julesqs

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by julesqs 2y ago
sure. Not making excuses for any business decisions by newspaper management, just pointing out that that their criticism of the tech industry isn't out of character with a company that also is hostile their own workers' union.
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by julesqs 2y ago
the editorial bias from management of NYT has always been skeptical of Google and Facebook and perhaps all of big tech because big tech was a threat to their business. Most newspapers in the US have been hollowed out because of social medi
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by julesqs 3y ago
to be fair i would guess that a lot of the engineers there are also stuck because of visa issues. plenty of sychophants too i’m sure.
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by julesqs 5y ago
you don't think there are exceptions to the formula of LSAT/GPA? who do you think those exceptions are made for?
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by julesqs 5y ago
very funny to write an article about the crisis in the legal system without addressing how it is a pretty good example of almost complete elite capture by a few top law schools whose admissions are far from meritocratic. Or talking about S
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by julesqs 5y ago
more than ten tweets from Sam in this thread and he doesn't mention that public colleges used to be essentially free, but now cost enough to put students into crippling debt. And the last tweet seems to suggest he thinks the remedy is
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by julesqs 5y ago
I'm curious what people here think of all the healthcare startups that many of you likely get recruiter emails from regularly. Aside from the ethical questions of making money in the American healthcare system, a lot of them would like
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by julesqs 5y ago
wild how different the prices are, but I guess that's what happens when a lot of buildings only have one or two providers. No fios available for me, but I'm paying $70/month for optimum "up to 300 download, up to 35 upl
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by julesqs 5y ago
you get that price in NYC?
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by julesqs 5y ago
a coalition of groups in New York City is also pushing for a municipal broadband option: https://internetforall.nyc/
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by julesqs 6y ago
yeah I live in New York and I definitely went to more protests this summer because they were happening literally right outside my apartment than I would have if I had to deal with driving and finding parking (probably hard if it's a bi
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by julesqs 6y ago
I mean we do have PBS, we just underfund it relative to something like the BBC. We probably also don't have as strong of political norms around not politicizing it so it's inevitable that someone like Trump does.
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by julesqs 6y ago
did paul graham really just imply that himself and his fellow silicon valley millionaires would have been abolitionists if they were alive during slavery
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by julesqs 6y ago
I'm being downvoted too lol, politics on HN are so ridiculous.
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by julesqs 6y ago
do you not remember when all of cancel police on twitter got mad at Bernie for accepting Rogan's endorsement in the primary? he can call himself whatever he wants that doesn't mean it's true. https://www.cnn.com&#x
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by julesqs 6y ago
I think the "wide spectrum" part is really important. I'm on the far left by American standards and Rogan still has a lot of interviews that interest me even though I think he's more traditionally associated with conser
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by julesqs 6y ago
right right, it was confusing to me that they mentioned COBRA but it does sound like Airbnb is paying, which is good.
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by julesqs 6y ago
oh I might be confused about the COBRA situation actually. I can't tell if Airbnb is actually paying for COBRA. aside from that, assuming that non-engineers get paid better at Airbnb than elsewhere is a big assumption.
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by julesqs 6y ago
ah you might be right. wording confused me.
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by julesqs 6y ago
it's generous by startup standards, but laid off kickstarter employees are getting an even better deal because they unionized: four months full pay for everyone, up to six months of paid (not COBRA healthcare), recall rights if the job
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by julesqs 6y ago
for everyone praising the severance package, laid off employees at kickstarter are getting even more severance and full healthcare (not COBRA) because they unionized: https://twitter.com/ksr_united/status/125638235
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by julesqs 7y ago
it's really rich to read a blog post from someone at YC wishing "the federal government was doing much more". YC and the extended universe of VCs have spent years providing an intellectual facade to undermine confidence in a
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by julesqs 8y ago
The sentence that I posted is false, not biased. There is a difference.
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by julesqs 8y ago
it's always a bummer to see pseudo intellectual libertarian garbage on HN. I'll just point out this line, starting off the third paragraph: > Wages are not determined by years of schooling but by the supply and demand for skil
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by julesqs 9y ago
some new public housing, massive amounts of market rate construction that is currently prevented by NIMBY soning, increased minimum wage, better public schools, universal healthcare and better union protections should do the trick.
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by julesqs 9y ago
I literally run a YIMBY blog but cool.
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by julesqs 9y ago
> they need to figure out how to move no, they don't. You need to consider that telling people to leave the geographic area that is their family home is a shitty response. You need to consider whether, perhaps, there are govern
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by julesqs 9y ago
you're not addressing the people in article at all. It literally references a single mother that works in kitchens and you're complaining about upper middle class people that sneer at Nebraska? what's wrong with you? People
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by julesqs 9y ago
this is such a bad take. the point of public transit is not to get enough people to ride it so the system is profitable. do we expect roads to be profitable? they aren't, even if you say "the gas tax". and lol at heavy rai
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by julesqs 10y ago
For everyone saying Trump is not authoritarian and Thiel is just some flavor of eccentric Libertarian, Thiel says very clearly in the first paragraph of his essay at Cato that "freedom and democracy are incompatible"[1]. Thiel&#x

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