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by minwcnt5 7y ago
I don't think the fact that humans are social animals needs a citation. Most people are healthier and happier spending their time in social groups. Even as a highly introverted person, I'd much rather interact with live people e
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by minwcnt5 7y ago
In addition to what vkou said, firing individuals for low performance in the US, as opposed to mass layoffs, typically requires putting them through the PIP process (performance improvement plan), which is onerous and stressful for the mana
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by minwcnt5 7y ago
Why did you cut off the quote there? OP also mentioned Instagram and WhatsApp. Most people under 30 are on Instagram.
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by minwcnt5 7y ago
I think it's more that there are a large number of employees who don't actually contribute much and treat it like a retirement gig. I've seen people who are only in the office from 10-5, take long breaks for lunches, sociali
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by minwcnt5 8y ago
Maybe it's their ranking algorithm.
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by minwcnt5 8y ago
Isn't it more that they're against Trump, and what the Republican party has become? They are only for one political party because there is only one alternative. Back in the day, I know that their leadership was close with people
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by minwcnt5 8y ago
I have a hard time understanding the comparison of aggregate market cap (a valuation) to GDP (an annual output). These seem like two very different quantities, with different units. How do you intend for us to interpret that comparison?
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
Headphones are a poor solution to the noise problem in open offices. I find it uncomfortable to wear them for 8 hours at a time, and it means I can't overhear the conversations I do want to overhear. Sitting elsewhere only works if
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
It may appear that way on the surface, but that's because it follows a typical pseudo-scientific formula of citing some a few specific results as evidence to give the argument an air of credibility, and then drawing broad and profound
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
Oh come on, it's obvious hyperbole. I wouldn't actually punch this guy in the face if I had to work with him, but I would certainly would silently wish I could.
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
Americans make up only 4.3% of the world's population. Thus, even if we invest much more in American citizens, which we surely should, don't you think it's inevitable that progress in tech will nevertheless be driven largely
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
The fiber and polyphenols in the whole fruit modulate the uptake of fructose in the gut.
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
You're just going to throw that out there with no explanation? Waterloo had a very strong reputation prior to NAFTA. In the 1990s, prior to the tech boom, it was far less common for co-op students to do work terms in the US, but the
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
Would it make you happy if they had written "On average though, x MW is pulled out of the grid by the datacenter and x MW is put in by the renewable energy company, where x is some value < 114 MW"? Sheesh. The point being mad
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by minwcnt5 9y ago
$80K CAD is $59K USD, which is not that much different than the original post. $160K CAD = $119K USD is fairly good, but most developers with 17 years experience would take home north of $200K in Silicon Valley (I'm not familiar with
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
This has been circulated around HN and Reddit several times, and it's disappointing that someone of Norvig's stature would present the data in such a misleading way. Here's a good explanation posted by "tedsanders"
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
I don't know what exactly you're looking at, because from my perspective "everyone" is an insane exaggeration on your part. I know countless people who run, cycle, ski, mountain bike, play soccer, go backpacking, play b
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
Would it really be that bad for them if Google went belly up sometime in the future? Sure their property values might decline, but in the interim they'd go up. Is it that bad if property values go from x, to x + y, back to x, as oppo
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
Indeed, their plan that the city rejected did include an additional off ramp. But highways are nonetheless terribly inefficient. One extra lane or off ramp isn't enough to handle all of Google's traffic. They've already wid
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
That's not true. There are at least seven four storey buildings (Alza, Crittenden) on the main campus, and there's also a new 5 storey building on Pear Ave. But almost none of their buildings were built new, most were already bu
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
Looks good on the City of Mountain View. All those years of fighting against Google's expansion, awarding building rights to LinkedIn instead of Google and decrying how the city was becoming a "one company town". Looks like
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
REALLY strange choice of data point for Toronto -- it uses a much smaller land area than for the US cities. Greater Toronto Area - 7,124 km^2 Chicago Metro Area - 28,120 km^2 Houston Metro Area - 26,061 km^2 Dallas-Fort Worth - 24,059 km^2
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by minwcnt5 10y ago
All of those numbers seem wrong. My effective tax rate in CA was around 38% for 2015. 30-35% is too low for $500k.
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
Having a lot of confidence in your abilities is arguably a pretty important quality in an employee. I've encountered a lot of engineers who were way less effective than they could have been, mainly because they were too timid to speak
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
That is pure nostalgia talking. I strongly suspect that if you did you would be appalled and want to switch back after only a few searches. Search in 2016 is leaps and bounds beyond what it was in 2006.
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
No. Obviously.
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
Google/FB engineers make a heck of a lot more than 130k, that's pretty much base entry level before bonuses and equity grants.
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
I've never viewed these sorts of regulative barriers as anything more than a headache for Google. There's going to be some government somewhere on earth that will be gung ho about self-driving cars. Americans will not stand fo
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
Rear mounting is not going to work very well for people who don't like road grime getting all over their gear. I'd much rather have a roof box. The model X is really appealing to me other than that detail.
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
A lot of them do already, I know Squaw Valley has had charging for two years.

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