rollo_tommasi

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by rollo_tommasi 13y ago
You should be prouder, UPenn is one of the best state schools in the country!
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
But surely most e-commerce websites can't have a net negative margin for three years?
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
It'd be better for this money to go to strengthen technical education (and more importantly, re-educution) in the CUNY system rather than to burnish yet another elites-only institution, but training and re-training ordinary workers isn't q
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
At the risk of derailing this subthread, I'd be interested in knowing what's fucked up about the tool-and-die industry.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
The technical education of China's unaccountable governing elite has not prevented them from causing the greatest environmental catastrophe in living memory, nor does it guarantee that they will be at all motivated to clean up the mess. Chi
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
How old are you? Your attitude of absolute, rigid moral certainty suggests you don't have much experience with the real world.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
That anyone would celebrate what is essentially a case of vigilante mob justice is extremely disturbing. What rules of evidence do Anonymous have to follow? Who holds them accountable? Law enforcement's hands are often tied for extremely go
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Is anyone else turned off by the idea of ubiquitous voice interfaces? I can think, type and process visual information much faster than I can vocalize or process sound, and an interface that mimics natural conversation seems unnecessarily i
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
They have control of the nodes and vectors through which the money flows, which is I think what the parent meant by control over "currency".
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Maybe he was just committing to the joke.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Right, but he didn't jump right into future-tech industries; he had a huge pool of personal capital to draw on, and only himself to answer to in using it. The point the parent is trying to make is that there are probably a lot of people wor
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
This may only be the case for CMU EE PhD's. In today's winner-take-all economy, graduates of top programs have all the options; anyone who isn't a superstar generally has to eat shit.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Critical precision in grading is only necessary in competitive high-stakes academic environments where everyone is striving for excellence (or at least a shot at belonging to the social or technical elite). If you consider an environment wh
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
The problematic aspects of this software are applicable to MOOCs and online education in general. Truly valuable, high-level education requires a level of precise, individually calibrated feedback in order to train students how to think and
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
>And, anyway, whether or not the CEO is 100x more productive, her output is worth 100x more. How do we know? Because that's what she's >being paid. This may be true in the perfectly free market you encountered in your Microecon 101
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
This is exactly the point. The government has repeatedly used the legal fiction of the United States being "at war" to dramatically expand its punitive authority, despite the fact that the "war" is an open-ended, amorphous legal fiction. Th
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
If those PhD are really so smart, they should have had the foresight to be born to Morgan Stanley executives, like the Summly kid.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Yahoo's problems were almost entirely at the top. The products are bland and useless and there is no strategic vision. Refusing to hire from outside of top-twenty programs is a smokescreen, not a solution. Call me when Mayer is able to arti
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
That's quite a nasty and vindictive worldview you've got there.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
It's unlikely she'll be moving to Finland, and full third-party background checks are de rigueur for many jobs in the United States.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
You're what Jaron Lanier means when he talks about "digital Maoism".
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Given that it's an Australian casino, its highly likely that the gambler is associated with a syndicate working out of Southeast Asia (see for example the recent soccer gambling scandal). The problem isn't identifying who took the money, th
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
I'm curious what your plans are to support yourself once you're done traveling? Most people don't have the luxury of taking these kind of lengthy trips, because having a lengthy resume gap in this kind of job market will kill you. Do you ha
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
Do you also think Jonathan Swift had a taste for Irish children?
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
There's a significant difference between busting people for dropping acid or growing some weed in their backyard and busting people for trafficking large amounts of cocaine on behalf of an international drug cartel.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
The first half of those points is the same fuzzy horseshit rolled out to defend unpaid internships. That new ideas, informed feedback, and talent are valuable assets is obvious, so why should you hand them over for (virtually) free? That on
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
The Coca Cola Company pulled in nearly fifty billion dollars of revenue last year. They can afford to hire some industrial designers. These kind of corporate hackathons are just scams designed to allow the company to take advantage of hundr
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
This is what you should always ask yourself before you start making sacrifices for your company: "If the CEO had to choose between firing me or taking a pay-cut equal to my salary, what would he choose?" The answer is almost always immediat
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
What keeps the valuable, skilled, and productive employees from switching to a more accommodating firm while the useless workers who couldn't find employment elsewhere scramble to hang on? Seems like this could easily backfire.
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by rollo_tommasi 14y ago
So the drones have to sacrifice their benefits to drive up the share price, but the C-suite gets extravagant bespoke benefits because they're delivering value...by tearing up other people's benefits. Seems like good work if you can get it.

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