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by mabbo 4y ago
I don't save many comments on HN, but I saved this one and re-read it about once a year for a chuckle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566 > I have a slight fascination with sweeteners. About five years ago
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by mabbo 4y ago
Scientists increasingly can't explain how any intelligence works. Look, I threw some photons from a screen to your eyes. How the heck are you reading this? What is going on ? Well, if you can't explain it, that must mean it'
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by mabbo 4y ago
As always, it depends. Yay engineering and trade-offs. Hey just remember: both is always an option if you're consumers disagree. Thin stream from the consumers who don't trust the fat data, fat stream for the event log and other c
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by mabbo 4y ago
Amazon never did this. They gave some extra stocks.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Options cost, I believe, 0.4X current stock price for a 10-year option to buy at today's price. It's a great deal if you plan to stay with the company for a long time and think the stock will go up quite a bit, because you multipl
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by mabbo 4y ago
Then you can also get paid in stock. Like, the system lets you pick between cash, options, RSUs. Whichever is your favourite, take it.
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by mabbo 4y ago
If you want upside, you can get paid almost entirely in options. The upside is huge.
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's going to be an interest year or two if all tech stocks continue to fall. Most of these companies pay largely in RSUs for more senior ICs and managers. RSUs strike a price at the grant date. If you're paid 50% in stock, and th
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by mabbo 4y ago
Tom Scott interviewed him last year in a really wonderful video about microwaves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y > I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm even more impressed with Nicholas Alkemade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Alkemade He was the tail gunner on a WW2 Avro Lancaster that was on fire and going to crash. So he simply opened the door and
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by mabbo 4y ago
"Fortunately, I landed in a giant nest of fire ants" says literally one person, ever.
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by mabbo 4y ago
If you ever get the feeling that you're good at Excel and have some kind of mastery of it, go watch a YouTube video by the infamous 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli. Setting aside that he is a pretty awful human being, his skills
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by mabbo 4y ago
I feel the author misjudges the people making these decisions because for them in their own situation, the choice of large frameworks isn't the right one. But many smart people are in different situations in which the best decision
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by mabbo 4y ago
Truthfully, I know some of those recruiters personally. I don't hold it against them. They're paid terribly and their job is at risk if they don't get candidates. I just be as polite as I can, but I hold them to their word.
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by mabbo 4y ago
They don't even need to. The money all goes to the same place. They can just "take a loss" in the division making the product where the loss is the fee they paid to the other division of Amazon. Then they can claim they'
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by mabbo 4y ago
Every time an Amazon recruiter emails me, I reply back CC'ing every previous Amazon recruiter. I say "Thanks <new person name> but I'm not interested in working for Amazon. <Previous recruiters>: I previously aske
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by mabbo 4y ago
The core problem is that the market owner and operator is also a market competitor . It's just not believable that they wouldn't cheat. They have sales data from all their competitors on this market- numbers, prices, trends,
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by mabbo 4y ago
Curious: will the regrowth of the burned forests have an opposite effect? It will take a while, but it should be capable of growing just as large, right?
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by mabbo 4y ago
> lockout/tagout may seem unnecessary, but it's specifically to avoid exactly these types of situations Thank you! I was trying desperately to remember what that system is called but deleted that sentence from my reply because
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by mabbo 4y ago
> As a side note, I’m using metric units here, but you can *switch* to the imperial system if you prefer. Clicking on the word 'switch' does exactly that. That's a delightful and clever touch that of course comes from Bart
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by mabbo 4y ago
Because openness about failure is indicative of willingness to accept criticism. Doesn't mean they need to accept fault. Being completely silent on the matter gives the appearance that they are pretending it didn't happen, that th
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by mabbo 4y ago
The key question that everyone, especially SpaceX, should be asking is why was it even possible to run the test while Cabada was in an unsafe place? System and safety design- a topic that a rocketry company should be deeply familiar with- s
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by mabbo 4y ago
> according to David Niekerk, a former Amazon HR Vice President. That isn't a nobody. He was a major HR guy for Amazon for over 15 years. I knew his name in passing when I was working there, and met his daughter who was a rising sta
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by mabbo 4y ago
Five years ago, when unemployment wasn't at all time lows like they are today, I heard stories about Amazon warehouses that simply could not hire anymore. CHA1 in Chattanooga needs thousands of employees to function. But Chattanooga is
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by mabbo 4y ago
> I do wonder what tools could support this kind of higher-effort higher-impact forestation What's neat is that the tools already exist. Much of modern farming is a data problem- knowing soil conditions and nutrient levels across a
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by mabbo 4y ago
Nuclear waste is tiny and contained. It kills no one when handled correctly, which it is. Coal and gas plants produce pollution that kills thousands every year, and that's how it's supposed to work. Meltdowns are next to impossibl
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by mabbo 4y ago
They could have instead replaced the fossil fuel electrical generation with those renewables, and kept the nuclear plants. That would have been a massive reduction in carbon emissions by Germany. Odd choice.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> As you might have guessed by the long period with no posting, Sensebridge is out of business. We’ve been out of stock on Northpaw Kits since late 2016; we do not have plans to make more kits.
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by mabbo 4y ago
> The only somewhat free place I've seen is 4Chan but it contains so much toxicity, that's its barely bearable. That is what happens when speech is free from consequences.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the point is to publish before anyone else does. If they wait until they're full paper is ready, they might be scooped.

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