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by drugme 8y ago
Of course it's kind of hideous but it's basically what ends up happening a lot of the time, anyway.
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Panama Papers ‘tightened the noose’ on offshore assets of Maduro’s inner circle(theguardian.com)
3 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
The philosophy at Google is that it's better to filter out 3 good engineers than to let in a bad one. Corollary: "If I follow (what I've heard to be) Google's hiring practices (despite not having their brand recognitio
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by drugme 8y ago
Because they're designed that way. It all comes down to: * Rejecting far more candidates than you need to -- so you can feel like you're hiring "the top 1 percent" * Giving yourself the feeling that you have an objectiv
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by drugme 8y ago
Except that title was too long by 30 chars. There's an 80 character limit on titles, if you didn't know. "So if the title does not fit, you must edit it".
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'Amazon isn't bigger than New York': meet the man who killed the deal(theguardian.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
I read it also but on balance he did say, after all -- "A shame".
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by drugme 8y ago
There is nothing wrong with hoping something works out in your own self interest. It is when you're not considering the adverse effects on others. And when you're already doing quite well enough, as it is.
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by drugme 8y ago
As shame. As an employee of a Big N company in NYC, this would have provided upward pressure on my salary. The fact that that's all you can think about ... is exactly why people are starting to lose their love for Big Tech in genera
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by drugme 8y ago
And yet, every few page refreshes or so... "I'm in love".
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The Hollywood investigator helping Jeff Bezos in his sexting feud(theguardian.com)
1 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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Study links heavily processed foods to risk of earlier death(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 8y ago
Yeah - if anything it's another indication of the huge bubble many of us in the tech community live in.
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by drugme 8y ago
What greater 'tax' could you possibly conceive of than a whopping 38% of your development time on an enterprise product being spent debugging problems caused by type inference/coercion? Y As opposed to 86 percent of all sta
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by drugme 8y ago
Python relatively recently added typing[0] Python always had "types" of course. What Python 3 added was type hints (an approximation of static typing, if you will).
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by drugme 8y ago
For some cities 25k is a big deal. For NYC it’s rounding error. The point is that the gain in revenue from income and property is being presented as basically just "free" money. It's not.
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by drugme 8y ago
OK I guess the sketchiness and corruption varies substantially by region, then. In NYC at least, though unfortunately ED plays (famously) do happen - they're quite rare, and in any case don't (simply) happen at the developer&#x27
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by drugme 8y ago
What services will cost more for the city? The usual costs per new resident (that property taxes are normally earmarked for) perhaps?
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by drugme 8y ago
Right - but again, this was part of an eminent domain play. What I was trying to suss out is whether there's any evidence that this is a (widespread, feasible) tactic outside of ED land grabs.
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by drugme 8y ago
6.5% of $250K x 25K = $406M/yr, It only takes a minute or two verify that $250K is a completely unrealistic estimate for the average salary of a likely HQ2 employee. In fact the state's own estimate is around $150k. The proper
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by drugme 8y ago
In one move, HQ2 will bring NYC/NY State a very attractive amount of tax revenue. How much, approximately? Or do you just think it will be... "a lot"?
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by drugme 8y ago
Is there evidence that actually occurs in NYC?
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by drugme 8y ago
But I meant ... aside from eminent domain.
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by drugme 8y ago
Yeah that used to happen in decades past - but as a tactic is basically apocryphal by now. Basically in a gentrifying market (i.e. the very properties "they" are after) that tactic (even if you could pull it off these days) isn&#x
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by drugme 8y ago
But sadly, without money, the place will just deteriorate and fall apart. And who knows where that money would come from. I wouldn't be worried about that. Unless there's some major structural issue at play, even a rent stabili
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by drugme 8y ago
What "sketchy tactics" are you referring to? Aside from an eminent domain seizure -- and these are quite rare -- there really isn't anything they can do to just "get" your building.
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by drugme 8y ago
Dumb and naive, I know. No - it's a learning experience. An experience many people are too afraid to even consider allowing themselves to make. But I am burnt out, depressed, filled with anxiety, and have become at times suicidal.
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by drugme 8y ago
Oh for the days when you didn't have to even begin to think about how untidy (or uncool) your apartment looked (or how untidy or uncool you looked) every damn time you picked up a... "call".
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Almaty spills its secrets: lost Soviet art discovered behind wall(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 8y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 8y ago
Facebook didn't have to build a surveillance machine, it didn't have to extract every possible penny out of it's user's data, Actually it pretty much did, in order to attain the revenue goals it was after. Which has be

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