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by s17n 7y ago
Looked it up, for a writer it would probably be like 1% of payroll.
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by s17n 7y ago
The author of the article wouldn’t be a full time employee anyway, so I don’t see why this is such a hardship for SB Nation.
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by s17n 7y ago
In California at least, pretty much all employees are at-will. Workman's comp I guess is a thing though - is it really that expensive?
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by s17n 7y ago
Pretty sure those requirements only apply to full time employees.
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by s17n 7y ago
I guess I'm a bit behind the conversation here but what exactly are the obligations the reclassifying contractors as employees would place on employers that are apparently impossible for SB Nation to fulfill?
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by s17n 7y ago
DHH's point that Google is just an ads engine is only true for searches of a commercial nature. If you're searching for something like a programming problem or a snippet of poetry or whatever, it' still an amazing search eng
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by s17n 7y ago
Traditional encyclopedias didn't lose because of their intellectual property model, they lost because they were trying to charge money for their product, so a free as in beer competitor was able to take all their market share. A maps d
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by s17n 7y ago
> So the "fast" part, besides using their CDN, actually comes from limiting what you can do on almost every other part of the site That is a good thing.
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by s17n 7y ago
I stopped caring what designers (and the community that really hates amp is designers, in addition to the "everything Google food is evil" crowd) think when scroll hijacking became popular. Sorry but the web would be better off w
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by s17n 7y ago
They had a pretty easy to understand value proposition - “our results are more useful than existing search engines’”. “We have a different pricing model” is a lot less compelling. But it has worked before!
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by s17n 7y ago
The article is clearly crap though.
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by s17n 7y ago
But can you name a single one that wasn't TED talk friendly nonsense?
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by s17n 7y ago
The reason that A16z is taking about top earners rather than median is that their audience is the people building the platforms. These people care about the total revenue which you'd expect to be a power law distribution dominated by
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by s17n 7y ago
As a current emacs, former vim user, vscode is better. I use emacs as a hobby because I'm interested in it, not because it's more productive, because it's not.
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by s17n 7y ago
Yeah, it makes sense, a lot of the appeal of these places is tied up in their admitting the children of the rich and powerful, but it's still messed up.
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by s17n 7y ago
The issue with elite university admissions is that they are gatekeepers to power, so the composition of their student bodies affects us all. That said I guess you're right that pre k is more important when it comes down to it.
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by s17n 7y ago
The problem is that institutions like Harvard are gatekeepers to power (eg, every sitting supreme court justice went to Harvard or Yale). So when you allow these institutions to use legacy admissions, you are establishing a hereditary powe
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by s17n 7y ago
It's pretty amazing to me that we, as a society, are willing to accept legacy admissions. We spend so much time and energy and money trying to make sure that our educational system gives everybody equal opportunity when this one thing
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by s17n 7y ago
Unary, yes. Binary, no.
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by s17n 7y ago
They’re probably not going to convince you anyway so filtering you out at the top of the funnel is helpful to them. I once had a founder offer to intro me to other companies if I wasn’t interested in his, which I thought was a pretty brilli
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by s17n 7y ago
I don’t think it’s arrogant, just realistic - if you aren’t interested in leaving your current job you probably aren’t going to no matter what the company trying to poach you does. So for them bend over backwards to convince you to intervi
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by s17n 7y ago
Positional arguments just shouldn't exist. Why they persist in newer languages like Go is a mystery.
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by s17n 7y ago
If I'm understanding the article correctly, the USPS can now unilaterally set its own rates, which is a pretty substantial change from the existing system where rates were determined by the decennial negotiations you're talking ab
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by s17n 7y ago
Athletes and actors are unionized.
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by s17n 7y ago
Most modern programs are written to be short lived, so memory leaks aren't a showstopper (just kill the instance if it's a server or refresh the page if it's a client)
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by s17n 7y ago
This is why Go is good. If you care about writing beautiful code, Go might not be for you. If you care about getting shit done, it’s a great language.
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by s17n 7y ago
No smooth scrolling is a deal breaker for a lot of people I'm guessing
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by s17n 7y ago
Most people buy cheap PC's, too.
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by s17n 7y ago
Google and Microsoft are both offering equivalent products for free. I don't think Slack has established that they can maintain their pricing and continue to grow.
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by s17n 7y ago
It's got nothing to do with wanting free things - the argument is that massive wealth disparities are bad for democracy and thus redistribution is necessary.

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