't that a statement contradicting preventing competition?
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by rifung 7y ago
> It's almost as if the theory that monopolies inevitably grow to take over the world has serious problems :-) Even if they don't last forever they cause harm while they are around. The theory isn't that monopolies allow c
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by rifung 7y ago
Ah you're right that makes a lot of sense thanks for the explanation
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by rifung 7y ago
How does that argument follow? Apple needs developers but they don't need those developers writing code using an iPad do they? After all, iPhones have an endless amount of apps but nobody (or close enough to nobody) is developing apps
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by rifung 7y ago
> Maybe we should actually be collecting usage and outcomes on all medical things and actually have a process for reviewing the data; even for grandfathered treatments. I'm pretty sure we do this? I mean I suppose we don't have
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by rifung 7y ago
Care to clarify? My understanding was that a 95% confidence interval implies the chance of a false positive of 5%. From http://www.mit.edu/~6.s085/notes/lecture2.pdf "In particular, we can ask for an interval
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by rifung 7y ago
> Do what you love and it’ll never feel like work. Sorry but I strongly disagree with this advice. Being able to do what you love for work is a huge luxury that most people can not afford. It's much easier to learn to be content or
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by rifung 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google I actually really liked Safari when I used it. The issue for me is just that I don't only use OS X and like having my stuff synced across devices. If I had an iPhone I would probably be very happy with Saf
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by rifung 7y ago
Is that a bug or a feature? I wish they had this in Chrome
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by rifung 7y ago
> Now, IDK how I feel about this doorbell. But it's also his property; am I to say he can't have an AI-enhanced doorbell on his house? But that doorbell also likely uploads my image, and data about me, to centralized servers so
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by rifung 7y ago
If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that the US middle class suffered as a result of trying to help the Chinese? That would make sense if as a whole the US economy started stagnating because of trade with China but as far as I
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by rifung 7y ago
> I believe that encouraging parents to invest in their children's growth is a good thing. No disagreement from me there. However, I would prefer if a child's outcome were not so dependent on how willing their parents are to m
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by rifung 7y ago
> Equality of opportunity over outcome for me I'm also Asian American. This to me seems like it IS opportunity over outcome though. If you have two people who are equally hard working and one grows up in a disadvantaged environment
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by rifung 7y ago
> This implies some sort of standardized assessment, which is seldom true. All sorts of bias is at play under the guise of culture, personality and team fit. I'm not sure I understand how it does? I just said that as an interviewer
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by rifung 7y ago
> I interviewed with Uber, got said phone screen, managed to solve the problem then was told Uber decided to "go in another direction" and would not be moving forward with my application. When I asked for clarification as to w
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by rifung 7y ago
> Only if you’re trying to keep some kind of aloof separation from the people you manage. There’s no reason a CEO can’t open up and be more inclusive. Things like asking for constructive criticism on your performance and then acting upon
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by rifung 7y ago
> One might assume that the higher up the organization you go, the more connected you feel, but that isn’t necessarily the case. Research reported in Harvard Business Review found that half of CEOs report feeling lonely and 61% of those
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by rifung 7y ago
> Third, people like to live with people in their same class. We really hate talking about class in the US, but it is there nonetheless. It is not easy to be a well off tech worker when the people in your social circle are blue collar wo
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by rifung 7y ago
> I'm not saying mobile gaming like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush are bad, just that... man, they aren't for smart people. Likely most games aren't, but playing World of Warcraft and Diablo and Starcraft required a lot of
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by rifung 7y ago
> I could not name a single microtransactions game that offers a similarly deep or atmospheric or satisfying experience as, say, Breath of the Wild, The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy X or a round of multiplayer Mario Kart. Can you..? I'm
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by rifung 7y ago
> You know, I've always been confused by this: if a game is using random chance to require probabilistic hours/days of effort in order to find some drop, my first response to finding that out is not "grinding for the drop&
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by rifung 7y ago
Personally it's not the UX that I'm afraid of but when random drivers don't work or updates break things. Once upon a time I enjoyed learning and doing that kind of thing but nowadays I just don't have the time. Admitted
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by rifung 7y ago
Do they not charge for network costs anyway? A more optimistic view is that this allows them to provide a better service.
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by rifung 7y ago
> If a company knows how to get choose a USD200k engineer in SF and get a good return for the company off that engineer, then why wouldn't you pay USD200k in all areas? If they can get those other people to join paying 100k, why wou
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by rifung 7y ago
I work for Google, opinions are my own. I understand your skepticism but at least in this case, I think your incentives are aligned with Google's. If we don't delete it (within ~30 days I think?) then I'm pretty sure we'
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by rifung 7y ago
"Home prices look remarkably stable when corrected for inflation. Over the 100 years ending in 1990 — before the recent housing boom — real home prices rose only 0.2 percent a year, on average. The smallness of that increase seems best
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by rifung 7y ago
> It's a good investment because it reduces your lifetime housing cost to zero I think that depends on your definition of good. If you put the money you would have used for your down payment and what you would save by renting vs own
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by rifung 7y ago
I'm sorry that you feel that way. I consider being able to help another person to be a huge privilege. What you describe sounds like it's putting one person's progress over another. Sure a mentor may be disrupted but by unblo
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by rifung 7y ago
> Faking it with pleasantries is toxic, a form of lying with misdirection. If you consider being pleasant to be the same as being a decent person, and not just being polite, then I'd argue all of those things make you not pleasant.

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