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by mabbo 4y ago
I joined and got granted at 1560/share with Staff Dev share counts. If the comp changes don't really do a lot, I'm out roughly a 6-figure number per year (CAD).
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by mabbo 4y ago
We are hiring. Full remote from almost anywhere worldwide.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Acetaminophen (paracetamol) is also associated with reductions in 'social pain'.[0] > Thus, acetaminophen reduces behavioral and neural responses associated with the pain of social rejection, demonstrating substantial overlap b
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by mabbo 4y ago
> The better option is to just leave the tar in the ground. A town not too far from where I grew up had most of it's economy based around a single factory (Hershey Chocolate in Smith's Falls, Ontario). There were lots of other
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by mabbo 4y ago
This is why I typically refer to it as 'digital art' more than 'game'. (See my other comment on that). It's not a roller coaster park, it's a museum exhibit or a gallery opening. That's not an insult- lots
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by mabbo 4y ago
"Stanley Parable" is, imho, a strong example of video games as a form of art. Few are going to play this game for 10 hours or more. I topped out at about 3. But it's still one of the most impactful, thought-provoking digital
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by mabbo 4y ago
I won't downvote you. When this terrible thing was done, we immediately realized we needed to add validation. We had thought that by limiting who could call through access controls, we'd never have a malicious user. So naive. Sadl
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by mabbo 4y ago
Good God yes. Once my team owned a service that did X. Among it's functionality, it had an API that, as a side effect, stored some data that could be retrieved. Sadly, this service had no validation that the data being input made any s
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by mabbo 5y ago
I'm a Canadian citizen, living and working in Canada. I haven't been to the United States in over 3 years. I haven't worked in the US since 2018. I am currently paying an accountant to file my California tax return (along wit
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by mabbo 5y ago
I heard a legend once that someone at IBM in the "blue suit and tie" days found himself to be irreplaceable. So at his next contract negotiations, he politely demanded the dress code be removed from his contract. And then he never
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by mabbo 5y ago
This is why I love LockPickingLawyer. Generally never more than 3 minutes long. Yet by confining himself to such short videos, he has to maximize the time used.
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by mabbo 5y ago
I would bet real money that YouTube has created very accurate estimates of how many ads they can show each user before they'll reduce their consumption, and automatically adjust the number of ads accordingly. Thus leaving us all perman
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by mabbo 5y ago
You may very well be right. As I said in another reply, I'm mostly quoting a delicious bit of writing Matt Levine published last week. I suspect that none of what I said is easy or even likely- but I do believe the risk of such things
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by mabbo 5y ago
I learned all of this (and so much more) from Matt Levine's "Money Stuff" newsletter. I cannot recommend it enough.
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by mabbo 5y ago
During a hostile takeover, someone buys 51% of the shares. They then elect a board of people who will approve whatever they want. Then they can do things like 'merge' the company with some other company they own at a board-approve
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by mabbo 5y ago
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is much more efficient at transmission over long distances than AC. It can throw off your intuition on these things. In China, there is a 3300 km line like this moving 12GW of power. This is a little bit l
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by mabbo 5y ago
The article goes on to describe situations in Iraq where the US was firing them at pickup trucks.
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by mabbo 5y ago
The article literally has the government officials saying this would take months and contracts. That's the whole point of the article. > The government, on the other hand, has a “significant timeline to make those types of correct
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by mabbo 5y ago
I want solutions to problems quickly. The current system does not do that. You're presenting a false dichotomy, or lacking in imagination.
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by mabbo 5y ago
> “The next day [after reports about the Russian jamming effort hit the media], Starlink had slung a line of code and fixed it,” The notion that SpaceX is basically using a Full CI/CD pipeline on a massive satellite constellation is
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by mabbo 5y ago
Did you misread the title? This would encourage more chargers, which helps EV drivers.
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by mabbo 5y ago
This kind of makes sense to me. Gas stations are already setup as places where cars are coming and going frequently. As cars move from gas to electric, the use of these places transitions smoothly. It's a pigouvian tax: tax the things
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by mabbo 5y ago
> Maybe we are long overdue for an open standard protocol for social interactions on the web We have those. They are called websites and emails.
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by mabbo 5y ago
FYI: when I gave my email address to sign up, the very bare email that hit my gmail inbox went straight to spam. You're going to need to do more to keep it on the 'not spam' list, I think.
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by mabbo 5y ago
Just FYI, this also applies while you work there. This makes it almost impossible to do any open source work, or have personal projects that you'd like to retain ownership of. It's one of the reasons I left Amazon after nearly a d
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by mabbo 5y ago
The simple answer is that "Customer Obsession" is dead. Amazon is now so dominant that improving search to help customers find what they actually want would reduce profits. The top search results are paid ads. Why distract from th
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by mabbo 5y ago
HackerNews is the most 'social' network I do these days. Facebook and Twitter trigger some very unhealthy buttons in my brain, so I stopped using social media. Frankly I need to back off on HN as well.
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by mabbo 5y ago
When I went looking for a fully remote position last year, I was worried that exactly this might happen. Then I heard that Shopify had literally shut down and sold their offices. It's not actually possible for the company to go back to
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by mabbo 5y ago
Not just drinking water. The cool water is pumped into buildings to work as the air conditioner for a lot of the big buildings.
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by mabbo 5y ago
> Freeze water in the cellar (speaking of like 30m^3) using thermal pomp during winter to heat house and when electricity costs little, and use that ice in summer to cool down the house. Unless I misunderstood, the Toronto Zoo has or had

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