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by kaikai 7y ago
Uber doesn't just make apps for phones. They also have an entire self-driving car division (computer vision, etc), car routing, maps folks, payments, the separate driver apps, etc. A company that size and complexity has plenty of work
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by kaikai 7y ago
They currently have a small and changing dataset. These are news articles, not peer-reviewed scientific papers. When researchers publish datasets it’s to back up conclusions that they’ve made based on the data, and in this case they haven’t
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by kaikai 7y ago
Fun is not a zero-sum game, thankfully
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Not if they're still in the lockup and can't sell off stock in order to cover the taxes from exercising.
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You counted Marin but not Fremont as part of the “core” Bay Area?
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He wrote that as pressure increased due to terraforming projects, the tents needed more support.
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by kaikai 7y ago
I’m excited to see an animal corridor turn into a reality. Highway 17 is twisty and narrow, with poor visibility. Smaller animal like raccoons stand no chance, and larger animals like deer get hit regularly. The traffic is also a hazard for
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by kaikai 7y ago
There are hundreds of native bee species in California alone. None of them produce honey stores like the Apis mellifera, the european honeybee. We do , however, depend on the honeybee for food crop pollination, which is a huge industry in
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by kaikai 7y ago
The Xerces Society has pollinator-friendly plant lists for a variety of region in the US: https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/plant-lists/ They're named after a butterfly that used to live in the Sunse
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by kaikai 7y ago
This is starting to sound like the business version of starting physics problems with “imagine a frictionless surface...”
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by kaikai 7y ago
Sounds like survivorship bias. The people who are able to start and keep working on open source projects have other income sources, because the current donation model affords them below-poverty wages. I would like open source to be a vi
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by kaikai 7y ago
I have several terrariums and the plants self-limit when they hit the glass. I have never needed to prune or trim them. When they get too dense they start dying back from moisture issues, and it self-regulates into a pretty stable loop.
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by kaikai 7y ago
They're also called carboys in the US. Nice brewing shops will have a variety of sizes and shapes to choose from.
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by kaikai 7y ago
Montana has 1 million people, North Dakota has <800k, while California has almost 40 million people. California problems are US problems.
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Some of my key lessons were: - remote-first meetings; is someone is remote / in another office, everyone takes the call from their laptops. That way no one ends up being forgotten on a screen in a room full of people. - habitually reve
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by kaikai 7y ago
Also a former Mapbox employee, and the effort that you put in to making it a remote-friendly culture showed in huge ways. I've carried those lessons to other companies, and I'm really grateful for your work <3
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by kaikai 7y ago
The marines are their own branch of the military. Maybe you're thinking of the navy seals?
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by kaikai 8y ago
The larger trackpad, the touchbar, and the crappy keyboard might all be easing us towards fully touchscreen computers. The larger trackpad gives us more touchable real estate, getting us used to making gestures to control screen behavior. T
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by kaikai 8y ago
You’ve been able to expense things like mattresses at multiple companies? Where are you based?
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by kaikai 8y ago
Check out the term "glass cliff," if you want an explanation of why some folks perceive her as a failure despite her successes.
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by kaikai 8y ago
Part of the deal with contractors is they're not supposed to be working there for years at a time, otherwise they're employees. Those layoffs might be justification for cycling people out to avoid having to convert them.
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by kaikai 8y ago
I'm also worried about this rash of IPOs not going well. I wondered if that's why so many companies are suddenly pushing for IPO on a tight deadline, after Uber announced. Once one big unicorn tanks after IPO, future IPOs will pro
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by kaikai 8y ago
I always wrote elaborate search queries with most important terms first, no filler words, etc. Lately I'm using more natural language searches, because they return better results. Probably they're optimizing the engine to return t
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by kaikai 8y ago
That might sound nice until you realize that most people socialize after they get out of work. If you have a weekly schedule like this you might miss out on a lot of social opportunities, much like people who work in the restaurant indust
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by kaikai 8y ago
Libraries are full of romance novels. If you’ve ever stood in line to check out a book you may have noticed how popular they are. I’m glad that people are reading, and don’t see a reason to pass judgement on the people reading them or prete
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by kaikai 8y ago
If you're an amateur beekeeper chances are high you're in a populated area, and it's irresponsible to let your hives swarm repeatedly. I'm also not convinced this works; hives generally swarm in the spring, and most beek
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by kaikai 8y ago
Communities of color are over-policed. There's a huge racial divide in income, and crimes that tend to be committed by the poor (like shoplifting, loitering, and fare-evasion) are far more likely to be prosecuted than crimes committed
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I'm sure that will be a hot topic during the trial
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You’re confusing economic systems with governmental systems. It’s entirely possible to have capitalist monarchies, for example.
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Mapbox is also in sf, with most of the company leadership based there (I used to work there)

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