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by icambron 13y ago
I don't work at Google and from where I sit now, it's hard to imagine myself wanting to work for Google, but this complaint that it's infantalizing its employees is ridiculous. Making your own food and doing your own laundry
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by icambron 13y ago
Yes, wow. To go further, there is something deeply troubling about the parent's line of reasoning: that the tip of its spear is that Turing could have helped computing more, and not that the law was heinous in its treatment of humanity
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by icambron 13y ago
> Even if figures and readings are produced, some will talk about bananas, flying in an aeroplane, and background radiation From listening to those people, you might almost think the numbers were factual information to be evaluated thoug
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by icambron 13y ago
Typo; they left out "door".
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by icambron 13y ago
I'd just drop the formula altogether, I think. If at the end of the day, the numbers are just worked out so that you and the employee agrees the salary is about right ("I want $x, so I guess I'd better get a 1.3x experience m
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by icambron 13y ago
I actually love the radical transparency here, even after reading all the warnings in the HN comments. What I like less is the salary formula. What's going to happen is that all of the negotiation is going to get packed into the experi
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by icambron 13y ago
> I am a pacifist, I'd much prefer that we wound down this (and most other) military activity How are we to wind it down, or even know that we want to wind it down, if we don't know what it does? The reaction to all of this ove
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by icambron 13y ago
The difference is that this models a specific impact to see whether it would work. That's a long long way from conclusive, of course, but it's a useful addition.
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by icambron 13y ago
Fortunately, they continue to earn royalties. You can certainly quibble about whether latest-hit-centric music culture makes that big enough to offset the upfront tax hit, and even whether they get a reasonable share of that residual revenu
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by icambron 13y ago
In general, I'm sympathetic to the claim that SF/SV is too expensive, particularly with respect to housing, and this represents a legitimate drain on the economy, and that better public policy would go a long way towards fixing th
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by icambron 13y ago
Interesting. From Wikipedia: > The Associated Press reported that Ichiro's contract extension defers $25 million of the $90 million at 5.5% interest until after his retirement, with payments through 2032 If he retires at the end of
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by icambron 13y ago
The worst category for this is star professional athletes. They make huge amounts of money their first few years, but then they retire at age 30 and spend the rest of their lives earning far less. In the author's case, you could imagin
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by icambron 13y ago
The article is arguing from the useful prior that what the NSA is doing is wrong. Then people are jumping in and saying, "hang on a second, what if people disagree about what's right and wrong?" (e.g. "According to some
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by icambron 13y ago
I'm sympathetic to the broad point your making, but your example isn't very good: > I make shooter video games. Is that a bad thing? According to some people I'm evil. If you thought that shooter video games were bad and y
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by icambron 13y ago
This would be unethical and I would never do it, but the interesting scenario would have been if he'd secretly pulled the source code and used his access to it to find a bunch more bugs. He would look like a genius and pocket a bunch m
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by icambron 13y ago
Depends on what you consider your risk tolerance to be; you could equally say you're doubling down on the success of the company: "when this place takes over the world, it'll help my career and increase my savings". Th
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by icambron 13y ago
I totally understand the sense of injustice here, but it doesn't actually change anything. This isn't really a question of what's fair. Climate change is an actual real thing that really does have to be dealt with, and it&#x2
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by icambron 13y ago
Modulo some tax considerations (specifically, you want to sell them when they'll count as long term capital gains), yes, sell them as soon as you can. Keeping your company stock for a publicly traded company is silly for both the reaso
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by icambron 13y ago
I assume you mean Kyllo, which I have a number of problems with (though I'm somewhat reassured by some of Scalia's points in the majority opinion). But maybe my imagination isn't good enough - what's the scary scenario w
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by icambron 13y ago
"It will only take one child seriously injured by one of these motorized carriages though for Ford to be slapped with a major lawsuit" To be more nuanced about it, there's a big difference between this being a good or bad ide
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by icambron 13y ago
I can already buy a little quadcopter, attach a camera to it, and fly it around; the relevant regulations here are just about commercial use, right? That's actually a minor quibble with your argument, though. My real problem is this: y
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by icambron 13y ago
Is the current model better? http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/1-killed-after-bus-deli... That's just a story I found after 10 seconds of Googling. The broader point is that having your packages deliv
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by icambron 13y ago
The best one I got was "Aisle50 (YC S11) is a valid ipv4 address"
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by icambron 13y ago
For what it's worth, I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto either.
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by icambron 13y ago
Thanks.
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by icambron 13y ago
> As someone who submits patches to open source projects, I would be pretty damn pissed if the project I spent hours/days/weeks learning the architecture of pulled some shit like this. That's a good point, and I agree. But
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by icambron 13y ago
Yeah, I'd love to hear more from Hampton on the hours thing. What actually takes so long? Why does the number of developers matter? I've worked on some substantial (though not LinkedIn-sized) projects that used SASS and I've
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by icambron 13y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to cringe at a $135K price tag. But if that's so onerous, why not spend a day compiling the source and setting it up for distribution on your servers? The answer is that you (or at least the hypothetical
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by icambron 13y ago
This. From the article: >I don’t blame NGINX for wanting money in exchange for what is admittedly amazing software. I just don’t want any part of it. Why not? You're using this awesome software whose value you appreciate and which i
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by icambron 13y ago
I agree that Disney should receive copyright protection on its new works. My complaint (and I assume the parent's) is the part where they keep that copyright indefinitely through retroactive extensions. It's not supposed to be a p

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