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by lhorie 5y ago
> at the expense of the second employee—and, indirectly, all employees in the sector, because that depresses market rates. It feels a bit out of touch to say that when they literally do make top-of-band salaries compared to other local c
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by lhorie 5y ago
Work experience is work experience. I interview candidates from FB and other companies and I evaluate people based on their individual skills, not what the news say about the company.
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> why shouldn't _you_ get to pocket the difference in the cost of living? I mean, the logic clearly doesn't work because if you instead ask "why shouldn't the employer pay the same low salary in both locations"
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by lhorie 5y ago
Problem is, if Uber recent news are anything to go by, in the current environment investors aren't interested in promises, they want to see results and they want to see them now. Uber literally just forecasted positive cash flow by the
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by lhorie 5y ago
The article seems to be trying to make a case that the explanation is simple (vaccination and universal healthcare), but I think in doing so, it dances too close to just saying what people want to hear. As someone who's gone back and f
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by lhorie 5y ago
The irony for me is that Google had a Reddit before Reddit was a thing, it was called Orkut and it was glorious. You could create communities based on whatever the heck you wanted and connect with friends and strangers alike through any twi
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by lhorie 5y ago
I think fragmentation and looking after one's interests aren't even opposites. Analytics in particular seem like a very lopsided value prop: the american entity (Google) stands to gain from collecting analytics but doesn't re
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by lhorie 5y ago
As an interviewer, I've been on the receiving end of most of those questions (or some variation of them). It's a pretty reasonable list. One thing though is that most interviewers don't leave a whole lot of room for a barrage
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Have you never shopped for textiles I mean, this[0] meme pretty much sums it up [0] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/441/150/c01...
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by lhorie 5y ago
It largely follows gender stereotypical interest lines. In this one, my wife describes the list as "fashion related stuff". Here's another older list from a different study[0] Higher recognition rates by males: - codec (88, 4
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by lhorie 5y ago
Sure, but that doesn't really address the point. Suppose aliens got really lucky and managed to achieve interstellar travel in just 1 billion years since the big bang. That still leaves the entire area outside of a 12 billion light yea
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by lhorie 5y ago
> The feature sells cars Right. Similarly, the fast Prime delivery guarantees from Amazon are backed by warehouse workers working their asses off, and I'm sure we've all heard about the bad rep Amazon gets for worker treatment
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by lhorie 5y ago
Why are we assuming that we would be able to see intelligent alien life by just looking at the right spot in space? If we take it at face value the figure that the universe is 13 billion years old, and that the observable universe is 90 b
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by lhorie 5y ago
For Uber at least, self driving was effectively a money-losing pipe dream, so it kinda did itself a favor by divesting via the sale of the division to Aurora. For Tesla, though, FSD is still such a front and center thing that I'm havin
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Only because human language leaves a lot of room for interpretation Technically no. Many things have intrinsic physical value that cannot be tracked via digital contracts. If I go to amazon and buy a book, but they ship the wrong book
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by lhorie 5y ago
What is a "true crypto believer" anyways? As a matter of practicality, everyone that interacts with financial assets of any sort are bound to laws imposed by some government. Equating "whoever has the keys" to ownershi
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, we already went over this, i.e. there isn't such a quarter on record, if that's the only metric you're looking at. At least from what I've seen, many analysts are bullish right now (mostly due to a combo of low s
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by lhorie 5y ago
There was actually a fairly high profile boomerang in the news last year - and at Amazon, no less - Sukumar Rathnam went from engineering manager at Amazon to CTO at Uber to VP of e-commerce services at Amazon, all in the span of less than
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by lhorie 5y ago
Basically, it's supposed to describe this: - Bob works at Amazon as a SDE 2 - Bob finds getting promoted to SDE 3 is hard (despite being qualified) because the bar for promotion is too nitpicky/convoluted/whatever - Bob quits
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by lhorie 5y ago
If you're talking about the Q3 net loss figure, I already mentioned downthread that a good chunk of it was due to the Didi stake write-off. This is kinda why I mentioned the rideshare industry talks so much about ebitda; the equity sid
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by lhorie 5y ago
No, the second button is clear from the tip of the top piece, so that specific configuration has a range of motion of well over 270 degrees. It isn't considered kosher by Lego because obviously the second button does eventually hit the
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by lhorie 5y ago
Well, it did post 4.8B revenue in Q3, so obviously that also funds a good chunk of operations.
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by lhorie 5y ago
But you're literally admitting that legos aren't what they used to be. My exposure to legos was very similar to yours. Yes, there are more variety of pieces now, and it can be both a blessing and a curse, depending on what angle y
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by lhorie 5y ago
Judging from what an insider in the HR org told me, we're going to be hearing a lot of stories like this going forward. Apparently, Amazon scale is so large and their attrition rates are so bad that in some markets, every potentially
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by lhorie 5y ago
> So Uber was actually subsidizing every other platform's drivers My understanding is that with the exception of some very specific niche programs, all of those expenses are paid from the driver's pockets (since, as you recall,
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by lhorie 5y ago
There were some boosts to some numbers in some quarter from sale of divisions (the self-driving division acquisition by Aurora being one of the bigger one) yes, and there were also some boosts from pulling out of some markets (e.g. the Grab
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, that's why I qualified by saying it's on adjusted ebitda. The ridesharing industry doesn't use GAP yet under the argument it's still a nascent industry, so the narrative right now mostly centers around showing a tr
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by lhorie 5y ago
> What they don't talk about is that their "more convenient taxi" ride is heavily subsidized by VC money This meme really needs to die. Uber did burn VC cash earlier on, especially in places w/ intense competition (e.
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've no horse in the game, but it sounds like you have a pet hatred towards Facebook, to the extent that you don't seem to realize that there's a difference between "facebook was used as a tool in an undesirable way by p
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by lhorie 5y ago
Be mindful that the dataset is 1-indexed (i.e. zero votes equal a score of 1), so your script is probably a bit skewed towards non-US.

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