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by toby 11y ago
So if they do well in the take-home test, you give them an offer? Or do they still have to do the all-day on-site after that?
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by toby 11y ago
Any idea how to get this working on Arch? The latest version looks to be about 2 weeks old.
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by toby 11y ago
This might be of interest, Netflix pre-scales based on anticipated demand: http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/11/scryer-netflixs-predicti...
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by toby 11y ago
Wrong? Nothing. It just tends to attract the attention of regulators when done at scale. Even Nevada doesn't allow casinos to run proposition bets on anything but sports.
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by toby 11y ago
That would probably get shut down pretty quickly, as it would be essentially allowing a group of small-time players to make non-sports-related proposition bets.
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by toby 11y ago
I swore I had read this before... https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
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Google launches offline maps(googleblog.blogspot.com)
332 points by toby 11y ago|115 comments
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What personality makes a programmer?(marginalrevolution.com)
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by toby 11y ago
Some people just gamble because it's fun. Odds in blackjack are about 1% in favor of the house, which means you're (probabilisticly) paying 10c/hand at a $10 table. If you enjoy it, like meeting people, and take advantage of
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by toby 11y ago
Tiered water pricing is likely unconstitutional in California. http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drough...
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by toby 11y ago
I may be wrong but I think due to Prop 218, it's illegal for municipalities in California to charge more than the "actual cost". For one thing, this means that tiered water pricing will always get challenged.
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by toby 11y ago
I understand that. It's actually addressed starting on page 26 of the report -- basic conclusion is that a landowner / developer will more likely hold the land until after the moratorium (when it will be even more valuable due to
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by toby 11y ago
Just want to point out that some of us have read the full text of the Proposition, know exactly what it does, and the rationale, and still think it will be completely ineffective. For example, SF's Chief Economist: http://sf
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by toby 11y ago
> That is why we elect people. To answer these kinds of hard questions. Yes, and the people we elected actually already answered this question wrt short-term rentals. Propositions like this one undermine this process. How many people do
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by toby 11y ago
> The author is a "long-time SF resident" and pretending that an SF judge would want to jail somebody over renting out on Airbnb illegally? It seems like giving judges that power because "they obviously won't use it&q
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by toby 11y ago
You could try TAP on South Van Ness, they have two-way acrylic mirrors on their website: http://www.tapplastics.com/product/plastics/cut_to_size_plas...
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by toby 11y ago
This is totally true, of course... I just think that exploring examples that would be really hard with Excel would make the point better.
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by toby 11y ago
Agree -- if Facebook had an "export my friend list to Excel" button, then plenty of non-programmers could perform this task using existing tools. I read the tutorial and I am sort of struggling to see what benefit this would give
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by toby 11y ago
I'm also not sure how you'd bootstrap something like this for programmers. The reason it works for actors is that every actor who is even slightly famous is a member, so every production has to work with the union or only get comp
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by toby 11y ago
I'm sure I'll get this wrong, but the way it was explained to me is that you need to appear in 3 SAG productions in order to apply for membership. Since it's a big hassle for the movie production to get an exemption to hire n
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by toby 11y ago
FYI, SAG does set minimum compensation, working conditions, meal requirements, etc. It doesn't set upper bounds or demand that more senior people get the better jobs. It's also somewhat difficult to get into. Any aspiring actor ca
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by toby 11y ago
Wouldn't a greater bias to fund them lead to worse outcomes for those categories?
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The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar(nytimes.com)
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by toby 11y ago
There's probably an even simpler model than that. Consider the pay cut you'd take to work at the startup... how much equity did the seed-round investors get for that much money? Multiply that by 1.5-2x (just a guess, perhaps someo
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by toby 11y ago
Ramez Naam had a good response to all the fear surrounding CRISPR: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/05/don...
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by toby 11y ago
Interactive Brokers has a very robust API, and market data fees are $10/month or free if you spend more than $30 on commissions. (I'm not affiliated, but I've used their services before and have been happy)
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by toby 11y ago
Yep, that too, although in that case I didn't even think the premise was that interesting. With the three I mentioned I was totally hooked until the last quarter of the book.
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by toby 11y ago
That's interesting... my reaction to "Snow Crash", "Diamond Age" and "Cryptonomicon" was that the premise set up was interesting but the ending always descended into a lame Hollywood action sequence. I&#x2
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by toby 12y ago
It appears this is already happening. Beef production is declining in CA and some farmers are switching from grass-fed to importing feed from other states.
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by toby 12y ago
They're both right: http://www.cattlerange.com/cattle-graphs/all-cattle-numbers.... California is #5, containing 5.7% (down a fair bit from a year ago) of all cattle in the US.

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