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That's the weird part. The argument seems to be that any temporal failure of a system means we need to change the system wholesale. There is no argument for why a different system …

I think "stems from" is complicated in this instance by how much changed and how fast. Systems can take only so much change in a set period of time, and we've had a hell of a lot o…

Read this before you start negotiating: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ It covers salary history and much more, all of it useful.

STEAR - not technically a word, but it is accepted, and hits the most common vowels and consonants.

I often wonder: wouldn't fines paid as a percentage of stock be a better deterrent? Taking stock off shareholders changes the fraud equation from risk of fine vs the profitability …

AFAIK Musk didn't found Tesla (nitpicking I know): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...

I think the articles problem is the lack of a definition of "crisis", and that leads to a bad mismatch between the headline and what is a reasonable look at the data. My issues wit…

I think it's a veiled reference to traditional college?

> last time I checked, SpaceX wasn’t promising 80% of its rockets would work back in its early days. Is your criticism that these places are making false promises, or: > “Move fast…

I wonder how https://vimeo.com/636460268 matches up to this? Tyler Cowen seems to have a slightly more sane response to a lot of this.

Your first point is very hopeful, but not what I've experienced. The bigger the company, the more slack for bad decisions. Your other points I think relate to scale. No advice can …

That's the right direction, but the wrong policy. Basecamp's "no talking politics on work channels" is more likely to be effective, in part because spending work hours on other thi…

> Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012) 2012. Can you name a travel planning startup in the last 9 years?

.. and how many Ballmers!

And the most humanising 5%, the 5% that you use to either keep your head above water, or buy a tiny luxury you never do, like a meal out or even a steak to cook at home. I lived by…

The election wins of Trump, Boris Johnson, Brexit and The Liberals in Australia show that data collection really matters. Similarly the financial crisis of 2009 shows that missing …

The articles gets things right as well. Cuomo's decisions were atrocious and clearly wrong without the need for hindsight. School closures in the US are odd, and varied to the poin…

By that logic, if the run rate > earnings on endowment... fundraise?

The 1% don't WRITE, so much as things like formatting, grammar and spell correction. That is important, but it is not the writing of wikipedia.

That's not an example because: 1. Basecamp is not OSS, and the people involved were all employees. 2. As employees, if you worked with someone for years,"it came out just how probl…

I don't understand how this works, so forgive my ignorance. Wouldn't the Wuhan lab be able to disprove this really easily? How often do they sequence viruses? Couldn't they show ca…

Isn't there a tax implication? Tax is one reason part why people choose non-monetary remuneration. I'm not American, but my guess is in all jurisdictions that tax would vary based …

Do you have a counter factual? It seems to me too early to predict a lot about Eastern Europe. You could very well be correct, but I'd want to see some countries that tried this a …

I think it is likely an attempt to beat the echo chamber. If your interests are niche, the only ways to avoid showing content that is, well, cliched is to latch on to the one offs …