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by lacker 5y ago
You may find this Iain Banks interview enjoyable. TLDR search for "gravitas" ;-) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/11/iainbanks-scie...
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by lacker 5y ago
I feel like I'm asking stupid questions, but, why is this in a cube? As I rotate it I feel like I am looking in from multiple dimensions, but it's like I'm looking at a totally different entity through the different faces of
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by lacker 5y ago
I've heard a good argument that algebra specifically should be moved the other way: teach it in elementary school, when kids are first exposed to arithmetic. I think the core problem here is trying to teach all kids math in the same
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by lacker 5y ago
This is really making the public school system more unequal . Since this is just a "recommendation", the good public schools like Cupertino or Piedmont will ignore it, and keep teaching children algebra. The bad public schools th
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by lacker 5y ago
* their exercise price is almost certainly going to be equal to the 409A valuation, which means they're worth $0 upfront* I don't think this is generally the case; typically the 409A valuation is using accounting rules that are di
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by lacker 5y ago
Here is an optimistic way to calculate. If there are 55M shares outstanding, then 400,000 options represents about 0.7% of the company. You need to make your own estimate for how much the company is worth right now. If the company raised ar
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by lacker 5y ago
The Chessbase article is a lot more readable than the arxiv paper. Yeah, they did some bad GPL stuff, but that just isn't really relevant to this particular discussion, and the chessbase link is better for the general reader.
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by lacker 5y ago
It just depends what your options are. If you are a hot shot who can get a job anywhere, hey it's probably not the best, it would probably be nicer to work somewhere with a bit better of a reputation like Stripe. If your alternatives a
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by lacker 5y ago
I mean, an iPhone CPU outperforms quantum computers at almost any task you can imagine. The only exception so far is tasks designed specifically so that only quantum computers can perform them efficiently. In 20 years this may no longer be
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by lacker 5y ago
For this study, researchers conducted technical interviews of 48 computer science undergraduates and graduate students. So they weren't studying real interviews. They were studying fake interviews as performed by a bunch of PhD stude
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by lacker 5y ago
This title is quite editorialized. The whole controversy is over whether these are human rights organizations as this website claims, or terrorist groups as the Israeli government claims. It should not be a surprise that the NSO group, as a
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by lacker 5y ago
The design principles just don't make sense for license plates. It really isn't important that a license plate for California highlight the history of California. It's nice to be distinguishable from other states' plates
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by lacker 5y ago
Hmm, I saw someone from levels.fyi report recently that tech salaries had gone up a lot recently, and so they needed to push faster updates to their data. Does Hired really have good data on this, or are only the lower-quality jobs placed o
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by lacker 5y ago
When the position is "best people you can find", how can you argue a US citizen does not fulfill the requirements? Because the 100 best people you can find aren't all US citizens, when their citizenship isn't relevant
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by lacker 5y ago
Couldn't companies also use the 6 years that they employ a foreigner to train an American worker to fill the position? The large tech companies are hiring thousands of software engineers each year and just want the best talent they c
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by lacker 5y ago
When U.S. workers did apply, the suit said, Facebook hired them into different jobs, reserving the open position for the H-1B worker. For what it's worth, as an ex-FB engineering manager, this isn't how Facebook works at all. 99
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by lacker 5y ago
I was adding "rarely acceptable" and "never acceptable" to get the sum total of "negative opinions", I think that's reasonable to summarize a poll with many options as yes-or-no. The Halloween thing isn&#x
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by lacker 5y ago
People are allowed to buy lottery tickets. They are also allowed to bet it all at a casino. Why shouldn't someone be able to put even a small amount of money in crypto? You can put money in crypto, though. Buy Bitcoin, buy Ethereum,
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by lacker 5y ago
Netflix is simply following public opinion. As far as I can tell, most Americans think that blackface is wrong. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/11/about-a-thi... By comparison, most America
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by lacker 5y ago
The drought has some pretty obvious effects if you live out here in California. A small lake near me that I usually go hiking to with my little kids, Jewel Lake, dried up entirely this summer. That hasn't happened in years. (Well, I&#x
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by lacker 5y ago
Yes! This advice to value shares of private companies at zero is buried deep in the article, but I think it renders the article quite misleading. The right thing to do is to use your own judgment to estimate the value of the stock. A small
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by lacker 5y ago
Pretty neat, I played for a bit. It's so unintuitive to me nowadays that you are unable to jump in Doom....
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by lacker 5y ago
Are you actually disagreeing with him, though? Pro rata is clearly a good thing for investors. But many founders just treat it as a neutral thing for them. I think and the author should both agree that a founder should slightly prefer the i
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by lacker 5y ago
So, looking into it a bit more, iLike ended up selling for $20m to Myspace roughly a year after this story happened. It sucks for Steve Jobs to say you're full of BS, but really, if there's a mistake here, the mistake is simply no
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by lacker 5y ago
OP was a bad negotiator and he's acknowledging it. To me this seems like the "reality distortion field". There's just no amount of "good negotiation" that is going to get Apple up from $50m to $150m here. App
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by lacker 5y ago
It's funny to me that the author of this book was also the global head of PR for De Beers for six years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Suzman Being the head apologist for a company that generally does bad th
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by lacker 5y ago
If they break the script, they'll probably break the unfollow UI for legitimate human users Messing with this is a lose-lose for Facebook. Nah, this sort of thing really happens all the time. Think hundreds of scripts like this aut
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by lacker 5y ago
Disabilities deserve special protection, but in practice companies seem pretty good about working with usability extensions. AFAICT almost all cases where companies don't support disabled users enough, it's unintentional. There&#x
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by lacker 5y ago
If it's a lot fewer crashes, and phantom braking happens rarely, that would be pretty strong evidence. After some brief looking around the internet, I didn't really find any good evidence, or any weak evidence, it seems like we do
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by lacker 5y ago
The cease and desist seemingly has no real legal basis It seems pretty straightforward to me - the Facebook terms of service say that you won't make scripts that interact with the Facebook site except through approved APIs, the cease

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