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Friendly advice, if you’re looking for a co-founder, please don’t start with a depressive laundry list of your baggage while suggesting a risky venture. We’re all human, and have o…

Because of anti-DEI sentiments, the perception is that minorities are getting everything easily, so the minorities do more to prove themselves

Someone would hate that I’d say this, but it really depends if you’re white vs. a minority. Minorities need more education AND experience to justify their employment.

I read through this person’s post and the related, recent presentation which was rejected. I don’t understand why they’re bringing up this topic in hacker circles, in particular. D…

Perhaps a pithy statement, but it’s almost always MBAs as CEOs or leadership who seem to set a wayward course for tech companies

I am unsure what to trust about the knowledge of this essayist if they don’t even mention Le Rat or Jesuit missionary work in the New world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondiar…

> The question has therefore been which subsets of the elite would break Republican. In tech, this is now clear: where Obama’s allies in the industry were social media platform mog…

Nope, plenty of mediocre people doing great based on nothing but virtue of where they were born or their parents. It’s all luck. Don’t believe me? Imagine what your life would be l…

Is there a study which has shown a decrease in Dunning-Kruger effect with varying competence over time? If the effect is real, then you’d see more accurate self-assessments with in…

Consider that there are probably geniuses dying in rice fields, Gaza, or crushed to effective death due to poverty anywhere. Consider also that given enough resources and attention…

If SV techies want to succeed in Europe, then they should be okay with valuing what Europeans value. Europeans are not stupid, they prioritized different things, including market s…

A simple project is implementing a FIR filter using a HDL like Verilog. The Altera university FPGAs are cheap enough.

European researchers in many fields are better or comparable to their U.S. counterparts. The main difference I find between these groups of researchers is access to funding, which …

It would make an interesting case study to examine him neuropsychologically. I am not willing to believe such claims at face value, but there are people with interesting physiologi…

Consider working as a SWE for a small shop working in a niche industry, or trying to solve a niche problem. I wouldn’t recommend early stage startups based on what you’re describin…

Myth and folklore has always been used as an instrument for defining culture and reinforcing it. Nothing is a better example of this than the myriad of Bibles produced during Charl…

> I'm a nonbeliever myself I don't want to be part of any of those religions. But all of them have healthy, modern interpretations, and Dawkins really ought to at least put in some…

He’s basically saying the brown people are scary

You may be getting fired soon, just fyi

Aging is fine, it’s people’s attitude towards it that sucks on average. On average it’s seems many get stuck in some existential crisis by realizing they don’t have enough time lef…

This isn’t new, the common folk have been doing it for ages. Some religions like Islam and Mormonism have it built into them. In the U.S., we had the free love era of the 60s and 7…

Maybe, but there are nuances to this. Emergent properties of various factors (biological or otherwise) make this somewhat useless.

> A tip comes in about someone who frequents church X organizing a terrorist attack. Do you do a background check on church goers, look for suspicious activity, or sit back and twi…

Your logic is the same as the kind one expects from Twitter posts about having one poison M&M in a bowl of M&Ms, so let’s throw out the entire bowl. Here’s why it’s stupid to think…