swombat

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by swombat 12y ago
No, I'm saying we won't hire someone who's very secretive about everything during the interview. Their gender and orientation has nothing to do with it.
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by swombat 12y ago
I have to concur with the others and say that the link you changed to is significantly less interesting than the original...
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by swombat 12y ago
If "privilege" in your definition includes people who have degrees and who have no formal education, from a broad range of countries, from wealthy backgrounds and poor backgrounds, male, female and other, gay, straight and other,
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by swombat 12y ago
Of course we discriminate - as does anyone who runs any company with any sort of cohesive culture. Don't misunderstand: the "being gay" part is completely irrelevant. What we discriminate on is the culture fit, in particular
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by swombat 12y ago
I really don't understand the downvoting here. Seems evidence of very reactionary groupthink going on there. If you disagree, fine. GrantTree only employs 20 people at the moment. You don't have to work with us. There are literall
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by swombat 12y ago
> Having to share what should be private personal details with my employer and coworkers in order to get fair compensation is unreasonable. First of all, there's no "have to share personal details to get a fair compensation&q
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by swombat 12y ago
I doubt the highly educated knowledge workers we employ would have kids just to get a salary bump.
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by swombat 12y ago
It's not discrimination if it's something that's completely open and transparent and agreed to by the concerned parties. Don't try and map our culture to your typical secretive corporate workplace - the mapping just does
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by swombat 12y ago
Our environment is very diverse and non-discriminatory (though there can always be improvements of course). Several people in our fairly small company are openly gay. It's not exactly your usual work environment! People who aren't
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by swombat 12y ago
> And finally, here is one thing NEVER to do when asking for more money. Never ask for it nor justify it because of your need. If you work for a for-profit entity, as most of us do, your need is completely irrelevant. While I can per
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by swombat 12y ago
The same was true of Startup School London, btw.
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New Studies on Leukemia Therapies(online.wsj.com)
7 points by swombat 12y ago|3 comments
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by swombat 12y ago
On the one hand, Eliezer is not your bitch. Eliezer will write when Eliezer feels so inclined. On the other hand... PLEASE CAN YOU WRITE SOME MORE ELIEZER OH PLEASE KTHX BAI Now, here's the good news, from http://hpmor.com&#
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by swombat 12y ago
Cars started 100 years ago. Are we going to announce every new Ford model? This is just a new train design similar to the trains they already have in place on the Victoria and Jubilee lines and others. The only reason this article got to th
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by swombat 12y ago
I'm currently reading "The Joy of Work" by Dennis Bakke, who was the CEO of AES for a number of years... in it he makes the point that compensation is rarely the most important factor for people. Based on his own survey, he s
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by swombat 12y ago
Why is this top of HN? These trains, even modernised, are years behind other underground systems like Hong Kong... And this won't even be out for years. It's nice news for London commuters, but hardly "Hacker News". Flag
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by swombat 12y ago
I made a donation of £1k in the middle of last month, when it seemed like MSF was the only organisation doing anything about this. Since then, the WHO and the US Govt look like they pulled their thumbs out of their arses... but they're
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by swombat 12y ago
Liberia population: ~4m Budget you declare: $449m UK population: 63m Budget of the NHS: £109b = $174b People employed by NHS: 1.35m people To match the NHS, Liberia would need $11b, almost 25 times the amount of aid it's receiving. Hel
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by swombat 12y ago
I would say/hope closing air travel is not necessary - what is necessary is strict quarantine procedures for anyone who travels via an infected country. The problem with both of these approaches, however, is that if that is the respons
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by swombat 12y ago
Here's the layman's version: Some particles are actual particles - like photons, electrons, protons, etc. Think of them as a droplet of water. Some particles are not really particles, but kind of behave like a particle in some way
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by swombat 12y ago
What's interesting to note here is that the points totals have been removed for the top 10. It used to show vast differences between the "leading pack" and the rest... of the order of 20k karma points or so! I guess the ratio
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by swombat 12y ago
Quoting that without the historical follow-up (namely, the experience of eugenics in the first half of the 20th Century, culminating in the extermination of the Jews by Nazi Germany, which is widely regarded as one of the most shameful chap
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by swombat 12y ago
Umm, and why exactly does the Delaware State University tolerate this sort of behaviour? It's unconscionable that they don't fire this ass-hat immediately, for causing thousands of unnecessary deaths through idiocy.
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by swombat 12y ago
I don't get it. These "pranks" are all just slightly silly, but not completely absurd. Yeah, I got that feeling too. It's not surprising that people are "taken in" when the pranks seem actually not that far o
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by swombat 12y ago
> * a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong"* Yes and... that was correct? Every other phone suffers from the same antenna attenuation if you enclose it completely in your hand
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by swombat 12y ago
> All elements in the solar systems (except those being formed in the sun's core) are older than the sun, probably the result of the explosion of some much older stars. Don't forget those trace amounts of elements produced by
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by swombat 12y ago
Your comment is entirely misinformed. There's about 0.01% chance that this comment will change your mind, but hey, I like hopeless causes! Have a look through http://erowid.org and make up your own mind about drugs instead
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by swombat 12y ago
Applies to my company (GrantTree), huh. However I know that one of our competitors had 7 employees in their first year and, because they mistakenly published their full accounts, I also know they made just £80k of revenue that year. So it d
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by swombat 12y ago
That's a good point, I hadn't thought of that... I am 34 now, so perhaps that's why the effect seems so pronounced.
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by swombat 12y ago
Sure - it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I was on a Tango dancing holiday in Buenos Aires and, well, dancing is more fun when you've had a glass of wine :-) There's a time for everything. The key insight, to me, is to realise that I a

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