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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
a union is not an unalloyed good for the employees. I also worked at a unionized grocery for about 3 months. At our shop, it was clear that the union was set up to protect the senior employees at the expense of the junior employees. There w
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The point is, the things that make the economy work and grow is the production of things. Regardless of how many investments a retired person has, they by definition do not produce things.
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"Oligarchs" are people who were friends with Boris Yeltsin in the 90s. USSR was collapsing, government upheaval, etc. In this period, the government of Russia sold off state owned enterprises for extremely cheap prices, fractions
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Car ownership is highly correlated with income, people in the bottom 10%ile of income are much less likely to have a car than people of higher income. If you look at modeshare for people in the bottom 10% it’s a much much larger share of bi
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The benefit of 1 shot is very high for the first 6 months, it prevents the large majority of hospitalizations and deaths, but it does not prevent transmission. The decision to have a 1 month period between doses was determined by "time
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The main issue IMO is that the original dose schedule of 2 doses 1 month apart is stupid, goes against pretty much all of our first principles understanding of immunology, and was driven by a regulatory need for a short time window for test
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The carbon gains 2 oxygens when combusted, tripling the weight of the original fuel
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Some guy put a camera on his cat for a week and put the vid on YouTube. The cat killed like 50 animals in a week.
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Real wages for working class folks are rising at the fastest pace in 40 years. It’s middle class folks who have stagnant wages.
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Seems like a step in the right direction here. 125k for 7% is still extremely steep in todays market.
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
yes it does, TSMC has immense profits, and their profits are growing 30% YoY
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Defaults matter, and defaults encode the behavioral choices of like 80% of users. The downstream effects of this are that the default options have the most support. Its totally rational to complain about a bad default option.
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The issue is that the 3x cost doesn’t include the cost to staff the team that runs your in-house platform software on your colo setup, and the mixed incentives you get when a sizable part of your team is not shipping product but instead shi
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The issue with low APRs on high risk short term debt for consumers that need it is that it generally makes it expensive to issue the debt almost regardless of the risk of the person. Hypothetically if you need a $700 payday advance today, p
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
The other thing you don't see is how stupid the p05 patient is. Its not someone reading primary sources or coming in well informed. Its someone coming in saying Dr Oz says that eating blueberries cures cancer.
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Boards are usually filled with: 1) Founder/cofounders 2) investors 3) people who do not work at the company and are not investors that people in groups 1 and 2 think will be on their side during important votes
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
I’m a remote team manager and I’ve considered putting tracking software on low performers computers, and have not gone through with it yet. I’m super happy to put in the time to coach someone who is trying to make it work but if they’re put
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
yes, I personally am not into gaming at all. "Among us" is a goofy game that I'm terrible at. I've found that having some structure to hangouts by having a very simple thing to do together has made the actual bonding par
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Ask HN: Fun video games for remote 15 person team bonding/fun?
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
You sign an offer letter, not a contract. Its basically a promise that if you show up on a given date that your employer will give you the necessary documents to sign to start employment, and what the terms of employment would look like. Th
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Its everything in the graphql API section: https://docs.amplify.aws/cli/graphql/overview/ you create a graphql API spec and amplify builds all of the appsync resolvers and dynamo tables for you. Pretty good s
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
My team (5 engineers, 18 months building so far) currently runs the largest amplify based project in terms of number of resources used. We have a direct connection to the core team and their support has been great. Things were quite rough u
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
No, you need to prove the off chain economic use cases. The well known use cases are all illicit.
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
I'm not saying this is a super common thing, but I am saying this is going to happen more than it used to happen. We routinely see people who want start dates 3 months after offer acceptance, they want to travel, take time off, spend t
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
It's a transactional relationship. I have had a few candidates pull out after signing for various reasons (some personal issues, some for better offers). If they apply a year later, I would likely still give them an offer. There are no
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
I'm not saying we should normalize it, I'm saying in a world where senior engineering talent is routinely paid 400k+ USD comp packages is a world in which employers will be extremely picky about who they give those 400k comp packa
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
Unpopular opinion but here we go: Engineering and tech compensation packages are increasing extremely quickly. Engineers in particular have market power to get great jobs with high pay. In an environment where the rate companies pay for lab
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
You don't need to launder money through GBTC to get exposure to the assets that money launderers use (BTC) to launder money and reap the upside of a growth market in cryptocurrency based moneylaundering. its a smart play tbh, but the 9
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
marketcaps in crypto mean nothing. The universe is full of wash sales, there is not 2.6T of liquidity, a ton of volume is insanely leveraged and amplified through defi pools, and looking at a transaction volume adjusted view of the world, l
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by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
By increasing value like this, they can raise more funding/sell debt to fund growth. The moves themself do not impact the company but the downstream impacts can be great. Most large businesses run on debt, most growth is fueled by debt

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