Kalium

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by Kalium 5y ago
Community theater productions are reasonably common in the US. Many of them are amateur, in the sense of being put on by people who are not paid full-time theatrical professionals.
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by Kalium 5y ago
When there's a real possibility of meaningful and useful insights, we might consider taking it seriously. For me, this can be linked in part to the person's experience and credibility. Caplan isn't some interloper with no kno
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by Kalium 5y ago
I would go so far as to suggest that the article is framed in a way designed to divide people into "Facebook haters and/or defenders of the exploited" and "sweatshop apologist" camps. Generally this has the side eff
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by Kalium 5y ago
> Ah, right, because if you're lucky enough to be making more than your peers, you should shut up and deal with doing so in a horrible environment. Not precisely, but a person's choices should generally be considered in light o
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by Kalium 5y ago
Your first link is broken.
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by Kalium 5y ago
I can tell you that there's a deep-seated suspicion in the US that for France, much of GDPR's purpose is about enabling protectionism. The logic is understandable. Surely, if you just get rid of the abusive American monopolies the
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by Kalium 5y ago
At the time, how to make bagels was not widely available information. The union tightly controlled their trade secrets and shut down any shop that didn't work with them. Membership was limited to family members of early members. Sounds
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by Kalium 5y ago
It might also be a interpreted as a reference to a department store chain that mostly sells clothing - Kohl's.
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by Kalium 5y ago
They're mostly about style in some manner. A chignon is a hairstyle, a bandeau is a garment, kohl is a type of facial makeup (with its own fascinating history). Jaquard, chambray, chenille, sateen, and damask are all words that apply t
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by Kalium 5y ago
Percent isn't a useful metric by itself, but it's often more useful than number of options or grants. Often that's what is pitched to prospective hires. Or, worse, an ill-defined number of shares and a highly optimistic valua
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by Kalium 5y ago
A few items that popped up from quick searching: * On journalist wages - https://ajr.org/2014/05/05/reporter-pay-falls-u-s-average-wa... - wages are not growing and the employment pool is shrinking. A compari
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by Kalium 5y ago
I worked in a Haskell shop for a while. What I found was perhaps not precisely that they skewed smarter, but they definitely skewed more experienced. There were quite a few engineers who had been at it for two or more decades and very few w
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by Kalium 5y ago
That's a great plan, provided you can consistently hit profit targets. Meta's had trouble with that one lately.
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Widely profitable for who? For society or directly in dollars for the individuals involved? Righteous by whose definition? Honest by whose definition? How widely shared are those definitions? Rhetorical questions, please don't answer.
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by Kalium 5y ago
> The sad part is that we could actually solve some real problems by coordinating collective action on, say, starting a new city that's designed around non-motorized transit within the city limits. But we don't. We get Snoop Do
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by Kalium 5y ago
Then why would I want to talk to them at all?
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by Kalium 5y ago
I've tried a fair number of those calls. You might be surprised by how many recruiters don't really have salary range or meaningful equity details (preferences, shares outstanding, etc.) but really want me to be excited for the
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by Kalium 5y ago
I understand their fear of being cut out. I want them to understand that I need to know up-front if the position is interesting enough to be worth investing my time in at all. I could sacrifice my time and energy to assuage their fears, b
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by Kalium 5y ago
Sometimes I say something like "I'm glad to hear you're competitive! I'm currently being offered $REAL_BIG_COMPANY_NUMBER, so I look forward to our conversation." Generally this ends the conversation.
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by Kalium 5y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say zero value, but I would say that engaging with third-party recruiters is generally an activity with a negative expected value. Generally they don't actually have or aren't willing to share the
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by Kalium 5y ago
> "Hey ____. Before we move forward, can you provide me with the company name, a job description, and the expected compensation. Regards" I've found that this makes 80-90% of recruiters go completely silent. For some reaso
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by Kalium 5y ago
Semver is a particular set of rules for defining what is a patch level, what is a minor update, and what is a major update. Before semver, these ideas still existed, but different groups had different ideas of what they meant. That is perha
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by Kalium 5y ago
Apple supported Python 2 for two years after it was officially sunset by the Python Foundation. They've been advising that they will drop support for longer. How long is long enough to avoid breaking something the users depend on? One
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by Kalium 5y ago
Yes, it shifts communication to over the network, but this comes with the benefit of making system boundaries much clearer. It's been my experience that this can allow different parts to evolve separately and make the choices best fo
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by Kalium 5y ago
I agree that microservices shift complexity, but I'm not sure that this inherently results in an overall increase in complexity. For example, using highly automated ops tools like autoscaling and load balancing can enable smooth handli
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by Kalium 5y ago
How so? As far as I can tell, this does not indicate that people can’t afford baby formula and diapers, quite important items. Instead the whole system works because the people who need them do have ready access to these vitally importa
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by Kalium 5y ago
Thank you! I will 100% start using this now.
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Like a lot of instances of food theft or counterfeiting, the fence sells the goods into the legitimate supply chain. The buyer winds up being a regular person who has no idea that this particular baby formula is stolen.
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One of the reasons baby formula is in high demand is that WIC subsidies are generous but effectively set a price cap for many customers. If a business wants to make more money, they have to squeeze on the cost side. Buying stolen product ca
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by Kalium 5y ago
For my own part, I've found that a lot of recruiters operate like used-car salespeople. They don't really know what they're selling or care who they're selling it to. They operate by relying on phone-sales skills and try

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