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by chris11 5y ago
The comment wasn't that opposition to welfare programs was solely caused by racism, just that it was one motivation. It's easier to defend a racist policy if racism is never explicitly brought up, the policy just has a disparate i
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> They can double or occasionally triple my salary, but they can't offer me a private office. You might have more luck if instead you asked about working remotely full-time. It's not the same if you want to go into an office, b
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by chris11 5y ago
I've read there's a high correlation between family income and standardized test scores. But I think the sat and act are better for finding outliers than gpa.
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by chris11 5y ago
I'm not really sure how options should be valued, and I haven't negotiated from a position of have a ton of unvested equity. But if an engineer got extremely lucky by joining the right startup, say Coinbase, leaving early might me
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by chris11 5y ago
> If the company goes up in value a lot over 4 years, then yeah, the employee may lose out This is horrible at pre-IPO unicorns like Stripe. One year vesting could cost normal employees millions if the company blows up. Sure, the stock m
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by chris11 5y ago
I really agree with your point. I don't see how most startups could make competitive offers with unicorns/FAANG, unless it was for non-monetary reasons like a promotion.
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by chris11 5y ago
> There's enough disagreement about what this means that its difficult to say. I remember a talk HR was giving about remote work. Someone asked about COL and salary adjustments. HR didn't mention cost of living, but they did me
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by chris11 5y ago
> But again, I'm talking out my butt on this. My point was not that medical necessity is a convincing case I'm not a lawyer, or a manager, but I'm not quite convinced. I think OP should have that conversation with their do
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by chris11 5y ago
I don't entirely agree, averages are useful for decisions like deciding if I want to move to a new city, or deciding what type of job I want. But I want a great fit when I'm looking for a new job. If I have an average job that I d
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by chris11 5y ago
I've got friends at Roblox. 250k sounds really low for a senior engineer that started pre-IPO.
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by chris11 5y ago
> if the pay in the game industry was higher I'd have stayed without a doubt. There are exceptions. Roblox has a reputation for being competitive with FAANG. You should check them out. It's also a platform company, so it has al
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by chris11 5y ago
Copyright is probably YouTube's biggest legal risk. ContentID was developed in response to lawsuits over copyright. The DMCA has major problems, but I think the safe harbor provision is extremely important. So does Google have liabilit
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by chris11 5y ago
I agree. I'll occasionally come across full episodes of TV shows on YouTube. Uploaders will try to get around copyright detection by doing things like flipping video or inserting black frames. I'm assuming a simple dedupe based bl
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Personally I don't see that as a bad thing. I care more about ownership, I'd much rather be responsible for a project instead of just tickets.
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Singer was quoted as saying “I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,”. Your quote implied that Singer was making comments about white supremacy, and Singer's reply to Casey Newton primarily focused on white supremac
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by chris11 5y ago
I don't know what was said at the meeting. But Singer did start making comments about white supremacy in America at a meeting about banning political discussion at Basecamp. I could see how it looked like his opinions were given more r
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by chris11 5y ago
The article asked Singer for a comment, and printed his full reply. > I objected to an employee’s statement that we live in a white supremacist culture. White supremacism exists, and America’s history of racism still presents terrible pr
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by chris11 5y ago
OneSignal has done great, but they pivoted out of video games quickly.
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by chris11 5y ago
Microsoft and other large tech companies hire a lot of devs. You should apply to postings. Even if you don't get interviewed, your resume might be noticed by other company recruiters. Amazon recruiters do this a lot. Also, a security c
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by chris11 5y ago
I've heard some places can make out of band offers to match unvested equity if they really want you.
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by chris11 5y ago
Yeah, bonuses are nice, but I prefer raises or equity. Bonuses aren't necessary.
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by chris11 5y ago
My employer has 105b plans available if you want to trade outside of trading windows. I think we should have something like that for politicians. Insider trading would be less of an issue if politicians and spouses were required to publicly
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by chris11 6y ago
I'm not sure. From Lambda's website it looks like they are just releasing a program co-developed by Amazon. It's modeled off of an internal training program Amazon has. I didn't see any statements about interviewing or w
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by chris11 6y ago
I don't see as much benefit from pair programming if it involves two students and replaces being taught by an instructor.
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by chris11 6y ago
I've heard of vaccinated people coming down with covid. Vaccines are reported to be extremely effective against hospitalization and death, but it looks like there's some evidence vaccines don't completely prevent spreading it
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by chris11 6y ago
Not specifically. But when I got vaccinated the nurse told me she expected booster shots to come out later for the major vaccines.
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A lot of states have public salaries. If it's not released then organizations like newspapers will file FOIA requests.
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Google was involved in her employment. The Alphabet Worker's Union filed a complaint against both Google and Modis. There's no reason to assume that only one company was involved, who was responsible can be decided by the NLRB.
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by chris11 6y ago
Harvard could easily do that. They have financial info on the parents family.
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by chris11 6y ago
> the quantitative measures like SAT score had a lot more predictive value than interview/letters of recommendation/essays/etc. I've also read SAT scores are highly correlated to family income. Family income probably

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