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by jpatokal 8y ago
All the FAANGs operate under a very similar hiring model, because they all get far more applicants than they can hire and can afford to have a high rate of false negatives. "Everybody" can't adopt it even if they wanted to,
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It doesn't work that way. At Google, the only people who can see your ratings are the people directly involved in that candidate's hiring process. As a hiring manager, you do learn which of your reports/fellow interviewers t
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Malaysia was way more involved than that. The money in question comes from Malaysian tax payers, and the former prime minister Najib is under arrest because it looks like he channeled $700m of it into his own pockets.
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Real consequences for those who got scammed , not the ones who did the scamming .
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Citation needed. GM hardly has a monopoly on the bus market, in fact they don't even seem to feature in the top tier: http://www.chinabuses.org/news/2015/0409/article_8844.html
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Wildly successful after $6b in debt was written off, and only in a small (but profitable) niche, not the originally envisioned mass market. I know it sounds ridiculous now, but the original plan for Iridium was to replace that travelin
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...and Iridium famously resulted in the largest US bankruptcy ever, nine months after launch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications#History Initial investment ~$6B, sold to US gov't for $25m. Here&#
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Not quite: the technical equivalent to director is Principal SWE (T8).
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Wikidata is one of the backends of Wikipedia and much of its information has been extracted from there.
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Of course there are people in Lucky Plaza and Mustafa on Sundays: there are on the order of 250,000 maids in Singapore, and around 1.6 million foreign workers total. My argument is not that all Singaporeans are monsters, or that all foreign
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You're confusing what ought to be with what is . Yes, maids are supposed to be given one day off a week on paper, but who enforces that? Maids and other foreign workers are also not supposed to pay huge sums to agents to score j
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Japan and Taiwan come to mind. What's kind of unique about Singapore in Asia is that it's very wealthy, yet its social safety net and worker protections are quite lacking.
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I suspect your sample size was heavily biased to your own social class. Singapore is ruthlessly capitalist, and can be a terrible place to be if you're poor or a foreign worker. One Straits Times (local Pravda) story I recall was ab
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All things considered -- and remember, these airlines are flying in poor countries where a lot of the infra for air traffic control, airports etc is not up to scratch -- AirAsia has a reasonable safety record: the only major crash suffered
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Am I missing something here? The piece reads like a faithful transcript of Darius & Q talking, and I found it really vivid and compelling.
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That's a rather US-centric worldview. Looking at the official languages of countries, French and Arabic are probably the most useful worldwide, with Spanish third and Chinese (Mandarin) indeed largely useless outside greater China. h
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Yes, but it stopped being the seat of power in 1603 and even the Emperor moved to Tokyo in 1868. The point, though, is not the politics, but that modern Kyoto bears very little resemblance to pre-1900 Kyoto.
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There's a major philosophical school of thought that holds nothing exists outside the mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism
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An interesting exercise in what Bezos could do about this if he wanted to: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18276937
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Despite the down votes this is a perfectly valid point. In the last 100 years Kyoto has turned from a quiet backwater into a city of over 1 million, liberally slathered in concrete like every other Japanese city. This will have an impact
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Maybe if you exclude the $10b cost of building the bridge...
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Not even that: Macau has its own international airport. While Asian destinations are well covered, you need to go to HKG for long-hauls though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_International_Airport#Ai...
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Not to Macau it doesn't, and getting to Zhuhai involves going around the entire bay.
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There are shuttle buses, but you need to transfer at both ends: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/116531/how-do-i-u... I agree that not having a rail link is absurd though, particularly given that both HK
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Cheery voice: "It's so simple and convenient!"
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> 2) Adults have less, or are less inclined to, time to properly care for children Rather the opposite, I suspect: the amount of time (well-off) adults spend tutoring, coaching, and otherwise interacting with their kids has gone through
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> To do grow enough for a family of four is not even one day of work for one person. Citation needed. What crop would this be?
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By long-standing tradition, the Economist's articles have no byline.
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Github is not hosted by Google and was acquired by Microsoft some time back, so that seems... unlikely.
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I was recently in Mongolia, and one of the more memorable sights (in a country packed to the brim with them) awaited me next to the station building in the godforsaken town of Choir, a heat-blasted former Soviet military base in the middle

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