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by riggins 13y ago
here's an almost comical excerpt from the Cornell study http://iwsp.human.cornell.edu/file_uploads/offices1_12382569... The data showed that younger workers liked these kinds of offices more than older workers. T
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by riggins 13y ago
That link about the Cornell study is comically bad. Where are the raw data tables? It was a link to a summary of the actual study. With that said I went and skimmed the original study and that looked just as bad. Here's the original
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by riggins 13y ago
its not like employment suits are a mystery you see high paid professionals (i-bankers, brokers, lawyers, etc) win big awards all the time. here's one about Merrill Then, in the spring of 2004, an arbitration panel found Merrill had s
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by riggins 13y ago
I imagine that an engineer complaining of a low 6-figure salary with stock options will convince a jury that (s)he is really being hurt that much will be very tough. I don't find that hard to imagine. In fact, I think the opposite wo
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by riggins 13y ago
the intersection of HN readers and Wu-Tang fans is surprisingly large.
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by riggins 13y ago
the atmosphere here is so toxic 1. I can't say since I haven't been through YC, but I imagine that HN, a site that's open to every joe schmoe on the internet, is not a good reflection of the population that's accepted
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by riggins 13y ago
I really struggle with some of the thinking on HN. If anything I might buy the argument that Jobs was a huge control freak and that's what drove him to do this more than anything else, but how do you think this went down. Jobs really d
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by riggins 13y ago
Thinking about it a bit, I bet this wasn't born out of a desire to want to keep wages down per se, but a desire to avoid turnover of productive up-to-speed people I understand your thinking but I don't think it logically holds t
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by riggins 13y ago
there are a million websites with low quality, un-moderated discussion. Personally I like the idea of pending comments.
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by riggins 13y ago
I mean if I want to buy one, how soon can I get it? And yes, I know the kickstarter campaign hasn't started yet. And I almost forgot ... this looks awesome.
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by riggins 13y ago
how far away is this?
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by riggins 13y ago
"We really need something in the sub $200 range." I don't think that's going to be possible. A basic desk from ikea is $200.
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by riggins 13y ago
Your $30MM ($300MM) is before taxes, before expenses yes I'm aware of that. In my OP I was going to also say "at $300M with a 20% net income margin (which would be one of the higher net income margins but not unheard of) AirBnB
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by riggins 13y ago
It's outrageous - no way is AirBnB "worth" more than Hyatt hotels!!! not crazy 1. go look at Hyatt's financials. Back in 2010 fiscal year Hyatt only generated $66M of net income. Why? Because hotels generally have high
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by riggins 13y ago
it'd be cool if you made it so I could customize the characters eyes ... then I could make my guy look like a jawa.
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by riggins 13y ago
overall the infrastructure they have built has put this country in a position to achieve dominant superpower status the claim that infrastructure spending leads to economic prosperity/dominance sounds pretty extraordinary to me.
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by riggins 13y ago
of course existing companies are going to fight back by any means possible. You can't expect them to lay down a carpet for Uber.
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by riggins 13y ago
'junk bonds' are bonds with a high interest rate because of poor credit quality. convertible bonds basically have an equity option attached, so the interest rate paid by the issue is lower than what it would be otherwise (because
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by riggins 13y ago
it would be sweet if Telsa uses this as leverage to roll back the dealership law.
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by riggins 13y ago
you had me at 'the strangest interview I ever had'
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by riggins 13y ago
99k ... sounds legit ... Flappy Birds is more fun than a new porsche 911
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by riggins 13y ago
For-profit developers who invest now will be building the current unit prices into their model I struggle to follow this. For profit developers will build if they can do so for a profit. The only thing that will matter is whether the cost
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by riggins 13y ago
A P/E of 30ish means that people think Google could grow 3X. Seems reasonable. I'm on the fence. I think Google is doing amazing things and there is enormous potential. However, we're also talking about huge numbers. Annual
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by riggins 13y ago
Lots of possibilities. A premature birth. An congenital heart defect. etc. Also, my read is that Armstrong thought he was going to sound like a great guy ... doing everything they could to help the distressed babies.
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by riggins 13y ago
I have had the same experience with Verizon FIOS in NYC.
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by riggins 13y ago
Wasn't one of Bjarne Stroustrup's reasons for building c++ to make the network simulations he was working on more tractable?
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by riggins 13y ago
so what's France? Is France capitalist or socialist?
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by riggins 13y ago
Understand if you can't discuss but my inference was that this was triggered by Coursera accepting money for their classes. Under the law, certain aspects of Coursera’s course offerings are considered services and are therefore subjec
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by riggins 13y ago
yes pls ... turn my skin into knee cartilage.
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by riggins 13y ago
My immediate assumption was this is not the US is trying to restrict education. I suspect this was triggered by Coursera accepting money. The US has laws against doing business with certain countries. When Coursera started offering signatur

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