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What I'm trying to say is: it's a bad idea to hire extra smart individual contributors as a solution to managing complexity, because nobody is smart enough. The cult of genius make…

Yeah, I'm speaking in general terms of the software industry, and common hiring processes, which according to your comments you seem to fit into pretty well. I don't mean to critic…

Highly intelligent, (technically) capable and motivated people are probably not in any way correlated with the amount of complexity you are needing to fight with. And if it is, it'…

> Bad news is that most people are not good developers and they don't even know about it because really good developers are so few and concentrated in relatively few places. In eff…

Your goal is to enable your business to make more money, that requires hiring enough competent people that can do the work that needs to be done, to make that money. Sometimes that…

> Women rate looks as the 4th most important attribute in dating. You can't ask women this, see instead who the men are that get the most girls, there's your answer. Actions speak …

> So women are gaining things men don't really care for, while losing the things men do select for. On top, their higher socioeconomic status generally translates into a smaller da…

It would make sense to just not allow men to swipe first at all, it was an obvious improvement when they only let the women start conversations. I think the issue is it will lower …

Because of the biological asymmetry between the sexes. A man can have thousands of children, and women can only have a small amount. It's what drives natural selection and evolutio…

Dating after the online part also sucks, where you pretend to be so busy that you can only meet once a week and only on weekdays, and you can never answer a message in under 24 hou…

Yeah it's just the way it is. And relationships, and marriage, is an economic union more than anything else, and the main goal is to gather enough cold hard economic value to provi…

> I do think that the problem with most surveys is that there will certainly be biases in self-reported answers. Yeah and it's very typical with this question especially. You can't…

Yeah it makes perfect sense for a woman to maximise their time and resources to their fertile years, and not shift that over to older age. Funny also how nobody is looking at the e…

> Courage, getting out there, skill, practice, being fun to be around, are skills people value much more than looks. I don't think this is universally true, I bet it works in a lot…

> There is no gaggle of desperate women running after a succesful hot man in a suit who keeps denying their advances. This is simply not happening There are gaggles of desperate wo…

> because workers produce the riches, create the value and know what it's worth. Why should the value be given to said bullshit jobs so they can do whatever they want with it inclu…

> I don't know how you can be so condescending as to say you know everything there is to know about workers and I don't. Because I am working class. Workers are way too close to re…

> I'll bite. Who? Who has the money, power, and motivation to secretly manipulate the pliable masses to turn against the billionaires, for their own nefarious ends? Everyone who is…

> How is the platform not a total failure based on this? Doesn't everyone of the guys not in that top 20 percentile turn around and tell everyone it is garbage? Yeah it is total ga…

Redistribution politics are always destructive and temporary in nature. The EU has not discovered some way to invent free stuff out of thin air. If you push redistribution politics…

You don't have any better alternative to capitalism, that's just crackpot preaching. Trust me when I say that the "workers" are not interested in overthrowing capitalism, you will …

Let's prioritise what makes for actually efficient transport, and which most people will use, and not prioritise inefficient transports that only a few enthusiasts are using.

Haha the people who think that bill gates and jeff bezos is actually sitting on that money in cash, LOL Think also a bit about who is benefitting and making money from instigating …

This is just false, people happily "exploit" themselves to make more money, and it makes perfect sense because society is based completely on exploitation, your job as well as anyo…

> they just want fair treatment There is no such thing as fair, it's impossible to even define what that would be, and that's the whole point of the free market, that it solves thi…