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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I understand some companies attempting to exclude CO in order to not post salary bands, but if we're talking about tech (or especially finance), good luck avoiding hiring in NYC. NYC is home to a ton of tech talent, and that amount see
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Preliminary note: I don't claim to be an expert in any field relevant to vaccines. This is just an everyday layman's opinion. (Also, I'm vaccinated and boosted as well). I think "anti-vax" sounds inherently extremis
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
If the US currently commits anything close to what's happening in Xinjiang, particularly with the emphasis on it being on a helpless minority of its own citizens, you would have to link to it. Many of us don't think that is happen
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
We don't expect books to include "Not guaranteed to make you smarter" on the label. Though we technically expect securities to include "Not guaranteed to make you rich," it's in small text nobody ever reads. I
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Sure, but you can't seriously fault the college for not declaring "Our $LiberalArtsMajor majors are usually unemployed." Graduating high school, it's incredibly clear that studying finance or engineering will give you a
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
No, what I was trying to initially explain is that it is Netflix being defrauded. You pointed out that the company may only have equity to give, and I said that they weren't giving the equity to Netflix. They were giving it to an execu
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
What's the spot/contract/etc in that case, that the professor is selling but doesn't have the right to sell on behalf of the university for his own enrichment? I don't see an example of how the university is losing
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
For another example, look at how college bribery schemes are illegal. They're not illegal because they're unfair or immoral, they're illegal because the administrator is selling the spot that the college owns; it's not h
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
That line of thinking is actually really valuable, here's some insights: (1) The company has either a sales issue or a pitch issue, if reasonable sales targets can't attract investors. (2) Investors aren't adequately informed
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Yes, but I'm talking about to the individual, not the company. Someone with a full-time job often has not just stopped interviewing elsewhere but resigned from their current job, and began planning a move for their family, and now will
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
No, I know someone who also experienced this with Stripe a few months ago. Rescinding intern offers is also bad, but it's not nearly the same in impact as rescinding a full-time offer for a lot of reasons. I haven't seen this from
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I love Stripe's product as much as the next guy and am a fan of Patrick Collison, but it's not okay for a company like Stripe to be rescinding a bunch of offers due to "shifting business priorities" all the time. (This i
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I agree this isn't many, but from companies at a similar valuation / prestige level, I haven't heard of any product/eng offers revoked because of "shifting business priorities," and yet I've heard of a few
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> A white collar programmer has more in common with a janitor than with a CEO. As someone who grew up lower-class and now makes six figures in tech, I don't think this is true. There's a world of difference between a janitor an
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Flexport recently interviewed me for a PM role despite lack of any degree and a few years of experience. I imagine they require a customs broker to have a degree for regulatory purposes, but if you want to go fully into tech, a degree isn&#
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
A jury has found that was not the case with Rittenhouse; reading the Wikipedia page that details the incident will explain why [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Minority rights are well-protected in America as a constitutional republic. An actual direct democracy, like Switzerland, isn't as great as protecting minority rights. There's plenty of examples of democracies trampling minority r
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
The court seems to be doing its job then. I could cite many examples of justified shootings due to the stand-your-ground statute in Texas, and there are a few examples that are unjustified. In the unjustified cases, the shooter is found gui
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I support Snowden, but "Every person deserves the freedom to criticize their leaders and to speak out against abuse" is not equal to "Every employee of secret government intelligence agencies deserves the freedom to steal tho
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
To agree with the sibling comment, another better alternative may be "Measure What Matters" by John Doerr: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39286958-measure-what-ma... He has a lot of respect in the t
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Clearly by everyone's perspective on HN, we can establish that there's few companies in the same category as FB. Maybe Experian or something, but I doubt anyone at FB would go there? Arguably it's so much worse to work at FB,
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> People need to work to earn a living, the idea that "they can easily just get a job somewhere else!" is a fallacy. Do you know anyone at FB? I know several engineers at FB, and it's a fallacy to think they can't eas
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I saw the mention of that event on the museum homepage actually, and it links here: https://www.iridiummuseum.com/exhibits/building-a-sustainabl...
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
> I am utterly annoyed with selfish people effectively pulling the whole collectivity back to the office You might want to re-read their comment — there was no call for everyone to go back to the office, and the parent comment is right t
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
It appears the attacker didn't have a weapon, though, which is the TSA's job you're saying they didn't accomplish?
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
This is intended as an autonomous taxi, designed for a sprawling urban canal system like Amsterdam. All those canals you've linked are absolutely nothing like the intended definition.
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I wouldn't, because a fruit bred to be bigger and juicier is engineered by humans for their own benefit, while an elephant evolving to not have tusks is evolution going against human benefit. I believe natural selection includes the in
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
Not the parent, but the irony is that to bring good fortune, you bring incredible misfortune (extinction, even) upon other living things.
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I think the above commenter recognized that; that's exactly how these evolutions pretty much always work in nature, not unique to this case.
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by lowkey_ 5y ago
I think you're missing the context of what this is about: > Strangely, the example she gave suggested that Facebook needs to have looser encryption in order to somehow protect Uyghurs in China from government attempts to implant spy

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