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by s17n 6y ago
https://medium.com/@samclearman/stop-paying-for-e-books-and-...
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by s17n 6y ago
I think the reason that people want real-time collaboration has been that merging diffs, which is already a hassle for code, has historically not really been possible for designers. With realtime collaboration, you can have people working
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by s17n 6y ago
It's popular at CMU? It got a huge-for-pure-math grant 5 years ago ( https://homotopytypetheory.org/2014/04/29/hott-awarded-a-mur... )? Idk.
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by s17n 6y ago
> The demand is there. I'd be very surprised if this turns out to be true. Ridesharing is competing with public transit, personal vehicles, walking, etc. If prices significantly increase, the market size will go back to what it wa
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by s17n 6y ago
That's exactly what's going to happen, though. Uber and Lyft are not very profitable so they can't actually afford to increase wages or benefits out of their own pockets. If they increase prices, the market will shrink, so
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by s17n 6y ago
The point he's trying to make is that things used to be more reliable - there were no online inventory systems in the 50's, but whatever systems they did have back then were dependable. He is, of course, totally wrong - back then
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by s17n 6y ago
The specialists that I've met have never been any less capable of understanding context outside their domains, or motivating problems, filtering out details than similarly intelligent people who don't have any specialist domain kn
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by s17n 6y ago
All that Apple is really accomplishing is to ensure that the only viable business model will be ads.
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by s17n 6y ago
Title would be improved by simply removing "Results were surprising"
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by s17n 6y ago
> Still, it boggles my mind. Why would you voluntarily do it? My parents only invited trusted friends to ensure nothing 'questionable' made it to the authorities ( former soviet republic ). People today brazenly broadcast it. &
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by s17n 6y ago
I think it's gross to pay the CEO a high salary if you're asking people for donations, but Mozilla isn't; they're self-funded. So if they want to blow all that money on their CEO, I guess it's their call.
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by s17n 6y ago
Y Combinator has one of the strongest brands of any investor, which matters a ton for recruiting. It's very hard for engineers considering working at an early stage company to determine whether it's legit or not, and Y Combinator
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by s17n 6y ago
I think that environmentalists want prescribed burns, right-wingers want to just cut all the forests down, and the compromise position is to do neither and then call the fires an act of God.
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by s17n 6y ago
Pretty sure the original concept of representative democracy didn't involve campaigning on issues at all, it was more like "the people decide who they want to represent them by picking the wisest and most honorable citizens, and t
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by s17n 6y ago
College admissions play a central role in determining where you end up in our society, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that they should be regulated.
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by s17n 6y ago
Better idea, let's outlaw legacy admissions.
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by s17n 6y ago
We should do away with legacy admissions and quid pro quo. If people still want to donate, great, otherwise universities will have to find a different funding model.
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by s17n 6y ago
"Tech"* as a percentage of the economy has grown substantially since 1999 so what was a crazy percentage then might not be now. * A lot of so called tech stocks are companies that aren't all that technology-driven, of course.
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by s17n 6y ago
I downvoted, not because of what he said or how he said it, but because there's basically no chance that the comment will lead to an enlightening conversation.
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by s17n 6y ago
Did you try getting drunk?
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by s17n 6y ago
Solution is to get rid of the 90 day limit for ex-employees, which is also just the right thing to do in general. Doesn't totally solve AMT, as there are other reasons to want to exercise other than "because your options are about
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by s17n 6y ago
I just googled and it looks like my statement is true, with the caveat that "all the available evidence" is pretty much garbage. I get terrible wrist pain when I even look at a mouse so editing speed is a secondary concern for me.
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by s17n 6y ago
I believe that all available evidence suggests that keyboard-only editing is not actually faster or more efficient (I say this as a keyboard-only Emacs user).
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by s17n 6y ago
Exercising your options is a taxable event even if the shares you're buying are illiquid.
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by s17n 6y ago
This is a problem for startup employees, too, and should be solved in both cases by allowing you to defer the taxes on your paper gains until you can actually realize them (yeah, there would be issues here, but the issues are solvable).
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by s17n 6y ago
If he actually does it I'll seriously considering voting for him. He won't, though.
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by s17n 6y ago
It's not really that hard, you just have to increase prices a bit, which in turn shrinks the market, which in turn means you aren't a $100B company. Maybe more like a $1B company or so. Obviously this would be a disaster for Ube
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by s17n 6y ago
Nobody was ever "forced to waste their time" on this stuff. I have a simple rule - I don't comment on other people's style, and if people comment on my style, I just go with their suggestions. Problem solved.
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A similar case could be made against anybody who goes to work for a competitor. He fact that you aren’t guilty might not matter so much if you’re facing vastly asymmetric legal resources.
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by s17n 6y ago
Getting sued / prosecuted for switching jobs.

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