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by vjktyu 7y ago
The next decade will be the decade of survelliance. Nearly dust size receivers will cost nothing and will be generously used everywhere: from concrete blocks to clothes. The US will come up with a clever use case so people will buy this the
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Regarding escalation of school shootings, it seems plausible, but only because (here is an unpopular opinion that will get 20 downvotes) the rich want to disarm the poor and use school/kids/safety as an excuse. And that's und
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by vjktyu 7y ago
His plan was to get into big politics and an exec role was a way to find his campaign. 10 years is a totally believable planning horizon. I doubt he cares much about the petty issues with his former boss, but I'm sure he'll flex o
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Chances are, he (Ross) has outplayed the senior execs at Google. He was in the CA governor's team before and thus knew about the new trend to regulate tech, so he went to Google to build some wealth for his political campaign, skillful
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by vjktyu 7y ago
So the high-level sociopaths have taken over to increase profits at any cost, and Ross has chosen to leave for big politics and use the moment to show his principled approach. P.S. everybody should read the gervais principle book: it's
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by vjktyu 7y ago
They aren't. It's just a very coarse point where to stop.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Afaik, a union can tell you what you can and cannot do, while I only want a team of well funded lawyers to change some laws. And the u word attracts unnecessary attention. Let's call it a club, actually.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
We need a stronger law: any employee should be able to choose how many hours or days per week to work AND work for any other company at the same time (NDA applies, but non compete bs doesn't). Execs do this all the time: they can be on
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by vjktyu 7y ago
That's why we need lawyers on a payroll that would figure out all the details.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Study calculus, from the definition of real numbers and to taking complex integrals via residuals; then study linear algebra to some theorems about eigenvectors. 1 month total, assuming you're somewhat talented and determined to spend
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Good for them. As for the tech workers, they need something like a guild with membership fees and staff lawyers that would sue the state for allowing binding arbitration and non compete agreements (i.e. do what California did).
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by vjktyu 7y ago
My hunch is that 1on1 is time when a manager tries to build a working mental model of his/her report: the manager tried to use empathy to read the employee.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Why can't you do it under lsd? Is it the skill to think is somehow disabled or it's just a flood of distracting events that make it hard to stay focused?
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by vjktyu 7y ago
There is a simpler explanation. Assuming our world is discrete, like a mathematical graph, every world state has one or a few next possible states. If we imagine all possible states from past and future linked together by causality links as
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by vjktyu 7y ago
In its current form, ccpa is useless. The companies will just demand all personal data for any purpose or deny access.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
The latter. The 4th volume of lamrim (by tsong-kha-pa) is a good summary with references to other books. That volume has been translated into English and us called "discerning the real" or something like that. Tsongkhapa gives a r
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Sounds like a very well put summary of lamrim. The book also tells how to break the loop: learn to focus thoughts, understand the concept of emptiness, analyze this concept with laser focused attention. So I've been wondering what happ
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by vjktyu 7y ago
There is also evidence that broken bones become stronger and it's especially visible in martial arts practicioners who regularly break and restore bones at microscopic level. Even though this is true, I wouldn't advice anyone to b
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by vjktyu 7y ago
May I ask you, how much it costs to buy a place within 2 miles from your office? I bet, it's a solid seven figure number and at that point your argument is like complaining about how hard it's to switch from Bentley to RR.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
The only problem with biking is that the land surface area is 2 dimensional and thus grows too slowly to accommodate everyone :/ but if someone buys me a reasonable place within biking distance then sure, I would sign a contract that o
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by vjktyu 7y ago
The cynical me hints that "for the kids" is just a nice way to say "I need an option for 50% that I get to execute, should I leave our startup." With this logic, the price of the house doesn't matter.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
They want independence from the US, but they won't survive in open waters without the US warships. Otherwise, if this island has any value at all, it'll attract Mexican cartels or Russian mafia or whatever else is floating in the
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by vjktyu 7y ago
A solution could be to let engineers work for multiple companies at once and laws to prevent employers from penalizing such behaviour.
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by vjktyu 7y ago
My personal controversial opinion is that life doesn't work like that half million people math. In reality, one either can meet a billionaire with very little effort, or won't meet one regardless of effort. Another controversial o
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Many comments here about skethcy startups and for good reasons. But isn't the solution obvious? Allow software developers to work for multiple companies at a time: 10-20, whatever. Just like investors diversify the risks by investing i
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by vjktyu 7y ago
HN could implement an interview style vetting. A new post is shown to a N interviewers who vote yes/no. The stddev is sqrt of number of votes. Once the number of upvotes crosses the 95 tile, the post is admitted. Once the number of dow
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by vjktyu 7y ago
What stops Russia or China to send their troops there?
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by vjktyu 7y ago
Does this clause have any teeth? If I want to work on OSS in my spare time, I'll do so under a pseudonym and won't bother to ask for permissions. If I choose to make a new AGPLv3 project on GitHub, I'll just do so. And if som
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by vjktyu 7y ago
But they are created of thin air. Govs print more money to keep up with population and productivity growth. How these new money are distributed is a different question. The only thing that makes these money worth anything is a general conse
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by vjktyu 7y ago
+1 for the Gervais principle. It's a short book that makes you depressed for a week, but also makes it very clear why our societies work this way. The book doesn't say anything new, but it explains with examples a few simple facts

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