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by erehweb 4y ago
This would not need to be for ethical reasons. If LinkedIn can vouch for the companies on its platform, that gives it a competitive advantage.
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by erehweb 4y ago
LinkedIn should set up a code of practice that bans this. Rescind offers? Then you can't advertise on LinkedIn for the next 5 years, and we won't host your job posts either. That would change the calculations at these companies an
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by erehweb 4y ago
No. There's about a 22/365 chance that somebody has a birthday on that day. But this is getting close to the intuition. Go through the 23 people. For each one of them, there's about a 22/365 somebody else in the group ha
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Paradise burned to the ground. Now it's another hot housing market(vice.com)
4 points by erehweb 4y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 4y ago
Stalin's Dilemma. https://www.old-games.com/download/4428/stalin-s-dilemma The author's "No Greater Glory" on the US Civil War is also very good.
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by erehweb 4y ago
You might find Hidden Agenda interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Agenda_(1988_video_game...
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by erehweb 4y ago
I would like to see a historical simulation or strategy game, but at a higher level of command. Most such games require you to micromanage to decide what every factory should build etc. Instead this game would be from the level of a country
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by erehweb 4y ago
You might also look at Japanese chess (Shogi) - when you capture a piece, you take it off the board and then can drop it back on the board as your piece as a future move. The pieces are not colored, so you tell who has which piece by their
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TikTok's work culture: anxiety, secrecy and relentless pressure(wsj.com)
3 points by erehweb 4y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 4y ago
I have seen several spam messages get through lately - has been a noticeable decline in quality.
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I brought my childhood imaginary friend back to life using GPT3 [Thread](twitter.com)
2 points by erehweb 4y ago|1 comments
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Starbucks Prepares to Expand Worker Benefits That Might Exclude Unionized Staff(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Don't have the book any more, but I believe Kai Lai Chung says in "Elementary Probability with Stochastic Processes" that J.M. Keynes made a similar point - if the roulette wheel is red ten times, then you should suspect that
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SoCal man says computer on his Tesla froze, causing it to be stuck at 83 MPH(abc7.com)
78 points by erehweb 5y ago|88 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Why does HR do exit interviews anyway? Basically it's a CYA technique - they want to try to detect lawsuit-related risk like harassment. Maybe as a secondary if they get a lot of bad reports about a manager they might investigate. But
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Looking Back on the Origin of Skip Intro Five Years Later(about.netflix.com)
1 points by erehweb 5y ago|1 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
"How to work with me" sets the wrong tone at the start, giving orders. Maybe consider, "How I'd like to work with you", or "How we can best work together" or something.
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by erehweb 5y ago
There's well-known problems with algorithms introducing racial biases, and renting notably has a number of problems with these already. Calling this out is not a stretch.
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by erehweb 5y ago
"dictatorship is the default human civilization" definitely needs a citation. Many historical societies had one person at the top, but a bunch of several rich and powerful people with non-trivial ability to veto things / infl
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Petty Thieves Plague San Francisco. ‘These Last Two Years Have Been Insane.’(wsj.com)
52 points by erehweb 5y ago|85 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
On the one hand, it seems reasonable that you could do better than average by doing some value investing. On the other hand, if you had done that, you'd have missed out on the big gains in Gamestop and AMC. Would you do better by const
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by erehweb 5y ago
A - Is it terrible? In most cases it gives you a rough idea. B - Getting better than rough is probably, like self-driving cars, pretty hard, requiring understanding of what texts actually mean.
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by erehweb 5y ago
There are plenty of things you "can't say" in San Francisco which are self-evident truths in conservative parts of the U.S., and vice versa. On the other hand, anyone can watch Fox News, or read The Nation, so those ideas get
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by erehweb 5y ago
While it's true that there are more houses empty than homeless people, many of the empty houses are in disrepair, vacation homes, or just temporarily vacant between owners / renters. See https://someunpleasant.substack.
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Facebook’s Parent Company Will Make Employees Do Their Own Laundry(nytimes.com)
9 points by erehweb 5y ago|5 comments
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Uber, Lyft drivers clash with riders over masks as states lift mandates(wsj.com)
5 points by erehweb 5y ago|2 comments
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Shake Shack Tests Bitcoin Rewards to Lure Younger Consumers(wsj.com)
1 points by erehweb 5y ago|0 comments
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by erehweb 5y ago
Hmm. If I understand correctly, the website is a play to get money from Wolt by getting other people to sign up via OPs referral code. Seems kind of arbitragey - OP is not actually selling something, and Google would probably rather get the
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by erehweb 5y ago
I think abebooks.com is owned by Amazon - maybe they are trying something like that there.
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by erehweb 5y ago
You say that MFA on its own may not be enough. What would be enough? What do you think we're missing that other countries have?

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