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by mattficke 4y ago
Financial privacy is a limited right in the US (and in most other countries), you’re not allowed to hide financial assets or transactions from the government. You can think that’s bad, but it’s unambiguously the law (the Supreme Court ruled
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Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago(washingtonpost.com)
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by mattficke 4y ago
Bitcoin futures are cash settled so there aren’t the same custody issues, there’s no delivery of the underlying involved.
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by mattficke 4y ago
A lot of this information is also available in the company’s Articles of Incorporation. Can’t hurt to ask in the interview, but it’s probably a good idea to pull the actual filing anywhere you’re seriously considering an offer (if it’s a De
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by mattficke 5y ago
Plum Village is in southwestern France, it was the first center to open. It’s a wonderful place. https://plumvillage.org/
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Citizen App Workers Vote to Unionize(bloomberg.com)
16 points by mattficke 5y ago|1 comments
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by mattficke 5y ago
I'm in a similar position, these are the ones that I've found by far the most helpful (they also complement each other well, they're very different). I've honestly had a hard time finding good resources other than these,
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CS 9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview(web.stanford.edu)
2 points by mattficke 5y ago|0 comments
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by mattficke 5y ago
CI is what comes to mind. If you want to run tests or build artifacts on a Mac every time any developer pushes a commit, you really need something remote rather than a physical device on your desk.
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by mattficke 5y ago
This is basically the Kaiser model. Kaiser's doctors are salaried, rather than getting paid per procedure. Works pretty well! (I think the actual answer to the question in the OP is, at least in part, to license more doctors. Then the
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by mattficke 5y ago
That includes things like index funds. The vast majority of people do not own individual equities.
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Resources for New Managers –- Lara Hogan/Wherewithall(resources-for-new-managers.com)
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by mattficke 5y ago
Effective Python [0] is my favorite book in this category. [0] https://effectivepython.com/
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The Ship That Became a Bomb(newyorker.com)
3 points by mattficke 5y ago|0 comments
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Travis CI Leaked Secure Environment Variables(travis-ci.community)
85 points by mattficke 5y ago|8 comments
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by mattficke 5y ago
They wouldn’t be homeless anymore, though. I think that’s a pretty solid improvement, regardless of any other challenges they have in their lives.
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End Office Happy Hours(slate.com)
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by mattficke 5y ago
This bill doesn’t appear to do so, but I hope the exempt occupations are revisited at some point. Companies like law firms and software consultancies have no trouble billing out many of these exempt jobs at an hourly rate. I don’t think the
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by mattficke 5y ago
No that's right, unions can't prevent layoffs or office closures, the idea isn't to prevent any sort of changes. To use a programming metaphor, it's more about avoiding undefined behavior. We use contracts to define prof
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by mattficke 5y ago
This sounds like it’s in response to the criticism many tech companies have received for providing on-site meals for employees, instead of spending money at local restaurants. For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0
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by mattficke 5y ago
(disclosure: current Mapbox employee, in the proposed bargaining unit) The primary value is that a union is the only realistic way a worker in the US can get their employment terms specified in a contract. Without a contract, these terms ca
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by mattficke 5y ago
He’s saying the quiet part out loud, but this is almost certainly not a rare opinion. It was long enough ago now that people new to the industry may not know, but Google, Apple, and others were illegally colluding for years to reduce employ
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by mattficke 5y ago
You had to click through a few menus to use it, but yes (I think it was called “experimental web browser” or something). Worked internationally too, I used it to look up some stuff when I was on vacation in Turkey in 2010.
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by mattficke 5y ago
It would be unenforceable, with the caveat that the protection only applies to non-supervisory roles and only when discussing salary with other employees internally. Companies can still limit your ability to disclose your salary externally,
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by mattficke 5y ago
>The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. I don't think this is quite right. The main idea is that hiring and developing e
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by mattficke 5y ago
> You need to take the base rate of criminality into account So is this the kind of thing you measure with calipers, or…
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by mattficke 5y ago
This is a little more idiosyncratic than the other recommendations, but the “Bite Size Networking” zine by Julia Evans is a really nice overview of networking tools on Linux. https://wizardzines.com/zines/bite-size-netw
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Sony is closing its Playstation Store for PS3 in July(theverge.com)
1 points by mattficke 6y ago|0 comments
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by mattficke 6y ago
Your bank is going to start charging you interest as well. They might have a teaser rate that's positive up to a certain balance, but there's limits to the arbitrage here.
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by mattficke 6y ago
This is a systemic problem with tax enforcement in the US in recent years, caused in part by reduced funding for the IRS. Wealthy people can afford expensive legal defenses, which makes it more expensive for the IRS to pursue these cases, s

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