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by myroon5 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Scott#Personal_life claimed "She met him while working as his administrative assistant at D.E. Shaw in 1992" Regardless if she was his assistant or another executive&#x
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by myroon5 3y ago
Mackenzie worked for Jeff at D.E. Shaw
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by myroon5 3y ago
Honestly surprised I haven't heard that reasoning before now that you mention it: Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer all married subordinates, and Elon Musk had children with an employee
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by myroon5 3y ago
Wonder if this will add to the minority shareholder lawsuit about Amazon giving Blue Origin preferential treatment because they share a large shareholder (Bezos) (Amazon aggressively attempts to prevent their executives easily joining other
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by myroon5 3y ago
Taylor Swift concerts are much more common than super bowls. Maybe a playoff game is a better analogy? ;)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52LJaWDdG9c
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by myroon5 3y ago
Jassy's reported ~$200M CEO compensation package is spread over a decade (not annual), and Jassy has significant Seattle investments, including a stake in Seattle's new NHL team and a ~$7M house
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by myroon5 3y ago
Curious how financial-focused news that was excluded (economist, wsj, ft, bloomberg, etc) has fared. Wouldn't be surprised if that's a substantial portion
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Peter Singer's books are pretty worldview-changing: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/12397.Peter_Singer
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Omitting commitment details may simplify pledges, but it also makes pledges almost meaningless. I'd take pledges much more seriously if they still had details
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Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities(bezosearthfund.org)
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source?
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Cloud revenue is a subset of Subscription revenue, and Subscription revenue is mostly Support ($101.9M). In fact, 3/4 of their total revenue is Support
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Interactive Food Impact Calculator(foodimpacts.org)
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Men were once arrested for baring their chests at the beach(washingtonpost.com)
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Metaculus is just forecasting without any betting Despite that Manifold market having the most traders ever on Manifold, there's still roughly only a thousand dollars to be made on it, and the winnings can only be donated. Hardly a for
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The chance of being caught is more deterring than the punishment severity
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by myroon5 3y ago
> tax is calculated ignoring what's actually on the land Isn't that the point? LVT forces land to be valued more so large less productive land use shifts to more productive use
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Bottle deposit should keep up with inflation(slate.com)
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Microsoft Azure in 2022 was less than half the size of AWS(siliconangle.com)
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Marginal Charity(overcomingbias.com)
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https://archive.md/wltdj
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Lawn Mowers Are the Next Electric Frontier(bloomberg.com)
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by myroon5 3y ago
Feels like you're taking reasonable prioritization personally. Over 90 percent of students attend public school: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=55 And private school attendance is mostly higher incom
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by myroon5 3y ago
(copying from https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/13ki1o9/retiring_the_a... ) Ecstatic this is finally being publicly addressed after half a decade The actual awsdocs source code was never really open
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by myroon5 3y ago
The camera bump is actually the only thing that has ever made phones in pockets annoying to me because the camera bump gets snagged on other things in pockets
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Cruise's next cities: Houston and Dallas(twitter.com)
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Reminds me of Java's debate of autogenerating boilerplate vs using the Lombok library: https://old.reddit.com/r/java/comments/c8oqkq/why_we_removed...
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Cloud Cost Report Q1 2023(vantage.sh)
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Most of Washington State lives around Seattle, which has never recorded subzero fahrenheit temperatures: https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/WA/Seattle... https://patch.com/washi

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