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781.
by ska 3y ago
This is pretty solvable in contract law. With engineers it's even easier, if compensation is more predictable.
782.
by ska 3y ago
> PE running these would be the government running them (see Canada). I know there were a lot of problems in the Canadian system caused by or exposed by Covid, but weren't the worst of them private companies in some sort of private-
783.
by ska 3y ago
"private equity" is not the same as "private ownership", no?
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by ska 3y ago
> sanity by sabotaging their perception of their own actions. I don't think "of their own actions" belongs in the definition. Perception of others actions, as well as basic facts, can be under attack as well.
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by ska 3y ago
I remember a claim (from Vlassic itself?) also that Walmart pushed them into producing larger volume SKU's, against their (Vlassic's) detailed data on usage, shelf life, etc. Result: more mouldy pickles in peoples refrigerators
786.
by ska 3y ago
I suspect the information asymmetry is as big a factor as the scale difference. In most negotiations, Walmart can fundamentally affect the bottom line of the counter party in a way that just isn't true in the other direction. They
787.
by ska 3y ago
> below to market, that's not waht's happening here. It isn't? They seemed like pretty normal market salaries for the type of position.
788.
by ska 3y ago
In my limited experience 1.5x annual is pretty normal for senior executives.
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by ska 3y ago
The how probably isn't so hard if you are a state actor. You won't be 100% effective, but if you make it a felony to possess systems that can do it, to use systems that can do it, to possess any data that can be tied to such a sy
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by ska 3y ago
You argued that "seniority systems are the most fair" and I pointed out they often don't work that well. I'm not sure why you brought in eminent domain, but agree that it can be a more reasonable way to resolve the fri
791.
by ska 3y ago
> The article portrays Dali as a greedy businessman first, an artist second: That's not a novel idea. It was claimed contemporaneously by other artists, if I recall correctly.
792.
by ska 3y ago
I suspect in general if 'they were here first' is the only tool in your policy toolbox, you are going to have a bad time of it with growth and resource allocation. It works pretty ok with symmetric situations, but most situation
793.
by ska 3y ago
It would be perhaps interesting to add a layer capable of injecting reasonable noise on top of these clean records.
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by ska 3y ago
I've done this sort of thing before with home-rolled tools, it easily becomes a time sink. Having a centralized shared effort seems like it could be really valuable. One thing that is tricky is that you often needs signals and/o
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by ska 3y ago
In my experience, having done both, it is a bit more time efficient at the Costco, but it also changes what you buy (lots of fresh food doesn't actually do well for two weeks). This is assuming you have the places you need in easy wa
796.
by ska 3y ago
This is sort of an interesting one. The combination of home refrigeration and suburbs created the "weekend shop", but it's not a given that this is optimal or even really desirable.
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by ska 3y ago
I'm having trouble making sense of your point, I guess. You seem to try to draw a parallel between largely failed tech (VR) and largely successful tech (apple watches, etc), and then to massively popular consumer product (coke); then s
798.
by ska 3y ago
Not really a useful analogy, I think. Most people do, or don't do, something that empirically is not optimal for their health. If your suggesting there is an objective downside - I think you have an uphill battle there.
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by ska 3y ago
I think that is shortsighted. If you could realize a futurists dream of AR, i.e. smooth overly interacting properly with anything in your view, with context aware detail etc, it would pretty clearly be a game changer (I think). On the othe
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by ska 3y ago
> you couldn’t pay me to wear an Apple Watch all day That's your preference, but it's clear that lots of people not just willingly, but enthusiastically do this; makes this an odd example. Likewise Siri/Alexa I guess - I
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by ska 3y ago
> All enhancing an employee's career does is ensure that they have leverage to negotiate higher salaries or leaving the company. No company wants this. Explicitly, no. Growing talent inside is far less risky than hiring from the ou
802.
by ska 3y ago
I don't think you are representing the original fairly, they said "often ... because they're at the expense of everything else," Which seems plausible although "often" may be harsh. Too high a proportion of y
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by ska 3y ago
> No manager is paid to care about an employee's career that I have ever seen or heard of. This is an incredibly common part of the role(s), so my guess is that you have been unlucky in this. For what it's worth, all the strong
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by ska 3y ago
In this context (and the usage is not always consistent) it's probably easiest to think about leadership as an activity and (people) management as a role. If you are not formally responsible for some aspect of other peoples jobs and c
805.
by ska 3y ago
Only sort of. Since the image has been in use since before web services etc., more than one different copy was used as "canonical" so it's sort of unsolvable if you want to reproduce work. There has been more recent efforts
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by ska 3y ago
I find it interesting . I know a lot of people who have written textbooks, but approximately none of them have made reasonable money at it. So if you could halve the time to produce a good one it would help, even better if you quarter it.
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by ska 3y ago
So far the sweet spot of LLM's seems to be quickly producing mediocre to bad content with factual errors. Assuming you have a talented & knowledgeable person in the loop to improve and fix it, I could see it speeding up the proce
808.
by ska 3y ago
That’s basically ideal for a lot of engineering work, so long as you keep fresh ideas coming into the group somehow so it doesn’t stagnate …
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by ska 3y ago
You don't even need timezones or DST to run into issues along these lines. Let's say you have have a repeating 7am alarm on your phone. What should happen if you want to set it to 8am for one day? I mean, without walking you thr
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by ska 3y ago
From a systemic point of view, you have to look at carbon impact of production (and end of life). Being a bit more efficient doesn't necessary net out well.

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