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by esoterica 8y ago
People who get paid in RSUs definitely want to see their company succeed. I bet the Amazon employees who have seen their shares go up 500% over the past few years are pretty happy about it. > People hate "sell outs" No one othe
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by esoterica 8y ago
There is no idealized universal human right to be free from the social or economic consequences of your speech. People have the right to refuse to be friends with or do business with e.g. those who openly identify as Nazis. It's not a
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by esoterica 8y ago
Censoring someone on your private property is absolutely an exercise of your free speech. If someone plants a political sign on my lawn without my consent, I have the right to remove it because I have the free speech right to decide what
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by esoterica 8y ago
It's a minority of tech workers who will end up at a FAANG-tier company, but it's not a tiny minority. There are hundreds of thousands of people being employed by firms in this category. It's less like winning the lottery and
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by esoterica 8y ago
You don't need to win the IPO lottery to make good money in tech. Facebook's median compensation according to their SEC filings is 240k/year. That's the median over all employees; the median engineer compensation is prob
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by esoterica 8y ago
Bonus-centric compensation schemes are the norm in the financial industry. Discretionary income isn't a fake promise designed to trick employees, for many firms it represents the bulk of actual realized employee compensation. If you ha
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by esoterica 8y ago
It's not ageism to hire someone asking for less money over someone asking for more money. > technologists actually know how much they're worth If they can't find a job because they want more money than the market is willin
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by esoterica 8y ago
Jeff Bezos went to Princeton, Zuckerberg and Gates to Harvard, Sergey Brin and Evan Spiegel to Stanford. The bestest degrees seem like a decent option for the xB/year category too.
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by esoterica 8y ago
No you can't, Venmo doesn't show you the dollar amounts of other people's payments.
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by esoterica 9y ago
Since you can't lobotomize someone when they quit, it's impossible to prevent someone from using proprietary knowledge and insights at their new job, even with a nondisclosure agreement in place. IP transfer doesn't always ha
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by esoterica 9y ago
Change the numbers by a factor of 10 and the point still applies.
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by esoterica 9y ago
Redlining the non-compete section is not a minor modification. Some companies are very serious about their non-competes. They will pay you millions of dollars to respect them (and sue you for millions of dollars if you don't). If you t
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by esoterica 10y ago
Well if they can't get hired then it sounds like they don't know what they're actually worth, do they.
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by esoterica 10y ago
> And the way you do that is by taxing 2nd and 3rd properties at increasingly higher rates. And then those taxes end up getting passed on to renters, who are on average poorer than their home-owning counterparts.
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by esoterica 10y ago
You must have a very narrow definition of CS, because several branches of it have nothing to do with code.
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by esoterica 10y ago
It won't destroy the perturbation. There is a low dimensional manifold along which the cost function will decrease/increase. The adversarial perturbation lies on that manifold, but random white noise (which is a random high dimens