sjtindell

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by sjtindell 4y ago
Hired 10,000 people in Q2 this year alone? What percentage of those people actually do anything of value besides cash the company’s checks? That’s actually staggering to me. Cloud division I can see growing. What else?
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by sjtindell 4y ago
This doesn’t sound right at all. The classic story is “he/she took me to the cleaners”, fighting over every possible asset, being forced to sell a house or property you don’t want to because the spouse demands half. I don’t know the fr
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by sjtindell 4y ago
In my mind it is the same problem everywhere. Supply is too low and is kept low for many reasons. There is insane demand from around the world to live in Manhattan.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I would love a Crazy Eddie’s Discount Domains website built using 90’s html where the domains are sold like timeshares. Do I even own this domain? Not clear, but at $0.90 cents a year who can complain. A counter for page visits and Eddie’s
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I have read a lot of financial crime books and can’t recommend Billion Dollar Whale enough. What’s so astounding is the immediacy with which he went on one of the biggest spending sprees ever. A case study in how to disprove people who say,
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by sjtindell 4y ago
To me, using women to sell a product reeks of a bygone era and a certain mentality we’re working to get away from. I think that alone is a perfectly acceptable reason to think a company sucks and not use their product. Voting for behaviors
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by sjtindell 4y ago
True, we’re trying to produce bots that reliably do things (make people laugh) that humans can’t even do reliably. People who can feel out a room and use the right joke, or the right reassurance or whatever, are not even very common.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Personally I think this is an artifact of a time when there were other ways for you to make money.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Republicans are in favor of the DEA and drug scheduling though.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Google maps is hard to replace for me, being out with friends and someone says “here’s my address” and we just map it, too easy.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
There is no centralized way to drive that change on the needed scale. Most humans don’t even view what we’re doing in civilization as shared project, let alone agree that this is required to protect it. I think they fundamentally lack the a
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I don’t see this at all. They didn’t make less than you because of some moral failing by society at large. They made less because there is such a glut of artists that the bottom pay rate is literally less than zero, hence “do it for the exp
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I’ve become convinced that hiring more people is generally a warning sign. A team of between a few and about twenty people seems to produce all the good stuff. Anything beyond that, your value per employee drops drastically, and your cost p
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I have to chuckle a little at your “is it just me”…this is literally one of pop culture/the internet’s biggest flame wars these days. No offense intended. It commonly spirals off into tangents about the modern definitions of racism vs.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I don’t know if the term discrimination fits there. Employers would gladly employ children if not for the law.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Really no video game lets you do a free trial. To me the start of all this was Google. Google completely changed the way we interact with services and technology. It’s amazing and completely “free”.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I’m not sure fashion feels like the right term. People just assume newer equals better. So they want to use the latest and “greatest”.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Author is more asking the question, probably also thinks “it needs state” could be valid.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Honestly it feels a little like blog posts I read titled “X software is full of bugs” and then the first line is “so I installed X on my custom Arch Linux setup…”. Sure, not ideal, but the conclusion might not quite match the playing field.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
This point about donations comes up on literally every single one of these posts. Them throwing their wealth into the treasury maw would be a meaningless blip. They are arguing for the real systematic change that would bring in substantiall
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I sit upon a silk cushion, my servants fanning me as I pluck a grape from the bowl. “The plebs don’t understand how hard I work too”, I complain to no one in particular. “Don’t they realize a union will only hurt them? If they’d just brough
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by sjtindell 4y ago
And everything done in this case was in a smart contract. That’s the idea.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I mean I don’t know about screwed it up. You can’t expect any artist to just consistently produce pure hits. The creativity seems to come and go, the zeitgeist and the cultural context matter so much. Nobody (except, I would argue, Marvel)
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by sjtindell 4y ago
The classic example is a Google hiring committee who rejected all of their own anonymized hiring packets.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Excellent point!
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by sjtindell 4y ago
These aren't hard and fast rules. A civilization growing doesn't mean they automatically eat more meat. And having more population doesn't mean we automatically eat more meat. It's cultural and can be changed completely
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Instagram has one billion monthly users generating $7 billion a year. There are almost zero products on earth as successful.
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I often have the feeling that if almost everyone at Google just took a 1 year vacation, the thing would run itself. It's a money printer (search + ad auctions) surrounded by all this other busy work. Just leave the Borg to its business
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by sjtindell 4y ago
I believe that technology and other workers who are paid these salaries are actually just the only workers lucky enough to be getting a fraction of what is their fair share. You shouldn’t let a CEO walk with 300x their workers wage and say
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by sjtindell 4y ago
Crucially they don't need to buy the lie themselves, they only need to believe others will.

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