FT_intern

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by FT_intern 10y ago
This is ridiculous. There is no reason to punish or berate some person/entity/company for NOT participating in a strike. It would only make sense if the company openly tried to take advantage of the strike or attempted to stop or
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by FT_intern 10y ago
So this is how girls on Tinder feel.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Isn't this how 'I Am Legend' started?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The goal post is not "good manager". It is just "better than non-technical managers"
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by FT_intern 10y ago
They learn to deal with slow-learning kids at the cost of not learning from a slower paced class at all. The negatives outweigh the positives for the gifted kids.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Many companies (FB for example) actually give higher referral bonuses for black/hispanic and females.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The fact that these colleges aren't elite actually hurts the article's argument. Also, the top colleges from that population that enrolls the highest percentage of low income students are much more prestigious than the top 1% inco
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Classifying East Asians and Indians in the same group is redundant to begin with. The difference in culture, languages, etc. between East Asian and Indian immigrants is much higher than the differences between white (European) and Hispanic
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Companies don't have anything to gain (and much to lose) from disclosing their pay practices and information.
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by FT_intern 10y ago
and they work more hours... for that lower compensation
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> Facebook started incentivizing recruiters in 2015 to find engineering candidates who weren't already well represented at the company – women, black and Latino workers. Giving different bonuses based on protected classes is erring
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by FT_intern 10y ago
I'm not sure why LinkedIn is being targeted for privacy concerns. The entire point of the site is having a presentable, public profile. Most users want others to see them in the way that their LinkedIn profile depicts them to be. A lar
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by FT_intern 10y ago
for employees, it'll be because backloaded RSUs
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by FT_intern 10y ago
>I'm not sure I understand this sentence. It is an undisputed fact that the proportions of sex, race, etc. in tech are not reflective of the population at large, yes. But I'm not sure how this means that certain groups are less
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> is too offensive to say out loud Not only offensive but also very hard to prove. >Absent a solid scientific reason to believe that one gender, one race, one country of origin, one level of income, etc. is truly better at the job tha
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Is it feasible to get your own warehouse storage, go direct with manufacturers and buy wholesale instead of just reselling Aliexpress items?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
because no one who would use the extension (aka tech savy people) would use Safari
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by FT_intern 10y ago
I don't think these difficulties of Medium can be generalized to the wider industry. The CEO/founder Evan Williams is a billionaire who set out to create a good publishing platform for everyday Joes and Sues with little to no focu
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Let's deep dive into diversity further. Why do we want diversity? Because apparently, we want people with different perspectives and experiences. Now with "diversity", we have to specify how we split up the population into gr
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Gender and race are orthogonal to shortsightedness and nerdiness. >diversity is a method of keeping this sort of thing in check. The term diversity by itself has no meaning. One needs to specify how groups of people are split up whenever
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by FT_intern 10y ago
That's my main gripe. Treating people differently based on gender is simply wrong. The default should always be to treat people the same. If you are going to commit sexism with the purpose of "reversing the patriarchy", you f
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> dominance That's not the right word. Interest is the right word. The % of females in tech resembles the % of females majoring in CS
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by FT_intern 10y ago
My theory is that affirmative action gives colleges an excuse to bump up rich, "underprivileged" minorities over poor, "privileged" races so they don't have to give as much financial aid
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by FT_intern 10y ago
Isn't that true for all browsers (and OSes)?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
The privilege to value education and to spend time studying, yes. Almost all resources can be found online nowadays. If you've ever been to an SAT tutoring class, you know that the only benefit the kids have is the benefit of being for
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by FT_intern 10y ago
not sure why the regular search links aren't working anymore when you click web. The link in "Top stories" section worked
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by FT_intern 10y ago
this would be a very legitimate "not a cultural fit" rejection
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by FT_intern 10y ago
what economies of scale does ride sharing have?
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by FT_intern 10y ago
no one would understand the algorithm
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by FT_intern 10y ago
> In 2015, Citizen offered to buy the whole company for $740 million ouch, i can only imagine how the founders feel

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