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by chadash 4y ago
Parent isn’t saying SC. A decision at the federal appeals level can sometimes be reviewed “en bank” by a larger group of judges in that same circuit. It’s not common as far as I know but it happens occasionally. But it’s different than the
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by chadash 4y ago
> This belief is problematic because real (a.k.a. non-bullshit) jobs are typically priced based on the value of what's delivered, not the residence of the person delivering the value. Whether it is fair or not, this is definitely
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by chadash 4y ago
BATNA - Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement. This acronym is taught in any course discussing the basics of negotiation. If you are negotiating on anything, you will always be in a better position if your BATNA is good. In the conte
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by chadash 4y ago
Assuming the company's main product is a hot cookie, then I take issue with this particular example, because a cold cookie is really a different product. But in general, I have no issue with peak pricing. I'm okay with you adverti
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by chadash 4y ago
The cleaning fee on AirBnB is actually one that has some logic to it. A property needs to be cleaned after each guest, regardless of whether you use it for one night or ten. The owner pays for it to be cleaned either way and it makes sense
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by chadash 4y ago
I called up comcast/xfinity to get internet service. They asked me if I'd like to add on basic cable for $10/month. I don't watch much TV, but I figured for $10/month I'd be willing to do it for the occasional
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by chadash 4y ago
What is needed is something like WeWork for large office gatherings. Something between a WeWork and a hotel conference center. The former is not really made for big meetings. The latter is either very expensive, too large or too small. You
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by chadash 4y ago
I believe that this is quite untrue. Finance is full of clever innovations that are mostly meant to make money for their creators. Because the monetary rewards are so high, it attracts some very talented people. As just one example, you can
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by chadash 4y ago
> So, are you assuming/applying everyone more or less has the same contribution or do you want everyone to be paid the same irrespective? The parent said, "more equal", not equal. There is a big difference between saying
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by chadash 4y ago
I don't think it's 1 or 2 at all. I know that you probably don't want to hear this right now, but there's just not nearly as many companies looking for candidates right now as compared to a year ago. There are many compa
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by chadash 4y ago
> non-competes are fine if they are narrowly focused, fair, and your compensation is sufficient to make it worth the restrictions Yes! This is a particularly true for most software engineers. I have a friend who is a doctor whose contr
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by chadash 4y ago
There's this HN obsession with negotiating on non-competes. Here's the problem. Say that I work for Acme Corp that makes Fancy Widgets for Bridgettes with 11 Digits and I'm hiring a software engineer. We put out the offer and
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by chadash 4y ago
> almost every company could handle this by simply not rehiring after attrition The problem is that there's a selection bias for attrition. It's possible that your worst employees are the ones who stick around the longest.
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by chadash 4y ago
I disagree that CEOs aren't thinking for themselves. In many cases, they are thinking perfectly rationally. Companies don't live in a vacuum. If everyone else is raising salaries, it's to attract and retail talent. If you don
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by chadash 4y ago
I assume that the author meant "you will use it until it breaks beyond the point at which it is worth fixing"
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by chadash 4y ago
> How many of these will be in decent condition after 14 years of use? With cars, more expensive doesn't necessarily mean that it will last longer. In fact, the opposite is often true. I would be willing to bet that a typical Coroll
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by chadash 4y ago
A base Toyota Corolla goes for $21,500. No, it's not a flashy car, but it is well built, relatively easy to repair and should last a while. Yes, the average car is far more expensive, but if you are looking to optimize for cost and jus
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by chadash 4y ago
It touches on this: > Which is precisely the point: Ferris has staged this adolescent fantasy of omnipotence expressly for his best friend. > Ferris himself is, for the most part, a fabulous cartoon—half James Bond, half Holden Caulfi
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by chadash 4y ago
This doesn’t even strike me as a good example. In management consulting, flying out to a customer site from Monday to Thursday is the norm. I’ve heard plenty of criticism about McKinsey. I’ve never heard anyone say they don’t work hard. In
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by chadash 4y ago
i guess that in a very strict sense “no deductions” might mean you can’t deduct business expenses, but I doubt that the tax code ACTUALLY works that way. I think the article is talking about individual, not business deductions. If you taxed
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by chadash 4y ago
> the kind we read about in executive emails between Apple and Google and so on In other words, the kind of person who is actually in a position to negotiate the terms of their contract. What bugs me most about the current situation is
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by chadash 4y ago
> Those are protected by NDAs, confidentiality agreements, copyrights, patents, etc. This gets thrown around HN a lot but I don't think it matches reality. Say I work in machine learning algorithms for show recommendations at Netf
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by chadash 4y ago
There's a big difference. Paid gardening leave means that the employer actually has skin in the game. I'd bet that 9 times out of 10 they won't actually enforce these non-competes if they actually have to bear some cost (cert
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by chadash 4y ago
The court awarded attorney fees of 20% of the overall (minimum) award in this case, which came to about $77 million. This is based off a $380.5 million minimum settlement fund (under certain conditions the fund can go up to $100-something m
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by chadash 4y ago
On one hand, yes, it's a shame that the victims rarely get anything. On the other hand, anyone is allowed to opt out and sue on their own if they want to. The problem is that very few will because it's not worth your time or money
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by chadash 4y ago
Before you comment about how idiotic this idea is, the end of the article says: > The company said there will be a “two-week cooling off period” before anyone can reconvene a canceled meeting. The company isn't saying no recurring
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by chadash 4y ago
Maybe I’m 80% sure I’m gonna pass on this candidate because I’m not confident they’ll stick around, but it can still be worth my time to get on a screener call and at least ask. There can be many reasons why someone jumps around frequently
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by chadash 4y ago
A short job or two, fine, but at a certain point it’s a pattern that needs a reason. If the reason is “my spouse was in the military and we moved around a lot for that, but we longer do”, that’s fair enough. If the answer is that you weren’
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by chadash 4y ago
I’m not totally disagreeing with this advice but it’s just not applicable everywhere. When you are an investment banking analyst coming out of college you don’t have any ability to negotiate salary or pretty much anything.
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by chadash 4y ago
> 6k bags a year, their old volume, is only 23 bags per day They were bigger than this, but still small. They said that 36k bags is about 1.5 years of sales for them, so that's 24k bags/year, or about 65/day (using a 7-day

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