A shower thought I had recently is that we should start referring to "Business cases" as "Survival cases" and "Business books" as "Survival books" and that makes the inherent bias so much clearer.
Readit NewsRainymood commented on Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009) longform.asmartbear.com/s... · Posted by u/Garbage
Rainymood commented on Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees bloomberry.com/why-new-hi... · Posted by u/altdataseller
One company I was with had a rule that former employees couldn't be re-hired for 18 months after they left. This was to stop employees getting pay rises by via the hiring process rather than the standard review process.
At another we had somebody from the helpdesk join our team, he rapidly skilled up but the company had a rule that max pay-rise was 20% annually and he was on half what everyone else was on. Problem was escalated until an exception was approved by senior manager and he got a big 1-off payrise.
So, effectively, there was... no rule.
Rainymood commented on List one task, do it, cross it out oliverburkeman.com/onethi... · Posted by u/Tomte
I have one notebook that I carry around where I list tasks just in order to cross them out. There is something so viscerally satisfying in crossing out a task that just provides so much momentum to whatever I'm doing. There's just something beautiful about making the implicit explicit and then striking it through.
Very interesting post and I read it in full. The article is definitely interesting but I found it a shame that the author didn't talk more about his system that brought him from 5k to 200k as the title implies :)
I asked this question 5 years ago in an AMA the CEO did once here, but they plainly ignored me and are a unicorn 5 years later. The trick here is to move so fast that the law has trouble keeping up (same with Uber/AirBNB).
Rainymood commented on Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools til.simonwillison.net/pyt... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
Did you ever try poetry[1]?
It is a great tool that I use in all my projects. It effectively solves dependency management for me in a very easy to use way.
Dependency management using requirements.txt used to give me such a headache, now I just have a pyproject.toml that I know works.
[tool.poetry.dependencies]
python = ">=3.8,<3.9"
pandas = "^1.4.3"
What I like about poetry is that it makes sure that the whole dependency graph of the packages that you add is correct. If it can not solve the graph, then it fails fast and it fails hard, which is a good thing.
This is probably a very bad explainer of what poetry does, but be sure to check it out! :)
Rainymood commented on Decentral Bank fixes bug that let one user mint 10T USN for just $10 theblock.co/post/156328/d... · Posted by u/0xedb
Very decentralized, until we don't like it anymore, then very centralized.
I'm half asian and I get the "Asian flush" [0] which for all intents and purposes induces the same effect as this drug (DSF)
>Individuals who experience the alcohol flushing reaction may be less prone to alcoholism. Disulfiram, a drug sometimes given as treatment for alcoholism, works by inhibiting acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, causing a five to tenfold increase in the concentration of acetaldehyde in the body. The resulting irritating flushing reaction tends to discourage affected individuals from drinking.[9][10]
I literally have a negative feedback loop from drinking alcohol, it makes me feel really bad, my skin flushes, I feel my heartbeat in my chest/neck/head, and I literally feel miserable.
Honestly, it kind of sucks, because when you can't drink you notice how much socialising is based around alcohol. I've found ways to cope with this and am on good terms with myself now but it really took me a long time. Especially to get around the social/peer pressure of having to drink.
On the bright side, I'll likely never become an alcoholic.
Rainymood commented on Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson kickstarter.com/projects/... · Posted by u/Jarlakxen
Very happy that Brandon Sanderson is looking more and more healthy as time goes on :) love his writing
Side node: There is a small typo repeated twice "Kuberentes"