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by s17n 4y ago
Founder / CEO. A lot of people will respond "no the founder needs to back off and let the marketing team do its job" but on a decision to allocate 50% of the annual marketing budget, the CEO should be involved.
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by s17n 4y ago
Based on my experience, I'd say what happened here wasn't a deliberate decision on the part of the founders but rather a product of disorganization / disfunction in the company - probably recruiting has no incentive to avoid
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by s17n 4y ago
But you don't have to "harness it for good" - just give the money back to the gamblers instead (by distributing ~100% of revenue as prizes).
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by s17n 4y ago
You don't have to transfer anything, though - just get rid of the marketing, take a couple percent to cover administrative expenses, and spend the rest on payouts. If you need money for education, tax people in a fairer way.
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by s17n 4y ago
From the CEO's point of view, line managers and employees are basically an undifferentiated mass of potential dead wood. Getting managers to "do their jobs" is exactly the intention of a policy like this.
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by s17n 4y ago
Every sufficiently large company has a lot of dead wood, and nobody has yet devised a better strategy than 'turning up the heat'.
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by s17n 4y ago
Without regulation, financial systems follow a predictable boom/bust cycle, and in the "bust" phase, there's not much that any individual can do to avoid getting wiped out by cascades of counterparty default. So, the onl
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by s17n 4y ago
The "most painful" part of any interview process is just the part that you happen to be the worst at. Personally, I don't find leetcode to be painful at all and would be much more enthusiastic about something that eliminates
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by s17n 4y ago
> More than obedience, it probably is the aspect that they're smart and determined to succeed. Yup that's what it's about! The problem with trying to test how good you are at the job is that you simply can't do it in
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by s17n 4y ago
To be fair, extensions are a security nightmare. I think like 100% of boomers have at least one malicious extension installed.
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by s17n 4y ago
See also the classic Bjarne Stroustrup talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo
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by s17n 4y ago
+1 to this It's at will employment so a signed offer doesn't really mean anything anyway. Practically speaking, people renege on offers all the time and nobody holds it against them.
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by s17n 4y ago
That's because the web was better in 2006. I think Google has made one change for the worse, though, which is strongly favoring more recent content. Increasingly, I think that change has been a big contributor to the decay of the web
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by s17n 4y ago
The comparison to the Powerwall is certainly appropriate given the subject of the article, but I think the author should have also included the battery capacity and price of one of Tesla's vehicles to give a sense of how much Ford is a
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by s17n 4y ago
You can argue about whether enforcing language consistency across an organization is a good idea or not, but it isn't "micromanagement".
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by s17n 4y ago
Go provides error handling and logging. It's true that if what you're writing is an application server consisting of business logic and glue code that delegates all the "heavy lifting", performance won't be the firs
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by s17n 4y ago
Running inference on one of these models takes like a GPU minute, so they can't just let the public use them.
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by s17n 4y ago
I just gave up and bought an iphone, good luck all
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by s17n 4y ago
Apple takes a >50% margin on everything else they sell, why should parts be any different?
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by s17n 4y ago
So if this has already been exploited in the wild, there'd be no way to ever know, right?
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by s17n 4y ago
Is any decent VC going to even consider a candidate that doesn't fall into: 1. Somebody they already know or is vetted by a trusted source 2. Somebody with a pretty specific background for entry level jobs (ivy league/mckinsey&#x2
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by s17n 4y ago
The more native apps you use, the stickier the ios platform is. To the extent that they don't care whether you use the web or not, it's only because they've already won in the markets that they care about and don't real
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by s17n 4y ago
Totally agree! (And I'm usually in these threads just to defend AMP)
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by s17n 4y ago
They will claim whatever they need to claim to justify not taking the deal. Like I said, it's how the game is played and completely standard practice. Lawsuits are also standard practice, which is why board members have insurance.
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by s17n 4y ago
That's how the game is played. If you want to take over a company without the consent of its executives, it's going to be a fight and you're probably going to lose.
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by s17n 4y ago
> To my understanding, this at the moment is neither hostile nor a takeover, but a (rather direct/rude/aggressive; pick whatever adjective you want) question to the board to advise shareholders to accept Musk’s offer. Right, bu
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by s17n 4y ago
Unsolicited offers almost always get rejected, that's why it's called a "hostile takeover"
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by s17n 5y ago
Land value tax solves this
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by s17n 5y ago
I doubt there's much ML involved here. Have you tried getting humans to 99% accuracy?
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by s17n 5y ago
> This is a smart comment because this is exactly what we run into (I operate a coding school that uses ISAs). Employers love our graduates, but if we charged employers, we'd have to play a cat and mouse game of "please don&#x2

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