shrewduser

22 ms·

1. 211.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   I really don't think that the problem with microsoft was their research division being too seperate. although interfacing better with the rest of the company makes sense they've always fallen on their face when it comes to executi
2. 212.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   damn i miss groklaw. plz come back.
3. 213.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   there aren't many humans who can grok that kind of info and truly understand it, that's why they were supposed to be rated accurately by ratings agencies.
4. 214.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   is usenet still used for discussion? how is it? i know it's used for binaries, are there any frequent usenet users around that don't use it for binaries?
5. 215.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   there's no difference. they weren't priced correctly is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, and synonymous with they lied about their level of risk.
6. 216.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   then bitcoin is already officially fucked.
7. 217.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   so what, i'm not supposed to have any good way to cut across the city and get to the airport? also in the world of automated cars we're about to enter i would think the amount of people you can transport via freeway would far outs
8. 218.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   that seems like you're just saying true merit is hard to determine or measure, which is stated in the original comment. This might be to do with the ways humans consciously and unconsciously use proxies for complex things like merit. y
9. 219.▲
   by shrewduser 11y ago

   What problem exactly are you trying to solve? and is that problem caused by meritocracy or something else?
10. 220.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    I would argue yes. unless you can explain how rewarding people without merit over people with merit somehow leads to net happiness.
11. 221.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    japans tech sector is hardly thriving, are they really your first example? 0% economic growth for 20 years? Israel is nascent and not very comparable, plus they do pull in a lot of global talent, germany also to a much greater extent than j
12. 222.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    so what's the point of this article? that merit is good but maybe we don't always measure it well? because honestly: duh. Look at tech companies vs say law firms, one will employ you even if you've never been to university th
13. 223.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    "Justine Sacco didn't suffer a "devastating online lynching". She got a ton of nasty tweets and emails, and she got fired from her job. " you can't be serious. clearly the term lynching was not literal, and tha
14. 224.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    There is a point, even with bandwidth, where you get reducing benefits to scale. just because we've had an insatiable appetite for faster and faster speeds doesn't mean that will always be the case. honestly is there much you woul
15. 225.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    you want to be a world beating company you'd better have your talent pool be the world. American tech would be a shell of what it is without foreign labour.
16. 226.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    i wonder if we can find them? or an archive of them?
17. 227.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    higher value and experience?
18. 228.▲
    by shrewduser 11y ago

    did any word exist before we needed it?