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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Clubhouse doesn’t do anything all that innovative (what can it do that Discord can’t?) and the pitch isn’t even that unique. The key to success was that they got the right VCs. Those VCs use it, get their friends to use it, pull some s
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
That seems like a pretty insane default. Do you happen to know what the thinking is? While I'm fortunate enough to have never needed to spend significant time working in JS and its spawn, I've heard a lot of good things from peopl
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
The earliest example of a remedy for impostor syndrome was during the second year of my professional life, seeing someone on HN say sithour much pushback that "types are superfluous, because you should be writing good unit tests"
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
The Economist is sort of "on a crusade", but they have a very established and stable crusade, so you can control for it and get a lot of signal.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
That doesn't fit the role of media in this discussion. A crucial element is their (relative) independence. Parties to an issue that have full control over the distribution of their message is what the article is holding up as the _thre
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> but with a few negative references to “Corporate America” or some Republican (usually, Donald Trump) to mark it as a Genuine Left-Wing Critique Didn't Taibbi first break out with his coverage of the Great Financial Crisis, and spe
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Are the workers that are getting paid in advance 6.2% more productive or are the workers not getting paid in advance 6.2% less productive because of that? This question isn't meaningful. "Less" and "more" are r
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> This is the reason for the tenure system, to give true freedom to explore novel and future oriented work. Things that won't pay off for decades, if ever A long time ago, I heard the opposite view. Researchers only establish tenure
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
In this thread, "attractive" is being used as shorthand for "physically attractive": it was first introduced in response to a comment talking about height. Also, while intelligence is per se attractive to some degree, it
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Being judged attractive is a cultural thing that varies with time and place. This is partially true, but there are many significant markers of attractiveness that are not particularly context-dependent. > Being judged intelligent is
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Ah yea, that makes sense.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I'm saying that highly-skilled is a relative term.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
It seems pretty clear that the model is relative to "total surface area". What you call a "tall and fat" square may be "short and skinny" relative to someone else's bar, but now we're just talking ab
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> width is hedge - you don't get paid as much, but you can land a job quickly, because you can plug into any team I generally like your model, but mobility is upstream of salary too. If you're very intentional about your career
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
What?? Beards are discriminated against professionally?
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Hm, perhaps I'm reasoning about this correctly, but wouldn't you think the opposite? Being attractive provides evolutionary slack that requires less optimization on other characteristics (like intelligence), and vice versa.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
That's fair. I suppose I just find it plausible that the parent commenter made a minor misnomer between feminine and effeminate, instead of jumping to conclusions about stereotyping. But I know I usually have a terminal case of being t
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I'm not sure the parent comment meant effeminate in demeanor. There is some indication that the brains of homosexual men have some similarities to female brains[1]. The GP's speculation doesn't need to rely on "stereotyp
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Fully agreed. My model of engineering productivity (wrt specific tasks like hiring and working with colleagues) has a pretty large coefficient on individual talent, but I was looking to learn from a dissenting view. Unfortunately, while the
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
That was my impression too. For those with the medieval-peasant view that moving money around is "fake work", it's an interesting basic description of the value of finance. But the rest of the article isn't just useless,
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
It's incredible to me that you can look at the Covid response and see anything but an astonishing series of failures by public health authorities (vaccine development was a rare bright spot). Anyone with basic scientific literacy and c
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> A Wall Street firm sends an exec on a $10M tour of Europe for "wellness" and that's now welfare expenditure, but there's tax charged on the food an unemployed steel worker in Liverpool buys so his unemployment chequ
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> What people actually talk about is outcomes. This is not my experience at all. I feel like the vast majority of conversation on the topic I've read is about differential _political will_ for social welfare and other redistributio
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> the country with the highest GDP lacks anything other than the bare minimum social security and the article is very-USA centric. As with many similar topics, the US actually spends a much higher amount on social welfare than people rea
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
During the other times, was their the perception that they were screwing their users over due to pressure by large financial institutions? That's a pretty salient difference for their brand.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
What makes you think the definition of pension is "protected by the PGBC"? The PGBC's website itself specifies: > PBGC is a federal agency created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to protect p
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
What you're describing is "defined-benefit pension" not "pension". As the parent comment quotes, a 401k is a "defined-contribution pension".
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> If you go to the front page of youtube right now, it's filled with vlog style, 10-minute-padded, clickbait junk. This... Doesn't make any sense. The Frontpage looks like that because it's what the average viewer wants to
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Just click Not Interested a couple times and the faulty recommendations go away, right?
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Yup. The idea that there's a single axis along which Bernie and trump is an incredibly simple-minded view of the world. Unfortunately, most voters are pretty simple-minded, which tells you a lot about why politics is the way it is.

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