"Authoritative collectivist monocultures are doing great with this pandemic"

They are great at controlling the flow of information.

Is "The Dip" a worthwhile read?

I wonder what YCombinator thinks about career aptitude tests. Could the YC interview be replaced by such a test? I suspect the answer is no.

He's not just getting rejected at interviews, he's been fired several times. That really indicates that there's a deeper problem.

>If you can finish and launch a software project, then you are OK.

In what way would he be OK? Tons of developers launch software projects, but most don't go anywhere...

>The consensus seems to be that interviews are bad at identifying capable people.

Perhaps, but self-selection is even worse...

>I think JK Rowling's Harry Potter books were rejected by 10 publishers, so fuck other people's judgement.

Well, the books of some authors were rejected by ALL publishers though, and the books of other authors were accepted by sold nothing, so there's that too...

If they can launch, they can develop. Regardless of whether something comes off or, it’s a confidence booster and reinforces belief in their skill sets.

The other day I was looking around in my living room and every family member was staring at a screen.

You just need a VR headset for everybody...

I think you have it backwards. The risk of the individual surgeries is not increased. Only the risk that a surgeon will be confronted with an above average critical surgery is increased.

It is not even clear that there actually is a problem. It's just a weird way to slice the data to produce an effect.

> The risk of the individual surgeries is not increased.

They never said that it did (unless they've edited their comment since you replied to it). They just said that the percentage [of deaths on surgeons' birthdays] will increase, and that is correct.

What if they made the same rules about news outlets, would people also cheer them on?

In Germany Facebook has already given power to "trusted fact checkers" who happen to be extremely left leaning. None of this is a good thing.

I agree that fact checkers are a nasty can of worms, but here they're only expected to flag illegal content, which I don't think is a comparable concern.

Facebook is an example of the type of big company you were talking about.

Presumably by installing Linux?

Linux nowadays has better support for games so I don't think that is a solution :)

I stopped playing Ultima Online (same led designer as Knights of the old Repbulic iirc) when I did the math and realized to become Master Alchemist, I would have to mix 3000 potions, always with the same repetitive clicks.