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by jzl 6y ago
You mean if you're still an employee? I've read their RSUs have 7y expiration, which is part of the whole Airbnb IPO problem because the ones from 2014 will start expiring next year. But what's the window to exercise once you
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by jzl 7y ago
The market doesn't demand that a monolithic entity like WeWork exist in order for co-working spaces to exist. Read up on WeWork's history and what happened with the Vision Fund investment. The only reason there are so many WeWorks
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by jzl 7y ago
No matter what's in the contract, I'm pretty sure it just comes down to Sun saying "You want the money? Sue me. Good luck, you'll never see it."
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by jzl 7y ago
Lol. We-eeks.
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by jzl 7y ago
Yep, and according to things I've previously read, AirBnb switched to RSUs in 2014 and those all have a 7 year expiration date.
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by jzl 7y ago
Yup. Google has basically doubled in employee count since 2016. It doesn't seem unreasonable at all that it would contract back a few years or more, headcount-wise.
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by jzl 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_background_noise
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by jzl 7y ago
Hiker/backpacker here. If you're doing anything more than a short walk in a city park, don't use Google Maps. Upgrade to either AllTrails or Gaia GPS and pay the subscription fee that allows you to download offline maps. (I u
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by jzl 7y ago
Take a hit after? Heck, let's talk about right this second. It's already happening: https://www.wsj.com/articles/airbnb-racks-up-hundreds-of-mil... Paywall, but even just the headline and first paragraph tell
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by jzl 7y ago
Yeah, there seems to be no end to the horror stories of options trades on Robinhood having significant delays before being filled, costing people far, far more than 65 cents. You get what you pay for.
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by jzl 7y ago
Cool topic, but that article was a bit long and meandering. Here's a good supplement: https://gisgeography.com/geodetic-datums-nad27-nad83-wgs84/ Global coordinates in general are a lot more complicated than many
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by jzl 7y ago
Hah. So true. Not to mention that Windows would one day have available an entirely integrated linux kernel direct from Microsoft[1]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
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by jzl 7y ago
Proof That USB Cables Exist In a 4-Dimensional Space: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388
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by jzl 7y ago
I think they only started doing that recently, after they stayed private so long that many employees started approaching the 10 year mark at which point their options would expire.
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by jzl 7y ago
This is really cool. The telltale sign of a modern, robust phone app is its ability to gracefully handle constantly changing network connectivity. A number of big-name apps are still not very good at this. This framework will make it much e
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by jzl 7y ago
Of note: https://xkcd.com/1129/
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by jzl 7y ago
I clicked through to the list of sites. Embarrassing to see that mit.edu is not https by default! The same institution invented Kerberos. Come on MIT, fix this please.
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by jzl 7y ago
The Index also has relief adjustment, which is high on his wish list at the end of the article.
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by jzl 7y ago
"On 14 November 2019, PIR formally notified ICANN of the proposed transaction. Under the .ORG Registry Agreement, PIR must obtain ICANN’s prior approval before any transaction that would result in a change of control of the registry o
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by jzl 7y ago
If ISOC hadn't removed the .org price restrictions, I feel like this could have been defensible. Farm out the management but hold the new stewards under a strict leash, fine. (Of course it wouldn't have gone for $1B+ in that case.
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by jzl 7y ago
This has been a many-years long simmering issue.
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by jzl 7y ago
Those pages are managed by the "PyPA" group, not technically python.org itself, although they were given a subdomain there. Start here and follow the links for more info: https://hynek.me/articles/python-app-d
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by jzl 7y ago
Those pages are managed by the "PyPA" group, not technically python.org itself, although they were given a subdomain there. Start here and follow the links for more info: https://hynek.me/articles/python-app-d
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by jzl 7y ago
Years ago I saved this brilliant little excerpt from "Politics and the English Language", the essay discussed in the link: "I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a w
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by jzl 7y ago
One possibly good outcome would be if Chrome's embrace of V3 is the catalyst that causes Firefox usage to shoot up again. By most measures, around 40% of users use ad blockers.
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by jzl 7y ago
On top of all that, Google has said that they plan to roll out over 7500 edge computing clusters just for Stadia, all for tackling the latency problem. (Not clear if those clusters can be put in existing Google facilities or not.) Having so
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by jzl 7y ago
In fact, this is explained in the article which also has an interesting anecdote about btrfs.
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by jzl 7y ago
In the comments of the article I posted there is some discussion about proper seat installation. I thought this commenter summed it pretty well: "While it may be possible that an improperly installed car seat may not be any more effec
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by jzl 7y ago
The Freakonomics guys are notorious for using shoddy research, jumping to bad conclusions, and generally publishing provocative conclusions just for the sake of provocativeness that don't hold up to even a whiff of debunking. I rolled
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by jzl 7y ago
Hmm ... very pinteresting news.

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