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by slongfield 5y ago
The NSA and CIA pay less than half of what a FAANG company pays for the same role. Sources: FAANG: Levels.fyi and personal experience NSA/CIA: https://work.chron.com/nsa-pay-scale-16399.html and https://www.
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by slongfield 5y ago
There are (potentially non-trivial) tax penalties for not paying quarterly taxes, it's not just something that people do for fun.
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by slongfield 5y ago
FWIW, Amazon doesn't treat its warehouse employees well, but it does pay more than minimum wage.
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by slongfield 6y ago
To be fair, people found plenty of other things to be mad at Notch about.
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by slongfield 6y ago
Ultra-wealthy people are over-represented in California compared to the rest of the USA. 100 of the Forbes top 400 are in CA [1], but the state only has about ~12% of the US population [2], and accounts for ~15% of the US GDP. [1]: https:
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by slongfield 6y ago
And by the sum-of-odd-numbers theorem (sum of 2n-1 = n^2), you don't even need to multiply to generate that table.
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by slongfield 6y ago
If a developer doesn't like Unreal's terms, there are other game engines. If a developer doesn't like Apple's terms, there are no viable alternatives for iOS distribution.
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by slongfield 6y ago
A "raffle" as distinct from a "lottery" in American English differs in how the prize is decided, and what kinds of things are typically the prize. Typically a lottery runs in one of two ways: with pre-decided winning tic
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by slongfield 6y ago
As far as I can find, they're not deleting flat earth videos. Closest thing I could find was them saying that they were deprioritizing them in recommendations: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing
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by slongfield 6y ago
Because there were hardly any Covid-19 cases in Santa Clara County (where Google is based) before March https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx
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by slongfield 7y ago
Intel and TSMC's business models are built on top of Moore's law continuing, and them maintaining an edge over the lower-end manufacturers. The end of Moore's law is an existential threat to their viability. At the same time,
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by slongfield 8y ago
Fulcrum didn't slip under the radar, it was purchased by Intel in 2011[1]. Since then, Intel's switch and router division have had their part numbers start with "FM". [1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news-r
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by slongfield 8y ago
I've heard of this being done in other, smaller, hardware stores. For instance, Harvey's Hardware in Needham, MA started off packing its shelves with empty boxes to make the store look like it had more inventory: https:/&#x2
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by slongfield 8y ago
The Bay Area big tech companies are putting a lot into housing. This article is about a big-ish tech company championing YIMBY. Google is building 10,000 housing units ( https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/12/
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by slongfield 9y ago
Library I wrote that mimics Python's advanced string formatting in Golang. I found that the most interesting part of this was actually testing how closely it matches Python's formatter. To do that, it goes through a cgo wrapper an
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Show HN: Python advanced string formatting in Golang(github.com)
3 points by slongfield 9y ago|1 comments