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by awinder 7y ago
You also earn extra-stupid points when your employers and peers across decades gently tell you to knock it off and you refuse.
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I see examples of this all of the time especially amongst people who are successful or highly advanced in any sort of facet of life. My theory is that becoming advanced involves developing deep analytical skills, which it’s then tempting to
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I mean you’re right, companies need to make money, but it’s not the users fault. The play postman made (and a lot of other companies) was that they could make up for low profit margins with high/increasing user growth indefinitely. Tha
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Before you’re a parent you kinda have these conceived notions of how you will parent that are all based on a self-centered view. Which i say in the sense of the word, they are views on how you are going to parent because you think _____ (a
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Yeah kinda, you pay taxes on the market value of shares when they vest (become unrestricted). But only on the shares that have become unrestricted, not your still-restricted shares.
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RSUs should be a lot more reality based, these are not options to purchase on a hypothetical future liquidity event, they're restricted stock that turns into real shares on public markets upon vesting.
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Oh if you started getting into profit you'd be able to stuff tons of companies into the "made more than" bucket, considering that Spotify has had 3 profitable quarters ever, twitter ebbs and flows between profitable and loss
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Did the inappropriate content happen with a certain age range set? I totally believe this happens / feel like a bad parent for not cutting it off, but we have the app set on 2 year old and under and I’ve seen a lot of dumb stuff but n
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I have read that certain earth beings sometimes replicate themselves, and navigating the needy replicants needs & wants requires rejiggering how much life is spent where.
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Very neat, thanks for the insights!
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Do google developers get issued chromebooks these days? Either way, there’s a large scale difference in the amount of money (because Apple makes more money than google in addition to 10% being 4x the 2.5% of revenue google is devoting to c
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"Honestly, Gottlieb should stay away from tweet, and he needs to stay in his office and listen to people like me and reform the agency," Mulye said. That's amongst other choice quotes like "who's going to create the
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by awinder 7y ago
I have strong feelings on this and am almost afraid to post because of, I suppose, the stigma of being a hard worker. But this is what I’ve seen & experienced: 1. Hours worked & productivity are interrelated variables but they do n
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I probably wouldn’t feel great (and I wouldn’t post negatively either), but who’s running the business and receiving money and who is spending money? Paying money to get blasted would be a new low yet being a business and getting blasted i
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I 100% believe the authors side of this charade, and I think the answer to the hypothetical goes something like this: 1. 90% of Airbnb hosts are not going to run into that problem because they’re going to do everything to make it right, so
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The Times ended up following up on the controversy this generated: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/reader-center/thomas-mons... It’s clear that this author and others were really peeved by the way the
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Larry Summers wrote about this last month at Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yes-our-tax-system-n...
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The linked source has a picture of the message but they changed the handwriting to anonymize the author. Which seems fair. The journalist who was forwarded the note was actually imprisoned there and confirmed the story with several independ
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This is not to take anything away from the level of pettiness from Cerberus in the way they're handling it but there’s a couple of ways that this happens with companies: 1. Severe miscalculation where the costs of lifetime users become
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The time it would take out of your life (just because you hire lawyers doesn’t mean you’re spending no time on the lawsuit). And once you file that lawsuit it’s going to become public record that you sued a company you interviewed for, so t
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by awinder 7y ago
The asymmetry is actually pretty funny if you think about what happens when a candidate declines an offer or ghosts a company. If you ghost, they’re likely going to continue to contact over multiple channels. Because they want an answer so
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There’s sites like this: 1. https://www.trunkclub.com/ 2. https://www.stitchfix.com/ I gave them both a try and had some success but wasn’t that into it, but they’re supposed to kinda build price/style
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Problem that m1 is going to have imo now is the once a day trading window. The value proposition for this market has seriously changed with the big player move to free trades, and fractional shares are a good wedge since the bigger players
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You’re not reading the metric right. You’re trying to make it a statistic about what the best place _for you_ to work is, or for _a given position_. This is a metric that would describe overall happiness in different workplaces. There’s no
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They're great for randomly holding / forgetting you're holding onto and waiting for a bubble, like that time in 2014 that Stellar gave away bundles of free coins (I think it was like 6K coins per user?) and then it bubbled in
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Maybe some details are missing but for such a sum, maybe Barclays should have had someone in legal helpfully call the problem customer and explain that they were never going to get away with it, it would cost them more in the long run, and
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“Angered by the bank’s reply, Teich contacted the Guardian for help. We asked it to reconsider his case, and in an almost immediate U-turn, it has now agreed to pay all his legal fees, and has offered him £750 in compensation.” If your busi
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http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11584/1/2008bams2370%252E1....
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No, it’s not. There were a small number of scientists that wrote about possibilities of global cooling, but vast majority of scientists were concerned with warming.
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Just as you're accepting that you don't know everything and would welcome input, so that you could grow since your technical career is not static, so too are people not static, and should welcome input on better ways of communicat

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