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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
$1.5k is a significant expense for your organization? A $250 ad listing is a lot for your organization? I'm sorry, but this sounds very strange from someone claiming to know about interviewing and hiring. You need an engineering manage
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Obtaining compromising video and/or audio of you or someone you care deeply about will often be more than enough to obtain things like banking information and file access.
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> We do the usual 5 or 6 questions But what metric are you determining that those 5 or 6 questions are correct? For example, have you put together a pool of current workers that are successful at your type of work at different companie
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
This is quite a stretch drawing a line between a feudal lord and a land lord. Most landlords simply purchase, or very often inherit, their property, not unlike feudal lords, and then charge rent to live there. We are drawing some very small
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> but many people end up failing our interview If you are having this much trouble hiring, are you 100% sure your interview process is correct? What is the KPI for your interview process?
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
So Robert Shiller is not fully versed on the topic, in your opinion? > The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then h
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
The current data we have about hiring practices seem to disagree with you. So either, this process is not as expensive as you think it is, or companies believe it is less expensive than it actually is. Either way, the effect on hiring is th
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Believe it or not, those interviews usually aren't that expensive. You probably have a mix of managers, which spend all their time in meetings anyway, and engineers, which are paid salary so they typically end up putting in a couple ex
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> In public choice theory and in economics, rent-seeking involves seeking to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating new wealth [1] > The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that o
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
I find it strange, as software developers, that we discuss the effects on automation all the time, but no one seems to understand that automation has made searching for new employees incredibly inexpensive and efficient compared to the past
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
No. The literal definition of the economic drag on value creation is "rent seeking". Be a part of the solution and build something. Do not be a part of the problem and become a landlord.
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
This is one of those interesting bits where things feel more like personality types as opposed to ways to create maintainable software. I have yet to see a project fail because commit messages were or were not in imperative form or if the f
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
The reason the advice "be yourself" exists, and also why older people tend to be the ones expressing it, is that the danger in not being yourself is that you may wake up one day in a career or surrounded by people that do not acce
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Considering(from professional experience) how much vote manipulation occurs on online forums like HN, I'm certain no companies with sites like HN will ever implement that. I know plenty of people that make a living(or at least side mon
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Health problems due to a childhood of inactivity and obesity? Behavioral issues in young males without a physical outlet for aggression? I'm not sure what type of childhood you had, but the idea the soccer and high school football is g
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Especially since HN skews male and the success of a dating app is dependent on it's ability to onboard female users. Which is also why this won't be successful. Female users overwhelmingly prefer the current state of dating apps f
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
I feel as though this piece is a bit alarmist, but I'm curious if we are approaching the first big test of these ownership structures of public companies where the founder(s) maintain majority power. Up until now, Facebook has consista
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
I have several friends that make $10+ per downvote on HN. So my guess is that the fastest way to get downvotes is to write something that someone with a marketing budget wants to remove.
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
I think you might be surprised to learn about the modern economics of being an auto mechanic. [1] [1] https://thinkprogress.org/the-harsh-reality-of-being-an-auto...
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> Everyone is self-interested Is there a citation I can refer to about this statement? I would argue that laws and regulations are to prevent the very impactful minority of actors that would willfully harm others to benefit themselves.
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
And historically, this is how societies eventually collapse. When the participants no longer act in the greater good and instead revert to the primal instinct of pure self interest. So I would suggest that it is a "scummy thing to do&q
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> CONCLUSIONS: The preponderance of evidence indicates there is an inverse relationship between the MLDA[minimum legal drinking age] and two outcome measures: alcohol consumption and traffic crashes. [1] [1] https://www.ncbi
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> CONCLUSIONS: The preponderance of evidence indicates there is an inverse relationship between the MLDA[minimum legal drinking age] and two outcome measures: alcohol consumption and traffic crashes. [1] [1] https://www.ncbi
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
I'm simply stating that it is indeed possible to restrict online content based on age. When you buy alcohol or pornography at a store, you are required to show identification. I'm not sure why that is suddenly a terrible thing to
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Correct, but in the case of a website or a phone application, the producer of the application or website is also the provider. There is no reason why a pornography site could not be held criminally responsible for distributing pornography t
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
What you are saying is essentially that all restrictions based on age are invalid because some people will manage to circumvent those rules. We have significant, long term, data that age restrictions reduced the use of alcohol and tobacco.
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
> In setting monetary policy, the Committee seeks to mitigate deviations of inflation from its longer-run goal and deviations of employment from the Committee's assessments of its maximum level. These objectives are generally compl
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Are you aware that the Federal Reserve intentionally sets rates as a function of US economic policy to have a slight scarcity of employment? This is not a conspiracy theory. It is part of the defined terms of the Fed. With this is mind, wor
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
I think we may want to consider if our hatred of meetings, and now just saying "hello", has more to do with dealing with unrealistic deadlines and pressure for what should be a white collar job. In the example given, there is 1 mi
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by areyouseriousxx 7y ago
Back before the age of digital photography, there was a common issue with animal rights activists and photography. On one hand, photography required gelatin, an animal product, but on the other side, photographs of animal cruelty played an

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