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by spyckie2 5y ago
This. I think the best way to think about this party is that the goal isn't to win elections (get the majority of votes, beat out the republican/democratic party) - it is to wield influence via a platform. If you think Andrew Yang
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The key metric is probably "obscure incidents" per miles driven, probably classified manually into various levels of danger. Once the "incidents that lead to disaster" count reaches 0 statistically, it will definitely ro
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Contextually, the person is arguing that being called a russian troll / bot is reducing the quality of discussion and is also shutting up alternative viewpoints. The "freedom of speech" comment is merely a vent, and such gene
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Yeah, my point wasn't really well stated, I think that was why it generated discussion. Robots exist en masse already, we just don't call them robots, we call them washing machines and dishwashers and factory lines. There's a
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I didn't expect this comment to get this much discussion, I should have been clearer. In the context of automation, the "robotic revolution" has already happened between the 4 industrial revolutions - basically, robots exist
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The value of work is not in the work done; it's in the decisions being made. It's the ability to handle edge cases, to work your way through ambiguity, to "unstuck" a stuck situation, and to resolve tricky unforeseen iss
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The thought that data monopolization will be a moat against competitors is actually argued against by VC firms specializing in AI companies, who claim that after a certain amount of data (which is accessible to most people) the additional d
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Reflections on Being Young(antivalue.blogspot.com)
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Value Creation, Capture, and Distribution(antivalue.blogspot.com)
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Domain expertise looks like understanding all the pitfalls holistically and knowing the right ways around them. In the case you describe (deciding on technologies), this type of decision often falls to CTOs because they need complete unders
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no worries! It is rather ironic.
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I did notice the irony myself :) The article talks about contingent advice being better than universal advice only in stage 3. If you're not then universal advice is helpful. I think that holds true for most people and most subjects, i
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Thanks
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Being a hedgehog is useful on the journey to domain mastery because sticking to frameworks saves you time and headache compared to not having any frameworks at all. The 3 stages of domain mastery: Stage 1 - No knowledge or structure to appr
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My dad (we're Taiwanese) once told me the difference between Asian and Western societies is mostly in fault tolerance strategies - how each society prevents important societal systems and functions from failing. Asian societies beat th
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We don't really know our future projected energy costs in a post-climate change world. Fusion might have a place if there is a massive amount of energy needed to reset the globe to a semi-controllable environment - either carbon contro
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When Is the Pandemic Over?(antivalue.blogspot.com)
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Upholding values is a dangerous game(antivalue.blogspot.com)
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The policy they put in place is just not hiring those who would want to actively participate in political discussion at work. I think there are plenty of people in the world who see that as a net positive. Not everyone wants political discu
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Author here. If you think that I’m telling people to shut up about important issues then you’re wrong. I think activism has its place in a society that needs a lot of social change. But if you think that activism is a universally appropriat
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Lifestyle business is where you want to be to have band of brothers or fellowship ideology and rhetoric. DHH has always been a proponent of lifestyle business. In the corporate world fellowship is rarely discussed and for good reason. I don
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I think my point is that some lifestyle companies (basecamp’s one of the originals) want to be a fellowship because they see the ideological joining together in shared mission and culture as a valuable thing. I think it is valuable to peopl
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A Policy of Activism in the Workplace Is Anti-Fellowship(antivalue.blogspot.com)
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A lot of gossipers, haters, and narcissists hide behind the activist label to carry out their personal agenda. If you are building policy that allows activism, you need checks and balances against this free riding behaviour. If you don’t c
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by spyckie2 5y ago
Yes, people are reacting to the policy. But it's definitely that the policy is a reaction to something as well. Probably, the founders believed that the toxicity of the internal culture had reached a point where it was extremely detrim
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Education is actually much more important than wealth. So is city and community infrastructure, a positive family environment, etiquette / upbringing, values passed down, positive / helpful relations, mentorship, trauma free envir
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I think calling it a wealth gap really misses the point - it's a stability gap. Most upper-middle individuals pass on socio-economic stability to the next generation. Most middle and lower class pass on instability. Wealth is a small p
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by spyckie2 6y ago
I really don't get why people want to kill turbotax. I get the following: 1. the tax system in the US is broken 2. It needs to be simpler ... 3. kill turbotax??? For many people, such as myself, turbotax is doing exactly what most peop
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As a soft spoken male I get interrupted all the time, usually not for efficiency. There's rarely been an interruption where I personally thought it was justified. The interruptions for clarification and false assumption are not the int
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My usage of inferior/superior is contextualized mainly to scaling but the article mentioned many more things other than scale in the anecdotes (like producing better code overall). Maybe the vagueness of the word choice is a bit contro

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