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by fnimick 4y ago
> the wealthiest 1% are paying 28% of income tax receipts - and this percentage has increased over the last decade Without any information on how wealth inequality has increased, and the 1% have more income and assets now than they did l
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by fnimick 4y ago
Then having him still in the interview chain is an organization failure and a great signal to the interviewee (you) that team dynamics are going to be a problem.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529260
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by fnimick 4y ago
Dude literally has a brand new house where he wrote off all the renovation as business expense as he was filming it for his channel. He's totally fine.
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by fnimick 4y ago
He's also vocally anti-union and actively tried to stop his employees from marketing themselves on personal social media (to stop them from building a following and then leaving, I'm guessing), so I refuse to watch any of his cont
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by fnimick 4y ago
And anyone who has done the same to cheat the tests in other industries should also be penalized accordingly. I can't believe you're excusing deceptive behavior and test cheating because "everyone does it!"
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by fnimick 4y ago
"I'm totally fine curb stomping [employee activism]" I knew HN skewed toward tech-bro libertarianism, but this is a bit much even for that.
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by fnimick 4y ago
The people running the show see no benefit from their team members "learning" or "gaining experience". If they ship the game and are so ground down they're burned out and ineffective, that's a problem for the n
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by fnimick 4y ago
Amusingly, I have gotten exactly that question - or rather, "what's in an inode." I answered "data about a file object, but none of the actual contents of the file, which are stored elsewhere" and failed because I d
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by fnimick 4y ago
I wouldn't recommend this personally, having had bad experiences with poor charge circuitry in integrated chargers like these (in my case it was in a 18650 battery). Get a good charger (e.g. eneloop), and then you can get generic recha
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by fnimick 5y ago
Interesting, I'd have listed last of us part 2 as an example of a great game without microtransactions. Lots of Sony first party IP is along the same lines - God of War, Horizon, etc - probably because they're invested in the co
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by fnimick 5y ago
"Meritocracy" in the workplace is a myth perpetuated by those in power to justify their position. The Coinbase CEO got raked over the coals for his handling, and rightly so.
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by fnimick 5y ago
Why shouldn't the state put more focus on Chicago? The rural areas are a net drain on state finances and are kept afloat by the "liberal hellhole" that they hate.
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by fnimick 5y ago
Techbro libertarians are the worst - the people who think that because some can be successful, anyone who is disadvantaged is so because of personal failings and is underserving of help. Naturally this leads to anti-democratic leanings to p
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by fnimick 5y ago
"begin to lose"?
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by fnimick 5y ago
And it's an unethical system where people who have leverage end up able to negotiate more pay for the same output than people who do not. I suspect that if you weren't in a privileged position, you'd be upset about the dispar
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by fnimick 5y ago
But the "no equity" deal was valued as acceptable because the equity was positioned as worthless in the "never sell" world. If employees had known there would be a sale and they'd never see a cent from it, they may
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by fnimick 5y ago
You've correctly explained the tragedy of the commons, congratulations. This is exactly why we need regulation to stop people selfishly destroying the environment for everyone for personal gain.
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by fnimick 5y ago
Deflationary currency is even worse for wealth inequality though. And one that actively wastes valuable resources on several orders of magnitude more than the alternatives isn't an ethical option.
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by fnimick 5y ago
I keep a couple in every bag I use regularly (gym bag, work bag, briefcase, etc) so I'm never without if I decide to stop by the store on the way home. That way you don't have to proactively remember to bring it!
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by fnimick 5y ago
Are you highlighting Glenn Greenwald as an example of someone pushing false information, or do you seriously think he is a reliable source and the "dem main stream media" is the problem?
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by fnimick 5y ago
Yup, let's not mince words. Most upwardly mobile people in the startup world don't do this not because of personal ethics, but lack of opportunity to benefit.
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by fnimick 5y ago
Unfortunately, companies that don't extract maximum revenue from their customers/workers get outcompeted and put out of business by those that do.
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by fnimick 5y ago
Your "vermin" is someone else's healthy native ecosystem. I am letting my yard overgrow right now because it is providing homes for wild rabbits. Is that being a bad neighbor?
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by fnimick 6y ago
I think the underlying assumption, which wasn't spelled out in the parent, is that any amount of money under $super-rich is similar amounts of worthless. If you genuinely believe that, then high-risk swings at a big payday make more lo
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by fnimick 6y ago
Read between the lines. They didn't have a liquidity issue after they disallowed the buying of stocks that had the 100% capital requirement from the clearing houses; hence, they no _longer_ had a liquidity issue.
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by fnimick 6y ago
If after bubble pops it's shown that an elite group of WSB traders made huge profits while a large amount of retail traders lost their entire investment, I think there's going to be plenty of public appetite for nailing the marke
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by fnimick 6y ago
100% this. Price manipulation to trigger a short squeeze is explicitly illegal. https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm section 7. Anyone who told others to buy and hold with promises of short covering and hi
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by fnimick 6y ago
They're not reasonable. Just because someone has a short position doesn't mean you can stake a position deliberately to trigger a squeeze and profit from the result. That's exactly what the GME swarm has been doing. "Alt
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by fnimick 6y ago
I've been interested for a long time in building digital infrastructure / public works software, considering ideas for software tools to help communities and cities offer digital services to constituents. My personal goal is to be

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