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by endtime 15y ago
Yyyyes...? What is your point? Edit: To clarify (since someone downvoted me), you are making a true statement, but I don't see how it is in conflict with anything I'm saying, or what other point it supports.
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by endtime 15y ago
A bonus can go "below zero" if you need to get a >0 bonus just to reach your market salary.
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by endtime 15y ago
>The asymmetric nature of the bonus (an incentive for success without a corresponding disincentive for failure) causes hidden risks to accumulate in the financial system and become a catalyst for disaster. I think this claim contains a
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by endtime 15y ago
My expected value is 50% higher. That's assuming I get the standard bonus (rather than the superstar one), keep eating roughly the same amount of food, etc.
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by endtime 15y ago
Okay, I'll bite...what did Jobs create that wasn't just an improvement over something someone else had already done?
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by endtime 15y ago
That's almost exactly my point. Being an English major isn't about literacy, but literacy is a prerequisite. Being a CS major isn't about programming, but programming is a prerequisite. Literacy is taught from a young age; programming is
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by endtime 15y ago
I'm not sure Google gives out options...I think they generally give RSUs.
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by endtime 15y ago
This is highly relevant. I had an offer from Google with a base salary lower than a competing offer from a startup...but when I factoried in benefits, stock, etc. on both sides Google's offer was about 50% larger. Of course, you're eating
699.
by endtime 15y ago
For CS, at least, the problem is that people arrive at college knowing nothing, and the solution is to make CS/programming part of the core curriculum in high school, alongside math and science (replace home economics or something). How man
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by endtime 15y ago
Yes, because easter eggs didn't exist before the iPhone 4S.
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by endtime 15y ago
Behavior/discipline will necessarily be noisier in a conscripted organization than in a self-selected volunteer organization. I don't think you can generalize that away.
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by endtime 15y ago
The OP said "Org X has property P." You responded with "Org Y does not have property P, and Org Y is like Org X." I claim the second half of that - that things that are true about the IDF are likely to be true about the US military - cann
703.
by endtime 15y ago
The IDF, which has strengths and weaknesses, is not the US military. The main relevant difference here is that the IDF is composed of every 18 year old in the country (pretty much), whereas the US military is only composed of those who wan
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by endtime 15y ago
Either is sufficient.
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by endtime 15y ago
>There is something about having a private company controlling reputation on the web that's quite disturbing to many. They don't control reputation, they control Klout Score. The degree to which people associate that with reputation is
706.
by endtime 15y ago
In which case someone will come along and do it better.
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by endtime 15y ago
Part of relevance is a query-agnostic reputation score.
708.
by endtime 15y ago
Someone taking X as Y doesn't mean that X is Y. There is real sexism in the world, but Rariel's example isn't it.
709.
by endtime 15y ago
>(once had somebody on HN tell me that women are genetically less likely to want to do tech![!!!!!!!]) Are you trolling? That does not seem to be a sexist or retrograde statement.
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by endtime 15y ago
I have a short weekly update with 3-4 other people, just so we know what each other are doing.
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by endtime 15y ago
I had a summer internship with Microsoft in 2009, then worked on a startup, and recently joined Google NY. So I can't talk about Google changing over time, but I do have some baselines to which to compare it. IMO it's somewhere between th
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by endtime 15y ago
BTW, the most recent figure I heard (from a reliable source) is that Google actually gets two million resumes per year. I don't know how many are dupes.
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by endtime 15y ago
I don't think Stormfront are nice guys, don't get me wrong, but hosting threads by people being vaguely threatening, or sharing an ideology but no affiliation with people who happen to have been violent, doesn't seem sufficient for a bank t
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by endtime 15y ago
>Stormfront is not all talk and their actions have easily endangered more lives than Wikileaks has. How? What violent or dangerous actions have they taken? >This is the largest online community of neo-nazis on the web, for fuck's s
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by endtime 15y ago
>I can't imagine how Wikileaks can be considered a so much more evil organisation than Stormfront I can, in spirit, though I wouldn't necessarily use the term "evil" as the comparator. Stormfront generates bigotry and hate speech. Dis
716.
by endtime 15y ago
I think that dilemma is probably far less significant for non-Googlers. ;)
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by endtime 15y ago
So a startup has failed if it is growing fast but hasn't totally won at the point in time you happen to hear of them?
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by endtime 15y ago
>Oh that's a terrible point! Thermodynamics laws are nothing like predictions about the future. I would have thought linguistic slight of hand like this is beneath Kurzweil. Could you elaborate on this? I'm not a huge Kurzweil fan, but
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by endtime 15y ago
> 2. The Bonuses come from bailout money. GS has paid back their loan, with interest.
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by endtime 15y ago
I didn't misread anything. What I'm saying is that sharing "as" a different aspect of myself is functionally equivalent to sharing with a different Circle, from a privacy perspective.

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