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by jhowell 6y ago
> very good at optimizing metrics... shoot themselves in the foot with some short-sighted action. Their optimization strategy informed them to shoot their customers in the foot.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> When the options are either wake up in a shitty world and have no money or wake up in a shitty world and have a lot of money I don’t know why people choose the former. I am not seeing how this is helpful to you or anyone really, but re
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by jhowell 6y ago
> I don't know why people get caught up in the "ethical and moral baggage"... You do however have the ability to control what your world looks like, when you are sitting on bags of money. Sail in the direction of the wind,
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by jhowell 6y ago
Opponent of the person, but not the policies. For those at either ends of the spectrum the difference is inconsequential.
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by jhowell 6y ago
I think they are referring to Peter Thiel. Thiel gave a speech at the 2016 RNC in support of their nominee, Donald Trump. At the time through the present, Thiel continues to have a net worth in excess of $1 billion. Is it the adjective secr
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by jhowell 6y ago
This is going on in Petaluma, CA right now. A mom claimed people of color attempted to kidnap her children. She describes the eyes of the "perpetrators" below. Fortunately, according to the police investigation, her children were
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by jhowell 6y ago
The crimes we commit give insight to society as a whole. It tough to imagine that this is only about targeted advertising.
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by jhowell 6y ago
Use technology to protect users from walking down streets populated by people negatively impacted by socioeconomic conditions (poverty, mental health, food insecurity), or use technology to bring awareness and compassion to the most vulnera
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by jhowell 6y ago
Maybe changing the default settings based on user experience, or the implementation of a caching layer of some sort for infrequently changing blogs posts (seems that could be the majority) or making the importance of these settings more acc
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by jhowell 6y ago
> One possibility is to replace early employee (first ~10 employees) stock options with the same Restricted Stock Agreements (RSAs) as the founders. I am sure RSA are and will always be available to those with the skilleset that commands
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by jhowell 6y ago
I think the problem is more related to the skilleset of the blog owner, which may not necessarily be in devops but instead economics or journalism or other (tough to say without being able to acess the content). It's a feature not a bu
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by jhowell 6y ago
At a time I'd purchase both JRebel and IntelliJ. JRebel had a really "aggressive" sales team that would call and email about renewals. Jetbrains has never had to call me, their product sells itself, for me. I no longer use JR
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by jhowell 6y ago
> And who is going to come in and fix this water infrastructure, the British? Seems like the Brits have done a lot, historically in Indian and China, but have their hands full at the moment with Brexit to reunite the "kingdom."
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by jhowell 6y ago
> The idea that there is only one intelligence without considering people have a lot of individual foibles due to experience, temperament, predisposition, and any number of other factors is really dangerous. It's that type of thinki
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by jhowell 6y ago
It's clear all off the facts are not available, and likely never will be, experiences are subjective. It's also clear that before learning of this event, we had 0% knowledge of the situation. Between 0 and where we are now with bo
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Toxic is an inflammatory and unnecessary word to use when no-one is privy to the actual facts. This response reflects an unwillingness to understand a situational nuance from multiple sides, show empathy to a person in distres and offe
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by jhowell 6y ago
> We’re engineers, not royalty. There’s nothing any one of us could do that would justify these wages, if it wasn’t for US immigration policies causing an artificial supply/demand issue. Executives, CEOs and shareholders are all hig
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by jhowell 6y ago
> One is over paid, the other under paid. If companies just created a sales team from their highest performing customer support reps and didn’t give them quotas or bonuses I think the model would still work as well from a revenue perspe
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by jhowell 6y ago
For any future world's wealthiest, is having a non contentious relationship with employees a reasonable endeavor? The fact that this is about money while the person in charge has the most money of anyone living doesn't seem to be
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by jhowell 6y ago
> I doubt it had any significant revenue. We don't know, and what's significant? Return on investment regardless of size of investment is significant when running any business. > At some point, fundamentals of the business
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by jhowell 6y ago
I believe Rupert Murdoch, who is Australian became a US citizen to take ownership of US television stations. He seems to have a significant influence here (as well as Europe and Asia). So crazy enough for established procedures.
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Somehow it's fine for companies to be jerks. Look at many of the products we make together. Why would we hide behind laws that protect bad practices and think those same companies take a moral high ground on this issue. It is, and
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by jhowell 6y ago
When employers ask employees where they live, they may already know the answer and ask only to indirectly answer others questions. I would think what is documented and certified when filing taxes will be important, perhaps retroactively. Jo
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by jhowell 6y ago
I believe Bill Joy lived in Colorado during his time at Sun Microsystems, working on Solaris and Java (if I recall correctly, I believe he worked with Gosling, perhaps it was other Sun projects). I would think he didn't suffer a COL ad
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by jhowell 6y ago
> Somehow completely ignoring the issue with how the homeless have made many areas of the city uninviting. Perhaps a more solution oriented statement: Somehow completely ignoring the issue with how tech has made the homeless in many area
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by jhowell 6y ago
> It also seems plausible that SF has a unique combination of factors that put it in a bad spot right now. It’s insanely expensive, quality of life has been on the decline for some time, and the types of companies that made real estate t
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by jhowell 6y ago
I think you're looking at the problem from your perspective and not theirs.
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by jhowell 6y ago
This to me says that assimilation doesn't work. The article states: "boasting higher test scores, better grades, and stronger extracurricular resumes than applicants of any other racial group, Asian American applicants consistentl
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by jhowell 6y ago
I don't think online lectures is the opportunity that plaintiffs in this case felt they were deprived of. Do you think that "we simply need to publish all lectures online free of charge" is a good answer for the plaintiffs?
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by jhowell 6y ago
For me, access implies the right, opportunity reflects the demonstration of those rights. There are a lot of examples of equal access to programs in this country, by the letter of the law, but in practice locally, folks were unable to acces

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