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And yet, MacArthur has been proven historically prescient.

A lot of the Netflix one or two season shows got cancelled when they were finally finding their legs too.

Doubt, those companies are in an even worse position - all the money that rushed in to fund them just got turned off. The ones that will do well for the coming economic cycle are t…

To add to your point, even "professional" software engineers are a lot of times in a role where they are in 9 ecosystems in an average workweek. I've used poetry, even loved it - b…

The industrial revolution moved 90% of workers out of farming, yes 90% of employment in 1870 was agricultural, literally producing calories. We sometimes mourn for this in the form…

Google does not have evidence that their outrageous salaries couldn't be cut some and still maintain the line outside of the door. The gyms and perks are not purely a cynical ploy …

You have to show they actually benefit the members as a whole. Union laws in the US are extremely strong, and anti union sentiment is largely a hangover from the 70s, where feature…

Unfortunately when unions are weak, they are negative value - and when they are strong they are the UAW. Workers are not a firm, and structuring labor as it's own firm is known as …

I think we can give Google executives a little more credit. They care a bounded amount. A rough approximation of how much they care would be the rational incentives to not produce …

It's not a recent myth, saying that the purpose of an organization or class of organization "is" something depends on legal and social context. Friedman popularized the idea of fid…

I am not on coinbase's side, because the advent of cryptocurrency, should it work - will make it trivially easy to avoid nasty letter regulation as it exists today. They are taking…

They absolutely have, just gotta dig. Remember the wave of people being in hot water over tweets sent in 2008?

Taking Gebru's word seriously here is reason to discount the entire argument. Gebru is a part of a clique that is devoted to an entirely different set of ideas around AI Safety. Th…

Admin tools, particularly federating admin actions in a distributed team - will never not happen. Their shape may change, but devoting time to building the first version will give …

HN posters are not my example of a typical customer. The typical customer does not understand what an OS update is, or what it entails. They know "man, my computer freezes" and "ma…

This is encouraged by the incentive structure, ship and gtfo is the way to advance. You will never be punished for shipping, and always punished for not-shipping.

You think of it that way, the customer doesn't.

More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users. So people actually learned how to do stuf…

More than that, people knew that they were going to have to do technology stuff, and tech stuff was oriented more at semi technical users. So people actually learned how to do stuf…

Coinbase is a double exception, they didn't just ask for regulatory approval for their lending product, they asked for permission to file the application. Can't wait for the next r…

Don't forget crime and startup business. I ordered equipment for a company from a European seller , and because I wasn't a VC backed technology startup, instead focused on physical…

The surprise over the $3 fee indicates just how many tricks of the light are used to hide exactly how bad finance is, then make dishonest comparisons to crypto markets.

There's an element that all the silliness of the LAN party was technically necessary for the production, and as a grassroots thing the hardship added to the buyin and culture.

Smart, well adjusted drug people will frequently point out that most common drugs they use (LSD, MDMA, MDAA, psilocybin, etc) have an orders of magnitude better risk profile than s…

The issue is that it's very difficult to tell trade secrets from expertise in certain fields. In a field that is sufficiently niche, like non flagship chip production - a lot of ar…