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by kethinov 11y ago
I'm not talking about options, which as you pointed out do indeed carry risk, I'm talking about ESPP. They're different programs.
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by kethinov 11y ago
How is paying people who are already wealthy more than people who are poor helping the poor?
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> But I can't think of any situation where an employee makes less money because the policy is available to them than if the policy weren't available to them. That isn't the point. The point is it's immoral to pay peop
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by kethinov 11y ago
Interesting, thanks for the additional detail. I am not a critic of a system like that. However, that doesn't explicitly refute my point. Am I wrong in assuming that there are no limits on ESPP contribution? If that is indeed the case,
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by kethinov 11y ago
> Those who are rich can afford to take more risk, and they are taking more risk by putting more in. No, that's not how ESPP works. There is zero risk that they'll make less money than someone who takes it all as salary instead
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by kethinov 11y ago
Because any company which rewards people with extra money for deferring 100% of their comp for six months is elitist. The vast majority of their staff can't afford that and are therefore paid less for being poorer.
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by kethinov 11y ago
I've known people who've worked at Netflix and have complained about some toxic policies. Some highlights I can recall: Unlimited ESPP rewards already wealthy employees. If you can afford to not take any pay for six months, you ba
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by kethinov 11y ago
Good lord I know. It was like reading a short story via telegram. "once upon a time STOP i got bored at work STOP so i made a spreadsheet STOP ..."
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by kethinov 11y ago
> Is this what you would want to hear? How would you feel if the boss told you someone else was three times as effective as you were and you disagreed with that assessment? I think it can be done in a way that is not so personal while st
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by kethinov 11y ago
Nothing like a little polite dishonesty to allow everyone to save face...
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A lot of people who get laid off want to know why them and not a peer. Was their peer a better performer at the same pay grade? Or was their peer doing the same job for less money? Is the company looking to eliminate senior roles? Junior ro
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by kethinov 11y ago
That's all well and good, but Google can't exactly ask all their users to download Xcode and deploy some workaround to get a prebuilt Chrome binary bundled with Blink on their iPhone. Jailbreaking it and installing it via Cydia wo
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by kethinov 11y ago
Via Xcode and only if you have the source code. Doesn't quite work for people trying to distribute apps that aren't allowed in the app store.
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I'm tired of people repeating that false dichotomy. Such a policy hasn't destroyed Mac OS X's security model and it wouldn't destroy iOS'.
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The fact that there's no legal remedy only highlights the inadequacy of the laws on the books. Simple solution: require all OS vendors to permit opt-in, off-by-default sideloading. Curate your app store all you want, but don't pre
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by kethinov 11y ago
The fact that Safari would have even less market share if other browsers were allowed onto iOS is not the preservation of healthy competition, it's undoing the distortions of unfair competition that allow an inferior product to gain di
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by kethinov 11y ago
That reminds me of the time I googled "Google" on Google while visiting Google and the universe ended.
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"But progressive enhancement is the past!"
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by kethinov 11y ago
I wonder if this deal is designed to make eBay an easier acquisition target for Amazon or Alibaba?
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"Prototypal inheritance or classical inheritance?" "Yes."
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by kethinov 12y ago
I dunno, that era of gaming seems to transcend nostalgia. It was basically the peak of 2d game development. The switch to 3d after that changed gaming forever in a way that seems to emphasize cinematic gaming over intricate mechanics. For t
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Show HN: Experimental Facebook messenger desktop app(github.com)
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Just because some cultures living in poverty still place a strong emphasis on educational attainment doesn't mean that poverty plays no role in the achievement gap. Poverty produces cultures that are hostile to education. Not 100% of t
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by kethinov 12y ago
The only way to do that experiment in a properly controlled environment would be to have the entire student body come from identical socioeconomic backgrounds. The lesson of the article I linked is that the more poverty a child experiences,
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by kethinov 12y ago
This program did an excellent deep dive and the panelists have written books on the subject if you're looking for more depth: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-02-18/rethinking_stan...
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by kethinov 12y ago
How do you fix poverty? By having a safety net not full of holes like swiss cheese.
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My wife teaches in a high poverty school and it just mystifies us that so much of the public debate about how to deal with the achievement gap focuses on blame. We want to blame people. Teachers, parents, administrators, we're all look
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by kethinov 12y ago
The blame game is unhealthy. As long as our public discourse is about blaming parents, blaming teachers, or blaming anybody, we won't strike at the root of the problem, which is poverty. Kids living in poverty simply won't do well
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by kethinov 12y ago
People complain about the tests because they don't measure what the law presumes they measure. The law presumes all this testing reveals which schools and good teachers and which schools don't. Those tests suck at measuring that.
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by kethinov 12y ago
That's what I had to resort to. But I felt that the fact that I wasn't fielding an original, unasked question was somehow counting against me.

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