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by smil 11y ago
In Sweden, you'd be stoned to death if someone found out you made $150K, or more, as an engineer.
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by smil 11y ago
Uber is not a "ride sharing" service.
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by smil 11y ago
Agree, the system of industrial manufacturing depends on push-marketing to increase or maintain profitability since it requires large startup costs, and only really becomes viable when done at large scale. I think Industry 4.0 is a more lik
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by smil 11y ago
>There are so many nuances that make a great cup of coffee that it's hard to pin it down. Sounds like "placebo."
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by smil 11y ago
Interest rates are set by central banks in order to cause and increase inflation.
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by smil 11y ago
Indeed, the US (and the EU) economy is being kept on life support through Quantitative Easing and artificially low interest rates. But the patient is already brain dead.
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2015 fossil fuel subsidy at $5.3tn, greater than the total global health spend(theguardian.com)
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by smil 11y ago
You specifically named Sweden, and that's the remark I replied to.
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by smil 11y ago
>At least US is not in complete denial and that is quite laudable. Hopefully, more progress is made to that end. You are clearly in denial to the point where you need to look at other nations 500 years ago and conjure things that never h
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The dangers of letting algorithms make decisions in law enforcement(slate.com)
87 points by smil 11y ago|38 comments
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by smil 11y ago
I mean having a community of open source contributors around your product that you already know and have in some ways worked with, and can hire without the adversarial interview process. That way, you wouldn't need to use useless marke
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by smil 11y ago
Another case of an Employ-unable company.
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by smil 11y ago
Though I'm on Hacker News, I'm not a software developer. I would have thought it obvious that everyone would shift their hiring practices to be community-based, by looking at GitHub. I suppose most companies, even in the so "
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by smil 11y ago
>What they're doing mostly makes sense - let somebody else pre-qualify you and then we'll have a look. If they can do that, why wouldn't they? Because recruiting knowns, that are often already employed, means paying higher
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by smil 11y ago
I would suggest a new term: Employ-unable. Many if not most firms are unable to identify intelligent, motivated people, outside of the typical CV pedigree of Ivy Leagues and corporate brands. As a result, they have created a cargo cult recr
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by smil 11y ago
How is the remote driver going to immediately know what to do, and immediately know what the surrounding environment is like? Exactly, they won't. Self-driving cars will never happen.
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by smil 11y ago
Indeed, all the "scientific" hiring processes are hinged on the idea that it is possible to accurately predict an individuals future performance. A child knows that predicting the future is impossible.
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by smil 11y ago
American culture is not individualistic. It's conformist to the extreme.
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by smil 11y ago
IIRC student loan debt was made non-dischargeable by bankruptcy when the government started guaranteeing all student loans. This is the reason why tuition has been increasing so dramatically, because for the banks, making a loan is free of
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by smil 11y ago
It's not the metrics, it's advertising as a business model.
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by smil 11y ago
Your opinion isn't dissent, it's the generally accepted view.
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by smil 11y ago
Interesting. You were the first to mention feminism, and created a straw man which you used to express your disdain for men's rights in general. Tragic, really.
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by smil 11y ago
Of course they're desperate for views. Their whole business model is based on views. Which is why the media is of such awful quality today.
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by smil 11y ago
I read about this earlier today on /r/contentstrategist and they were saying that videos posted directly to Facebook get far, far more "plays" than if they are posted as links to YouTube. This is thanks to Facebook'
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Tesla and Its Subsidies(nationalreview.com)
2 points by smil 11y ago|0 comments
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by smil 11y ago
So, in your experience, it doesn't happen a lot, right? I mean, since you've never, ever heard of it happening.
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by smil 11y ago
And Budweiser is sold as premium in Europe, Asia.
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Peter Drucker: Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself(thegoodleader.blogspot.com)
2 points by smil 11y ago|0 comments
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by smil 11y ago
Have you seen it happen? Heard about it happen? Read about it happening?
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by smil 11y ago
It would not be a problem for a male executive to marry a woman working part-time at a café. Would a female executive marry a male who works part-time at a café?

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