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by fossuser 5y ago
Totally - it was more of an example of the quality of the subreddits. If they’re willing to get those details right then they have the earlier steps really well established.
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by fossuser 5y ago
The r/personalfinance and r/financialindependence subreddits are quite good and even cover more exotic details like the “mega back door roth” otherwise known as “after tax 401k contribution in plan conversions to roth” (which can
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is probably the regulation you’re unaware of: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-controversial-new-sex-traf... I suspect the increased liability risk is the main cause of what we’re seeing.
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is also my understanding - though I think it’s mostly a side effect of the regulation (which is intended to increase the liability around enabling sex trafficking). The article mentions this, but I agree with pessimizer that the articl
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by fossuser 5y ago
My comment was about why competitive Silicon Valley companies skew young and out of college, not about anything beyond that. Silicon Valley has an advantage (fame, high pay) that makes it easier for them to focus recruitment on highly selec
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by fossuser 5y ago
Tao has gotten a lot more public media attention for the most part (Netflix, shows, TV, news, etc.) than any of the others which remain more niche. I'd guess as a result the audiences of the others are better selected to lean more high
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by fossuser 5y ago
It's a mistake for someone with a massive audience and their own platform to give that up. There's a reason Spotify paid him one hundred million dollars (or whatever it was) - he thought he was getting the better side of that deal
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by fossuser 5y ago
I definitely agree with this sentiment in nearly every case - goal of society should be one where these kinds of characteristics are irrelevant and discriminating in some other way to correct is generally a bad idea. It was mostly a thought
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it might be simpler - it's a lot easier to hire straight out of college kids that have no other obligations. You go to Stanford and MIT (already pre-filtered) and find kids that are really good. You don't have to overcome
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by fossuser 5y ago
Ideally yes, but if the discrimination is there in the process (by recruiters/interviewers intentional or not) then that's hard to do. People will think they're 'ignoring age and filtering for competence' when they&
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by fossuser 5y ago
I've also thought this would be an interesting approach, even explicitly. The laws on age discrimination are about discriminating against old people, but not about discriminating against young people. If age discrimination is real, tha
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by fossuser 5y ago
I thought the main cause of this was a recent law change regarding liability around sex trafficking: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-controversial-new-sex-traf... Rather than risk this liability it's easier for
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by fossuser 5y ago
I wonder if there's regional variation depending on warehouses? I'm in SF and have had pretty good experiences. It's mostly a comparison I'm making to alternatives which I've found to be worse (usually the non-amazo
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by fossuser 5y ago
Maybe you can make it so the ad always loads under the cursor?
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by fossuser 5y ago
My recent experience with non-amazon shipping: - Ordered a blanket directly from the blanket maker's website, order details were delayed, no shipping notice, no out of stock notice, order took 4 months to arrive (it was supposed to be
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by fossuser 5y ago
Agreed - Amazon knows who their real customers are and they have leverage over the sellers. It does surprise me though that given that there's a lot of counterfeit junk and scam-like sellers on the site (which is a pretty bad customer
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yep - you're right, edited and fixed.
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by fossuser 5y ago
In California non-competes are [edit: unenforceable] (it's arguably one of the reasons for Silicon Valley's success). It varies by state though, so not sure about Washington and elsewhere.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Thanks - I've mostly used their Marathon mice in the past, but I'll check that one out.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Is it a Mac thing? I've had issues with Logitech software even on Windows. Their mice hardware is pretty good, but the software is so bad I never install it and just use whatever works on the mouse by default. On Mac I use the magic tr
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by fossuser 5y ago
That’s sad, I wish they were still active here.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Old homeowners that benefit from prop13 don’t care and I can understand why. If you’re able to own properties and pay relatively no tax on property that’s worth 10x what you paid for it that’s an insane win. It also lets you vote to restric
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by fossuser 5y ago
A lot of people disliked AB5 - I was happy Prop22 passed. The companies were obviously operating in their own interests, but I also think the legislature was wrong (and just politically targeting ride share companies).
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yubikey is one - it requires the user touch a hardware device which signs something locally that I think is never sent? I don’t know enough of the implementation specifics, but it’s supposed to guard against this kind of thing.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think it’s a skill that’s possible to get better at, but getting better at it requires some misery (trying, failing, being uncomfortable, making social mistakes) Being able to read the social situation is a prerequisite so if you’re truly
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by fossuser 5y ago
The CCP already runs iCloud themselves in country so this is a bit irrelevant. (Though I think this kind of capitulation to authoritarian countries is wrong, personally: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13&
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by fossuser 5y ago
There's clearly some sort of opportunity here for an Audius like decentralized application/protocol (with the UI figured out), or just applications on Urbit when that stack is ready enough. Centralized services like this will alwa
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by fossuser 5y ago
That salary one is great, I’ve used similar strategies to help people negotiate pretty large bumps when interviewing. It’s funny to see the sophistication of the recruiter on the other side (while they’re pretending not to be). One social t
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by fossuser 5y ago
This one I’ve always been extremely skeptical of. I suspect it’s more likely they’re lacking introspection to such an extent that they’re not even aware of it. It just seems highly unlikely that a non brain damaged human sharing the same ev
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by fossuser 5y ago
When I used Spotify I had wished my podcasts were able to be there since it would be convenient to just have the tracks in the same UI. What I wanted though was just the ability to add podcasts via the open protocol url for them (how every

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