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by jdm2212 7y ago
The stories from expats in China line up pretty well with enforced social distancing across the whole country on a scale even South Korea hasn't tried yet. That doesn't mean the numbers will stay low forever (once the restrictions
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IIRC they have to IPO because a lot of employees have expiring RSUs. Either they IPO, or they find a way to buy out those employees' RSUs.
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It's not like Groupon. EBITDA is a totally normal metric to get a sense of how the core business is doing, and positive EBITDA in tech is a good leading indicator of profitability. EBITDA is basically "how profitable would the bus
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Everything in Tokyo is tiny. My dad, my wife and I stayed at a reasonably nice hotel there ($250/night) and the situation was basically how you're describing your Airbnb -- bedroom that's completely taken up by the beds, and
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by jdm2212 7y ago
I spent a week in an Airbnb near Dubrovnik, Croatia and it seemed like a normal, if slightly touristy European city in pretty much every way. And the Airbnb was really nice, too. Not sure where you're getting this stuff about "doe
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I think the folks really fascinated with which language is intrinsically superior are missing out on the fact that the language itself is <10% of the software development process. There's tooling, architecture, libraries, monitoring
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Every project grows until it becomes too complex and hence unmanageably buggy. Some languages/static analyzers/linters/architectures/frameworks let a project become bigger and more complex before becoming unmanageably bu
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The author works (worked?) at Lyft.
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TFA's thesis is that people convey negative information -- just not primarily through the star rating. As a longtime Airbnb user I can't imagine staying at a place just because it has a good star rating. You have to read the revie
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The article has a few interesting points about community ties, but it's generally long on word games and short on substance. The article equivocates between marriage as legal privileges, marriage as lifelong monogamous commitment, marr
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It varies by country and even in the US it varies by industry. A lot of European countries have a less adversarial relationship between organized labor and management and workers benefit greatly. Public sector unions in the US, and the team
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When there's nothing interesting to be said about a subject, there's a really strong selection bias for only un-insightful things to be said about the subject. Like, no one's gonna write a whole medium post about "Compan
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Grad students teaching courses is, as with interns, a hybrid role that is both paid employment and professional training. And, as with interns, the pay is much lower than an experienced industry veteran's salary [1] because part of the
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good. A union-negotiated contract that's better than the one you'd get without the union is, well, better. It might not be "fair" or flawless, but it's still better.
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> Workers are treated as disposable Workers are treated as replaceable when they are in fact easily replaced. Grad students aren't even really workers, though. They're students where teaching responsibilities are part of thei
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I don't think implicit federal subsidies for Bay Area housing are a good idea either, though.
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Is this the same guy who got fired (or resigned?) from Google a week after getting hired for something silly like refusing to sign the employee code of conduct?
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This appears to be untrue: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/32538/was-hay-in...
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This lawsuit is an effort to get hard evidence. This is just an injunction while they sort out how to go forward and what paperwork/depositions to grant Amazon.
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Our democracy has enacted laws that ICE is tasked with enforcing. ICE agents are not really the bad guys here for following those laws -- the American voting public is the problem. Your (and my) representatives made this possible, and conti
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If ICE were rounding up Democrats now (or Republicans under Obama) that would be "political enemies". ICE is doing no such thing. Part of its mission is enforcing US immigration laws, and it's doing that in a manner that&#x27
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> They are the American gestapo. They're really not. It is possible to not like (some of) what ICE does and also recognize that they are not rounding up a lawless autocrat's political enemies for torture, indefinite imprisonmen
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For the 98% of people who aren't high-value targets (CEOs, journalists, etc), a phone number is a perfectly adequate second factor.
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Rule of law is necessary, not sufficient, for justice. You cannot have justice if you do not know what behavior will get you punished, and you cannot know what behavior will get you punished if the government can act arbitrarily with impuni
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The relevant metric is whether you can reliably predict the outcome of almost any interaction with the government. If government actors are constrained by the law, you can reasonably predict what they will do. If the law is just a fig leaf,
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If you don't like Donald Trump's conduct in office (I don't, incidentally) you and millions of others can organize and likely prevent him from getting reelected. If you don't like Xi Jinping's conduct in office...
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Rule of law is not about whether the outcome in a particular case is good or bad, or whether a particular law is good or bad. It's about whether the outcome is arbitrary, and whether you have recourse when the outcome does not align wi
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The only effective way to change laws is to organize. "you can change laws, but you can't organize to do so" is in effect saying you cannot change the laws. And that's by design -- China is an autocracy.
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People in the UK can vote out the government and change the laws that way. People in China can't.
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There are two separate issues with China banning memes: 1. it's symptomatic of Xi's government being able to do anything it wants to (including killing people to harvest their organs) without any checks and balances 2. it violates

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