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541.
by sulam 5y ago
Living in California, I can tell you that yes, nature has checks and balances for that. The main check is fire, and we have suppressed it for decades. The forest density in managed national forests here vs unmanaged wilderness areas is some
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by sulam 5y ago
Hmm, not a materials scientist here, but wouldn't some of diamond's brittleness derive from its crystalline structure, ie that it's easy for it to sheer along a plane? Whereas this material, being "disordered", to u
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by sulam 5y ago
Others have answered what the 8 means, you might also want to know why it's used, since it may be "obvious" that traceroute is a system utility. In many cases it's not obvious whether one is referring to the syscall, ker
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by sulam 5y ago
Speaking as a parent of two kids, I mostly agree, but also think that some amount of law-making in the interest of children is appropriate and fair. Drawing the line is the interesting part.
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by sulam 5y ago
Yes, all capitalism is just a big agreement to channel all the assets to wealthy people. The only one not in on the secret is you.
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by sulam 5y ago
That line, bereft of context, is being used as if the two companies don’t compete in many many markets. Do you really think that the original context was as broad as the entire company’s operations? Or even the respective phone ecosystems?
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by sulam 5y ago
Seeing some comments about how they didn’t actually trace the steps. Okay, yeah, they didn’t. But what they did do is so damn cool — science at its best. I’m kind of in awe that we roughly know what happened in a mammoth’s life from 17,000
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by sulam 5y ago
In Belarus we’ve had employees arrested for literally being outside at the wrong time, even if it’s just to look at what’s going on from the front of their building. Things have calmed down somewhat since then, but they’ve also put in borde
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by sulam 5y ago
Google doesn’t have a Product Chief responsible for all the products. It’s not organized that way.
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by sulam 5y ago
Sorry, I was too hard on Piedmont. Here’s the interesting article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Bay-Area-vaccinati... Scroll down for the delta between vaccination eligibility and actual rates.
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by sulam 5y ago
I think it's telling that Atherton and Piedmont were above 80% vaccinated well before vaccinations were open to the general public. "Wait your turn" is not how they became members of their respective clubs.
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by sulam 5y ago
Except for the whole expansion phase thing that comes along with it.
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by sulam 5y ago
Wow, yeah, never say that. Even if you believe it's true, saying nothing will change is sort of like waving a red flag in front of the bull. Of course things will change over time, they always do!
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by sulam 5y ago
I've never smoked (thanks mom for the negative example), but reading Atomic Habits made something about it and other habits clear to me: habits are part of your identity. The best/strongest way to start or end a habit is to convin
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by sulam 5y ago
Antivaxxers are strong in Berkeley. This is pretty impressive honestly, I would have expected to hit 90%, tops.
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by sulam 5y ago
I can see how you’d like that deal as a remote employee, but do you really think the company is going to hire you if they can hire someone locally for the same price? The only way this makes sense is if the local market is completely tapped
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by sulam 6y ago
I’m assuming you didn’t read the article. At the time she applied, women were not legally allowed to enter the merchant marines in Egypt. No less than Hosni Mubarak had to review and approve her application to join.
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by sulam 6y ago
The more economic CO2 capture techniques I've heard of that actually do result in sequestrable product rely on having high concentrations of the stuff, much much higher than is available in the atmosphere. Having a method to concentrat
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by sulam 6y ago
"Regardless of substance" is the new "regardless of intent" apparently.
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by sulam 6y ago
This is not how most stores calculate the rating. Not Apple's, not Amazon's, and not Google's. They all have various "leans" on the score, that factor in other things besides just total_score divided by num_reviews.
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by sulam 6y ago
In general, London has been a 40-50% discount to SF.
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by sulam 6y ago
Vital word: “was”. Do you know what SWE5’s in London are being offered today? I make offers and I can tell you that it’s a discount to be in London, but it’s not _that_ big of a discount.
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by sulam 6y ago
Hmm, is this true? Do you have data for that? Big swathe of people who don’t get liquid RSUs: contractors, startup employees. Big swathe of people who do: all FTEs of large public companies (banks, tech, health care, etc). I suppose I’ve co
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by sulam 6y ago
Honestly, while we can debate what “Senior” should mean, what it has come to mean in the higher paying parts of the industry is that you’ve gotten one promotion. Most companies you _will_ get promoted if you stay there 5 years, even places
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by sulam 6y ago
Levels.fyi is probably at the mercy of who gives them data, and it’s easy to tell that they get much more data provided the more junior the role. One conclusion you could draw is that there are simply way fewer roles at that level, but anot
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by sulam 6y ago
You’re comparing total comp (Levels.fyi) to base salary (BLS data).
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by sulam 6y ago
Keep in mind that this is total comp, not base salary. Ie, base, bonus, and stock. You’ll want to compare apples to apples, no company I’ve worked for pays _that_ much less in Europe, depending on your definition of Europe. Which would be m
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by sulam 6y ago
Considering that COVID is most commonly spread through airborne droplets (this is why masks work), focusing on hand sanitizer and seat belts and saying the plane is the safest part of the trip is both misguided and flat out wrong.
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by sulam 6y ago
I’m probably ignorant to some big issue here, but it’s. It obvious to me that ledgers solve a big problem. Yes contracts are a big problem in general, but the ledger seems like they’re giving me a new pen to sign them with or a new box to p
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by sulam 6y ago
I haven't, I'll give it a shot with PayPal, that's definitely interesting to me.

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