> Thinking that the topic that concerns you personally is somehow universally special among the others is despicable arrogance. You can disagree about political issues if you have an alternative position - if I think we…
> Heck, let me be blunt: if you cannot have a strong mutual disagreement (or even rivalry) with someone, but cooperate with him on the unrelated topic if it is mutually beneficial, it means you are a child and your…
STEM includes hard science and mathematics - is there that much more demand for math or biology majors than for any of the social sciences? A math undergrad seems just as likely to end up in a call centre or as an…
IME the issue is that startup data modelling ends up in some ad-hoc framework that enforces a specific paradigm. When you try to adopt a standardized tool they don't ask "does this produce the right answer" but "can…
Or gay and trans? You can be both
I mean, 136MM is a million every two days so OP is dead on.
Have you read about all the improprieties at the NRA under LaPierre? He hired his wife and daughter and then expensed private jets for vacations because they were "doing work". He hired a contractor to pay his credit…
Personally when people move into the "dev tools" role they often seem to lose sight of the forest for the trees. They'll argue for an idealized workflow - everything has to have 80% test coverage, everything has to have…
Drowning companies with mandatory binding arbitration claims is a relatively new tactic - when the ToS was written arbitration was favored because it had better outcomes for the companies writing the ToS. It's unlikely…
How does this compare to the zoning process in America? It sounds like OP is trying to build a factory from scratch on land that isn't zoned for factories? It's actually surprising one person can just run back and forth…
The most powerful collective negotiator should be the government which represents the entire population. But the Republican stance since Reagan has been that the government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub.
It doesn't seem surprising to contrast the ethos of overwhelmingly white tech founders - who want to get filthy rich off the labor of others - with the majority immigrant-owned businesses that require a lifetime of…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
My reading of OP is that it's bad to have a goal of "more Black founders", etc. because it's "unnatural" and "goes against meritocracy". We should simply continue the status quo because OP believes the system that…
When you live in a country that was founded on racism, Jim Crow and redlining, where the president is saying we need to "take back the suburbs" (for white people only), how do you react to that? "Not my problem?" When…
I don't understand what this is even about? They didn't bother to get the original author's name right ("Nathan Robinson"), and they seem to be arguing with some strawman that every piece of creative output must be…
"Make sure there's no black people depicted in the media by banning blackface". If only there was a way to buy ethnic food made by people from the culture and not a house brand with a white dude playing dress up.
There's a real difference between chopping a car in half and injecting stuff into your body.
Time frame - if you need the money next year your risk tolerance is very different compared to if you need the money in 10 years. You can't minimize both risk _and_ return, there's no free lunch
For the 30% of Americans who rent it's not any of their net worth. But I agree it's weird to pick real estate as the only asset class. Introduce a progressive wealth tax and eliminate capital gains taxes in favor of…
You have to work with good companies that have a track record and clear policies. My last employer was pretty generous and timely AFAICT, including sometimes paying for stuff that was useful but clearly out of scope for…
7 direct reports actually seems fine if this person's role is primarily management. If they're also doing some combination of tech lead/product stuff they may want fewer reports to free up time for non-management…
> surrounded by masses of her former subjects You're not supposed to say that part out loud /s
Financial capitalism where everything needs to be consolidated, bundled and sold as an investment vehicle seems like a pretty modern invention. To go to an extreme, look at It's a Wonderful Life. Something like a…
Because some of the pages are 15GB!
> Thinking that the topic that concerns you personally is somehow universally special among the others is despicable arrogance. You can disagree about political issues if you have an alternative position - if I think we…
> Heck, let me be blunt: if you cannot have a strong mutual disagreement (or even rivalry) with someone, but cooperate with him on the unrelated topic if it is mutually beneficial, it means you are a child and your…
STEM includes hard science and mathematics - is there that much more demand for math or biology majors than for any of the social sciences? A math undergrad seems just as likely to end up in a call centre or as an…
IME the issue is that startup data modelling ends up in some ad-hoc framework that enforces a specific paradigm. When you try to adopt a standardized tool they don't ask "does this produce the right answer" but "can…
Or gay and trans? You can be both
I mean, 136MM is a million every two days so OP is dead on.
Have you read about all the improprieties at the NRA under LaPierre? He hired his wife and daughter and then expensed private jets for vacations because they were "doing work". He hired a contractor to pay his credit…
Personally when people move into the "dev tools" role they often seem to lose sight of the forest for the trees. They'll argue for an idealized workflow - everything has to have 80% test coverage, everything has to have…
Drowning companies with mandatory binding arbitration claims is a relatively new tactic - when the ToS was written arbitration was favored because it had better outcomes for the companies writing the ToS. It's unlikely…
How does this compare to the zoning process in America? It sounds like OP is trying to build a factory from scratch on land that isn't zoned for factories? It's actually surprising one person can just run back and forth…
The most powerful collective negotiator should be the government which represents the entire population. But the Republican stance since Reagan has been that the government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub.
It doesn't seem surprising to contrast the ethos of overwhelmingly white tech founders - who want to get filthy rich off the labor of others - with the majority immigrant-owned businesses that require a lifetime of…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
My reading of OP is that it's bad to have a goal of "more Black founders", etc. because it's "unnatural" and "goes against meritocracy". We should simply continue the status quo because OP believes the system that…
When you live in a country that was founded on racism, Jim Crow and redlining, where the president is saying we need to "take back the suburbs" (for white people only), how do you react to that? "Not my problem?" When…
I don't understand what this is even about? They didn't bother to get the original author's name right ("Nathan Robinson"), and they seem to be arguing with some strawman that every piece of creative output must be…
"Make sure there's no black people depicted in the media by banning blackface". If only there was a way to buy ethnic food made by people from the culture and not a house brand with a white dude playing dress up.
There's a real difference between chopping a car in half and injecting stuff into your body.
Time frame - if you need the money next year your risk tolerance is very different compared to if you need the money in 10 years. You can't minimize both risk _and_ return, there's no free lunch
For the 30% of Americans who rent it's not any of their net worth. But I agree it's weird to pick real estate as the only asset class. Introduce a progressive wealth tax and eliminate capital gains taxes in favor of…
You have to work with good companies that have a track record and clear policies. My last employer was pretty generous and timely AFAICT, including sometimes paying for stuff that was useful but clearly out of scope for…
7 direct reports actually seems fine if this person's role is primarily management. If they're also doing some combination of tech lead/product stuff they may want fewer reports to free up time for non-management…
> surrounded by masses of her former subjects You're not supposed to say that part out loud /s
Financial capitalism where everything needs to be consolidated, bundled and sold as an investment vehicle seems like a pretty modern invention. To go to an extreme, look at It's a Wonderful Life. Something like a…
Because some of the pages are 15GB!