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by arebop 9y ago
As and after he says this, all the visible attendees gather their belongings before heading to the exit.
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by arebop 9y ago
You can rent an apartment in Urbana, IL for $350/month where the minimum wage is $8.25. The HUD rule of thumb is that a person on that income would not be "cost-burdened" by a rent of up to $458/month. So although housin
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by arebop 9y ago
Monoliths are problematic. They're dull, they're poorly connected, they're in the way. It's worse when they're arranged horizontally because people tend to move horizontally. When you build up, the problems mostly d
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by arebop 9y ago
Also, 1/3 of rental housing in SF is rent controlled, meaning that rent increases are limited to a fraction of the CPI. This causes a large difference between current market rates and what established tenants pay. It explains both the
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by arebop 9y ago
These numbers don't include substantial compensation elements such as bonus and equity. Having said that I think you're right. Also, IMO one should not compare the median engineer in SV to the median engineer elsewhere. A median S
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by arebop 9y ago
It's bad because the overwhelming majority of people don't enjoy the process of finding a new job and cannot afford to spend time finding new work. I think a lot of the talk is also due to unhappiness with the economic trend that
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by arebop 9y ago
If you enjoy it, that's a good incentive. Organizations that overpay managers in order to entice ICs to take up less productive management work are shooting themselves in the foot.
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by arebop 9y ago
Unless you pay employees in RSUs. Then short term share price fluctuations matter again.
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by arebop 9y ago
Is it common for these committees to award grants to profs who (happen to) have a track record using grant funds to open doughnut shops rather than to research the topics mentioned in their previously-funded grant proposals?
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by arebop 9y ago
Treading water in a tech job in the bay area is kind of like being in a "normal" job (such as architect, as in buildings not software) any where else, except you don't have to worry about layoffs or a tyrannical boss because
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by arebop 10y ago
For my part, I still don't care if they broke laws protecting taxi monopolies in some places. They haven't as far as I know broken any laws in my neighborhood so my opinion is somewhat abstract. But if we did have laws here to d
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by arebop 10y ago
> Most people never really stopped to think about the implications You seem to suggest that Uber's toxic culture gave them a business advantage. Like, riders got some benefit that a conscientious person ought to have guessed was der
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by arebop 10y ago
I would gladly match my tax prep fee with a donation to the counter-lobby, if one existed. Where can I buy tax-complexity-offsets?
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by arebop 10y ago
> the efficacy of the ad That part of it is easy to mitigate by the auction process. I.e., the mean efficacy of ad placement is reflected in the price of the winning bid due to the usual market forces. The less quantifiable part of it, &
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by arebop 10y ago
I use xmonad for this.
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by arebop 10y ago
Does it make the farmers' market unfree when it declares a rule that vendors may not purchase their wares (but must grow the produce/animals on a farm)? Does that make the farmers employees of the farmers' market? Without get
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by arebop 10y ago
In a sense you are right, but practically speaking individuals can't morally unilaterally defect from tipping. When nearly everyone agrees that 15% is the tip for normal performance, and one person leaves 0% for normal performance, tha
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by arebop 10y ago
There is universal agreement about tipping at restaurants. Tips of 15% (or 20%?) are definitely customary, expected, priced-in. People who don't leave tips after experiencing decent service are definitely not paying their fair share. U
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by arebop 10y ago
Comcast is/should be willing to spend the net present value of their future revenue streams to defend their monopoly. Ditto AT&T, Verizon, etc. The combined market cap of these companies is a pretty big lobbying bill to pay even fo
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by arebop 10y ago
The penalty for misclassifications is higher for false negatives than false positives. In fact, what happens if the FBI exhausts its budget investigating the positives from this classifier? Do they try to improve the classifier accuracy or
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by arebop 10y ago
Yes this is a thing. E.g., http://vintagewinewarehouse.com/
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by arebop 10y ago
Palantir being the exception that proves the rule.
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by arebop 10y ago
I think you've misunderstood level 4; it seems to be defined as you suggest 4.5 ought to be: [ http://www.sae.org/misc/pdfs/automated_driving.pdf ]; the car has to operate safely after autonomous mode is enabl
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by arebop 10y ago
The cross-recruiting agreement is controversial; at least there's an argument that it should have been OK. But Catmull in particular was involved in the more extreme implementations of the deal. In his version, not only did cooperating
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by arebop 10y ago
The issue is not that yet another group of cowards is whining. The issue is that once machines can do everything better than humans, we will need a new way to organize society. Machines have already replaced animals including humans for the
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by arebop 10y ago
I understand the licensing deals with record companies set much lower prices for radio-station-like ux compared to on-demand ux. ML-built playlists aren't necessarily ideally equivalent to the playlist you'd make yourself with inf
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by arebop 10y ago
Sounds like Google Contributor https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/6286709?hl=en
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by arebop 10y ago
It's not really up to other firms though, it's up to the employees who see value in the social network.
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by arebop 10y ago
not dead [ https://github.com/google/end-to-end/issues/391 ]
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by arebop 10y ago
Rising real estate prices are not a good thing, but in this case they would be a sign of a good thing: the real estate has become more useful. We should distinguish between price increases due to building restrictions for example and price

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