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>No offense intended, but most PMs I've met are fucking useless Beyond basic horse sense, technical credibility, customer outreach, market sense, & roadmap development by nurturing…

> [junior engineers] overhear stuff and get drawn into conversations. Or more senior engineers join in conversations between them and another senior Even on-prem before 2020, this …

>IMO I don't think it's mentally healthy to not at least 'enjoy' your work and have decent professional relationships with your coworkers. You can have "decent professional relatio…

> Single humans are wrong about a lot, multiple humans arguing are way more accurate. I think this is only true if the commentors are SME's & operating in good faith. We've all see…

> You cannot, for instance, fire someone for being black So now companies don't put that as the termination reason, & fire them anyway for 'culture fit'. Or leave the term reason b…

Nominations are by peers. Overall winners are voted on by the entire academy, & thus often a popularity contest.

> The Oscars are not decided by critics. They're decided by peers. That's the Oscar nomination process: it's by peers. The entire Oscar Academy (ie all previous winners in good sta…

> Neither side of the political aisle has a monopoly on lies and bad faith attacks, far from it. Some political movement are more guilty of it than others, but no political movemen…

> the hacker spirit was about working relentlessly towards a goal. PG would say the same. Whether that ultimate achievement benefits accrues financially just to you, or a larger co…

> - On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and…

> I know how to fall (intellectually). How do I translate that into the real world? As a martial arts instructor, here's my advice: The first month or so of aikido classes is a gre…

Or notice how the core of his manifesto is ignored: that of all the police who horribly beat Rodney King & sent him to an early death, all were significantly rewarded in their care…

And how can we just ignore the waste problem? [1] In many cases, containment pools are full to the brim with spent rods [2], which is both environmentally hazardous, & a target for…

> Nuclear is much better for the planet than fossil fuels and is the only option to bridge the gap required to operate the current renewables. That's a strong declaration without a…

> We stopped repairing stuff because stuff is cheap However, OP's main example is the NYC metro system, which is decidedly not cheap. A similar problem occurred in SF: BART cars ar…

> You spend a long time arguing the opposite with your bicycle argument. The government never forced them to standardize and they did. They really didn't though. From different axe…

> I don't like externalizing problems to other parties as a business model You just described the entire gig economy

> I worked with a "brilliant" product manager whose idea was to onboard several of our enterprise customers right after our first major deliverable FWIW, I recognize it's fun to ta…

He might like r/antiwork, r/latestagedemocracy, & r/hermancainaward Theres

...or that pesky problem of nuclear waste. Which nobody has solved. Every 'solution' today leaks. Websearch Yucca Valley; do you want your aquifer to be downstream of that?

There is a third option. The vast majority of people I've met [SF Bay Area] have no clue how easily a nuclear accident, let alone a nuclear war, could occur. The generation growing…

SF Bay area, I've had 3 formal house assessments, & each time they "start with" Zillow et al to look at "reasonable values in the neighborhood". Which seriously affects your abilit…

Totally agree. Live View photos on my 7D feels broken compared to the viewfinder: much slower AF, shutter-drop & recycle rate. & you really need a hood/3x magnifier to confirm crit…

This is very cool. I know this is a serious problem in my daughter's school with 5th graders... ie 10 years old & they aren't allowed phones at school. I wonder if there a viable a…

It may be worth delineating "how much" taxpayers have paid for it. For example, many H-wood productions leverage huge tax benefits in their budgets, to the extent of pitting states…