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Re:The 10x Engineer and Delegated Responsibility on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @01:33PM (#7265217)
Amazon.com's second leadership principle:

Ownership Leaders are owners. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say “that’s not my job."

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a society where the employer-employee relationship is one of trust. The definition Amazon.com seems to be using is that owners do shit work and so should you, but maybe I'm misreading.

Re:Ask HN: Opposite of Conversion? on Saturday February 15, 2014 @05:07PM (#7245594)
You could call the first two of these attrition or drop-out. Differentiate by whether or not they were free or paid.

For the third, it sounds like a case of (2) followed by a signup.

The article refers to a growing body of research supporting Hayes, yes.
Re:I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote on Monday December 30, 2013 @03:37PM (#6986772)
It's interesting that privacy enabled many previous, successful movements like civil rights.