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by indecisive_user 4y ago
I don't think that's a good analogy. The value of a CEO should be relatively well known before hiring into a company. CEOs are rare, and at the endgame of their career, so you're already pricing in the present and future valu
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
>the average tech worker’s salary [will] reach $104,566 in the U.S. — a 6.9% increase since 2020, the report found. But inflation is over 11% since 2020. This isn't an increase. The average tech worker is making less than they wer
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
Yup, you're right, I missed that pair. But hopefully you get the general point on how it works :)
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
The biggest anti-feature of google maps by far is the 'Change Car Icon' popup when you tap anywhere remotely close to your blue nav icon. Oh, trying to tap to take an alternate route on the map? Want to tap to add a gas station st
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
And it has the side effect of forcing universities to consider the risks of loaning out hundreds of thousands of dollars for a degree that pays $50k on average. When students can no longer afford infinite loans, the price of these degrees w
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but Whatsapp had only a few dozen employees at the time. A $22B deal instantly made all of them multi millionaires. Would you have done things any differently? I'm not sure I would have.
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
It's easier if you think about a smaller range. Let's think about picking two numbers between 1-9. Peter is given the product 24. He knows there are two possible pairs of numbers between 1-9 which produce a product of 24, (3,8) an
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
Well sure, the name of the continent is still "America", but the actual country, the United States of America, did not exist before European colonists. So no, it's not the same country now.
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
Silicon Valley companies pay very well because _other_ Silicon Valley companies pay very well. Fast food companies don't pay anywhere near as well even though the cost of living is the same for those employees. The demand for good engi
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by indecisive_user 4y ago
As I understood it, their entire point is that younger people are not better at generating random sequences than older people, so guessing someone's age based on their complexity (randomness) score is completely unreliable. Towards the
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
Did you watch the linked video? It spends half the time talking about the CHOP and how the fundraiser is supporting it. The founder says they want to maintain a police free location to further the goals of BLM
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
This is exactly what I've done with several TVs over the past 5 years. Skip the internet setup, plug in a chromecast, and never utilize any of the built in "features" of the TV. It's worked great for me so far.
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
The thing is that even if the cost of living adjustment was perfect, that still incentivizes living in a high cost of living area. It's much easier to move from an expensive city to an inexpensive city than vice versa since your saving
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
It is low given your level of experience and self-proclaimed proficiency, but the point is that it should be relatively straight forward to get one of these positions and double your salary. Go look for salaries on a site like levels.fyi, f
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
>So based on these tests, which country has the programmers that score the highest? >In order to find out, we looked at each country’s average score across all domains So it's taking the average of the country, not really looking
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
The actual recording of hitting the deer starts at 3:50 https://youtu.be/jrWH_0YA5XM?t=230
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
As the sibling comment pointed out, 78% ICU occupancy is not that high compared to baseline. From a 2014 analysis: >Issues pertaining to the utility, interpretation, and reporting of ICU occupancy measures were identified and there were
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
Aging is natural the same way heart disease and cancer are natural. Some people get unlucky and develop cancer at a young age, but we don't throw up our hands and say whelp it's just nature. We should treat aging the same way. Som
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
That's actually a contested theory these days. Many doctors are now advising patients to stop taking antibiotics when they feel better. https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2015/5/stop-antibiotics-exper...
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by indecisive_user 5y ago
>the highest per capita infections (both total and current) were mostly in rural, not metropolitan, counties. Can you please cite your sources for this claim? I just did the math using the numbers of infections[0] and the county populat
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
Eh, drinking water with bacteria is plenty natural. Water with synthetic PFAS or lead, not so much. Unless the bacteria is actively causing harm or a variety known to be harmful to humans I'd still rather take my chances with the filte
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
You're breaking quite a few of the posting rules with your comment here, most notably the first one - "Be Kind" [0] High quality discussion is what makes HN a unique place on the internet, so I ask that you re-read the guidel
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
They are the #1 app because people were interested in trading GME, and the network effect led to lots of recommendations to download robinhood. Now there is a very negative sentiment towards robinhood. Very few people online will recommen
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
You're right, it's impossible to out-exercise a bad diet, but there are secondary reasons that being sedentary leads to weight gain besides just the raw number of calories burned. For one, an hour you spend exercising or walking a
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
The Google play store says Uber has 500 million downloads. Assuming ios has a similar amount, that puts the total number of downloads around 1 billion. 1.5 million concurrent connections would then represent roughly .15% of their total user
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
Who is framing the argument that way? No one is saying it's against our rights. That doesn't mean we can't oppose it. People are allowed to oppose a company's actions, even if they're not illegal
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
I did answer the question you asked. The answer for "how many lives would be saved" and "how many lives would be lost" if outdoor dining is/isn't banned is the same; approximately zero based on the evidence. Yo
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
>You tell me. How many? Based on the available evidence, I think the number is close to zero. >Restaurants have been mandated by the state to impose certain regulations and hygiene measures. They follow the general principles of harm
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
>People who survive can have very serious complications. This is true of several respiratory illnesses. For example there's evidence that the flu can increase the chance of a cardiovascular event for several months after recovery[0]
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by indecisive_user 6y ago
This is the spanish wording from the original article >Como tal, no serán anuncios publicitarios con fines comerciales, sino más bien de servicios, siempre ligado a la comunidad o a la app Which has the same meaning as the english transl

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