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by cbr 11y ago
"One possible reason for this is the availability of salary alternatives as part of an overall compensation package. For example, companies with less than 200 people are usually in the series b or below stage, and can offer more equity
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by cbr 11y ago
Sorry, no: Chrome does not perform pin validation when the certificate chain chains up to a private trust anchor. A key result of this policy is that private trust anchors can be used to proxy (or MITM) connections, ev
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What's wrong with importing power?
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And even more so by Levy and Young's 2004 paper: http://www.biu.ac.il/soc/ec/d_levy/publications/jmcb4.pdf
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by cbr 11y ago
They were willing to lobby for a 7.5 cent coin and update their machines to recognize that, so it sounds like they could have handled dimes. The reason they didn't want to switch to dimes is that it was too big of a price jump.
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by cbr 11y ago
[they] briefly implemented a strategy where one in every nine vending machine bottles was empty ... this effectively raised the price to 5.625 cents. Instead, charge $0.10 but 44% of the time you get your dime back alo
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by cbr 11y ago
M-Pesa is part of what lets GiveDirectly transfer money to poor Kenyans so efficiently: http://www.givewell.org/International/top-charities/give-dir...
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by cbr 11y ago
The PageSpeed Insights tool gives itself [1] a high score [2]; what this link is showing is that it's giving its documentation pages [3] a low score. Not that that's much better. [1] https://developers.google.com/
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by cbr 11y ago
$24k is the marginal cost of the recording. In this model the band's living is paid for by touring.
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> if you enjoy music that features live instruments I just > don't see how it could be free. There's too many people > involved who need to eat. One model people talk about is where recorded music is free, this boosts pop
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by cbr 11y ago
If I happen to be cutting and pasting something that was bold over here, I usually don't want it bold in my email! Ctrl+Shift+V
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Compare that to virtually zero notable stories of C++ projects switching to Go. A lot of projects at Google have switched from C++ to Go, and the people I know who work on them are pretty excited about working in Go. Here&#x2
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> It makes H1B sweat-shops unfeasible Calling a $60k job in tech in the US a "sweat shop" really trivializes the term.
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The number of cloth diapers you need to buy is roughly proportional to the amount you'll go through in one day. So learning that babies typically go through 3X diapers/day instead of X doesn't actually change the cloth/
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Google maps thinks it's 36 minutes from Richmond station to Embarcadero station, and all the other combinations are slower. Where are you travelling between?
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by cbr 11y ago
Sprig-type operations drain agency and expertise out of the world. They centralize, aiming to build huge hubs with small spokes; their innermost mechanisms are hidden. They depend on humans behaving as interchangeable uni
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"Pizza" doesn't have to include tomatoes. For example, "pizza bianca".
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by cbr 11y ago
Has anything changed with pilots unions? "The interaction between labor laws and FAA regulations results in pilot unions having a strong claim on 100 percent of an airline's profits. An investor in a unionized U.S. airline should
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"I drive Uber in the mornings before work" https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/3qkc7h/tesla_a...
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> the actual cost of firing some one isn't that high The legal cost is low, but the social cost of a workplace where people often get fired is high.
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> you're trusting the people running the CDN to actually serve the JavaScript you request Subresource Integrity [1] lets you fix this, and is in FF 43 and Chrome 45. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
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What fraction of the time does adding a new road slow down traffic? Or, equivalently, what fraction of the time does removing a road speed up traffic? If this fraction is high we should be experimenting with closing roads: that's a v
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> Yes we have a fire hose of content and people need people > like librarians to help utilize that fire hose more. Or we need to get better at automating the process of helping people find what they're looking for. That is, keep
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Cycling on sidewalks feels safer, but it's actually more dangerous. [1] The problem is that cars don't expect something moving quickly on the sidewalk, and so hit cyclists at driveways and intersections. [1] http://www
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Are there commodities where you do think people should be allowed to corner the market?
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I pull the comments in with: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/commen... (Which isn't completely up to date; I have some changes I need to push public like hn-support.)
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The techs measured vapor at 37,000 ng/m3 after the first day of cleanup, at which point there was no longer any easily visible mercury. Like water, mercury doesn't need something to vaporize it; you just end up with some vapor as
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Add in the meter, at maybe $600. [1] Two months is a lot of time to take off work, though you have to be making a lot of money before it isn't cheaper to do it yourself if it takes you the same amount of time. On the other hand, I susp
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* $50k is less than the down payment. * We didn't know how much it would cost as it went; it was pay-as-you-go. * That would make it hard to buy a house in the future. * I don't like the idea of walking away and making it their pr
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Thanks! I'm glad you like the design. It's a slow evolution of doing the minimum necessary to keep raw html readable as things change. It started out as completely unstyled, then gained a max-width as screens got wider, and even

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