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by objclxt 9y ago
> considering the ongoing total operational budget on a yearly basis for all of the facilities and support structure in Strasbourg You're conflating parliamentary budget and staff with a campaign budget and staff. These documents ca
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> There is simply no reason from an investors perspective to leave a home empty unless you can't find a renter who will cover their costs Right now the four bed house next door to me in San Francisco is empty, and has been empty for
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> And it really sucks that being a full time programmer isn't remotely sufficient experience for any kind of technical job interview I won't name names, but at least one large tech company in the bay actually runs evening cla
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I can't quite tell if you're being sarcastic or not. If you are, credit to you as you fooled me.
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Does anyone know if Uber self-insures its various plans (like most billion dollar companies), or uses regular insurance? That is, would Uber itself be liable for paying out?
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> an incident like this shouldn't be alarming and merit internal investigation and rethinking of cultural norms. Sure, and I'm sure they did that. ...because if there's any employer who history has shown would undertake
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Not the fire in a crowded theater thing again! Take a look at Trope 2 here (written by an actual lawyer): https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-... It's a meaningless saying that do
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> The answer was really funny "we are not negotiating salaries at this moment of the process" [...] And all that was even before any technical interview. I wouldn't expect any company to start a salary negotiation prior to
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> I've always wondered what's different about code written for airplanes. Anybody have any insight? You might be interested in some publicly available coding standards for the Joint Strike Fighter (C++) and the NASA JPL (C): h
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No. It's a federal crime to disobey instructions of the flight or the captain. If they ask you to leave the aircraft you're required to leave. If you refuse and need to be physically removed, tough. Not that I'm saying this m
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> behind closed door meeting with reporters ...the link is to a full transcript of the meeting. Sure, you weren't personally invited, but hardly a secretive off the record briefing. > Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipp
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You think Russia wasn't propping up the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War?
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> In particular, Southwest does not sell through aggregators at all ...they sell through aggregators, just not to the general public. For business travel they pretty much have to, otherwise they'll miss out on the market (large comp
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> “This is like the Swiss patent office suing Einstein for inventing the theory of relativity while he worked there.” says someone who worked at the company’s driverless car program Well, the Swiss patent office wasn't paying Eins
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The people who erroneously valued it are shareholders in the company, the company exists to benefit its shareholders, ergo (the shareholders would say) it's a problem for the company.
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You could almost certainly negotiate the rate down with Square. Maybe not for £6200/month, but at a certain volume they'll do you a deal. There's no way Philz Coffee (big coffee chain in the bay), for example, are paying Squa
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I don't see any indication on their website or marketing materials that they are accepting the PIN. I would be surprised if they did, because EMVCo have been firm in the past that a dedicated keypad is required. I would be interested t
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A full day of those kind of questions is pretty much the standard for the usual suspects (FB, Apple, Google, etc). Sometimes you might get a more generic design question thrown in.
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> Love graph algorithms have coded many myself in JavaScript to prep for interviews. ...but have you coded any in JavaScript after the interview as part of the job? I suspect for most people the answer is no. It has always seemed stra
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> Slowly the price advantage that Uber has by using loopholes fades away. They don't even always have a price advantage anymore, especially if there's a surge. I needed a cab from Chicago Midway to my hotel last night, Uber&#x2
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> Don't 'know your customer' laws ensure that no bank account is owned by an anon? Unless your scammer is really, really stupid these accounts are in the names of third party patsies who are promised some cut or percentage
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> I'm not a frequent first-class passenger, but if I were, high-quality coffee would be a big deal for me. Many transatlantic and transpacific flights now have a proper grind-on-demand coffee machine (allowing for lattes, cappuccino
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> If you think London is a particular way, it is probably because the bit of London you are in is that way. Not just London. Take this quote from the original article: > In San Francisco the predominant ways people make money is throu
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> I'd rather an industry with 0 women than one where mere allegations [...] are career ending. You seem to assume sexual misconduct only happens when women are in the workplace, which is plain wrong. You do know that sexual miscondu
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> This sort of stuff, character assassination based on hearsay It's interesting you say it's "hearsay" when Jacob Appelbaum voluntarily resigned his job at Tor after allegations of sexual misconduct, allegations whi
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Most notably apps can inject arbitrary JS into WKWebView, making it much easier to track The user’s actions.
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> Could they actually be awarded ownership of Uber if the damages were larger than a cash amount Uber could pay? Sure, although that's an extremely unlikely outcome. Normally the company would be liquidated to pay the judgment (this
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> In the sense that they gave us React and couple JS tools? What are their other "industry leading open source innovations"? OpenCompute ( http://opencompute.org ), Hack ( http://hacklang.org ), Phabricator
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19% of SF's homeless are Hispanic, versus 15% of the general population. 36% of SF's homeless are African American, versus 7% of the general population. The data doesn't back you up. The very poorest unable to even find housi
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> They exist because people want jobs and employers give them money to find people Sure. Some recruiters are great. But third party recruitment is a sales led industry. You're under constant pressure to close the deal and make the s

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