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Nurw commented on Careless People pluralistic.net/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/Aldipower

lordnacho · 4 months ago

You've won the lottery, but you don't want to acknowledge that you won the lottery. You want to feel they you deserve your position through hard work and talent. You're living in a society where people are credulous, to some degree they believe that hard work and talent are related to success.

So what will happen? Everyone you hire ends up patting you on the back, telling you what a great guy you are.

Nurw · 4 months ago

In addition, I think you have to be sort of selfish to become ultra-wealthy. At some point people who believe that they became rich not by their own merit would start to distribute some wealth around. While selfish and egotistical people would hoard all their wealth, compounding it into ultra-richness.

Nurw commented on Daniel Kahneman has died washingtonpost.com/obitua... · Posted by u/mrjaeger

PheonixPharts · a year ago

What's wild to me is that anyone could read chapter 4 and not look up the original papers in disbelief.

Long before the controversy was public I was reading that book and, despite claims that the reader must believe the findings, it sounded like nonsense to me. So I looked up the original paper to see what the experiment set up was, and it was unquestionably a ridiculous conclusion to draw from a deeply flawed experiment.

I still never understood how that chapter got through without anyone else having the same reaction I did.

Nurw · a year ago

Haha, yeah, I am reading the book these days, and I clearly remember thinking that those effects seemed really exaggerated.

Nurw commented on Launch HN: HyLight (YC S23) – Hydrogen airships to inspect energy infrastructure · Posted by u/ThomasLaporte

natch · 2 years ago

If it's a hazard to a crew, it could also be a hazard to electronics that pilot the craft. If the craft comes down as a result, that could be bad news for any forests, buildings, people, etc. nearby on the ground.

Glad to help!

Nurw · 2 years ago

There is a _significant_ difference in the damage done in a manned aircraft and unmanned aircraft. To even imply that the same laws would apply is absurd.

Nurw commented on Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram datatilsynet.no/en/news/a... · Posted by u/matsemann

yard2010 · 2 years ago

It's like imposing 5 shmeckels-a-day fine on an individual, it's a waste of time and money

Nurw · 2 years ago

Norway has 5 million inhabitants, it sets the precedent for other countries to do something similar with fines scaled for their population. At that point it might start to hurt.

Nurw commented on Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years non.io... · Posted by u/jjcm

bardak · 2 years ago

That is a pretty good solution to the relevant tags and spam issues I was worried about. Good thinking there. One half of my issues gone.

The single conversation is still a big problem for me. I really like being able to have conversations within a specific community and get specific angles on a topic. I also like to look at a conversation on the same topic in different subreddits to see how different communities react. It's not to say that one way is inhertly better but more of a personal preference.

Nurw · 2 years ago

Maybe if you could tag the root comments the same way? So when you come from browsing #formula1 you see #formula1 tagged comments first? And when you start a new root comment it defaults to being tagged from where you came from? But you could also add #funny if it is a funny comment? That could be cool

Nurw commented on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore theverge.com/2023/6/7/237... · Posted by u/dlb007

pdpi · 2 years ago

I keep saying this — as a fairly senior engineer, remote has basically blocked me from actually doing many of the things that made me good at my job.

I don't have all my juniors around me, so I can't overhear their conversations, so I can't jump in when they talk themselves into trouble. I can't help people debug problems I'm not aware of, and frustrated grumbling often comes a few steps before actively asking for help. I don't have people from other teams around me, so I can't grab them for coffee/lunch and catch up on what they're doing. I used to have a couple of PMs from other teams who regularly came to me for help because their engineers weren't great at talking to non-technical people.

Fundamentally, information is the biggest asset you can have on the job, and I lost access to all the information that came from organic, unstructured, ad-hoc, and often passive interactions. Unfortunately, the more structured, proactive alternatives cost a lot more of my time and effort, so it's all around less effective.

Nurw · 2 years ago

Have you tried having an always on video meeting for your team? Our team was fairly similar, and for a time felt like we lost a lot during the lockdown. But an always on team-video meeting really saved us. It has its drawbacks, interruptions become a lot more disruptive and emoting is harder with a smaller face, but there are advantages that more than weigh up for this, instantly sharing the screen with the entire team is really useful, and not having to travel several floors to help people lowers the barrier for helping people in other parts of the organization. And with the always on video meeting people can even drop by to say hello. It also helps focus the team on one thing, which is often a good thing. People can still do their thing on the side, but working as a team on one focused task is a lot easier.

Nurw commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker

kleiba · 3 years ago

No, I'm saying that the US is not an authoritarian regime.

Nurw · 3 years ago

He did not even say america was an authoritarian regime, you made that argument up yourself

Nurw commented on How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way maia.crimew.gay/posts/how... · Posted by u/half-kh-hacker

Nurw · 3 years ago

Nice whataboutism. Are you trying to say as long as there are worse authoritarian regimes exists critiquing the American regime is bad?

Nurw commented on Ask HN: What are good self hosted time tracking software for consultants? · Posted by u/thepra

nottorp · 3 years ago

Any spreadsheet :)

The advantage being that you can always stick a random formula in for whatever you want to find out right now and you didnt need before.

It wont generate your invoices But Î find that a minor problem. How many customers do you invoice per month anyway?

Nurw · 3 years ago

I once integrated IFTTT with google sheets to automatically add a line to a spreadsheet when I entered and exited work. And then made some more pages in the sheet in order to have it all neat and orderly for timekeeping. A huge advantage was that I could correct small mistakes whenever I wanted, so it didn't matter much if the integration itself was a bit spotty.