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by home_boi 10y ago
The booze thing gets exaggerated at many places. It is usually the marketing/HR/business dev/sales teams that indulge in that culture. The engineering team is usually much more constrained in their alcohol consumption, althou
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by home_boi 10y ago
I agree. The act of deleting the account isn't even a guarantee that the data associated with the account will be deleted.
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by home_boi 10y ago
That's par for the course at unicorns/non public companies though. Both their cash and equity portions are fair (really good for unicorns actually) from what I've heard
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by home_boi 10y ago
Genuine question, what user tracking is there that isn't opt out?
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by home_boi 10y ago
PAC: A political action committee (PAC) is a type of organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaign for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation Tech companies have been anno
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by home_boi 10y ago
> The attraction about joining these companies a few years before probable IPO is you have not insignificant potential to increase your income above the average tech worker income level. I would argue that it is more about having the pow
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by home_boi 10y ago
I am assuming he means $100k per person in NYC/SF. That's the entry level salary for even marketing/business workers in many companies.
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by home_boi 10y ago
It doesn't seem like that study normalizes for quality of college degree. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the average "ranking" (used as a proxy for quality) of the alma matter of black people is worse than
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by home_boi 10y ago
Has no one done a study on the amount of time each race spends studying? It seems to be a very easy data to collect and could help us draw an actual conclusion.
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by home_boi 10y ago
That is exactly the case. Look at the companies that scream the loudest about diversity and have diversity internship programs(FB, MSFT, Google). Smaller companies do not have the budget to hire "diversity officers". They spend th
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by home_boi 10y ago
it's already being done at many big companies. I believe that FB is one of the biggest offenders
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by home_boi 10y ago
Is there anyway to delete/DMCA those white page websites (whitepages.com, spokeo, instantcheckmate, etc.) that list all your relatives and your past physical addresses?
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by home_boi 10y ago
There would need to be at least ~50-60 years before evaluation of the results There needs to be at least 2 generations that have had UBI for their entire life. UBI affects the motivation to work on skills, so the subject would need UBI for
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by home_boi 10y ago
The free market wins. All the AI/ML engineers were going to FB/Google/etc. (and on some rare occasions M$)
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by home_boi 10y ago
almost every other good tech company interviews using the same types of questions
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by home_boi 10y ago
>Uber Some teams do
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by home_boi 10y ago
The cost to manufacturers (and the cost passed on to Google) is most likely much higher for security updates than for including Google+/Google Apps
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by home_boi 10y ago
>My wife has seen this, being one of the hires made to fill a quota while working at EA. Can you elaborate on this? I'm very curious how far companies go to fill quotas and how much weight is put into race/gender.
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by home_boi 10y ago
Isn't it illegal to make pay based on a protected class?
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by home_boi 10y ago
you still lose if you're an asian/indian/white male. I care about this topic because I don't want to be discriminated based on my race or gender. It is a zero sum game. Companies will require the same head count regardle
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by home_boi 10y ago
Not necessarily. That model completely removes the individual and community as actors in society. What you are saying is that all accomplishment of a person is due to society "acting on that person" to make that person successful.
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by home_boi 10y ago
In practicality the OP is right. You won't be on the same level as people with a PhD in a corporate or applied setting. The hardest parts are feature engineering, researching and statistical analysis (presenting research to team). It&#
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by home_boi 10y ago
That's not very comparable. People who reveal their gender online are a very specific set. Not many people (male or female) reveal their gender online. On online sexual harassment: The women who are in the spotlight are normally harass
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by home_boi 10y ago
the info to root your device is free on the internet
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by home_boi 10y ago
I was going to say, top engineers are paid $100-$200/hr at work. Unless they are doing it as charity work, they would be very unaffordable. Although if the person looking for a tutor is very junior, then he can learn from basically any
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by home_boi 10y ago
And free food. Can't forget about the free food.
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by home_boi 10y ago
IIRC, Boy's Life magazine is run by a boy scout organization while Girl's Life is run by a corporation chasing for the most eyeballs possible.
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by home_boi 10y ago
This will take "it's just a prank bro" to a new level.
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by home_boi 10y ago
The two platforms are completely different. The users of FB (and LinkedIn) put their real information on the website, allowing advertisers to target effectively which raises the average ad value on the website. Intuitively, revenue = ad val
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by home_boi 10y ago
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