ReadingInBed

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How Criminals Steal $37B a Year from America’s Elderly(bloomberg.com)
2 points by ReadingInBed 8y ago|0 comments
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by ReadingInBed 9y ago
This is a really good interface but the assumptions backing the results seem weak. The growth rate on conservative and aggressive portfolios are high. The recommended amounts of saving should be as % of income. Recommending someone that mak
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Hired: State of salaries 2018(hired.com)
3 points by ReadingInBed 9y ago|0 comments
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by ReadingInBed 10y ago
This is a good point. As far as I remember Amazon had/has a contract with the CIA for 100s of millions. When the rich own the media there is always a risk that they will hire those that push their agenda. Amazon could greatly profit fr
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by ReadingInBed 10y ago
One critical point I feel this piece does not touch on is how diversity of experience is great in the workplace. It's a huge benefit as a developer (and obviously other professions too) to work on teams with people who have lived very
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by ReadingInBed 10y ago
If you can get a remote job Portland Maine is an amazing place to live. Don't expect to get any kind of high quality tech job in Maine though. I've lived in both I don't think sf is so bad.
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by ReadingInBed 10y ago
This happened for a short while at an old workplace that had an extremely toxic environment, this didn't improve the environment. People were expected to clock in/out when they arrived as well as for lunch and breaks. Developers w
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by ReadingInBed 10y ago
One thing to remember if you keep him on and he continues this behavior you might not find out about it for a while. People won't always speak out and tell you. What happens when he starts harassing your new hires? If he is new to the
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by ReadingInBed 10y ago
This actually happened last year at their biggest tournament. A well known bug caused several champions to be disabled midway through the tournament. This happens regularly that champions are disabled due to bugs at international events.
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
I thought this was a pretty good follow up to show the strengths and weaknesses of this approach: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/ . Personally I think this approach makes a lot more sense than a&
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Ask HN: Experience with job hunting on starfighters.io?
59 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|24 comments
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
Having spent countless hours working with third party apis that are poorly documented and business critical I can understand how unexpected changes can be frustrating. But asking people to do things your way with no incentive is even more f
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
I would guess someone showed them an a/b test where showing the clown led to less mistakes. Of course it's still fairly disgusting behavior for a company to take. But are morals really that important when you have algorithms and d
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Why isn't anyone calling out Yelp's CEO(medium.com)
29 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|21 comments
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
That was updated later, after she got let go for writing that piece.
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Highlighting the best and brightest can backfire(psmag.com)
2 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|0 comments
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
It's very possible that many people used the vending machines as impulse purchase vs planned purchase. My understanding is lots of effort goes into having people make impulse purchases (example: grocery store layout). They would not ma
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Tracking gun violence by shooting incidents(fivethirtyeight.com)
14 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|1 comments
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
If someone is threatening violence to suppress speech it is even more important that speech be heard. Huge failure on sxsw part.
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
I really enjoyed the post and the idea of proposing alternate theories, but it doesn't discuss the mentality of those without a strong opinion of Airbnb. I assume that people who are fairly neutral will see their social networks expres
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It's getting harder to move beyond a minimum wage job(fivethirtyeight.com)
7 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|1 comments
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Migration from ASP.NET to Rails(blog.chadwilken.com)
1 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|0 comments
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Why (Any) Economics Matters(mises.org)
2 points by ReadingInBed 11y ago|0 comments
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
That's actually exactly why US and Israel make great allies. Both have great interest in aggressive imperialist foreign policies with little international oversight. I think the best chance of the US breaking away from Israel internati
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by ReadingInBed 11y ago
I think we can agree that there are genetic differences between men and women. The issue is reverse engineering them by cultural results is really hard. We can see the start point (DNA) and the measuring point ( For example: Higher IQ), but