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by no_wave 12y ago
Main question - what led this company to think they could even get close to a $99 price? Did someone give them a misleading estimate early on, or did they just come up with that number out of thin air?
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by no_wave 12y ago
It's a euphemism for not working at all, though likely with one or two experiences that keep it from being a total lie (the majority of the money lived off of being either already saved or coming from family). The guy just failed hard
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by no_wave 12y ago
I'm about four years younger than you, and perversely, I think the anti-intellectualism of startup culture (which was more pronounced three years ago than now) actually ended up doing a lot of Computer Science majors my age a favor. Th
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by no_wave 12y ago
You're going to hammered for this, but it's absolutely true. I find that phone interviews actually work differently - I've been able to turn around an unenthusiastic interviewer and I've been able to lose someone who lik
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by no_wave 12y ago
The technology allowed him to confirm all of his already-existing suspicions. He'd already noticed that his wife was fawning all over the man that she was apparently really sorry about having slept with - a man who also had dumped her
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by no_wave 12y ago
You don't have to just post a range. The listing just needs to communicate that you're paying well above market, which is a step beyond competitive (and I've never seen "above market" in a job listing). Of course, t
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by no_wave 12y ago
Advertise the salary you're offering. If your positions look like 90k positions but you're offering 150k, how will an applicant know? EDIT: I noticed that you wrote in a nested comment that publicly listing salaries is a non-start
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by no_wave 12y ago
By Paul Graham's description in that "Let in the 95%" article, companies are standing around with their dicks in their hands hoping that they find "the best" engineers, but on the cheap. If a company wants to hire 3
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by no_wave 12y ago
By putting restrictions on what women can use their bodies for, aren't you (we) claiming ownership over them?
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by no_wave 12y ago
The author of that comment implied nothing of the sort. You're an idiot.
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by no_wave 13y ago
It should be 43 instead of 44, right?
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by no_wave 13y ago
Note that in any sane universe you'd feel able to talk to your parents about this. But we're in backwards-land, where parents exist to be impressed.
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by no_wave 13y ago
It's so upsetting that they're protesting the single most life-saving technology that's likely to be developed in our lifetime (self-driving cars). Life-saving for everyone, too - poor and rich.
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by no_wave 13y ago
You quit.
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by no_wave 13y ago
Both Snowden and Assange are avoiding apprehension while being non-violent. I said nothing about violence - in fact, your comment is the first on this page to mention violence - so I don't really understand where you're coming fro
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by no_wave 13y ago
Why should someone consent to being apprehended if they are protesting the same laws that they are breaking?
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by no_wave 13y ago
"Scars" imply a growth that is abnormal. It an attempt to mark off my reaction as somehow freakish and thus not legitimate. As for "deliberate"? Deliberate's got nothing to do with it. See also "The Yellow Wall
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by no_wave 13y ago
Mad Men; Yes, Minister; Louie (S2)
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by no_wave 13y ago
To believe that there is a problem with the current system is apparently a sign of mental illness (ie, a need for therapy). Sure, why not? It's the end of history, after all.
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by no_wave 13y ago
Well, you could start by forcing children to sit still (!) in the same room every day, lecturing them about things that they do not care about, forcing them to do things that they do not want to do, finding ways to shame them if they do not
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by no_wave 13y ago
Creativity isn't the creation of a product. It does not imply selflessness. It isn't de facto laudable, and "creative" need not even be a compliment. That's not the argument. Instead - just look at what you need to
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by no_wave 13y ago
I can't understand this line of reasoning. Creativity is the result of a process, and that process is ignoring (or at least comparatively devaluing) the horrific and sneering grasp of the status quo. To separate the result of the creat
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by no_wave 13y ago
The key part is "they suspect". You don't have to tell them anything about their life. You don't even have to KNOW about their life. But they will still take your alternate lifestyle as a personal offense. (as an aside,
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by no_wave 13y ago
How is it "ludicrous"? The aim of every educational reform I have ever seen is "how do we make students do what we want and perform the way we want?". I have NEVER seen the question "how do we encourage students to
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by no_wave 13y ago
I disagree. People get angry at the exercise of creativity. Look at the reaction to the financial independence/lifestyle design. People HATE them. Tell many Americans that you're going to stop working for six months to read books
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by no_wave 13y ago
So what is the intended effect of forcing you to do things that you do not want to do and emotionally abusing you if you fail to comply, every day? How can you teach someone agency by traumatizing them if they attempt to exercise it?
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by no_wave 13y ago
So who's buying it in the case that the provider immediately converts it into USD? The people who set the price will be those who are interested in holding bitcoin. People who hold bitcoin instantaneously do not affect the value almost
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by no_wave 13y ago
You can't. This is going to be something that will come up again and again as the lifehackers do whatever they can to trim and prune themselves into the life that's most convenient. You aren't broken - the framework that you&
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by no_wave 13y ago
So do you disagree with the statement, or are you unsatisfied with the possible reality that it represents?
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by no_wave 13y ago
If you care about which chess player has the best stats, look it up. Sports competitions have never been about who the best team is - it's about who wins. This is why it's fun.

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