seibelj

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by seibelj 4y ago
Couldn’t disagree harder on every single count. Humanity will adapt. We could sustain 10x population (70 billion) with the correct technology - the vast majority of land on earth is totally empty. There will be no resource wars and no migra
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It’s almost like the decision makers in government have no idea what they are doing
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Working remote is for adults with established social structures, skill sets, and maturity. It’s not the ideal environment to start your career. What’s interesting is that successful fully-remote companies are full of emotionally mature and
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The world went through an ice-age while humans were alive and struggling. The world may be warming because of humans, but we have the ability with technology to adapt.
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You are confused because you think the contracts mean anything in such a world. The contracts are worth less than the paper they are printed on when push comes to shove and you are facing a whale.
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You are viewing the problem wrong. If you don't want to pay and you are a big fish, you just tell them not to ask. VC world is based on reputation and politeness. Causing a big stink is not a good look for anyone. If you are a big LP a
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by seibelj 4y ago
Yeah I was super confused by this. VCs generally don’t have all the money ready to invest. They may have raised a $300 mil fund but they don’t get that money until they call it in. If the LP says “no deals for 6 months” that’s how it is.
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I agree - it is obvious to me that free will = non-determinism. But we are getting into metaphysics and unprovable thought experiments
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You can have endless growth as long as productivity is increasing faster than population loss. Increasing productivity needs technological advancement. Alternatively we can stem the tide of population loss by having humans live longer, or b
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Life is not fair and not everyone who works hard gets paid more. However on average the better skilled get paid more, and this is exactly why so many immigrants come to America despite our supposed bare-knuckle form of capitalism - we are a
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Some jobs are far worse than others (working in a disgusting sewer) and others are far harder than others (managing an organization of thousands of people). No matter what the economic system, somehow you need to convince someone to work in
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Content creation is a hit making business. Video games, movies, tv shows, music, literature, etc. People are passionate and work in the industry because it’s a creative effort and you can make a lot of money. But as an investor you should v
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I know a lot of self made wealthy and it’s all about building businesses and investing in risky things. That takes a lot of talent and effort. There is a different group of born wealthy, but they aren’t building new businesses.
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It’s called the Gender Equality Paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox Research shows that when there is more gender equality in countries, the self selection for certain occupations by gender
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by seibelj 4y ago
Philosophically I believe the state is the much bigger threat than the wealthy. The wealthy made their money on their own. The state is lead by power-crazed mad men who earn their money by taking it from others. I prefer the wealthy to the
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You are in fantasy land if you think solar and wind could replace fossil fuels. Battery tech is (hopefully) a decade away and you can’t get over transmission issues to cloudier places. The correct answer is nuclear and investing in our own
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by seibelj 4y ago
You are painting all libertarians with a broad brush. Just as not all Democrats are communists and not all Republicans are Nazis, not all libertarians are anarcho-capitalists that want the state to be destroyed. It is a way to dismiss liber
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If so many people are caught for financial crimes, and given the vast sums of money involved and how blatant the crimes often are, how many people do you think are never caught? I think the world of finance is absurdly large, opaque, and
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Peloton competitor Tonal cuts 35% of workforce(cnbc.com)
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https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1530257168078974976 Paul Krugman just can’t stop being wrong. How this guy has any credibility anymore is beyond me.
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People complain that being laid off is cold and impersonal. People also complain that there are not enough regulations and laws around employment. The reason layoffs are cold and impersonal is that it’s a very fraught event for the company
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Also a lot of lifetime academics are generally insufferable. Hugely important vision of themselves, lack of knowledge of reality, and are totally useless if they had to do a job outside of their hyper-specialized area. I see a lot of value
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by seibelj 4y ago
Yes - if a graduate can demonstrate they received a good education, then the reputation of the school will grow. Many rules for accreditation (like libraries with a certain number of books) make zero sense in 2022.
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There is a new university called UATX that is trying https://www.uaustin.org/ But they seem to be going down the route of trying to get accredited. IMO no one cares about any of that except other academics, businesses only
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I think you could make a pretty inexpensive Computer Science non-profit that is unaccredited but issued its own degree. No one cares about accreditation anyway. It would take a wealthy person to put their name on it, and be a struggle to ge
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It’s hilarious how everyone acts like the pre-Uber taxi world was one of generous wages, honest hard working companies, and politicians working hand in hand with stakeholders. The taxi industry was (is?) insanely corrupt. There are literall
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I would say it’s logical deduction. Communication is when you send information, including something I can’t possibly know ahead of time.
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That is a very generous take. My alternative explanation is that the incentives of government agencies are misaligned with helping society. A government leader is judged based on the size of their budget and the number of employees. They wi
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Yet there is an extreme aversion to “de-regulation” as if all regulation is good and any attempt at reforming bad regulation is reactionary and evil. The regulatory state is ever-expanding and contracts only rarely in very isolated instance
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And yet highly logical people on HN will simultaneously argue that the government and its bureaucracy is a great thing and we should increase regulation and rules in all facets of the tech industry. The security side is literally the only p

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