If anything, people with a track record of amassing wealth should be treated with more suspicion on entering public service. If all of their other decisions are geared toward increasing their wealth, one has to wonder…
People don't want to do their jobs, but that doesn't mean they're completely unmotivated. Many people with jobs they're indifferent to, also have hobbies they pursue relentlessly. If you want people to take a deeper…
I'm not a lawyer, but the article points out that disclosing your salary is protected by law. > ...disclosing her salary is federally protected by law under the National Labor Relations Act
Many of the people who lost more than they can afford to lose were naive, not greedy. I believe that's the author's main point. The problem is that cryptocurrency purveyors have marketing budgets, and cryptocurrency…
I looked at the two-line code sample at the link, and it is extreme.
There's so little content to the references to WHO's COVID handling that I can't tell whether they mean WHO over-reacted or under-reacted to COVID.
I find that terseness has a real downside when debugging code. If you need to get down to the level of what is actually executing, having to unpack all that compact code involves many more things than I can keep in my…
> If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked... From the company's perspective that's certainly true. As a regular person I'm more worried about the companies whose unit economics work too well. Companies like…
If they said you would "lose service", and you did not lose service, wouldn't that count as making a false representation?
> Whereas if we do actually do it, we might fail, which will be hard to take. It's hard to take because unless you've already got substantial financial security, you may end up broke, and may no longer have any readily…
> 4. You're not up more than 1 week per 1-1.5 month. That seems excessive if you're expected to be able to log into your work system within X minutes. Having to be essentially home, near a computer, 25% of the time (1…
> Anyway the IA will remove everything with a very simple, automated text file placed in the root directory. What if the site is simply gone, or now belongs to someone else who is not the owner of the archived content?
> if we looked in the opposite direction (where such light originates from) we would be seeing stars and galaxies at much more recent time (now) If the preferred/non-preferred directions were "toward you" and "away from…
> And the award for Most Condescending Comment goes to... I probably could have phrased that better. In any case I don't think what we're saying is incompatible. One has no choice but to keep up with the cost of living.…
> There is no "displaying their success" or "keep winning bigger" mentality to be found They may not realize the game they're in. But as long as the cost of living keeps hitting new peaks, inevitably people need to…
People that want to be conspicuous have to display their success where it's going to be seen. Living in a place that is "central" in so many ways is a competition to see who can hang in there. The only way to stay is to…
> 18 TPH is what I expect from first class cities in developed countries. Silicon Valley isn't arranged like a city at all, it's almost rural except for the traffic jams. (San Francisco is another story, but even SF is…
Where is that return of 2% per month coming from, and why are they giving it to you?
Why is it baffling? GitHub and GitLab have embraced and extended git so much that it is no longer independently visible to most users. If you didn't already know git was independent of the SaaS products, you'd have no…
I don't think that necessarily contradicts his point. It may be the case that the long tail/niche market/counterculture market is also winner-take-all [1], so that non-mainstream content is much more available, yet…
Anyone who wants to experience volatility can start wagering money in a casino though. If volatility was the objective then investment companies could more easily find it in coin flips, instead of capitalizing new…
That's trading a temporary advantage for a long-term disadvantage. Eventually labor costs will even out globally, meaning moving manufacturing to countries with a 30:1 ratio isn't a long-term benefit. But "onshored"…
> It's always taken on from the position of "well, it didn't make my specific use case easy" For customers, their own specific use cases are the only ones they should care about. I don't know why there isn't a good…
Just to ask the most naive question possible... is this $170M of real money? Like someone put an amount thousands of times bigger than the average person's total savings into this, when they could have put it elsewhere?
A news organization needs to attack its owners more often, not less, if it wants to maintain credibility.
If anything, people with a track record of amassing wealth should be treated with more suspicion on entering public service. If all of their other decisions are geared toward increasing their wealth, one has to wonder…
People don't want to do their jobs, but that doesn't mean they're completely unmotivated. Many people with jobs they're indifferent to, also have hobbies they pursue relentlessly. If you want people to take a deeper…
I'm not a lawyer, but the article points out that disclosing your salary is protected by law. > ...disclosing her salary is federally protected by law under the National Labor Relations Act
Many of the people who lost more than they can afford to lose were naive, not greedy. I believe that's the author's main point. The problem is that cryptocurrency purveyors have marketing budgets, and cryptocurrency…
I looked at the two-line code sample at the link, and it is extreme.
There's so little content to the references to WHO's COVID handling that I can't tell whether they mean WHO over-reacted or under-reacted to COVID.
I find that terseness has a real downside when debugging code. If you need to get down to the level of what is actually executing, having to unpack all that compact code involves many more things than I can keep in my…
> If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked... From the company's perspective that's certainly true. As a regular person I'm more worried about the companies whose unit economics work too well. Companies like…
If they said you would "lose service", and you did not lose service, wouldn't that count as making a false representation?
> Whereas if we do actually do it, we might fail, which will be hard to take. It's hard to take because unless you've already got substantial financial security, you may end up broke, and may no longer have any readily…
> 4. You're not up more than 1 week per 1-1.5 month. That seems excessive if you're expected to be able to log into your work system within X minutes. Having to be essentially home, near a computer, 25% of the time (1…
> Anyway the IA will remove everything with a very simple, automated text file placed in the root directory. What if the site is simply gone, or now belongs to someone else who is not the owner of the archived content?
> if we looked in the opposite direction (where such light originates from) we would be seeing stars and galaxies at much more recent time (now) If the preferred/non-preferred directions were "toward you" and "away from…
> And the award for Most Condescending Comment goes to... I probably could have phrased that better. In any case I don't think what we're saying is incompatible. One has no choice but to keep up with the cost of living.…
> There is no "displaying their success" or "keep winning bigger" mentality to be found They may not realize the game they're in. But as long as the cost of living keeps hitting new peaks, inevitably people need to…
People that want to be conspicuous have to display their success where it's going to be seen. Living in a place that is "central" in so many ways is a competition to see who can hang in there. The only way to stay is to…
> 18 TPH is what I expect from first class cities in developed countries. Silicon Valley isn't arranged like a city at all, it's almost rural except for the traffic jams. (San Francisco is another story, but even SF is…
Where is that return of 2% per month coming from, and why are they giving it to you?
Why is it baffling? GitHub and GitLab have embraced and extended git so much that it is no longer independently visible to most users. If you didn't already know git was independent of the SaaS products, you'd have no…
I don't think that necessarily contradicts his point. It may be the case that the long tail/niche market/counterculture market is also winner-take-all [1], so that non-mainstream content is much more available, yet…
Anyone who wants to experience volatility can start wagering money in a casino though. If volatility was the objective then investment companies could more easily find it in coin flips, instead of capitalizing new…
That's trading a temporary advantage for a long-term disadvantage. Eventually labor costs will even out globally, meaning moving manufacturing to countries with a 30:1 ratio isn't a long-term benefit. But "onshored"…
> It's always taken on from the position of "well, it didn't make my specific use case easy" For customers, their own specific use cases are the only ones they should care about. I don't know why there isn't a good…
Just to ask the most naive question possible... is this $170M of real money? Like someone put an amount thousands of times bigger than the average person's total savings into this, when they could have put it elsewhere?
A news organization needs to attack its owners more often, not less, if it wants to maintain credibility.