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by sokoloff 1y ago
They just have to be real enough for you to convince them you’re not taking their offer. That risks you having to not take their offer, of course.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you’re applying to Google, apply to them way ahead of the others…
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by sokoloff 1y ago
As a hiring manager and someone who’s an employee rep on the 401k committee, I can’t even imagine how I could customize the 401k for an individual candidate. I think the same is true for health insurance. If someone came with that request
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Agreed. If they just need a chair spring compressed, they won’t budge. That doesn’t mean if they don’t budge that they just need the spring compressed. P implies Q doesn’t necessitate Q implies P.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If there's a single fixed number (rather than a range), there's probably a reason for that (might be a government, university, or institute role with a fixed pay schedule, for example) and as a hiring manager, I'm assuming yo
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you don't have a strong BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement), you're not going to get very far with just asking. "I received your offer for $X. I really enjoyed the interviews, meeting the team, and am intrig
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Not GP, but I do want to know that I have a path to having ongoing access to my data (which could include a fair and usable export process into a format that’s at least readable [PDF, docx, tex, other]) without a permanent on-going expense.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
For a lot of behavioral things, tiny nudges are just enough friction. At one point, I wrote a bit of CSS in stylus to hide the downvote button on HN to see how often I thought a downvote was really earned (not that often). It was trivial to
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by sokoloff 1y ago
AKA: "We're closing in on our third 8 of uptime..."
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Scarcity is reflected in the supply curve. Value in the demand curve. Where they intersect gives the market price.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
https://archive.ph/OIvpE
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by sokoloff 1y ago
That’s “just” a matter of the choice of discount rate, which needs to account for both inflation and uncertainty effects. (I’m pro-nuclear energy, but think the costs are indeed high and uncertainty is medium or high.) If you’re arguing the
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s not an unknown niche. Land cost depends on the location. You can find an acre of rural land for $1K. Or an 1/8th acre for $1M or more in a city. For a cheap parcel of land in an unincorporated area with no building permit process,
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Might be interesting, but doesn’t seem to be a valid “Show HN” * - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m glad there’s competition for the one part of YouTube that I dislike even more than the ads.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The next Superman movie might correctly conclude that you’re going to go see it anyway, so advertising it to the hypothetical you isn’t very valuable.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you do, you don’t see pre-roll and mid-roll ads . You still see embedded ads, sponsor mentions, “all the tools we used are linked below”, etc.
888.
by sokoloff 1y ago
There are 1.5 times as many people in the US competing for the same amount of land and buying houses using mortgages that are around 40% cheaper and many mortgages accept down payments that are 1/6th the size versus 1975, with underwri
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by sokoloff 1y ago
IANAB, but I'd imagine the privacy inherent in a toilet makes it easier to assemble a dangerous bomb from transported-safe components than doing so in a full train car would, and to leave it long enough that the bomber can get away wit
890.
by sokoloff 1y ago
I can also afford the parking in the city center, but mostly choose to patronize businesses in the suburbs where the parking is free (and usually plentiful). That I think is what city business owners are worried about.
891.
by sokoloff 1y ago
And in towns, suburbs, rural areas, and pretty much everywhere except the densest city centers.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Everyone who can now safely walk to the shop (who couldn't / wouldn't before for multiple reasons) starts walking there. I'm struggling to imagine reasons why a significant number of people will now start walking to
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think that depends on the motivations of the driver. You (and I) are probably thinking of a trip that is motivated solely by getting from A to B (or A to B to C to A). In that case, any pollution from idling is strictly additive. But a ta
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Indeed. Only if you’re unhappy with the current pace of that does it make sense to examine whether the incentives are correct. Habitat for Humanity is doing great work.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Six generations ago, over 80% of Americans worked in farming. Owning your family's farmland made sense as a means to even out the land you farmed versus the land you owned. As farming industrialized, became more efficient, and food bec
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by sokoloff 1y ago
One question would be how could we create any incentive for someone to build a home in an area that's currently in equilibrium? Starting a new home construction in a location with falling housing prices isn't an obviously winning
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by sokoloff 1y ago
At the mass retail/consumer level, I think we have. If you asked me to describe the coffee I buy in 1.5 pound tubs from Folgers, predictable (or a synonym) would probably be in the first 10 adjectives I'd use.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s part fear and greed, but also part rational and practical. Increased housing nearby brings increased traffic, parking pressure, crowding, and noise, none of which are positives for current residents. Fear and greed don’t motivate rente
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If I build a 40 unit building and sell it to my wife (or my neighbor) or sell it to BlackRock, there’s no difference in how many units exist nor how many families can live there. My tax treatment should be the same as theirs. If you restric
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If I build a 40-unit apartment building (provides housing for 36 families on average), am I taxed as if that’s 40 residential properties? Do we want to use tax policy to punish this construction?

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