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by wgerard 8y ago
> The private sector has historically been the one that had sane and logical business practices minimizing risk, while government had the funding necessary to take on large, risky projects for the good of their constituents I'm not
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by wgerard 8y ago
I don't think that's a good analogy; there are significant differences between a local supermarket (local, items must fit in the store) and Amazon's marketplace (global, items can be located anywhere globally within reason).
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by wgerard 8y ago
Off the top of my head: 1) Mobile phones with the Fire phone - don't think this one requires any explanation. 2) Handmade goods with Amazon Handmade - Etsy's doing better than ever. 3) Travel with Destinations - don't think t
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by wgerard 8y ago
> Businesses should be allowed to create whatever products they want, as long as they don't do anti-competitive things like work together with their competitors to fix prices. Or say, if they owned a huge marketplace and eventually
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by wgerard 8y ago
> They're now capable disrupting any market they choose. Ehhh, I think you're really glossing over Amazon's failures here; they've tried to get into some markets and gotten pretty well demolished. If they've lear
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by wgerard 8y ago
Another neat trick I've picked up on from other people use is to use DND mode on Slack when you're focusing. That way if it's actually critical to get a hold of you in real time (but not so critical that it warrants a page) t
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by wgerard 9y ago
Eh, there are plenty of excellent workplaces with just a few bad actors who do stuff like steal lunches. Changing your job in response to someone stealing your lunch seems a little extreme.
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by wgerard 9y ago
> It's like a thief complaining because they crashed the car they stole from you. To take this further: It's a bit like they crashed the stolen car because you cut the brake lines in anticipation of someone stealing it (a bit e
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by wgerard 9y ago
My guess is this falls under the same purview as booby-trapping your house: Yeah, they're committing a felony by breaking into your house, but you're not allowed to setup a "Home Alone" defense system (if nothing else be
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Is this because (a) LabVIEW is high level and C is low level, or (b) because LabVIEW can't handle some complex algorithms? It's high-level in the sense that you program by choosing a set of components. A very apt analogy migh
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by wgerard 9y ago
Hmm, yeah I'm similarly skeptical as someone who did his fair share of LabVIEW for a research lab back in the day. I would regularly get asked to do things in LabVIEW that were (sometimes quite literally) impossible to do without writi
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by wgerard 9y ago
Obviously, the amount of apathy and defensiveness displayed by the other employees is a huge red flag that I'm surprised didn't come up in the interview process at all. However: Saying things like "I don't believe you,&q
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by wgerard 9y ago
> residents of Alaska Probably a bad example to bring up. The Alaska fund distributions amount to roughly ~$1.5k a year. Not quite the same as a pension or UBI. I'll probably get egg on my face for saying this, but I highly doubt an
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by wgerard 9y ago
Some introspection from someone who did take it personally at first: We applied to YC last winter and got an interview, but ultimately we weren't accepted. As a founder you're obviously incredibly enthusiastic about your idea and
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by wgerard 9y ago
Somewhat related: I'm always thoroughly impressed with how complicated and knowledgeable the people who work on these topics are. I don't even use the product, but I love reading the Dolphin blog [0] because they write about fairl
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Environmental regulations are a great example because large parts of the US population are in communities tied to industries that were eventually saddled with environmental regulations. I don't think that makes those regulations u
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Every single regulation starts from an "untenable place", almost by definition. I guess I'd disagree with that. Many environmental regulations are highly defensible, for example, especially when they arise in light of ne
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by wgerard 9y ago
I think people are understandably wary of new regulations, namely because: * The US isn't immune at all to regulatory capture [0] * It's highly likely there are already existing regulations and laws that cover this but merely aren
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Zuckerberg isn't rich and famous because he is good at programming I doubt we'll agree on this, so I'll agree to disagree and just leave it at this: I think he is. He was instrumental in programming the early and core pr
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by wgerard 9y ago
> I haven't heard of a star lawyer, or star doctor, or star programmer that the general public know. Ehh, I'm not sure I would agree with that. Sure, for the most part the really successful ones pivot to become something else (
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by wgerard 9y ago
Sorry, I meant that the experience for riders becomes miserable because of the population density (the third paragraph). If delays just meant waiting on an uncrowded platform for an uncrowded train, it wouldn't be nearly as much of a s
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by wgerard 9y ago
Truthfully, it's mostly a problem caused by the sheer population density. It's common for people to just head for the subway without knowing when the next train's arriving, which at off-hours can mean a 10-15+ minute wait for
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by wgerard 9y ago
It's interesting seeing the ways people work around this, even for people who don't have hard start/end times (e.g. tech employees). I have one friend who uses Citi Bike to get to important meetings < 30 blocks away, becau
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by wgerard 9y ago
Not that this is the definitive answer by any means, but simple measures like SO trends suggest that the community has moved on a bit[0]. Obviously I don't think that's definitive proof of Meteor being dead, but usually it seems l
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by wgerard 9y ago
Hah! Wow that's a blast. I used to work at a lab as an undergrad that worked on extremely similar topics, though the cancer link was more implied: http://research.fhcrc.org/shou/en.html We had four yeast systems:
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by wgerard 9y ago
This is a bit rambling, but I always find that whole genre of literature ("highly effective habits" style literature) to be really fascinating, mostly because it doesn't totally make sense to me. My thinking has always been t
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by wgerard 9y ago
While I mostly share your point of view - not every horrible event is necessarily preventable short of some extremely draconian measures - I don't think it's just a matter of throwing our hands up and acquiescing that "Anyone
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by wgerard 9y ago
A friend of mine (who also lives in a major city) just told me that getting into their local public elementary school isn't guaranteed and is based on a lottery system because of overcrowding. So their options are: 1) Take their child
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by wgerard 9y ago
idk, 8 months is a pretty long time not to fix something as egregious as this. This is definitely not "immediate" by anyone's definition.

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