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by cletus 5y ago
> It's funny how Netflix is given credit for their all cash offers I don't know who does this. I don't. Personally I'd need an all-cash offer to be at least 30% higher than cash + equity. YMMV. > yet Amazon is ding
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Because other companies can also give sizeable sign-on bonuses and they don't inflate their RSU values.
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Amazon is notorious within tech for being cutthroat. The impression I've gotten from the outside looking in and knowing people who've worked for Amazon is that stack ranking and firing the bottom 5-10% every year was and still is
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by cletus 5y ago
Whatever else you might think, you can't help but be impressed by someone selling MySQL to Sun for $1 billion, forking it and then taking it public effectively selling it again. Respect.
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by cletus 5y ago
> Why is this? Why do they insist on wasting a candidate's time when answering some simple questions via email is much more efficient? That's easy: they want you invested. The sunk cost fallacy works. Think about it another way
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by cletus 5y ago
I went into this thinking I was going to disagree because honestly I hate recruiters and the time-wasting involved but I actually agree. Here's why: by having a template that he just copy-pastes. This is extremely low effort and will f
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by cletus 5y ago
If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, it's that people won't even mildly inconvenience themselves to benefit other people. What's more, that will become political. I mean think about it: is it easier to reduce global CO
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by cletus 5y ago
Humans have a tendency to view the very first thing they experience as "normal". This is a warped perception. I mean 120 years ago there had never been human-powered flight. Look where we are now. Some embrace changes. Others try
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I have somehow not seen this post before. Thanks for posting it. I couldn't agree more. I particularly like differentiating between decentralization and federation. The key point here is that this is something almost nobody wants. I&#x
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This is a key point: > Plants, though, take a decade or more to construct at best and the risk is high of running over time and over budget. Finland’s new Olkiluoto-3 unit is coming on line after a 12-year delay and billions of euros in
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> Call of Duty is valuable, but Microsoft has already said they don't intend to remove it from PlayStation. They haven't said that. They have said they will honor their existing contracts [1]. That's not permanent guarante
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by cletus 5y ago
This reminds me of another fad (Draw Soemthing). Zynga bought OMGPOP for $200M [1] right at its peak of popularity, shutting it down a year later [2]. Remember another fad: HQ Trivia [3]? I honestly don't even know what Wordle is. No s
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History will I believe judge the Roberts court harshly for all the negative effects and misery it has caused in the 2010s. The gutting of campaign finance reform means politicians are effectively owned by PACs and corporations now. Gutting
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by cletus 5y ago
Oh I understand the point completely. A quick look at your comment history says everything (eg [1][2]). You have, for whatever reason, fallen down the of misinformation and propaganda that turns you into an anti-vaxxer and you've lost
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The situations aren't comparable because in your case (the former Yugoslavia) you're talking about state censorship and control of information by threat of criminal prosecution. The US specifically has protections against this via
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The only positive for me from this misinformation plague is that as soon as the next issue comes along all of the anti-Covid vaccine sentiment will be completely forgotten. Don't believe me? When was the last time you heard about the M
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by cletus 5y ago
This is what ultimately limits the size of companies: competing interests. Perfect example: Apple TV original programming. Apple having Apple money can (and do) throw big money at creating content. But Apple being Apple is also concerned ab
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So I've used Hack extensively and I'm sympathetic on the obscurity that can come from traits. It can get completely out of control. To be fair, object hierarchies, even interface hierarchies, can also get out of control, particula
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by cletus 5y ago
I actually believe that if we detect spacefaring aliens, it will actually be from events like this. There's a lot of thought that has gone into this. Basically, a natural evolution seems to be to build Dyson Swarms. There are lots of r
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by cletus 5y ago
Not to be a broken record here (eg [1]) but IMHO Apple has made a strategic error here. You never, ever want a court to define the landscape you wish to operate in. it ties your hands and could easily go against you. You are almost always b
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by cletus 5y ago
I agree. My sense is the government has silently taken this stance and that hospitals aren't at risk of collapse like they were a year or more ago. I also get the feeling the vaccinated have given up on the unvaccinated too just based
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The data on this [1] is pretty sobering and hard to argue with. Not only is there more obesity in the US, it's more extreme. [1]: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/two-maps-and-one-graph-com...
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So I'm Australian but I also lived in Europe for 4 years and I'm currently in my 12th year in the US so I feel like I can add something to this. I moved to the US because the earning potential as a software engineer is simply so m
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by cletus 5y ago
Here's a hot take: a lot of these health issues and negative outcomes can be tied back to the automobile. The car enabled urban sprawl. The car and associated infrastructure (eg parking, roads) has destroyed communities. Even a lot of
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by cletus 5y ago
Someone else estimated the Tonga explosion at 10 megatons [1] and it was heard thousands of miles away. Bear in mind, humans have detonated nuclear weapons larger than this, most famously the Tsar Bomba [2] at 50 megatons. Compare this to s
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by cletus 5y ago
This is kind of a weird post. The author seems to be anti living in "prime" locations, at least that's how I read the tone when talking about the "downtown studio" with no space. I mean even if it is expensive, the
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The example is of course egregious ($600 for a software update for a wire that got wet, basically). I fully support being able to repair your own stuff but I have no idea how you regulate this so companies don't gouge "owners&quot
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To anyone confused about these reopenings, particularly in the US, it's actually pretty easy to understand: 1. Governments have decided that by now if you're not vaccinated it's by choice (which it is, barring actual medical
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I don't believe it's infeasible because we already do it to a large degree. At the Federal level there is a Section 8 housing. At the state level there are various rent assistance programs. Most people are also W2 employees so the
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The part I agree with is many companies are throwing huge amounts of money at original content creation and some of these will get burned. The poster child for this (IMHO) is Netflix who has spent so much on this that they've had to ra

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