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by sulam 6y ago
A judge is a jury of one. They may be better trained to rely on evidence, but they are clearly also human and affected by other factors. For evidence of this, I only need to refer to the well-cited study showing that parole judges were sign
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by sulam 6y ago
Really? Did you somehow miss the whole section describing Israeli founders, Israeli VC, and the fact that it has been acquired not once, but twice since founding? "was" an Israeli company is entirely accurate.
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by sulam 6y ago
This mechanism and permafrost melt are two of the main feedback loops associated with non-anthropogenic warming. Whether they're properly accounted for in climate models is a key question.
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by sulam 6y ago
A quick google found a law firm that analyzes it from the employer perspective, but it’s a good guide to the law and whether or not you should be covered: https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2226/
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by sulam 6y ago
Legally you absolutely could. It’s like anything else you expense in the course of doing your job. In fact your HR/exec team is falling down on the job if they haven’t announced new policies, since your office is closed.
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by sulam 6y ago
Yep, one company I work with closely made something like $16M through subleasing or leaseback (I forget the exact arrangement) in early 2019 after they decided to reduce their office footprint.
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by sulam 6y ago
The ticking time bomb with commercial property is the debt. Many commercial real estate ventures are leveraged to the hilt. This is not unlike the housing crisis, although hopefully less painful because some underlying structural factors ar
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by sulam 6y ago
If your employer _requires_ you to WFH, say because their office is not open due to COVID-19, California law requires you to be reimbursed for reasonable expenses associated with WFH, including Internet access. Many employers already had th
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by sulam 6y ago
You’re making a statement here that is only true if you assume the developers of such a service have optimized their framework. If instead they are using one of the slower frameworks, they will pay proportionally — you can’t assume that jus
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by sulam 6y ago
Distributed consensus on all your memory sounds potentially (very) slow compared to typical server side virtual machines. True? If so, what sorts of applications is the language designed to be ideal for?
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by sulam 6y ago
There's a couple factors going on. One is the fact that Youtube's algorithm recommends videos based on a set of engagement-related metrics. Hitting Like/Subscribe is a big measure of engagement, but according to people do thi
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by sulam 6y ago
The subhead is "Aliens? Or a chunk of solid hydrogen? Which idea makes less sense?" The better version would be: "Journalism? Or Clickbait? Which idea makes less sense?" "Scientific American" indeed.
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by sulam 6y ago
Just keep in mind that the few non-governmental election monitors all had Lukashenko with less than 20% of the vote. This is not an isolated result.
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by sulam 6y ago
Leaving this here for both of you. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/05/8993658...
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by sulam 6y ago
I have a car that's not very aerodynamic (Jeep Wrangler) and when I'm driving through rural areas the insect mess at dusk or dawn is bad enough that I have to run the windshield wipers. Conversely, I never have to worry about it a
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by sulam 6y ago
I dunno, I saw lots of potatoes in Riga!! :)
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by sulam 6y ago
We have an office there and people were able to use normal internet services on Monday (albeit over VPN in some cases). Some people did have home network service interrupted. I haven't heard of any escalations today, but obviously my s
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by sulam 6y ago
This is a pretty bad take. Rachel has said implicitly that there was no version with a fix available and explicitly that working with the maintainers to get a fix is often unreasonably difficult. This matches my own experience fairly well.
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by sulam 6y ago
There isn't a "conservation of flow" principle for liquids, so there's no need to go looking for a flow increase somewhere else because this flow is decreasing.
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by sulam 6y ago
Note, you've both used WIMP here, but that's another thing (weakly interacting massive particle -- a candidate theory for dark matter). You want the acronym WHIM, for warm hot interstellar medium.
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by sulam 6y ago
These stories about competition being thwarted often seem to ignore the elephant in the room — the companies being acquired weren’t doing well. I’m sure the North team feels like they took the best option they had realistically available to
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by sulam 6y ago
I think he can be forgiven for not anticipating the cost of a couple slashes. It's probably not as expensive as the addition of 'null' to ALGOL, and that was actually intended to be very widely adopted!
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by sulam 6y ago
At the time it made no sense as a business practice, and seemed painful enough that I should have heard about it long before this. My immediate reaction was "really? I'll have to see confirmation before I treat this tweet as autho
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by sulam 6y ago
I take things one step further. "My assessment of the priority is A, B, C. I only have time to work on A, B. I am going to let TPTB know that I am focused on these, and that C isn't getting my time. Let me know if you disagree wit
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by sulam 6y ago
Silicon Valley non-FAANG hardware + software company here: If you need a lab, you are allowed to use it with approval from your VP. If you don't, you WFH.
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by sulam 6y ago
Doesn't Google recognize that 100% turnover on a team might be a management problem?
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by sulam 6y ago
One of my early-career jobs was working for an ISP that old fogies may remember called Slip.Net. This was 1994, just before everything took off in the commercial Internet space. There were a couple gray area things that resulted in me being
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by sulam 6y ago
s/short of a list/long of a list/
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by sulam 6y ago
Journalism in action here, the relevant line is WELL below the fold: “We recently determined that in very rare cases it is possible for Echo Buds to overheat while in the charging case." Good job as usual, HN community.
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by sulam 6y ago
This rubric is fine at a certain level of scale, but as a company grows, both in size and complexity, it becomes hard to apply except possibly in the leaves of your organizational graph (and not always then). Personally I manage a team of 4

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