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by peter422 4y ago
Exactly. Private salaries only benefit employers.
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by peter422 4y ago
How is it worse?
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by peter422 4y ago
Yes and I think this is the real risk that Magnus or others who cares about chess are worried about. Not the 1200 player who plays like the world champion which is blatently obvious, but a 2700 player who selectively uses computer assistan
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by peter422 4y ago
For all the people defending Hans, he has admitted to cheating in real, official, prize money online tournaments, and chess.com believes that in his apology he still lied about the extent of his cheating. Maybe Hans did cheat OTB, maybe he
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by peter422 4y ago
Fyi I've requested body Camara footage in SF and the process was quite easy, the video was delivered quickly and I used it to win my case against the city. I know you are making a facetious point but the footage is quite available.
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by peter422 4y ago
Presumably the cost savings from charging when rates are the cheapest and potential incentives for feeding into the grid when necessarily will make up for that.
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by peter422 4y ago
I think the current assumption that every electrical car needs to have 300+ mile range is going to eventually break and stop this false line of thinking. In the future there will be a variety of cheaper EVs with shorter ranges which will bo
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by peter422 4y ago
FWIW I can run without music and find it pleasurable, but I get much, much more joy out of running with music. I don’t think there needs to be any judgement for somebody who “needs” music to run. Music is great!
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by peter422 4y ago
I really wish all the anti-vaxxer types would just listen to TWiV. The hosts and guests both openly and candidly talk about some of the disagreements they have with the prevailing public health guidelines while at the same time give so much
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by peter422 4y ago
Yes I think people that don't have children don't understand how smart and manipulative infants can be in certain areas from a very very young age (3-4 months old), while at the same time being horribly stupid and incompetent in o
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by peter422 4y ago
Infants can use crying as a method for getting attention (even if nothing is "wrong") around 3-4 months. They aren't necessity trying to manipulate you but they are constantly experimenting and if certain behaviors get them w
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by peter422 4y ago
FYI "cry it out" is a form of sleep training to be done on a ~5-6 month old infant. Any baby younger than that you basically should always attend to their needs and never let them cry without trying to soothe them [there can be a
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by peter422 4y ago
That reminds me of what happens when we see a house on fire: We let it burn to the ground (don't want to upset the status quo of the house on fire), then say we'll make a few small tweaks to the building codes to prevent any house
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by peter422 4y ago
Race is a social construct that only has any relevance in it's historical context. If somebody is not aware of the relevant context as it relates to the US (they specifically said they were not from the US) then of course it would be
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by peter422 4y ago
And ignoring it altogether is better? I don't have a magical solution, but I also am not going to flip out everytime a private company chooses to give some type of minor preferential treatment to historically underprivileged groups to
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by peter422 4y ago
Hypothetically speaking, what if your parents stole that money from somebody else in a provable way? Does it still rightfully belong to you?
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by peter422 4y ago
If you willfully disregard any context about the situation and historical context then I'd agree with you.
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by peter422 4y ago
And thus we perpetuate the injustice indefinitely! Your essential argument seems to be that once an injustice is over one generation old, it is as if it never happened, no matter if the after effects continue to cascade into modern day. You
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by peter422 4y ago
A person can both have advantages in society and yet have specific situations in their life that are much more impactful. You could have used the same arguments in 1860... Not all black people were enslaved, some were quite prosperous in fa
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by peter422 4y ago
Thank you, this is very well written. I'd also just like to highlight how much extrajudicial violence there was perpetrated by white men against minorites, which while technically illegal was just completely overlooked by the white mal
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by peter422 4y ago
Exercise and sell is an instant prices. If you choose to exercise and hold obviously you now have the volatility of owning the stock, I'm not talking about that. Yes preferred share classes exist, this is irrelevant to whether or not t
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by peter422 4y ago
If we look at a 1 year old black child, and a 1 year old while child, the average household wealth of the white child is around 10x higher. What did the white child do to deserve this? How much better could they possibly be at drooling and
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by peter422 4y ago
Serious question: Are you aware of the historical context of the United States as it concerns race? Without looking anything up tell me what you know about it.
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by peter422 4y ago
Oh I misread your original post, sorry about that. So your belief is that affirmative action in college admissions is the defining factor in race inequality, even though the vast majority of the structural disadvantages happen much younger?
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by peter422 4y ago
The people being laid off likely grew up in America 25-40 years ago. Modern policies are not relevant to the people I'm talking about (though obviously still a very interesting and important discussion).
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by peter422 4y ago
They said it was a factor. Twilio I'm sure had said they've been trying to diversify their workforce for years and you didn't care (which is the same thing, just through hiring instead of firing). It is you parachuting in to
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by peter422 4y ago
The shares can’t lose money (in theory) because with the extended exercise period you can simply not exercise them if they are underwater. It's not a unique benefit, many companies offer the extended exercise window, but it is very goo
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by peter422 4y ago
FMV is determined by a 409a valuation, it’s an imprecise thing but it’s done frequently even for private companies and all employees will know the FMV of the shares. Not just a made up number by the board. They are likely NSOs and with an
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by peter422 4y ago
It’s 2 people on a 20+ person committee. It isn’t like the whole committee quit.
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by peter422 4y ago
There is a huge difference between saying we made a lot of mistakes in the response to covid and saying “virtually nothing” was based on data. I don’t support people being shut down as you talk about, however you should also appreciate that

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