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by jacobr1 4y ago
This bill has a very-low likelihood of moving forward. It is a political statement. Its sponsor's might be dumb enough to actually want it, but I suspect they are just trying to score points and get media attention.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Yes, but that is a function of the influence that office has in the world. If the position can influence billion dollar decisions, then there is incentive to influence the office-holder in the direction most favorable to the interested part
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by jacobr1 4y ago
We can and do limit actual donations and gifts direct to elected officials. Or at least have laws about transparency. Certainly more to be done here, but the margins of the debate are usually around things like media spending. So, yes, you
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also, the "bad lobbyist" is always someone on the other side, or nebulous wealthy private actors, or big-bad corporations. Rarely do be people consider things like the efforts of their favorite advocacy group "lobbying"
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Though protocols are not law. You can have non-conforming implementations. If these are popular enough (potentially due to $proprietary_thing) then people will just use them. Other services will need to decide if they want to continue to in
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by jacobr1 4y ago
There are tons of blogs out there with example interview questions. If you review a few dozen, you start to pick up some commonalities. Another approach that has worked for in the past is a mock interview. Ask a fried or college to intervie
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I would expect much more than that just for _normal_ attrition. People leave for any number a reasonable scenarios and you need to backfill. At the scale of a big company, NOT hiring 20-100 people at all times means you are _shrinking_.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> Recent increases in valuations were not commensurate with profits, ergo, an ugly kind of inflation. But we also have downturns that reduce returns significantly. If you average out the returns the presumption is that the cost of that &
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by jacobr1 4y ago
And we have add a variety of competing search-engines that still aren't as good. It isn't like the idea hasn't been tried. For example DuckDuckGo, or even Bing, but there have been half-dozen others too.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> everyone gets mediocre to bad results Everything I've heard from people I know at Google suggests otherwise. Most searches for most people ... work. I too struggle to have google work in specific research cases, and I would like m
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by jacobr1 4y ago
One of the items that seems to be missed in these kind of discussions is the increased demand for what otherwise would be called sprawl. You hear about people want to stay in a big city, or want to move to $tier3 city, but there is also a l
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by jacobr1 4y ago
We tried kanban with a few teams at my last startup. It worked great for a team with a clear direction, but was really hard from a management/planning/accountability standpoint. It didn't mesh well with the quarterly planning
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by jacobr1 4y ago
One of the subtleties is how to determine acceptance criteria by the stakeholders/client. You can negotiate upfront a spec, and upon delivery conformance to the spec means success. Or you could negotiate a high-level objective, or a me
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by jacobr1 4y ago
This claim probably means we are soon to be at peak scrum. Maybe the earlier adopter companies are will be onto the new thing ... but right now we are just finishing up getting all the trailing firms to finally switch over from waterfall ..
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by jacobr1 4y ago
And Ada is widely used in aerospace. Less these days for new projects, but often enough that one needs to be familiar with it.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Which is why if I'm spending more than 10-20k for a technical product, I ask for customer references to speak with - unless the product is already widely used and well-known. If a company can't provide references in the context of
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by jacobr1 4y ago
This is one of the reasons diversity (in this case neural diversity) is important in the office. I've worked in a number of startup where theoretically take breaks, playing video game, going for a walk, whatever was supported, but in p
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> I have no idea if that would work for inter-city transport With inner-city transport, while free would undoubtedly have some marginal impact (and more over time as residential and commute patterns shift) there probably wouldn't be
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It is a combinatorial explosion problem. Each taxing authority probably isn't too different from the norm, but in the US you are more likely to encounter many different taxing authorities that overlap.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> I have to imagine government workers are already writing software to identify if we’ve all implemented it correctly Because of the jurisdiction issue, even if each local (and for each location all relevant governmental tax authorities)
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I regularly notice that when I read an HN-linked article that has a some solid links, maybe even sending me down a rabbit-hole of related pages on a new topic, when I resurface and return to HN I find a few a of those related page on HN the
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The problem is that much (not all) the business important data is involved the public internet. Take this school for example - prospective students applied online. One could imagine sneaker-netting the application data to an airgapped netwo
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> But I don't follow how getting rid of rent control would incentivize supply increases? Leaving units empty, or locked into lower-than-market rates are going to reduce the average profitability of investments. Investment in new uni
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by jacobr1 4y ago
The invisible hand is just the profit motive. Most people are indeed incentivized by (not solely) by money and profit. The advantage of a market in this context is two-fold 1) Private-losses, mispent investments should have the investors be
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by jacobr1 4y ago
No need, the problem in the bay area is density.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
This is one of the reasons rent-control is a bad idea. It is foolish to leave an unrented apartment empty, provided you can maximize your revenue when market conditions change. Only when locked into a low-rent does it make sense to keep it
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by jacobr1 5y ago
Because the black box for legal purposes still presumes you are in-office. When you are remote, you are structured as working from your "home office" not anywhere.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
And further, that people buy and don't read.
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by jacobr1 5y ago
The presumption is that under a "free market" the demand would drive more production - more doctors. But that the rules of the current system artificially restrict the supply of doctors. Some of that we want - credentials clearly
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by jacobr1 5y ago
> I didn’t get a family size discount on my home You do though. The cost of kitchen for a couple without kids, and one for a family of 5 is roughly the same. You might have more square footage overall for house, with more people, but the

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