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by catillac 5y ago
I don’t know about IRS but SEC enforcement actions are largely driven by complaints from regular people. Perhaps the stock broker got suspicious and acted per their ethical duties, or perhaps one of them wasn’t as tight lipped as they would
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by catillac 5y ago
About one person, probably not. I think this one hits close to home for a lot of us that have stock in many of these large companies from being employees. Granted, this situation seems particularly egregious, trading off of insider financia
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Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock(justice.gov)
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by catillac 5y ago
This is a really good piece. I’m sorry that my comment doesn’t add that much to the discussion, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading this and seemed to confirm or put into words things I was on the periphery of thinking.
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by catillac 5y ago
> There is no reason to change his position on the subject of ex-employees making clones of the product. Obviously I completely agree with this in a vacuum, but you seem to imply that that is what happened in this case. It was pretty cle
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by catillac 5y ago
“ Hey everyone, I want to apologize for the inappropriate use of power here. While I do believe there is an ethical line that was crossed here, I should have called him to understand his point of view and work it out. Which is what I'l
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by catillac 5y ago
I recently had to start working with GIS data and also didn’t want to be bound to anything ESRI related. I picked up PostGIS (along with the SQLite one Spacialite) and it’s really a dream to use. This history bite is really cool!
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by catillac 5y ago
I’m unfamiliar with this topic, what do you mean? I thought spinal fusion was just a medical procedure to connect a couple vertebrae for some reason, but I thought the downside was a little less flexibility. I wasn’t tracking it being espec
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by catillac 5y ago
Well, one of the main recruiting tools we use when trying to find qualified candidates is LN. so we’ll search for “design” or “engineering” and specific companies and then largely source from LN. So if you want to get in touch with people h
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by catillac 5y ago
I actually read a short post on HN about this recently. It’s here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27325735
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by catillac 5y ago
Better for literally anyone by Foxconn, who made out lime a bandit at the expense of everyone else.
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by catillac 5y ago
I didn’t and don’t appear to be able to downvote, but your comment appears super orthogonal to the title subject, far enough afield to be considered trolling or just trying to drag Pelotons name through the mud in unrelated discussions. Tha
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by catillac 5y ago
It won’t happen here, but in the Foxconn case a better alternative would have been to not grant the incentives and “lose out” on Foxconn coming to Wisconsin.
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by catillac 5y ago
Yeah this seems like something better as a pre commit check, or as a run on save, the same way I might run go lint or gofmt, not after the code is in the repo but as I’m saving. The “not talking to the users” mistake can be super fatal in p
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by catillac 5y ago
You’re saying not all startups are bad, just a specific kind are bad: bad startups. Seems tautological.
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by catillac 5y ago
I don’t use sublime in my day to day, but always keep it on hand because it’s the only IDE that quickly opens for viewing very large csv or similar files without a hitch. PyCharm, VSCode, Aton all barf under these conditions.
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by catillac 5y ago
This comment was fairly asinine, I think they self-censored after realizing it was such.
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by catillac 5y ago
At one point we spent some time reverse engineering the Chinese coordinate system, it’s actually quite fascinating. So terrible though. But OSM actually doesn’t use that system! They use the normal coordinate system, which makes them unique
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by catillac 5y ago
That’s true, but you appear to be a test engineer at Google. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but it’s also not the same as writing large scale services in Go so I don’t think the experiences are suuuuuper overlapping. I’m a designer and
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by catillac 5y ago
I’m really sorry, but you appear to be the CTO of Cloudflare, which makes your not knowing the ins and outs of the problem already and basic questioning of it seem like sealioning.[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by catillac 5y ago
It’s like saying the Sox are ahead of the Yankees and it’s the third inning with no predetermined number of innings. That nuance is what makes the title fair.
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by catillac 5y ago
For what it’s worth, and a little off topic, I would never ever purchase a product that went in or closely on my body from Amazon. Jacket? Maybe. Food? Not likely. Mouth guard that sits in my mouth for hours every night? Absolutely not, no,
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by catillac 5y ago
No, stoicism is more about determinism of outcomes and being free from emotions like anger and jealousy. If you kinda mangle that a bit, I can see how it might sound like reasonable expectations but it’s really not the same thing. Besides,
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by catillac 5y ago
You went from “useful union voting bloc” to “veterans and the elderly not being able to get drugs delivered by mail.” What a ride. In reality there are lots of reasons to keep USPS, being able to get packages to all among them. Parent comme
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by catillac 5y ago
There is a bad-but-good hard SF book about this general subject called Tau Zero. You’d definitely need to be going much faster than 0.5c to get anything close to the effects you’re describing, but that book is a fun read if you’re intereste
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by catillac 5y ago
Matlab is great. I won’t hire anyone who only has experience in it though, like I might hire someone who only has python numerical analysis tools experience. It’s brittle and difficult to put into production in my experience.
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by catillac 5y ago
Thank you! I almost universally use the mobile website but it just keeps getting worse, presumably on purpose. I installed the official app but it’s very bad. I’ll download this one now!
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by catillac 5y ago
Maybe that’s a reason to not feel bad if it violates the TOS but there are real consequences to doing so so perhaps your response isn’t that helpful.
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by catillac 5y ago
I get what you’re saying here, but think you’re being a little too harsh. I’m not sure what else to call a reduction in force for PR purposes, I don’t imaging just saying “fired 65 people” is productive. In this comment: “ "For employe
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by catillac 5y ago
We should consider risk versus reward though, not just harmful effects, buttressed by some measure of individual liberty.

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