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by hbrav 5y ago
This is also excellent advice. Actually maybe I should also add: keep not just the text of those e-mails, but also the from, to, date fields etc. If you ever get into a I-said / they-said about this, your employer might claim that your
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by hbrav 5y ago
True, but it still puts the work of filing etc. on them. You can always self-rep. It's usually not a good idea, but here your argument is really very simple: "I signed this NDA on the basis of specific assurances, which were false
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by hbrav 5y ago
A union is definitely the gold-standard defense against nonsense like this. But a lot of places have significantly higher employment protections that the US. Remember, it's not always you that has to go to court to fight an NDA clause
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by hbrav 5y ago
The most interesting thing about this is the linked article about the employer that tried a bit of sharp practice to insert additional clauses into the NDA: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/11/09/signs&#
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by hbrav 5y ago
What happens when you have multiple regulators in different countries that may have different views on the acceptability of an acquisition? Do all of them have to be satisfied that there are not competition concerns?
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by hbrav 5y ago
Some Canadian provinces treated mRNA vaccines as interchangeable. In Ontario a lot of people got a first dose of Pfizer and a second of Moderna. There's currently a study underway in the UK (I forget the name, but it run by the Univers
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by hbrav 5y ago
In the main body of the paper they say "We find that distinctively Black names reduce the likelihood of employer contact relative to distinctively white names by 2.1 percentage points, an effect equal to 9% of the Black mean
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by hbrav 5y ago
If you take the numbers from the UK (here https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ ) and filter to just the 2nd and 3rd waves (testing was poor in 1st wave; lots of people are vaccinated in the 4th) and compute the autocorrelation f
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by hbrav 5y ago
If you were to do this with a new currency that was created today, that would not giver you a unique solution. e.g. if you said "well Bitcoin started its existence in 2009, and had an exchange rate of X USD = 1 BTC, so before this date
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by hbrav 5y ago
I actually really appreciate that he wrote this post: 1. What if I'm considering working for Replit? This behaviour would give me second thoughts. 2. Imagine I'm a VC firm deciding whether or not to invest in them. I don't wa
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by hbrav 5y ago
That was just the idiot-icing on top of the cake-of-recklessness.
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by hbrav 5y ago
On the facebook post he say "this was hand held", which sounds like a man who is on a fast track to a conviction for using a mobile phone while driving.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Remember that driver education standards vary across the world - I don't know what the average driver is like in Silicon Valley, this could be a challenging road for them.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Do Roombas include any ML component? I thought they followed a rather straightforward heuristic along the lines of a random walk, with turns when they hit an obstacle.
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by hbrav 5y ago
For the benefit of anyone who hasn't read it, his autobiography is called Carrying The Fire, and is excellent.
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by hbrav 5y ago
Err, this isn't correct. There would be be nothing preventing the command module from returning home in the event of the lunar lander not coming back from the moon. Though of course the command module pilot would be a bit more task-loa
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by hbrav 5y ago
Small airfcraft fuel gauges are notoriously unreliable. If it's reading low, yes, be alarmed. But sometimes the float gets stuck, so if your estimate for how much fuel you should have burned puts your fuel lower, trust that. At least i
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by hbrav 6y ago
Given the computer model involved, this is probably in the late 80s. If you've read The Cuckoo's Egg, it suggests that getting law enforcement to take computer intrusion seriously was very hard back then. I suppose the university
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by hbrav 6y ago
> Spending billions to combat magic internet money when prescription drug prices are sky-high? I mean that's a rational objection, but I'm not sure it aligns well with US government spending policy. The US is planning to spend
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by hbrav 6y ago
I'm not sure I buy this idea that everyone except the US would try and help bitcoin to survive. Sure, China would certainly be happy to see USD become less of a global standard. I think the EU might like to see the Euro more widely ado
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by hbrav 6y ago
Isn't this going to hamper companies in poorer countries from adopting these standards?
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by hbrav 6y ago
Correct - the publisher does not have the power to stop used copies of their books being resold, as per first sale doctrine. You can definitely still sell or buy used copies, although one of your most convenient markets (eBay). But that&#x2
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by hbrav 6y ago
Really? That's amazing.
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by hbrav 6y ago
> But now, barely 6 years later, the Leftist Mob has come for Dr. Seuss, and we're all bullied to recite that Dr. Seuss is racist, was racist, has always been racist. What? No one is trying to cancel Dr Seuss. No one is suggesting t
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by hbrav 6y ago
This is not how totalitarian regimes are created at all. Commissars in the USSR having the power to ban books meant repercussions from the state for reading or distributing those books, and was a clear signal that similar works would meet a
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by hbrav 6y ago
Hey, my neighbor had a small home built plane that was powered by an old 2 cylinder generator engine. Maybe you should sell yours as generator engines too? (Yes I'm kidding. I know. I'll stop trying to trick thermodynamics.)
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by hbrav 6y ago
You could have another aircraft tow you, like gliders sometimes do. Doesn't seem terribly practical though.
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by hbrav 6y ago
This might help: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...