tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 8y ago
I don't think anyone's come up with a great substitute for the decades of organic growth and iteration necessary to make a compelling city. Setting aside a deliberate corporate sponsor, how many compelling new cities really starte
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
You can substitute "Bay Area" with many of the major centers in the US at this point - Seattle, LA, Denver, Austin all have the same issues, they're just a few years behind the Bay. We need fixes to zoning and development rul
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
The history of corporate funded cities (or even government planned ones) is not good. It takes far too long to generate a real community / cultural center vs. the time spans corporations want to work in. Also, the city governments woul
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
If you're already accruing the supposed negatives of being associated with the industry (and I emphasize supposed , given that tech is also the region's biggest economic driver these days), you might as well have the dollars too.
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Lol, no. It's higher than that because 70% of screener interviews end up not resulting in a hire, and probably 50-70% of on-sites don't. I think the last estimate I saw was about 50 hrs of interviewing total per hired candidate, a
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
I've done 150+ interviews for Google. A single candidate will do 1-2 screens (this changes over time / role), plus at least 4-5 on-site interviews. That's about 7-8 hours of meetings, minimum. Having interviewed at a number o
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Sorry, are you talking about the US or another country? We have elements of common law in the US code, and you can definitely have binding precedent that doesn't involve the Supreme Court. As for most folks not having any contact with
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
California's constitution alone is over 100 pages, never mind thousands of pages of other legal code as well as precedents. It's not that the laws are so complex, it's that they have to cover so much it's never going to
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
How much does an outsourced background check? Running an interview pool on someone using a bunch of skilled employees costs probably $4K or so. Figure 7 interviews, 3 hrs each (prep, interview, feedback, hiring meeting) plus someone to arra
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
It depends how you group the age cohorts, but my recollection is that the second oldest cohort (something like 65-75) actually has one of the lowest accident rates, and the oldest one has a higher accident rate per mile but tend to drive fe
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Or, you could just get paid more to accept emails outside of normal working hours. Pager duty bonus / overtime, of some form. The current problem is that companies are classifying employees as "exempt" which means they are no
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
I believe there's some requirements in Europe around this - companies need to be able to turn off access to corp email outside of work hours, to enforce that they're not incurring work. Is it France that does this? It's also
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by tomkarlo 8y ago
Yes, but she did so in part by using fraud and deception. When you're an early stage company trying to raise money from investors there's a large component of "trust us to do the right things with your money" that is goi
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Picking up things without the boxes allowed them to use bike messengers and/or foot messengers rather than vans, which is a lot more efficient in urban areas (no traffic issues, parking problems, etc.) They'd just put whatever you
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Loosely speaking, it was - he was using the supposed gains of earlier investors to attract new investment, then using those new funds to pay off the earlier investors. It was spread across multiple investments rather than just one vehicle,
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
It's irrelevant if it's "bad". It's illegal , which means that at least in theory, law enforcement is supposed to pursue and prosecute it, since their mandate is to enforce the laws as passed by the legislative bod
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
I'd argue this isn't inconsistent; these states are so small they effectively have ceded control of their economy, as well as their national defense, to the larger European community. Kosovo and Montenegro, for example, previously
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Once a device is certified, a manufacturer can keep selling it indefinitely, I believe... and/or those may not be actually Google certified devices. (Especially with very low end / no-name handsets.) When I referred to "shipp
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
There's a predefined window for when a device can be certified for release with a particular Android OS version. I don't know what the current window is, but devices that are shipping now (Q1) likely got certified some time last y
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
You specifically said "That's easier to parse than odds for .. a blackjack hand?" Presumably what one is parsing when making a speculative trade is the odds of a positive outcome. (You don't need to parse a blackjack han
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
See my other comment, but TLDR it's not a foreign currency if you're a Eurozone country.
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Yes, but that's very different - the Eurozone countries are not allowing another nation's currency to become their defacto currency, they're creating a pooled economy where they all still have a voice in the management of the
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
When you say "many", how many do you think, and what are you basing that number on? I'm not sure the total wealth from bitcoin to Americans is material to the national economy, much less the potential negative change in tha
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
It's not clear that the number of people holding Bitcoin gains, multiplied by the wealth effect, is creating any significant impact on the global economy. Similarly, even if everyone who used credit cards to buy Bitcoin went bankrupt
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
When they allow a foreign currency to become the de-facto medium of exchange in a nation, the government is basically admitting that it's lost the ability to issue currency and manage its own economy. The loss of economic control invol
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
1) Here's the lottery code for CA. Payouts are regulated - by it's nature, the odds of a lottery depend on the number of tickets, but typically, there are strict rules about the minimum % of receipts paid back to winners (which is
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Consider the contrast between the two things you just said: * "place bets on which cryptocoins might be more useful than other" * "The Casino ALWAYS wins, in aggregate." In the former, you expect you have some better tha
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Generally any compliant securities issuance will have something to this effect - the "Risk Factors" section. The problem is it's often drowned out the broader hype of an offering, or a seller will say "they make us say t
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
That's to make it difficult for a player to calculate the odds of a particular hand . The odds of the overall game are still pre-defined and regulated. Casinos can't/won't promise that you'll make money by playing
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
At least at Google I don't think that was their original intent - the idea was to provide a way for employees to express their gratitude away from the perf context. I don't think they should be used for perf as they are not inte

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