milesskorpen

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by milesskorpen 4y ago
"in Italy, Tuscany, mid 1800, were no black woman was ever seen " Yeah, right. Clearly you've not heard about Othello, a Shakespearean play from the 1400s set in Italy with a black man as the titular character.
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
Every now and then it's not awful, that's true. But it's just entirely non-functional and/or extremely slow a high percentage of times, which means you can't reliably plan to have functioning wifi, which means you c
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
Airplane wifi is garbage and wildly unreliable.
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
... that might be a stretch. If this were a private file, I don't think it is evaluated in the same way. But he's sharing it, so if it is linking to malicious content using Google, they could be perceived as complicit so they need
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
I'll bet that some of the candidate websites this file linked to had been taking over by malicious actors and WERE being used for phishing. By linking to them and sending them traffic, you were perceived as a bit complicit.
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
If you're playing seriously, I think if you touch a piece you need to move it.
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
If you opt-in to iCloud, you're opting in to a lot of state-level security risk in any country (and this is true of any commercial cloud).
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
You don't say it explicitly, but there's a bit of a garden-of-eden in this story: Founders were running this great wonderful profitable business and then those darn VCs come in and ruin everything. A founder isn't forced to t
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
Entirely 100% disagree. Easy access to Marin and all areas north make San Francisco a much better city.
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
Note that these employee counts probably include whole hospital staffs (since teaching hospitals / academic medical centers are frequently part of universities).
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
Part of the issue is TOO MUCH governance. We have loaded colleges down with regulations and requirements, which then require administrators to handle these rules. Most of these administrative roles are not optional (at least not if you don&
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by milesskorpen 4y ago
The class action was settled — which just means it was cheaper to settle than to fight in court, not that there was wrong doing. This kind of thing is very very common, and the settlement amount was modest in the scheme of class action sett
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
I remember coming to San Francisco on business trips 11-12 years ago. Cabs were impossible to find - one of the selling points of our office building was that it had a cab stand, so it was a bit easier. We'd walk blocks to find hotels
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
When you join a company you typically get a larger than normal RSU grant that vests over 4 years. Every year you get new, typically smaller, grants. The compound effect is that your compensation will decrease in year 5, when your initial gr
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
Absolute numbers aren't a tax rate. 1% of $2M home gets you to $20k/year easily. But the article talks about $100-200k homes; there is no way this town can have a 10-20% property tax rate.
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
There is a smaller version of it at UMich: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/07/heres_your_firs...
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
Most politicians have less power over their country than Zuckerberg has over Facebook. Degree of complicity adjusts a bit with knowledge & actual power to address. But yes. People who have the power to fix something unjust and don'
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
I agree there is a tension — similar to how regulation to protect privacy also tends to reinforce monopolies. However, in this case, sometimes it seems like Facebook wants to both be highly centralized and very powerful ("Just LOOK at
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
Reference: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/893:_65_Years
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
My understanding is that subcontractors are far more common now than they were ~20 years ago. Perhaps the subcontractors that did exist 20+ years ago were treated equally poorly, but it is relevant that there are many more people in this po
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
I think that's the point - there aren't big tech construction workers, they're just construction workers.
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
I don't think there's much evidence of a sustained decrease in demand for dining.
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
Those highs are 105-110 in the Great Plains … seems substantially cooler than 125F in Canada.
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
I've found it to be super laggy and unusable, unfortunately. iPhone 12 + 2018 MBP.
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by milesskorpen 5y ago
Hedge fund and PE folks can make way more than that (performance dependent).
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by milesskorpen 6y ago
Same reason Malcolm Gladwell is popular — it's pop science/economics/whatever, made to be readable and digestible, but over simplifies (and sometimes falsifies) in the process.
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by milesskorpen 6y ago
They mention 44 clots out of 9.2mm doses given Lots of medications have risks. For example, a common birth control can cause or increase risk of pulmonary embolisms. Unless there's reason to think the actual rate will become much highe
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by milesskorpen 6y ago
It went bankrupt, but will come out of it and continue to exist (with new owners).
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by milesskorpen 6y ago
You can disagree without attacking the original poster. It’s obviously not news to you, since you present a counter argument, and nothing in your comment suggests thinking there are subgenres is childish. Why resort to ad hominems?
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by milesskorpen 6y ago
I can't tell if you're trying to be serious here. It was in no way a good life to be a serf. Life was literally nasty, brutish, and short - even putting aside armed conflict and external dangers. Lords would extract what they coul

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