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The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Re: The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Post by aydyn »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #307
kkarakk wrote: post #255

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Last i researched, donating a kidney affects your quality of life extra-ordinarily. for eg you can't eat the same way, can't exercise/move around the same way and also you might have permanent complications from the surgery. i MIGHT consider it for a close relative but for a stranger? that would require some real mental gymnastics.

From what I know, this isn't true. Nutritionally, the only thing you need to avoid is high-protein diets. You can exercise just fine after a 6 week recovery period. Of course, it's impossible to predict complications. Some donors have died on the operating table. The risk of complication is very low, though. If you have any other questions I'm happy to answer. Sources * https://www.livingdonorgames.org/ * https://www…

yeah id rather not cut out my literal organs for some random person thousands of miles away.

come the f on u for real?

Re: The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Post by idk1 »

thekitze wrote: post #69

Author here! I need to update this article. Years later, I actually got motivated by the comments on HN (whenever this gets posted). P People are always like "why don't you just ship your app?" ... so I did! I'm happy I went through with and it's way WAY better than any competitor in this category Check it out at https://benji.so (landing page is still w.i.p)

Hi there, I can't see your white menu links on the white background, thought you'd like to know - https://i.imgur.com/Yd1hniV.png

Re: The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Post by shepherdjerred »

aydyn wrote: post #311
shepherdjerred wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I know, this isn't true. Nutritionally, the only thing you need to avoid is high-protein diets. You can exercise just fine after a 6 week recovery period. Of course, it's impossible to predict complications. Some donors have died on the operating table. The risk of complication is very low, though. If you have any other questions I'm happy to answer. Sources * https://www.livingdonorgames.org/ * https://www…

yeah id rather not cut out my literal organs for some random person thousands of miles away. come the f on u for real?

In the US there are ~20,000 live kidney donations every year. ~200 of those are to stranger (the rest going to somebody the person knows).

There's more information about living kidney donation here: http://waitlistzero.org/living-donation/risks/

Re: The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Post by pertymcpert »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #310
pertymcpert wrote: post #296

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Those kinds of orgs eventually get eaten alive by orgs who had better alignment because they’re inefficient. Executives are human and they need the help of engineering teams to make some decisions. If every question about “can be ship this faster?” is answered with “no because we’re professional engineers who’ve studied a long time to build systems to high standards”, then that company will lose vs another competitor…

> Executives are human and they need the help of engineering teams to make some decisions. If every question about “can be ship this faster?” is answered with “no because we’re professional engineers who’ve studied a long time to build systems to high standards”, then that company will lose vs another competitor who had a more collaborative approach. It's the executives' job to synthesize info from other orgs and und…

You can go on all you want about which job is who's but in the end I'm still right. Those organizations who work better together will out-compete those which don't, all other things being equal. I'm sure the engineers looking for work after their employer files chapter 7 will feel smug that at least they didn't have to take responsibility for anything outside of engineering.

Re: The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Post by pdimitar »

js8 wrote: post #284
rustcleaner wrote: post #234

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What benefit does excellence derive for the excellent then, other than feel-good bubbly feelings? If labor cannot differentiate itself then collectively it will do the minimum acceptable and everybody will be mediocre (unless autism).

> What benefit does excellence derive for the excellent then, other than feel-good bubbly feelings? Ultimately anything can only give you feelings. I don't understand what else would you expect from (pursuing) being excellent (just to clarify, I define "being excellent" here as being extremely skilled at some ex ante selected task or creative process; both individuals and organizations can have that property). But I…

> Ultimately anything can only give you feelings.

Hand-wavy dismissals are not a discussion argument. I don't accept this as a rebuttal.

> You feel like being excellent should give you money, fame and ladies.

And that's called "tearing down a straw man". Why are you arguing in such a bad faith?

The only thing most of us who finally smartened up about the labor market is this: profit must correspond with reward.

You and others seem to conflate this pragmatic view with the suggestion that we do sloppy work. No, we do our work just fine and we do it well, reliably, and on schedule. What we do NOT do is to go above and beyond.

But you and others seem to get triggered on other topics (mostly about human excellence and "we as a society must all help") that have almost nothing to do with the discussed topic and give your takes not on it, but on these other things.

Finally, profit being an "extrinsic goal" is a needless philosophization and does not advance any discussion.

Re: The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)

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Post by aydyn »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #313
aydyn wrote: post #311

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yeah id rather not cut out my literal organs for some random person thousands of miles away. come the f on u for real?

In the US there are ~20,000 live kidney donations every year. ~200 of those are to stranger (the rest going to somebody the person knows). There's more information about living kidney donation here: http://waitlistzero.org/living-donation/risks/

cool story
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