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by josh_fyi 8y ago
Nothing says "Marry me! Marry someone who wastes lots of your shared money!" like a diamond.
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by josh_fyi 8y ago
That is quite legal in the US. Discrimination from age 40 is illegal. Firing every employee at age 39 (Logan's Run!) is totally within the law.
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
I don't know what percentage that is. It is more than 0, however. So my question is, "So why do employees make money in X% of successful exits, where X is more than 0?"
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
I have the opposite question. As long as deals are legal and meet generally accepted ethical standards, it seems that founders and investors have no interest in favoring employees in negotiations that restructure cap tables. So why do empl
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
> he couldn't realistically dump all of his Ripple and expect price to not crash Likewise Zuckerberg for Facebook
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
Please correct spelling Eleizer ->Eliezer
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
Eliezer: "And then I ran into Hacker News, where accusations [of being a cult leader] were aimed at the site owner, Paul Graham." http://lesswrong.com/lw/4d/youre_calling_who_a_cult_leader http:/&
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
1. Say that your past contracts forbid it 2. Make up a figure -- you have a lot of leeway to do so truthfully by adding or not adding various benefits to the number you state.
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
Marissa Mayer did this in Yahoo. In each case it is a desperation measure in a declining company.
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
> The only differences come down to network and academic history. Yes, indeed. With a degree from a top university, you are almost guaranteed an A average and can go straight to Wall Street or into other potentially super-lucrative profe
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by josh_fyi 9y ago
Recruitment-spam is not well-correlated with true job opportunities, nor with the recipient being a high-performance employee.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
With today's networked data, assuming enough technological acceleration that all the web content gets archived, your Tweets, posts, and other writings could be available indefinitely. Not so sure that that's a good thing.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
You have some leeway. If you say "My compensation was $70K" and your salary was $50K, you may well be telling the truth.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
They would say "we had no choice, it was a court order. The sheriff's department is responsible for the mistake."
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
Like the OP says, you should avoid revealing your salary. If and when the time comes for that, you can give a wide variety of numbers for "my compensation is $X". That X can include some or all of your benefit package. They are no
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
Say "My contract prevents me from disclosing my compensation package" (probably true), "and I treat my commitments seriously."
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
It's normal to have names based on divinities. E.g., Venus Williams. Or Jesus in Spanish names. It does not mean that the person is the god.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
> "unfortunately we are looking for candidates with professional experience". Just develop something on your job. Any role in a tech company, or beyond, has lots of opportunities for developing code. Bosses won't get in y
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
I thought that COBOL programmers were in great demand, for maintenance of old systems, and increasingly so as old programmers retire.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
Huh? Top universities have severe grade inflation, which is close to what is described here. And grads of these universities still rule the world. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflati
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
Expensive. Not as bad as San Francisco!
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
There are politics like anywhere, but nothing unusual.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
Hackers of various sorts have strong interest in hacking the Trump Organization to get dirt on him. Knowing how IT in that sort of medium-size sales-oriented low-tech business works, chances are they have very weak security procedures on th
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
PerfectScript from WordPerfect 5
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
Complaints to the insurance commissioners can be surprisingly effective.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
A pit-trap can kill "on its own." A robot might kill more people, it can carry out more complex missions, but autonomy is not a key difference.
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
@scottalpert Yes. It's strange. You'd think that every app conforms to the usual design assumptions. But some apps really do need to be different.
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Running graph-traversal algorithms in the Google Cloud(cloudcomputing-news.net)
10 points by josh_fyi 10y ago|4 comments
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
This is the classic book on the topic: Edward Luttwak, Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, 1968
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by josh_fyi 10y ago
The article is basic mathematical research and is not intended to be implemented, but rather to guide further applied research. The deeper motivation for this article is to allow future Artificial General Intelligences to prove facts about

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