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by aianus 9y ago
Not necessarily. If 20% of college grads are women and all your competitors have an "aggressive diversity programme" you'll be hard-pressed to get 20% female hires without an "aggressive diversity programme" of your
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by aianus 9y ago
That the ratio of women:men in tech may never reach 1:1 even if historical biases against women are resolved (he lists some possible reasons). Therefore efforts by Google and others to improve this ratio to 1:1 at all costs can be counterpr
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by aianus 9y ago
Why aren't you calling your bank then? They can do the chargeback and block future payments for you. If someone stole my credit card and bought stuff off of Amazon I wouldn't call Amazon about it...
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by aianus 9y ago
US stock market has averaged 8 over the past 50 years
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by aianus 9y ago
I've personally lived in both cities and you can live perfectly well on $4k a month with a couple of roommates. Better than the average American even. Then, if you invest $46k a year for 15 years at a real return of 4% you end up with
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by aianus 9y ago
He'll likely argue that he was whistleblowing on discriminatory hiring practices and was fired in retaliation. He may even have proof that Google won't want aired out in court and they'll settle.
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by aianus 9y ago
$100k after tax is only $140k pretax
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by aianus 9y ago
So she taught her daughter to stop asking questions and just take an authority figure's word at face value? Wonderful, that's definitely going to encourage her to pursue a career in STEM /s
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by aianus 9y ago
Because you didn't mention what specifically is wrong with Electron
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by aianus 9y ago
How is any of this easier than using a password manager??
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by aianus 9y ago
Counter-anecdote: I passed University physics by watching MIT OpenCourseWare lectures and those kids learned in a week what took us three...
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by aianus 9y ago
> In 25 years they'll still have 25-30 years of work left in their lives If you don't care about having a wife or kids you can easily retire forever after 10-15 years of work in SV or NYC.
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by aianus 9y ago
The human part is pretty cheap compared to the other parts at least here in Toronto: Car insurance $220 (20h at minimum wage) Car payment $780 (70h at minimum wage) Gas $200 (18h at minimum wage) Parking $250 (22h at minimum wage) If I didn
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by aianus 9y ago
We just tap our credit cards against the terminal in Canada. No PIN, no signature, way faster than cash.
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by aianus 9y ago
Yes, and in fact this is what the original author was claiming (that non-diverse candidates had a higher false-negative rate) However, if the number of hires is kept constant, and a given process is claimed to be flawed, then you are implic
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by aianus 9y ago
I'll eat my hat if they fired everyone who posted "I'm With Her" on the internal G+ back in November
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by aianus 9y ago
By that logic how is anyone supposed to criticize any hiring process? Of course hinting that the process is flawed will imply that some of his colleagues shouldn't have made it through.
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by aianus 9y ago
Without enough domestic farms and oil fields the US would be extremely vulnerable to foreign sanctions etc. in times of conflict. The subsidies are intended to keep some of these unprofitable operations running domestically.
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by aianus 9y ago
The highest paying jobs are managerial not technical. If anything emotional skills are much more valued in our society.
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by aianus 9y ago
Who says femininity isn't valued? Doesn't the popularity of single income families where the woman stays home indicate that men value having their wives around so much that they're willing to effectively lose half their incom
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by aianus 9y ago
Takes 80h to confirm because of the low hash rate on the fork.
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by aianus 9y ago
> Someone at Coinbase is slapping their forehead right now reading your story because you pretty much jumped out of the frying pan into the fire when you transferred from Coinbase to an exchange (rather than a wallet you control) Actuall
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by aianus 9y ago
> their buy/sell ACH fees are insane It's a form of price discrimination. Only ignorant end-consumers pay the crazy broker fees. Anyone slightly sophisticated deposits USD via ACH (nearly free) and then transfers to GDAX and do
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by aianus 9y ago
If you're an above-average HN reader who knows something about security, then absolutely you should hold your own coins. But for the average person the chances are much higher that they will get hacked or lose their keys than losing th
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by aianus 9y ago
I drive part time and it definitely covers costs and then some. I gross something like $0.90/km and my costs including gas, maintenance, and depreciation are around $0.30/km. Net is something a little more than minimum wage ($11&#
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by aianus 9y ago
The first guy to log back in (or the guy who doesn't log off at all) wins the game to the detriment of the others, limiting the extent of this practice. You can't have a successful oligopoly when there's no barrier to entry.
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by aianus 9y ago
The tokens were cashed out a few months ago. I was made entirely whole and subsequently withdrew everything successfully.
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by aianus 9y ago
I'm surprised the big clouds (which have to be some of the biggest, most profitable customers of x86 chips) don't push for this.
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by aianus 9y ago
> In fact, none of them were/are programmers Bill Gates wrote a BASIC interpreter in assembly, he was more of a programmer than the majority of professional programmers today.
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by aianus 9y ago
> I can't borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars at < 5% interest invest in the stock market Of course you can [0], and it's even cheaper than mortgage interest (because it's much easier to margin call a stock a portfo

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