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Sure you do. Two mediocre programmers working as a pair might get 100k each. One elite programmer can clear 7 figures easily. The elite programmer will also have much more control …

pair programming is an anti-process. its only purpose is to control employees, limit individual productivity, and drive down wages.

this is a typical argument for why lower productivity is actually better. i don't think that being high productivity prevents you from writing unit tests or doing tdd. you just do …

> I think we have to have a conversation over what part of the infrastructure stack is right to police content how about no part of it? if the founders of the united states were ab…

when wealth and income disparity are at an all time high then for the ruling class paralysis is the best policy. the only voice that matters is the voice of wall street and the voi…

i am not sure what that article is supposed to prove. it doesn't contain any study results on the accuracy of meteorological predictions. I don't have the data handy but to the bes…

don't forget that producing all this content costs 10's of billions per year so someone has to pay for it. both the cost of production and the amount produced keeps increasing so p…

i am not sure that it is directly tied to monopoly. paying for a subscription reduces friction for watching individual shows/channels so it increased total viewership and total con…

word. unlicensed content delivery platforms still vastly superior in terms of quality and depth of content after over a decade and billions spent by netflix, hulu, etc. if you real…

is that a joke? weather predictions are notoriously unreliable even though they are given with extreme granularity. that aside you are missing a larger point. if you predict the fu…

the statue of liberty would be a great investment if the government was planning to tear it down and sell it for scrap and you could buy it cheap before the word got out.

It is an unfortunate misconception that statistical probability can be used to predict the future. Any time you extend a statistical model temporally it immediately becomes mathema…

economics: as market share for electric cars grows demand for gasoline goes down and the price for gasoline (already low) goes down thus exacerbating the already large gap in cost …

5.3% is not incredibly low for a corporation borrowing 1.8 billion. it is pretty high which is why investors are jumping on it. This adds $95 million in interest expense per year w…

careful with the libel there. that would be allegedly defrauded. the case was settled and it is highly unlikely that the plaintiffs would have succeeded at trial.

tl;dr group of founders at epinions gets conned by the ceo, their partner - and they sue that guy (who has a dubious reputation on many counts) as well as everyone who touched the …

The price crashes to 0.10 cents ... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-30/the-45-mi... ... and that was only 12.5 million. and then coinbase paid people who lost money…

that assumes that the majority of founders would view what benchmark is doing as negative. to me it looks like good business.

nervous about working with competent investors who aren't complete marks? somehow I doubt benchmark will have difficulty finding people to take their money.

"Benchmark's investment of $27M is worth $8.4 billion today" "We have investors ready to acquire these shares" So they have 8.4 billion in new funding lined up? Somehow I doubt it.…

exactly. the focus on identity as a wedge issue is a cynical diversion from focusing on wealth as a wedge issue.

yes, people have a right to discuss politics. discussing politics is the foundation of civil society. the inability of people to do it without freaking out is why we have uncivil s…

firing people because they have to audacity to question whether or not mandatory micro-aggression awareness training is a productive use of their time may be more of an HR nightmar…

yes it is actually. if your function has a logical branch then it is doing more than one thing. if your function has a logical branch within a logical branch then it is doing expon…

This discussion is predicated on the concept that function size is calculated by the number of lines which is completely wrong. function size (function complexity actually) is meas…