alexandercrohde

I think the problem is that startups don't offer enough equity. Google offers a couple hundred thousand PLUS options worth > 100k present value . If a startup wants to pay you enough to compe…

Okay, but to play devil's advocate -- if you study something controversial and/or unfashionable in academia (such as economics of inequality) aren't you just going to be ignored by the …

Interesting how important an animal's diet can be, something I didn't fully appreciate. Also it's nice to see accounts of how science semi-functioned historically. I'm fascinated b…

1. Most people who want to manage won't, period. That's just the math, ICs outnumber managers severalfold. 2. Many people will never become managers because they don't seem "manage…

I don't believe a word of this. It's the usual buzzword-soup that's self-contradictory with even the simplest glance (e.g. claiming a manager's value is both unmeasurable but also …

Sure they are. Every now and then somebody says something so hyperbolic I have to ask "Am I really a democrat?" If somebody asks do I believe in global warming I want to be able to answer &q…

Counter-example: Machines can make perfect music, play an entire orchestra, and know every song I've ever heard of and millions I don't. But that doesn't detract from people playing Uk…

All of that may be true, but I think doesn't address the claims of the article. The article says " Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ... said, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't …

Exactly. I think the estimate is that 30% of the world lives under a totalitarian regime. So the good-guys having a need for encryption probably outnumber the badguys 1,000 to 1

Or, maybe you can explain to me why the country that has the largest intelligence community by an order of magnitude also has the largest terrorism problem on the continent?

Odds are pretty high the intelligence community has resulted in more attacks on America than it has prevented.

"I don't want to dismiss the entire article" Good. Because you can't cherry-pick one dubious-seeming journal article and use it as a justification to ignore several completely unaf…

What's interesting to me is -- for every "burnt out" coworker I see another one with similar pay and title who isn't burnt out. I think a lot of people think they are unable to say…

Meh, those are just details. Banning political ads will definitely hit some grey area, but whatever that grey area is would be better than where we are now.

Yeah, but the point is, I can ask all of those questions in the meeting if I'm there in person.

Better to figure that out in a 15-minute sync up than to get a pager duty alert from a Blocker level ticket that your "service is broken"

I want to call BS on the statement "Most meetings can be replaced with documentation." Maybe in an ideal world, but no. Have you tried reading the documentation the average engineer makes? I…

I wanted to upvote this, but the more I read it the more it felt unscientifically culty. Claims pretty much every psychiatric inconvenience (distraction, laziness, stress, restlessness) can be caused …

Outstanding multimedia article. Very cool attempt at multimedia persuasion. However hard to take at face-value (pun intended) when its analysis was so incorrect.

Uh... what? 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, enoug…

I hope "Don't smoke when pregnant" goes without saying. The mother's blood IS the baby's blood during pregnancy, anything the mother takes the baby gets. That's why 90% o…

Yeah, honestly I don't really understand the article's point. Is it that say McDonalds switching to electronic kiosks to order your burger is going to create as MANY tech jobs as it took awa…

Aside from all the bitterness about ports, touch-bars, lock-in, blah-blah, I have a sincere question. Does anybody know a comparably DURABLE competitor? I have 99% confidence I could knock my macbook …

How about - 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). A…

> Not particularly interested in hiding stuff. 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 th…

I think that's an interesting comparison. There is definitely some merit to it. It's kind of hard to sum all the good and bad of google or microsoft off the top of my head though.

I mean you would think their process would be smart enough to say "Hey, we just rejected upload for product X that is THE MOST POPULAR PLUGIN. We haven't rejected any of the prior versions. …

>> not just follow the ones we are force-fed by hypocritical self-serving interests Nobody is force-feeding anybody. TV news is dead, the newspaper is dead. People read the news they find inter…

>> If they killed every single person in the country no one would give a shit. Same way no one gives a shit about Yemen. What's your point exactly? Is it that human nature is broken, and th…