Pyxl101

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It's not about some particular kind of skill-based estimate of the road's design speed. It's much simpler than that: people drive at the fastest speed at which they feel safe. If people are driving on a large separated highwa
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Thanks for the tip to Buffer. They've published a blog post explaining their reasons that I've started reading: https://open.buffer.com/raising-3-5m-funding-valuation-term-... > So you might be wondering, why r
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Thank you. That makes sense. I suppose it happens with "hot" companies that have some negotiating leverage. I'm curious because if Holmes has been able to convert even 0.1% - 1% of her shares' current value along the way
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> But the bigger problem is that it isn't easy to compare health tests... It ought to be relatively easy. I mean, not easy for the average Joe, but easy for anyone seriously interested in doing it. Draw blood twice: once with the fi
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What options are there for founders to liquidate shares in the process of fundraising but before going public? Are founders typically able to liquidate some amount of shares in funding rounds in order to take home cash, or do investors disa
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No, that's not typical. Blood tests are not usually offered in pharmacies either, and are reserved for clinics and hospitals. Blood tests typically involve needles, privacy, etc. They're the wrong atmosphere for a casual grocery s
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I don't understand the downvotes. I'm not suggesting that dentists actually want to harm peoples' teeth. I'm simply pointing out that dentists recommending sugar and soda is too obviously nonsensical a position for anyon
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The research article you linked confirmed that job experience (years in a similar job) has positive predictive validity for job performance. Can a hiring manager improve their hiring decision by excluding a factor known to have positive p
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Sure, I believe you that there are certain tasks where years of experience doesn't affect performance much. I could believe that certain kinds of programming fall into that bucket. How about heart surgery? If you or a family member n
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> which is institutionally thought of as unacceptable That's not it at all. The goal of hiring is simple: maximize the effectiveness of the company by hiring people who are the most effective at least cost. Typically, the hiring m
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> It's regrettable, because employment history (gaps or no gaps) does not predict job performance. Why don't you think that employment history predicts job performance? That seems to violate common sense for me. Imagine that yo
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Interesting demo! Thank you for sharing.
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Could you point to an example of an audio clip with the characteristics you're describing? Or an album with such sound? I'd love to experience it.
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For the same reason a real estate agent does not try to sell you the first house they show you: their motives would be way too obviously transparent if they did that and people would see through it.
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> More than two years and $1 million in costs later, he is still waiting for the shipment. Chinese customs officials have demanded a permit for importing medical devices Familiar story. I tried to have ordinary computers shipped to a fac
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Is there any reason to use sound to transmit power rather than magnetic fields?
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> There are plenty of studies correlating racial and gender diversity with better corporate financial performance, particularly in companies that score high in innovation-seeking behaviors. Could you point to some of this research? I&#x2
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> Yet there is ample research that shows that more diverse teams are more creative in problem solving and have better outcomes with tasks that require such creativity. Could you point to some of this research? I'd be interested to l
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Another question is: are black software engineers under-represented at Twitter? Not blacks, but black software engineers. There may be more or fewer black software engineers per capita among blacks compared to other races. For example, if m
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> Affirmative action means that you take action to diversify your applicant pool. Wikipedia describes it differently: "Affirmative action or positive discrimination is the policy of favoring members of a disadvantaged group [...]. T
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I don't know the best way to get in touch with them. Besides, hopefully they've gotten this feedback already. If Microsoft execs are reviewing the game, they will certainly get feedback.
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But loans are also a critical way to get leverage. You buy some equipment for your farm up front so that you can produce more food immediately. If you have to save up for a year to buy that equipment, then you're far behind where you a
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Yes, because that is how mean net worth is defined. I don't see specifically what that argues against, except that mean is not the best indicator to use in all situations; perhaps a different indicator is appropriate, such as the incom
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Encouragement to work in the US Digital Service is altruism along similar lines.
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In my opinion this post is suited to HN, but not the other (mods for fallout 4). HN isn't a general-interest gaming forum, but I have to say this article was pretty interesting. It went into depth on the creators, what aesthetic they&#
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Why is it appropriate to drop outliers? (The fact that something is common does not make it a good thing.)
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Yes, and before we had efficient textile factories, scores of small businesses and individuals worked as wool spinners - many of them women (the origin of the term "spinster"). These businesses went kaput when industrialization ca
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> no we are none of those things. we believe we are, but we are actually not I don't see how you can know this. More justification is required. Saying something doesn't make it true. This sounds a lot like nihilism, so if so, w
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If you knew approximately where the dangerous gas was, could you take a deep breath and run in with your breath held? If you prepare for it, you can probably hold your breath for a good minute and some.
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Very interesting. I've been following this in the news for some time, hoping to learn the results of the latest research. In previous tests it seemed like the significance of the effect was diminishing on each iteration, suggesting it

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