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Here's my measure for "meaning density" in article. "How many sentences did it have" divided by "How many distinct points did it make"
this is one of these "lightning rod" articles, where nobody upvotes it because the article itself is good, but rather because it talks about something they are angry about and agree with and want to debate.
Of course, thinking for oneself might not correlate with being correct. I can think of numerous issues where those who challenge the status quo are more likely to be wrong (e.g. medicine).
Also, one reason this is getting shot down less hard than the atlantic is that it's a simple point being made in <60 seconds of reading. The atlantic would take >10 pages to do so.
This thought would be even more viable as a tweet.
If a startup wants to pay you enough to compensate, the options need to be worth > 100k present value (even if this means 1% of the company). Otherwise you'd be better off working for google and buying equity in the startup rather than breaking your back working there.
I think being unfashionable is more viable in fields that are meritocratic and don't require popular approval to succeed.
Also it's nice to see accounts of how science semi-functioned historically. I'm fascinated by the role of human-factors in our attempts at objective-science.
2. Many people will never become managers because they don't seem "managery." They don't dress right, they don't use the right buzzwords, they have a speech impediment, they speak too truthfully. There are all sorts of cultural factors too that people don't admit. For example, no manager would ever say this point 2 to you, because it's too honest and potentially upsetting.
3. A lot of people will only promote you to manager if they think you'll be able to make them look good, and that's the end of it.
But that doesn't detract from people playing Ukelele.
The article says " Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ... said, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.” " That's unscientific claim by Cortez. I think the point that exaggeration undermines your credibility is an important fact.
I believe that those of us who push a cause so hard that we lose sight of facts actually hurt the cause, because we alienate all the objective-truth-seekers.
Good. Because you can't cherry-pick one dubious-seeming journal article and use it as a justification to ignore several completely unaffiliated articles.
I think a lot of people think they are unable to say "no" nor "pushback." In my experience, saying no actually gets you more respect than saying yes.
Have you tried reading the documentation the average engineer makes? It's like a freshman essay -- lacking in cohesion, vision, context. It's usually completely unstandardized across teams.
And 9 times out of 10 the most fundamental questions aren't answered by the documentation e.g. "Why don't we just use existing tool X to solve this problem?"
Communication is hard. Engineers use buzzwords. Product uses buzzwords. Companies use buzzwords. Combine all these and you get a soup of overloaded terms e.g. "service," "connect," "access," "resource," "platform" that have a wide range of potential meanings.
Claims pretty much every psychiatric inconvenience (distraction, laziness, stress, restlessness) can be caused by "trauma." Proposes "trauma" is so blanket that anyone/everyone can have it.
This would all be terribly interesting if there were links to scientific studies validating any of this. Let me know when there's a "cure" for trauma that treats distraction/laziness and a double-blind study finds clinical significance for it.
I'll let the FDA vet my panaceas for me, thank you very much.
The "man children" part seems unreasonably ad-hominem. There's nothing petty about caring about political speech. There's nothing wrong with caring just a little, enough to express disgust (better than saying nothing).
I also am not convinced that cosplaying as a protest character isn't a reasonable form of protest. Remember it was merely a tweet from an NBA account that set off outrage in the past.
I would hope this would be common knowledge.
Is it that say McDonalds switching to electronic kiosks to order your burger is going to create as MANY tech jobs as it took away? Because that doesn't pass the smell test.
I have 99% confidence I could knock my macbook air off my bed (while on) 100 times in a row with 0 consequences. I've never had a key come off, had the screen flicker, had a battery problem, had an overheat.
I'd be curious if anybody thinks there's any other laptop comparably reliable.
Banning all color in ads, all images/videos in ads, all ads in public (busses, billboards, etc), music in ads. Simply black and white text information (which is what YC adheres to).
Any step in that direction I support.
Well, so the company, HiQ, is basically scraping every time you update your linked in, to tell your employer you might be about to leave.
Now maybe that's cool with you. But it seems super sketchy to me, and one reason I deleted my linkedIn altogether.
It's kind of hard to sum all the good and bad of google or microsoft off the top of my head though.
Certainly google employees and the chrome team will be aware of this within an hour if they aren't already. You can bet it's intentional if we don't see a reversal in the next 3 days."