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by traek 8y ago
> The short answer is that it's generally legal to consider salary demands in a hiring situation, but not in the context of firing or laying people off. This is just plainly untrue. See Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins .
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by traek 8y ago
> I don't see how that's possible. Low value would skew it even more versus 2.9% + 30 cents Because that’s not Square’s rate, they charge a flat 2.75%.
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by traek 8y ago
Consider explaining enough details in your comment so that it doesn’t require readers to investigate?
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by traek 8y ago
The transit already getting built in LA. It’s just slow (Purple Line won’t be finished till 2028). Measure R is effective over 30 years. These things take time. It’s fine for a city to take a more measured approach to growth, and make sure
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by traek 8y ago
It's about knowing how to structure problems, whether the components are public or whether the problem space is completely unfamiliar. E.g. someone who guesses "$3 billion" on only a gut feeling likely wouldn't be a stro
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by traek 8y ago
Any source on "VK simply advertised the messenger actively at launch"? As far as I've heard VK and Telegram have never had a very cozy relationship, certainly never going as far as VK actively promoting Telegram.
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by traek 8y ago
Why is this "not a simple A/B test"? It seems to be functionally the same (maybe A/B/C/etc. and not A/B), just with no actual product. Is it the nonexistence of a real product which bothers you? Is it the
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by traek 8y ago
What would a better solution look like, in your view? Is it the third-party aspect that you take issue with, or the fact-checking? Or the combination of the two?
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by traek 8y ago
> Lakes turn into swamps which turn into forests given enough time. While this is literally true, it's not clear to me that it's a relevant metaphor for online communities.
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by traek 8y ago
I don’t think an incompetent school nurse would be a bigger problem to me than my child dying.
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by traek 8y ago
This is unrelated to the Hyperloop concept.
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by traek 8y ago
Reminds me of Jenny Holzer’s work (she’s a conceptual artist who works with text). https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63755 "BAD INTENTIONS CAN YIELD GOOD RESULTS" “CATEGORIZING FEAR IS CALMING"
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by traek 8y ago
Did you read the article? A big part of their financial problems was that the virtual assistants were full employees, not 1099/contractors.
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by traek 8y ago
At that level, they could be making the same money at any of the other tech companies, with the same freedom and same caliber of coworkers. I highly doubt most of them believe that FB and the work they’re doing is evil. They would have no i
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by traek 8y ago
In this case it's not a headline, it's literally a question that was asked.
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by traek 8y ago
> It's actually hard to be fully aware of the high levels of conformity one finds elsewhere until you have spent 6+ months in SF. I haven't found this to be the case at all, at least compared to LA/NY/Seattle.
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by traek 8y ago
Yes, but the intention was to expand from there to allow community knowledge curation on anything . See Ben Horowitz's note: https://a16z.com/2014/07/11/from-rap-genius-to-genius-2/ Marc Andreessen
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by traek 8y ago
Smart move for Spotify, foreboding news for Genius. This is also a cautionary lesson for founders about raising at inflated valuations--Genius's series B raise at close to a $1B post-money val will make it more difficult for them to ex
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by traek 8y ago
Sure, but it’s not an option for brands, which is the more relevant comparison here.
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by traek 8y ago
> “Control” here is falling prey to the freedom fallacy; something we should expect a judge to overcome. What is the "freedom fallacy"? A quick Google search only turned up a book with that title which questions liberal feminis
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by traek 8y ago
NB this is "Time Warner the media company", not Time Warner Cable (which is now Spectrum.) This isn't broadband consolidation but rather media/entertainment consolidation. The deal is most closely comparable to Comcast&#
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by traek 8y ago
Sure, but it's not accurate to say > I had to wait for the third section, not very helpfully titled "An open source architecture", to find any clues.
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by traek 8y ago
That's already accounted for in the "paid-in" figure: > (Remember, the couple didn’t literally pay out $600,000; that’s the current value of what they paid out over the years, plus an additional 2 percent they may have got
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by traek 8y ago
For context, epriest (Evan Priestley) was the original author of Phabricator at Facebook and spun it out as its own company.
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by traek 8y ago
Yes, and per further up in this comment chain the purpose of that is to avoid signaling issues: > For YC - we're thinking actively how to prevent any signaling. That's why we invest pro-rata in all of our companies in the same
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by traek 8y ago
Stupid in this context was pretty clearly defined in the article as low-IQ. You're describing skilled vs unskilled.
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by traek 8y ago
It's easily verifiable, see [1] under "Educational Attainment of Adults". 13% of unauthorized immigrants have completed college, as compared to 31% of US-born and 30% of authorized immigrants. [1] https://www.migra
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by traek 8y ago
The link isn't to Facebook, it's to newsroom.fb.com (which is a WordPress-hosted site.)
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by traek 8y ago
This is just what the comments you replied to were discussing
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by traek 8y ago
It’s a meaningless comparison, the median Swedish/Norwegian citizen is far more educated, wealthy, and capable of producing software than the median Chinese citizen. China’s per capita software production is dragged down by its massive

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