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TF2 was one the first major game to introduce a F2P+microtransactions+loot crate economy. I think they did it fairly. Paid content was always for purely cosmetic changes (with some…

I strongly recommend working for a FAANG. Even a few years are going to give you lasting benefits: - You make significantly more money at a FAANG than most of the rest of the indus…

> The person entrusted with this decision (typically the manager) now wields tremendous amount of power over others. This happens anyway in Google's "objective" promo system. Your …

Exactly! I don't respect it, but it's a very understandable response. Just stop making this controversy our problem. The "correct" response in my eyes is to say "we are a platform,…

This thread is an interesting perspective on social media "censorship" that you don't hear often. Of course everyone working at a social media company has an ideological bias, and …

>Google fired the three workers... for "clear and repeated violations" of the company's data security policies. The four deny they accessed and leaked confidential documents... Sur…

This article takes the angle that Lambda's profitability efforts may hurt its students: > the school can still reach profitability by enrolling 2,000 students a month while only pl…

I think this article boils down to "virtue signalling isn't neccessarily a bad thing, because there are honest signals and dishonest signals[0], and honest signals of virtue are fi…

Thanks, I couldn't find the paper anywhere. "Second, we were unable to assess whether the observed increase in youth suicide rates was attributable to the portrayal of suicide in t…

I'm pretty skeptical of this study. The breakdowns by age and gender make me suspicious of p-hacking. It seems this journal does not require pre-registration of studies so it's har…

Scott argues that Bitcoin is an example of why rationalists need to be more confident in their results — I’d argue it’s an example of where they should be much more modest. Hindsig…

Never ever regret making a decision that you thought would make you happier. The fact that it didn’t work out like you thought is nothing to regret. that’s life. It turns out, with…

> As software developers and designers, we have a responsibility to the world to think these things through carefully and design software that makes the world better I’ve seen this…

>happens to limit messages to 140 characters and that happens to create, unintentionally, a subtlety-free indignation machine, which is addictive as heck, so this is the one that s…

I was sure that I had come across something but didn't know what to google! Thanks for the links.

The tricky bit about consciousness is that nobody can find a useful way to measure or define it. So we end up chasing our tails talking about if fish feel “pain”, that is, they suf…

I think many companies aren’t promoting “diversity” to support an ideology, they do it because it has specific PR and legal outcomes that help their image. Companies with high dive…

I think a portion of it may be java's widespread use in large, "enterprise" environments where due to a variety of cultural and technical factors there's a high level of complexity…

do I have that right? if you held your bitcoin they'd be worth 14M today?

this is not exactly true, no[0]. The law's intent is to give shareholders a means of legal action if the leadership at a company destroys shareholder value for their own gain. 0: h…

Ludwig is memorable to me because he stands out as the essential Nerd long, long before it was OK to be a nerd. Ludwig’s life was tragic largely because he was so far from society’…

>The media should practice more circumspection They won't for exactly the reason the lawyers do this. This is a trendy, hot topic (look how many comments it has on HN so far). This…

this is classic survivorship bias. in order to reach incredibly high levels of success, of course you have to dedicate all of your energy to it. Of course, this ignores all the peo…

Some other reasons why B2B sites are incomprehensible, along with “get them on the phone at all costs”: - What you do is totally opaque and requires a massive amount of context to …

I suspect HR does gating because it works. HR’s goal is to fill the interview pipeline with as many “reasonable” candidates as possible. They can’t spend much time looking at each …