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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Reply to the sibling comment comparing to insurance of MS SWE. While the absolute values are comparable, $1500 is quite a bit more of an inconvenience at a warehouser worker pay level than at a SWE salary level. Given the physical nature o
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
In many cases they do but neglect to adequately inform employees that may be potentially be affected. At the Google Quad campus in Mountain View there was an incident where some ventilation fans were accidentally turned off which caused em
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
If privacy is a core focus of your pitch, there should be a document with specifics about your promises around privacy, etc. There's nothing stating who you are and why I should trust you with my data. If you really want to sell me
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I'd love to hear insider stories about how misaligned fundraising department metrics can end up being for the university. Regarding donating buildings in general, Andrew Carnegie seemed to get a lot of prestige leverage when he funded
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
The 12V/5A power supply seems a little undersized for 4 x 3.5 HDD startup. I suspect that it's fine if the drives are started sequentially but the drives will probably want to pull more than 5A if they're all starting simult
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Amusingly, the voting shares are currently worth less than the nonvoting.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
One of my favorite network incident reports involved someone using aerial fiber for target practice...
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
You could have the fines be "heavily" pulled out of compensation packages for the higher ups who actually have the power to change the organization... but then they'd probably just leave and screw up some other place? Do boar
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I believe the Google X building in Mountain View on San Antonio used to be the Mayfield Mall. They did a nice job renovating it for their purposes but you still feel like you're at a mall when you go through the building.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I'd suggest explicitly keeping those apps off the second monitor. I like keeping reference documentation and running notes there.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I don't think the cork board analogy really works here. This sounds like a person (ab)used their position and access to the backend of a security tool (Chrome extension or not) to broadcast a non-security related message. I think we c
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
When I used to conduct a ton of interviews, I would explicitly call out candidates I found exceedingly charismatic in my feedback so the hiring committee could watch out for other interviewers lowering their expectations. This pattern pop
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
This doesn't mix well with the ad-based compensation model. Sadly, there still doesn't seem to be much in the way of micropayment infrastructure.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
A childhood favorite of mine. It seems infinitely more plausible today than when I read it.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Based on my experience (not a lawyer) this depends very much on what company and (in the US) what state you are in. Google had a very broadly scoped right to your work in the paperwork signed when you got on board. Barring those agreement
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Hang in there but return it if you can. I had a bad experience with my laptop purchase as well. (Issue wasn't discovered until after the return window.) Hopefully, you've already been escalated to their "real" custome
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Are you referring to the B&O taxes (seems to be based on industry) or are there others around as well? I could imagine some reasonable arguments for having a low tax like that around.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
My experience is pretty dated but back when I did some work with DARPA retention was a mess at the two defense companies I interacted with. Management wanted to minimize getting security clearance for employees since it involved a substant
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I watched my father fade away from Alzheimers over the course of 5 years before he passed. Based on anecdotal stories in a support group, we were very lucky that he realized early on that something was wrong and he was very cooperative thr
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I have the same complaint. Perhaps a hidden, floating, spandex style layer that encapsulates the pocket and contents against the leg would solve that issue? This could be done while minimizing impact to the outer appearance.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Perhaps setting the atmosphere ablaze would have been an exceptional success? I remember someone telling me that this possibility was still being discussed before the Trinity test and, again, after thermonuclear bombs entered the arena. T
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
How much of this not "good for agriculture" is a result of a mispricing that doesn't factor in the unsustainability of the current mainstream approach? Like many areas this may involve more human workers before later transit
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Aside from the altruistic aspect, I had extra motivation to give blood from an unfounded pet theory that the body isn't capable of removing all bad products that ends up in the bloodstream. Giving blood seemed like a safer way to purg
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
NEL aside, for CDL I'm curious what the bar is for possession. Could we have a community distributed library where people with purchased books can "give" their books sitting on their bookshelves to a CDL program but not have
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I've been expecting a "cash crunch" too but the Fed seems happy to keep making me wrong.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
How do things look without using the questionable guidance of "asking price"? "Asking price" (and the notion of above asking) often seems like real estate agent reality distortion to me. Mortgage rates are super low, so
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
I bought about a dozen GE LED bulbs a couple of years ago due to the quality of their light. Sadly, in that short amount of time about 75% of them have either outright failed or developed some other condition that made me question their sa
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
> Once you've smothered the competition in investor money, you're free to raise prices to profitability and beyond. Of course, if a company started raising prices to profitability, perhaps it would be "worthwhile" fo
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
From what I understand, severance is also often offered as incentive to sign some kind of exit/termination agreement.
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by entangledqubit 6y ago
Unfortunately, right now it seems that there is incentive out there for oil to "go missing" for a profit -- presumably at the cost of the environment. I'm curious if anyone is thinking about trying to replace their fracking

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