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by taurath 4y ago
He is a man who owns and can raise massive amounts of money and promise smart people the ability to build something they want to build. That he gets so much credit for his ventures is a very strange thing to me given how many he has vs how
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by taurath 4y ago
JIRA has huge feature creep lockin along the likes of sales force. It costs huge amounts of money on consultants to move off of it. Any new company probably wouldn’t use it though, it’s just overkill.
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by taurath 4y ago
Would guess the idea is more about who pays that similar revenue, as since the 80s income inequality has shot upwards.
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by taurath 4y ago
Tolkien was a British person in the early 20th century so the cultural context in which he lived was one of an empire in decline, 2 world wars, and as the series was written a Europe and UK in relative ruins. Romanticism about the power, in
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by taurath 4y ago
> The second hand smoke you’d encounter on a sidewalk is completely harmless. Any affect, if any, to your health would be completely insignificant and unmeasurable. This sounds correct to me but keep in mind marketing the dangers of seco
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by taurath 4y ago
> Now we're being told what we can and can't do in random ways in America and it's a really strange form of hypocrisy. Are these ways random though, really? Or do they reflect that we have vastly divergent ideas of what so
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by taurath 4y ago
Wondering if it might be possible to measure the pain people are feeling somehow. It’d be interesting to compare a person with a traumatic past vs one without
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by taurath 4y ago
> The HN community (rightly) skews towards entrepreneur hackers who have a general distain for BigCo employment. On the contrary, I find that most work at bigco or smaller companies and come to HN to play out their dreams of what it woul
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by taurath 4y ago
We need to stop treating people as disposable and subhuman in this country.
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by taurath 4y ago
End result is you still have a society run by sociopaths then.
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by taurath 4y ago
So then they exploit workers and customers because they choose to rather than being forced to, which sorta makes it worse.
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by taurath 4y ago
Investors love the monetization model and they get to decide what is just right and moral in our system of economics. The “fiduciary duty” to investors means sociopathy is the only way that businesses are allowed to conduct themselves. If y
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by taurath 4y ago
They’re not interested in reducing the cost of their food though, they just want to charge the most that enough people will pay. They keep advertising and couponing because they test areas they advertise and don’t and measure the difference
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by taurath 4y ago
This has happened to me as well. Amazon's "customer focus" is a misnomer, because the resellers are more important customers than the buyers are.
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by taurath 4y ago
That example sounds to me a lot like a university taking on things they shouldn’t need to do, but have to because there’s nothing else to take them on. I wonder how many counselors they have and how short wait times for appointments are in
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by taurath 4y ago
Isn’t this in some ways just growing up and directly having experience with the intricacies of a big system? All those new things sound like considerations that were there before, yes even in the vaunted 90s to me. Maybe the average role of
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by taurath 4y ago
I followed the comparison the GP put up. And yes by all means compare Berkeley to Munich or Berlin or any of those cities other than London, where despite being expensive for Europe they don’t come close to Berkeley in terms of cost
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by taurath 4y ago
Germany does not have the egregious housing costs of Berkeley. It’s entirely possible to feed one’s self on that amount but not really get adequate housing, and certainly not what you’d imagine as middle class stability.
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by taurath 4y ago
Please assume I'm a reasonable person enough to not say that nobody has ever received help, and see the context as to what I meant - that many people do not receive enough help.
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by taurath 4y ago
> If you don't believe they ever helped anyone I can see from your very uncharitable reading of my comment how you could see that I was saying that. I was saying that many people have not and currently don't have receive help f
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by taurath 4y ago
> Do you believe people never received help before the government came along? I do. Especially when people who need the help are from poor communities who can’t spare much - much less provide things like in home care, transportation, etc
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by taurath 4y ago
Let’s not forget the emotional element of these interviews where you’re being asked questions that mean very little about whether you can perform in the role. but many pretend that they are. For me the day long “technical” interview loop is
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by taurath 4y ago
Idk spend more time on the robo phone line with CVS trying to get a prescription you need to live and tell me it’s a preferred state of order
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by taurath 4y ago
It’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia And it’s not super well understood. Aspects of dissociation are probably involved - if such a thing happened without the presence of alcohol or with a relatively
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by taurath 4y ago
I don’t know if it ever existed really, but in my head it seems like at one point there were national level projects that were taken on by people who might’ve been dedicated to an ideal or a real like commitment to solving problems, and the
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by taurath 4y ago
Corporations are sociopaths, and we think this is a good idea for some reason
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Until the money goes away, at which point it becomes as it always has been about getting rich and not about any of the ideals.
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My internal narrative is that newer generations are working to keep their emotional well being alive - to access human empathy and build up the idea of emotional boundaries in response to a world which pretends they shouldn’t exist - especi
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by taurath 4y ago
In the modern world, it’ll take a disaster for anyone to pay any attention at all, but all they have to do is wait a few weeks for everyone to pay attention to something else.
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by taurath 4y ago
Bottom to top, having done top to bottom for literally 10 years. At some level treating symptoms can be helpful to stabilize someone, but if left unaddressed deep wounds will continue to fester. Many people live their entire lives with a hu

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