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5 か月前議論

This tends to come up every time flat structures are discussed and it seems like such a failure of imagination that anything other than strict hierarchies could work, despite plenty of counter-examples like Valve. Yes, some people do badly in an environment where you have to have convince people rather than use power to get things done. However the problems with traditional hierarchies are so well known people assume them to be innate. I'm tired of it being normal to have an incompetent boss.

6 か月前議論

This is why we can't have nice things.

7 か月前議論

Given the top 10% holds 87% of shares, it seems clear the stock market is primarily a tool to compound wealth. Having a surplus of money is table stakes to play.

8 か月前議論

What if, and hear me out, we asked the people a new employee has been onboarding with? I know, trusting people to make a fair judgment lacks the ass-covering desired by most legal departments but actually listening to the people who have to work with a new hire is an idea so crazy it might just work.

8 か月前議論

American culture still holds puritanical views of sex, and this article crosses the taboo threshold that 15 year olds are having sex.

10 か月前議論

Unfortunately many providers don't expose all the state used to create certain resources through the API, so there's no way to download the real source of truth after the fact.

11 か月前議論

If your only exposure to static typing is six months of TS, what you are missing is experience. You're still on the learning curve and thus the cognitive load of explicit types is high, but with time the opposite becomes true.

11 か月前議論

A poor manager in a structureless org is only going to have as much influence as their popularity allows. While this may cause damage, it pales in comparison to a bad manager in a traditional hierarchy who has the power to force their decisions.

昨年議論

I agree people are reaching for the limited power available to them, but the objections to cancel culture aren't usually around voluntary consensual boycotts but rather the use of "social force". Destruction of reputation, demands for firing, deplatforming, doxxing, swatting, etc... the methods of harming a person over the internet.

昨年議論

Violating ethical beliefs when they are inconvenient is what I'd call "moral hypocrisy". Practically everyone is guilty of it to varying degrees.

昨年議論

Because nationality is an accident of birth and being unconcerned with causing harm to others is sociopathic.

2 年前議論

If it's clear someone is not acting in good faith, I can think of three options:

1. Find out why and try to fix it

2. Fire them

3. Embrace the low-trust environment by trying to mitigate the dysfunction with layers of bureaucracy

Strategy 3 seems quite popular, and to be fair it might be the only one that scales.

3 年前議論

If Mastodon is any indicator, the Fediverse is already well optimized to create echo chambers.

3 年前議論

I hate to say it but from my 20+ years in the industry, this is the norm.

3 年前議論

Why should a small group of activists get to decide for everybody which statues are allowed to stand?

3 年前議論

It tells you the company values process over efficacy. Interviewing, like practically any complex task is dynamic in nature. Following down a line of conversation with a candidate provides genuine insight into the individual and cannot be done mechanically.

4 年前議論

These kinds of attempts at language revision rarely have anything to do with the people supposedly offended by them; they are an excuse to gain moral standing. The goal is to advance a particular political ideology, namely Social Justice, which its advocates believe is in the best interest of said minorities and thus doesn't require the consent of those they choose to speak for.

4 年前議論

Neutrality does not "implicitly support the status quo" unless you believe the status quo is stable or exists in a local maxima. That clearly isn't true however because the status quo is dramatically different today than it was historically, and I wouldn't attribute activism for the bulk of those changes.

4 年前議論

I dry clean my suits. I thought that was the only way to clean them... am I missing something?

4 年前議論

I think most people don't realize this given how normalized it is. Wealth is a mechanism of distributing limited resources, and thus profit seeking without concern for externalities or creating value makes everyone else worse off.