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by it_does_follow 5y ago
This is incredibly common at most BigCos, I would drop the term "poach", as others have mentioned. For talented people this is can easily be a win-win all around. Obviously for the team hiring the hiring process is tremendously de
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Recruiters are in the way. I'm astounded at how awful recruiters have gotten. What's insane to me is how no one in the industry seems to question the spray and pray approach to recruiting. There are a few "whoa that&#x27
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
You're thinking of regulations. In basically every manifestation the primary function of the state is the enforcement of basic property law. If you don't have that you have warlords/oligarchs fighting with each other constant
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> enforced by a social contract At the end of the day every thing that is truly "enforced" is ultimately enforced by violence. I can promise that if patents where enforced only by social contract they would be meaningless. Larg
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Technological progress continues to outstrip our environmental damage done in it's persuit, and ultimately only technological solutions will get us out of the current issues with climate change. You've got your causal arrows
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> no warning We're in the third year of a global pandemic and nothing that is happening now is something that wasn't predicted as a serious possibility. Pretending everything is fine doesn't make it fine. Acknowledging the
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
The idea that if people would stop talking how the world is so bad the world wouldn't be so bad is one of the strangest patterns of thinking I've seen pop up here more recently. The world is in a state of decline, climate change b
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
The trick with identifying bubble is not to realize there is one, but to identify what will make it pop. This latter problem is much harder, and the former, as we get deeper into the limits of our current system, becomes so obvious it'
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> And no, nothing in the real world is like this Retail FOREX is pretty similar. It's a zero sum game with broker's fees, plus you're playing the game with a lot of very experienced, very well funded institutional investor
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
In my darker moments I've come to believe that accelerationism is the only viable pathway to save the planet, since nothing short of civilizational collapse seems to be capable of seriously reducing our carbon emissions. From that pers
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> "We don't actually know that." Arguably one of my main areas of personal study is the limited ability of science to under stand the world, so I'm not one of the "the science is decided!" people. There&#x27
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> HN is a negative and cynical place today. Discussions about future developments are dominated by the bad things that are happening Funny you feel this way because I've seen the opposite. Any real discussion of the severity of the
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> HN is very rationalist/materialistic I find the opposite to be true when it comes to any real existential threats. HN simply cannot stomach the possibility that the future might not be so bright after all and will generally go thr
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
The issue is omicron seems to be spreading, at last from what I've seen, faster than the flu (and unquestionably faster than delta). Most seasonal flu I've lived through, I've never seen everyone in the household come down wi
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I find that it's precisely when I'm mired in these "day-to-day worries" that I find shrooms most effective at breaking me out and getting a renewed sense of relative priority. I can understand your concerns about a &quot
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> as low as $1200 for 6 sessions Never change HN. Even for many people in tech, this is not a trivial sum.
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> a bit of my late adolescence consuming I liken doing psychedelics in late adolescence to reading philosophy in late adolescence. Unfortunately late adolescence is the period where the majority of both psychedelic and philosophical expe
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> It's here Can you post a link to a place where I can interact with some web3 content directly then? Not an article about what web3 will be, but something I can play with? Back in the early web 2.0 this is pretty easy, just point
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
You really are scared of what's happening aren't you?
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Call me a monster but I want my daughter to know a world much more similar to what I knew 2 years ago I think you have your causality mixed up a bit. When I was younger I would take my coat off in the cold early spring to protest the
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
It's really hard to know whether your even being entirely serious, but just in case: That piece of the IPCC report that article is cherry picking is a.) a bit out of date now and b.) assuming a warming of 2C which we've already gi
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
What does the total snow mass for the entire Northern Hemisphere have to do with parent's observation (especially since it explicitly excludes mountains, the subject of the parent's point)? It's completely possible that the N
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
In recent years HN has becoming increasingly aggressive in it's climate denial. Not in the classic sense of denying that there is climate change at all, but generally holding these assumptions as a sacred: - climate change is not happe
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> very few companies actually value them accordingly This is something that has definitely gone through waves a few time during my life time. In particular I remember the early startup era (~2010) developers were treated very well (thoug
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
So much so that I can't help but wonder if this is a bit of an inside joke. Having at one time worked for the Federal Government I know me and my fellow employees created surprisingly similar documents (though nothing as formal) chroni
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> some electricity I think the key part of the controversy is the word "some". In the original Veritasium video it pretty strongly implies that enough energy to light the bulb, i.e. virtually all the electricity, is traveling i
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> to FAAMG long ago Because Netflix pays Senior Engineers ~$500k/year in cash and MS pays Principal Engineers $300k TC?
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> wondered why Microsoft was left out of the original 5 Same reason Cornell is typically left out of conversations about Ivy league schools. It's just not that prestigious. Seeing MS on a resume is not as impressive as the others, a
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
If you're working 60+ hours in your office, you don't have a life outside of work. No wonder you hate WFH. I did WFH for years prior to pandemic and found it much easier to work less hours. Spent many long lunches with friends, to
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> This is first of all so condescending It's not condescending. Many people have spent years neglecting their home life and personal life in favor of work life. People have been actively encouraged by employers to do this. But at th

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