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Agree with you here. Some of the worst engineers I’ve worked with have been at Google, especially the younger newer ones. There’s a combination of impostor syndrome driving people …

The authoritarianism is a red herring IMO. The real issue is economic incentives trumping everything else. For example in Japan if you test positive the hospital gets quarantined l…

Have been inside google and have friends who have worked, work there. There’s some truth to the asshole thing. Though I think it’s more like snobbishness. That is, conditional supe…

I like this argument. At a less lethal level it works for guns as well. WW2 taught that you can’t drive countries to the point of having nothing to lose. A potentially positive spi…

All behavior is selfish. Each level is supported by the lower level. Upper class has a smaller support of semi-elites below them they must appease. Many things are zero-sum so most…

At certain large tech companies it’s the difference between an all terrain vehicle and laying frikin tracks for a frikin train.

Do humans happen to get more cancer than other animals? There’s this weird idea, I forget the source, that a less efficient cell garbage collection mutation allowed increased brain…

Regarding the grow and thrive part, some of my Chinese friends mention that they feel China is unjustly cast as the villain as many of the economic issues in HK like the super smal…

I’ve seen this issue at many “engineering” focused companies where many people write their own DSLs. for CSS in particular there are many people who just hate it and come up with m…

This feels so against so many "Modern" ideas like Redux (one giant source of data) and anti pub/sub. (message passing)

Is this the opposite of global state management paradigms like Redux? Using the global state requires a lot of contortion on each user's end (bureaucratic hoops) for the safety of …

Would recommend the book: The Courage to be Disliked.

Here’s a story of why China is a rather paradoxical state. It’s not pure authoritarianism. Many people who can’t return loans have their name and id number shown on large digital b…

China is actually very liberal in that it believes the future must be better than the present. (Vs the present being the maximum with the future only having downside potential) Tec…

I’m somewhat sad that there’s so much focus on HOW related improvements and less on the WHY. What I really like about Vue was that it was one of the first tools where it’s whole MO…

Seconded. I don’t see anything bad with typescript itself, but naive but passionate usage of perceived silver bullets tends to create terrible things. there are many terrible coffe…

The people can though. Centralization via the state entity can allow for efficient decicions (like corporate hierarchies) as everyone knows which direction to look for common conse…

Reminds me of during the world expo in Shanghai where people would push their older relatives in wheelchairs to skip the long lines in the hot humid weather.

Theres an interesting book about this “I am a Strange Loop” written by Douglas Hofstadter

Not saying it’s a good strategy but amazon seems to have done/is doing something similar. Each purchase is a loss when shipping is taken into account. But if the bleeding is slow e…

In the book “The Elephant in the Brain”, the author makes the argument that our consciousness is entirely the PR department of the brain, making explanations for the “company” but …

Yea, even if the local working population can’t afford them, the bay area can still be viewed as a hot spot to be causing housing to go up because they represent scarce investments…

A similar sentiment drove the technocratic elite to a centralized economy in communist china. It may not be beautiful or ideal but it’s fairly effective at coordinating large amoun…