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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
There are so many comments from people who report being inundated on LinkedIn by recruiters. I don't have a LinkedIn account, and I _never_ hear from recruiters. My name is out there; I'm on other developer-centric social networks
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
The maximum number of stockholders for a private corporation is 2000, and it excludes stock awarded as part of employee grants, so that point is not a factor. But your other points still aptly demonstrate the utter lunacy of this idea.
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
Agreed. This idea could only by put forth by someone who has never had to do the work involved in hiring a software engineer.
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
I spent a few years trying to bootstrap an app for independent pharmacies. The basic idea was a kanban board for patients whose prescriptions were coming due for refills. Pharmacists would use it to coordinate calls out to patients to proac
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
I'm not the poster you're replying to, but: Facebook collects asks for your phone number for security/account recovery reasons, but then turns around and uses it to market to you.
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
"Tech salaries" is a broad enough category that this sort of bias could very much still be present, particularly if the research by Hired wasn't controlling for level, seniority, etc. I didn't read the report by Hired th
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
I interpreted the parent's post to mean they are encountering resumes which list neither internships NOR unrelated work experience.
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
Impostor syndrome is a thing. And if you're paying money, people will opt out because they don't want to feel like they're defrauding you. This viewpoint is strikingly common.
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
The article makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims, but one that catches my eye is the idea that paying people to interview is more inclusive because it allows companies to issue challenges that are more representative of the actual job. But
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
Meh. I mostly see it as a regression to the mean. Over the years, Silicon Valley has shown itself as being willing to bend over backwards to the young and childless, sponsoring conference tickets, corporate getaways to tropical islands, hap
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
The third scenario here is equivalent to the "God tells us we're in one of two universes" experiment. The only difference between the two scenarios is that, in the latter, the two universes "exist", but if God had s
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
This is a very thoughtful rejoinder, thanks. > If X occurred, and is more likely under hypothesis B than A, then X is evidence for hypothesis B, otherwise you don't have a consistent system of probability. The point is, this idea br
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
This article makes a familiar error in thinking that I routinely see when it comes to the subject of extraterrestrial life. It goes like this: 1) There exist billions and billions of stars, each of which can be thought of an independent Ber
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
Sorry, I should have realized the punctuation would be interpreted this way, but I didn't. I didn't intend it as a literal quote of the article, rather a paraphrase of its claims.
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
That's fair. But in return, I offer the counter-argument: When you double count like this, you are implicitly assuming deforestation ALLOWED the polluting business to occupy the new land, and they wouldn't have polluted to the sam
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
No. Double counting is an effect of ascribing the emissions. When you ascribe the effects to the Amazon, you combine the two. As a simple exercise, imagine that the deforested land had been left fallow, and the CO2 emitting business had set
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
What the article is saying here is, --ignoring the rest of the Amazon (A), if you take the amount of CO2 what would have been sequestered if the forest had been left alone (B) and then add it to the amount of CO2 emitted by whatever busines
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
One problem you see a lot in biotech, is that "bio" and "tech" tend to form separate poles of the company, and there is little cross-contamination between the two. I[0] think being on site is an important counterweight t
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by anthuswilliams 5y ago
I'm a software engineer at Recursion, and Imran is telling the truth. I was on my way to posting a comment just like this when I saw this. If you're exploring the world of AI for drug discovery, IMO, it's important not to fal
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
It's more than just being upfront about their bias. It's also the way they avoid descending into demonizing and name-calling. Even when discussing leaders of whom they clearly disapprove such as Recep Erdogan, Jair Bolsonaro, and
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
The leaders are the only part of the magazine I skip these days.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
The parent is not "straight up saying" anything like what you claim they are.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
The sponsors of the SPAC set aside for themselves a big chunk of the shares of the newly combined entity. So in general, the company gets a worse price than it would if it had gone public via an IPO.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
The major benefit of going public via an SPAC is avoiding the onerous disclosure requirements associated with an IPO. In particular, the SEC frowns upon projections of imminent, wild growth, which is a big part of the valuation of many comp
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
This is a question I wrestled a lot with. Growing up, diversity was not something I thought a lot about, and in any case I have always considered myself a hard-nosed type of thinker, for whom concerns about quality and the bottom line shoul
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
A big part of it is likely that they didn't know if the National Guard would be called out if things got out of hand. I believe the police let them in because they were outnumbered and thought letting them through once the premises wer
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
In practice, since people can afford to pay $1738 USD per month, they bid up the price of the same house to =FV(0.03/12;10*12;-1738) or 243 000 USD.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
The latest printing includes an afterword by the author reflecting on the financial crisis, but most of the book is the original text. I recommend this book to everyone with a white-collar job. It's an incredible read. The research is
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
He did lose his role as a spokesman for Visa, though it's impossible to say to what degree this episode was a contributing factor. Somewhat interestingly, given the topic at hand, in the immediate aftermath of those accusations, Morgan
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
I'm glad I saw your comment. I thought it was the older chess great and was disappointed to read something like this about him.

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