Norvig's book is great.
What's even more perverse is that being "hungry" (instead of skilled, or competent, or ethical) is valued in a lot of corporations. A significant component of the price of Manhattan real estate comes from the…
I really don't think anyone can predict when this bubble bursts. There are too many political and cultural factors involved. Also, as employment prospects decline and remain dismal throughout our second "lost decade", I…
This assumption is a mix of broken societal wisdom and an association fallacy. FWIW, there's another fallacy committed when they themselves become unemployed; everyone else unemployed is a antisocial lunatic, but they…
It's my firm belief that the hottest rooms in hell will be saved for those who kick people when they're down.
No. First of all, a lot of startups still need to raise money. It may be cheaper now than in 1998 but it's still not cheap to pay 2-6 people for 6-24 months. And getting users and customers does not necessarily equal…
Renting in general (cars, housing) is one of those things that people want other people to do, but not for themselves, at least not on things they consider important. For example, if you rent textbooks, you give them up…
No. Poverty is overrated. It sounds like his argument for "poverty" is that investors micromanage and sink companies. The obvious solution is hands-off VC and more trust of entrepreneurs. In other words, we need to move…
Surprising fact: most people like working. Many people hate being told what to do and when to do it, but people have a fundamental desire to work. Here's how to do basic income. Starting with 2010 GDP as a base, 50% of…
Depends on the kind of slavery. Slavery has been a fixture of most economies, with the degree of force and inflexibility variable across societies. In one phase of the Ottoman Empire, slaves could own land and armies...…
The Hacker News libertarians (who are, despite our shared nausea, far smarter and more reasonable than the right-wing of any other community, I'll note) believe they will be future technology "barons". Pretty much…
By definition, a person who is working only because he must will not get a fair wage. One side has leverage, one does not. So the worker gets screwed. The ideal society is one in which no one has to work but everybody…
I don't think "fucking asshole" is much worse than "trophy kid". They're about comparable in terms of incivility.
I think a lot of the criticism of our generation and of job hopping is projection. The whining about entitled, self-centered young people sounds exactly like the complaints that were made of the Boomer generation in…
Job hopping is a touchy subject because young people don't like job hopping, as was discussed in those posts. They do it because, in today's corporate climate, they usually have to do it in order to prevent being…
Norvig's book is great.
What's even more perverse is that being "hungry" (instead of skilled, or competent, or ethical) is valued in a lot of corporations. A significant component of the price of Manhattan real estate comes from the…
I really don't think anyone can predict when this bubble bursts. There are too many political and cultural factors involved. Also, as employment prospects decline and remain dismal throughout our second "lost decade", I…
This assumption is a mix of broken societal wisdom and an association fallacy. FWIW, there's another fallacy committed when they themselves become unemployed; everyone else unemployed is a antisocial lunatic, but they…
It's my firm belief that the hottest rooms in hell will be saved for those who kick people when they're down.
No. First of all, a lot of startups still need to raise money. It may be cheaper now than in 1998 but it's still not cheap to pay 2-6 people for 6-24 months. And getting users and customers does not necessarily equal…
Renting in general (cars, housing) is one of those things that people want other people to do, but not for themselves, at least not on things they consider important. For example, if you rent textbooks, you give them up…
No. Poverty is overrated. It sounds like his argument for "poverty" is that investors micromanage and sink companies. The obvious solution is hands-off VC and more trust of entrepreneurs. In other words, we need to move…
Surprising fact: most people like working. Many people hate being told what to do and when to do it, but people have a fundamental desire to work. Here's how to do basic income. Starting with 2010 GDP as a base, 50% of…
Depends on the kind of slavery. Slavery has been a fixture of most economies, with the degree of force and inflexibility variable across societies. In one phase of the Ottoman Empire, slaves could own land and armies...…
The Hacker News libertarians (who are, despite our shared nausea, far smarter and more reasonable than the right-wing of any other community, I'll note) believe they will be future technology "barons". Pretty much…
By definition, a person who is working only because he must will not get a fair wage. One side has leverage, one does not. So the worker gets screwed. The ideal society is one in which no one has to work but everybody…
I don't think "fucking asshole" is much worse than "trophy kid". They're about comparable in terms of incivility.
I think a lot of the criticism of our generation and of job hopping is projection. The whining about entitled, self-centered young people sounds exactly like the complaints that were made of the Boomer generation in…
Job hopping is a touchy subject because young people don't like job hopping, as was discussed in those posts. They do it because, in today's corporate climate, they usually have to do it in order to prevent being…