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by shimon 4y ago
If you could isolate everyone in the whole world for 3 weeks, you would cut down on a lot of infectious disease as most individuals would beat their infection in that time and little transmission would occur. However, you still wouldn&#
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by shimon 5y ago
Presumably association including temporal association around events that are described by others. If I text <shadow friend> frequently around the time I post about frisbee games and bluegrass concerts, odds are they are engaged in tho
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by shimon 5y ago
The point is the tactic of giving the first number, though successful in ending many unappealing recruitment attempts, also has the unintended side effect of making it impossible that you'll ever get an offer SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE your t
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by shimon 5y ago
These typically reference model codes that are often proprietary. You may still be able to get them from a library but if your question is along the lines of "how many receptacles can I put on one circuit" you need to look in some
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by shimon 5y ago
Yes, the modern solution to this consists of a pressure-reducing valve (refills when pressure in the boiler system drops) and a backflow preventer (for the safety issue).
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by shimon 5y ago
This idea that DIY wiring can invalidate your insurance policy is widely repeated, but I don't think it's true. Homeowner's insurance routinely covers preventable disasters. Did you leave a candle on or a heater plugged in an
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by shimon 6y ago
This is true for most organizations. Note though that the practice the author describes at Amazon is that everyone gets the document to read at the beginning of the meeting. The structure of the meeting means that (1) someone is forced to p
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by shimon 8y ago
I signed up a few months ago and had this type of validation as well. I didn't get a postcard, presumably they hadn't started that practice yet.
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by shimon 8y ago
This is a great perspective but it's important to remember your sample bias -- you're only making judgments about the offender you've identified. Or more snarkily, you've only caught the people dumber than you. When you&
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by shimon 8y ago
Not OP, but there are some common problems, assuming they were a non-founder CTO: - Instead of leading an eng team, maybe CTO meant "our entire tech team". - Maybe the founders sucked, or had personal conflicts. - Maybe the busine
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by shimon 8y ago
I strongly agree that capital flight is a huge and under-recognized driver of high asset values in the US (particularly equities and real estate). But how do you even begin to estimate the rate of this effect, or how much further it might g
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by shimon 8y ago
I assume that OP meant saying no to taking on more expenses / ongoing obligations than you need, not funding reserves.
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by shimon 8y ago
The best examples are probably in diet, e.g. Weight Watchers, and Jenny Craig. There's a huge industry around drug & alcohol rehab, though it's not easy to see which parts could support startup-type scale. A bunch of these nee
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by shimon 8y ago
What's your rationale for this? Beyond interest rates, which are clearly the result of more aggressive, far larger-scale easing by central banks than we've ever seen before.
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by shimon 8y ago
This is a great description of what Waymo is doing, and why Honda/GM etc. don't want to become a commodity provider (thus letting Waymo capture most of the value). From Waymo's perspective, that's exactly the scenario th
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by shimon 8y ago
You have too short a time horizon on your "nobody".
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by shimon 8y ago
This approach would seem to negate the whole "convenience and simplicity" motivation behind using Amazon Prime.
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by shimon 8y ago
I think you're underselling this. You're right that malice is relatively rare. Ambiguity, however, is the norm. For example, say you have a quick discussion and decide you will do task X and your colleague will do related task Y.
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by shimon 8y ago
You're not wrong, but you do realize that the outcome of a midterm election won't affect the president's authority to sign or veto bills?
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by shimon 8y ago
The value proposition of this product is claiming to do too much. Because I don't have a pre-existing belief in the value of integrating all these functions in a single "PIM" (what is a PIM anyway? is my smartphone a PIM?) I&
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by shimon 8y ago
Just trying to put some reasonable bounds on this estimate. I assumed 12 weeks is "the holiday shopping season" where Amazon has a lot of extra workers who would benefit. And I guessed 250k of them getting $3 raises. You could als
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by shimon 8y ago
I'm not making the argument that this is peanuts. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I'm just trying to get some perspective on the scale here, relative to other things vying for the time and attention of Amazon's management.
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by shimon 8y ago
Quick back-of-the-envelope math: Let's assume this raise will affect 250k workers this coming holiday season, bumping their pay from $12 to $15 (+$3). Over 12 weeks at 40h/week, this represents an additional $360M in labor cost. U
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by shimon 8y ago
What's the wrong here? Waiting tables is a hard job, and not everyone can do it well. It's physically and mentally taxing, and to make money at it you have to be charming which is harder to train than, say, packing boxes in a ware
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by shimon 8y ago
What you're describing is a workplace with a generally broken approach to meetings. The best thing you can do with standup in this environment may be to eliminate it, or minimize it as you've described. But there is often a place
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by shimon 8y ago
Not that you asked, but this sounds like a totally dumb time for this meeting. It creates a reliable interruption, such that if it happens you're likely to be distracted enough that it isn't even worth trying to get back into seri
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by shimon 8y ago
Lisps are great. Why do you think they haven't been at the forefront of any big trends in application development? Things like the web, mobile apps, data science ... My guess at an argument here is that the languages popular in the 80s
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by shimon 8y ago
Maybe the reason for this has more to do with the type of development structure that helps a language get scale. The rich powerful development environments you've described exist primarily in proprietary, integrated environments. If yo
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by shimon 8y ago
But there's no technical reason this behavior must be Windows-only; it's just that way now because Linux isn't a business priority. The fundamental architecture, where UEFI software can write to a filesystem on the disk, appl
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by shimon 8y ago
There's a really interesting strategic move here that I hadn't previously realized. Amazon is bundling some perpetual cloud service cost into their new connectivity module. They're solving a cost problem for device makers in

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