sshumaker

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by sshumaker 9y ago
I think it's easy to make this mistake and to associate government == bad ethics, when it's clear that you see similar misbehavior in government AND business. The problem is size, not public vs. private. Size equals power and that
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Exactly my thinking. It's 0.0256 using a chi-squared test, which is definitely below the standard threshold.
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by sshumaker 9y ago
You’re missing the point. This article is proposing an alternative to UBI, where you are just giving no strings $$$ handouts to all citizens. Clearly basic jobs won’t be as efficient at producing e.g. agricultural products as the free marke
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by sshumaker 9y ago
This is a very simplistic view. The expected value is very low at an early stage company, but with a very high upside. It is closer to a lottery ticket although with far better odds - betting on horse racing maybe. At a later stage unicorn
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte | Full Time, Onsite | https://creditkarma.com Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 75 million US users and are a true mission-orien
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by sshumaker 9y ago
This is a war the Palestinians cannot win conventionally, so it is heavily waged through the court of public opinion. Hamas’s bread and butter is exploiting tragedies for propaganda wins, which is why they fire rockets from schools and hosp
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by sshumaker 9y ago
The Palestinian Territories aren’t within Israel’s formal borders, and it has nothing to do with religion or ethnicity. There are 1.7mm Israeli Arabs (20% of population, 90% are Muslim) who vote and have representation in government.
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by sshumaker 9y ago
This is an ad-hominem attack that is completely off-topic. If you don’t have anything relevant to contribute, please leave.
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by sshumaker 9y ago
The problem probably isn't with you, it's with your environment. It's likely you're at the wrong company (see my comment above). If you work directly for the CTO my guess is that there aren't a lot of management opp
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Ahh, that's fairly straightforward. Join a rapidly growing organization and stand out as an IC. You'll inevitably be asked to take on a bigger role as the org struggles with leadership gaps as they expand.
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Plenty of scumbags take the founder route too. :) And I've met many engineers in my career who would fit the jerk description as well. Having operated in all three roles, all are incredibly valuable. Great leaders enable their teams to
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by sshumaker 9y ago
A manager isn't an executive. In addition to new skills, there are also mental shifts necessary at various stages in your career, as you climb to increasing levels of leadership. You can see this on the IC track as well for top-tier te
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Or you could have spent that dev time on product/market fit, growth, or making your customers happy instead. The cost calculus doesn't usually switch until you've pretty far along on solving those things.
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Talk about a premature optimization. The only goal that matters for an early stage startup is product/market fit. If you can demonstrate traction you can raise money to buy yourself more time. For this, rapid iteration is critical. Use
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by sshumaker 9y ago
xoogler here. I would definitely subscribe to occam's razor here. Rather than explicit censorship, this is probably something that just got snagged in the net of Google's semi-automated content moderation process, which is probabl
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by sshumaker 9y ago
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte | Full Time, Onsite | https://creditkarma.com Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 70 million US members and are a true mission-ori
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by sshumaker 9y ago
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by sshumaker 10y ago
Maybe we're in agreement. You fit my definition perfectly - success for sure (even your own wiki page), but never that massive breakout. And hindsight isn't great for predicting those once-in-a-lifetime convergences. Maybe Steve J
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by sshumaker 10y ago
So do millions of other ambitious people. Many of us do achieve moderate success. Walter - do you think there's a vast gap in ability between you and Zuckerberg? Or better yet, between you and Dustin Moskovitz? (He's worth 10.4 bi
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by sshumaker 10y ago
Can we say survivorship bias? There are millions of hardworking and talented individuals who try repeatedly and end up with at most moderate success. The number of breakouts is so small that there isn't any statistical significance to
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by sshumaker 10y ago
Moderate success is usually earned: hard work + talent. Breakout success typically requires a lot of luck on top of everything else. The difference between a successful career and that billion dollar exit mostly comes down to timing.
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by sshumaker 10y ago
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Venice, Charlotte | Full Time, Onsite | https://creditkarma.com Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 70 million US members and are a true mis
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by sshumaker 10y ago
This is one of the reasons Credit Karma launched a totally free online tax product this year ( https://creditkarma.com/tax ). (We view this similarly to credit scores a decade ago, when everyone advertising "free" w
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by sshumaker 10y ago
Honestly, a big reason for separate services is cultural. It tends to be easier to assign accountability and ownership when you are operating a service (monitoring, independent deployment, KPIs fall out more naturally). With a monolith you
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Venice, CA
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Advice for the next generation(medium.com)
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by sshumaker 10y ago
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by sshumaker 10y ago
While it's certainly true that there are some interaction effects between government regulation and the market that cause inequality, its naive to draw the conclusion that this is true for all or even a majority of regulation. If you r
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