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by throwaway713 6y ago
> find the idea that people doesn't think about something exactly all the time to be a very strange thought I'm not sure I understand; how could one not be thinking about things constantly? If I try to just sit there and think
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The Endangered Asian Century(foreignaffairs.com)
2 points by throwaway713 6y ago|0 comments
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Social media companies don’t have to be politically neutral to moderate content(aei.org)
2 points by throwaway713 6y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway713 6y ago
There’s a difference between what may be “fair” and what economics (and the law) allows. Is it fair that teachers are paid $40k? Is it fair that anyone is making over $10 million a year? Is anyone really worth that much? Cost of living ad
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> Even before coronavirus, President Donald Trump's administration had been working to decrease the inflow of students from overseas Sometimes I wonder if the U.S. is purposefully trying to move down in world rankings... I'm no
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by throwaway713 6y ago
If I could keep my current compensation and move to the low cost of living area where my family is located, I would reach financial independence 10-15 years ahead of my current trajectory with Bay Area rents/costs. I'll settle fo
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Any news on how/if compensation will change at Twitter as a function of location? I know many tech companies have fractional multipliers depending on the COL of the area you plan to live in.
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Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin crashing massively right now?
35 points by throwaway713 6y ago|44 comments
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Didn't a bunch of billionaires recently hunker down in their private bunkers in New Zealand? Does this mean they are trapped there now?
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> If you don't do it, there's always a willing colleague who will Haha, isn't this the truth. I work at one of FAANG as well and was curious how one of my colleagues was accomplishing so much . His output is astonishing
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> It is a genuine skillset and people should not expect to just be able to jump into something qithout knowledge training or experience and be proficient at it Sure, but this also applies to understanding the U.S. tax code, which I think
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> someone else's privacy, without their consent I didn’t say anything about not getting consent to share personal information. I think almost everyone would agree consent is always necessary.
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by throwaway713 6y ago
> Privacy is a consider a basic right in the EU Your point definitely makes a lot of sense, but there are many of us who believe that we should be able to make our own decision to give up certain types of privacy in exchange for somethin
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by throwaway713 6y ago
Yeah, I agree with you. If people don’t like that a site uses cookies, then don’t visit it and maybe it will naturally go out of business. They shouldn’t be forced to still provide content. Or not. Personally I have no problem with cookies.
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> to things like who lives closest Yikes! You may want to review laws about hiring... immediately.
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> Now that you've had a chance to experience it, what's your perspective? The current situation is not representative of typical remote working conditions. I am fortunate in that I do not have relatives that need care or chi
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by throwaway713 7y ago
As a research-oriented data scientist at one of the larger tech companies, I can confirm that even here, a lot of people are unsure about what exactly data scientists are supposed to do. My most frequent request is "tell us why metric
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> where I am literally the only natural born U.S. citizen It's definitely an interesting phenomenon. I work at a large tech company, and within my team of ~70 people, I think there is maybe one other person beside myself who was bo
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by throwaway713 7y ago
I don’t know what the deal is, but I feel like the cynicism on HN has just constantly ramped up over the past couple of years. I actively feel worse after reading the comments on a lot of articles posted on here, and it’s just not an enjoya
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by throwaway713 7y ago
So I know it's almost impossible to predict the stock market, but... a lot of this crash seems to be based on panic and human psychology concerning the virus (I know there is some effect due to the oil price war though). My question is
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Do you miss SF though?
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by throwaway713 7y ago
What I find strange is all of the people who don't like working from home trying to talk everyone out of it, including the people who do want to work from home. Look at all of the comments on HN with people claiming that it doesn&#x
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> This will be blamed on COVID-19, but the problems go much deeper This is a strong claim. Can you prove it?
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> highly paid Silicon Valley engineers. Once people are working from home most of the time, it’s not much of a stretch to hire cheaper engineers from a few states over at literally half the cost What’s wrong with this? I’m one of these e
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Is there a term for this flowery, overwrought writing style that takes half a page to make a point?
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Can someone explain how FCC fines work? I’ve always been confused by them. Are the companies breaking a law, or just some kind of regulation they agreed to? And if so, why does it take the FCC so long to do anything? It’s been well known fo
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Data scientist here. “Average” tech comp (the study used the mean in this case) is so misleading as to be useless and was probably chosen to promote an agenda. The distribution of tech comp is extremely skewed by the top earners. Median wou
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by throwaway713 7y ago
Ok, totally unrelated to the article, but what on earth is up with the same creepy dead comment that is visible on what seems like every article lately (posted by beeschlenker this time). This has been appearing for months now and the user
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> Advertising's sole purpose is to make you feel inferior/incomplete/inadequate without shiny new X I disagree with this. I’ve never felt "inadequate" because of an ad.
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by throwaway713 7y ago
> I haven't had a single job as a software engineer that didn't have a constant background of distractions and interruption that prevented work from getting done Same here. It’s actually kind of mind-blowing how little I get do

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