valar_m

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Why nothing works the way it's supposed to (1976)(nytimes.com)
2 points by valar_m 4y ago|0 comments
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by valar_m 4y ago
>> Anyone who has difficulty with this should seek a bit of help, and those implying there is something wrong ... they have a different problem entirely, I don't know how to describe it. This line of thinking seems really...bad.
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Ask HN: What are some examples of well-written post mortems?
4 points by valar_m 4y ago|3 comments
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by valar_m 4y ago
You should add your own favorites to the list.
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by valar_m 4y ago
My point was that hate speech is currently protected, and yet none of the hyperbole you mentioned actually exists in reality. Obviously you knew that those things don't happen. So were you perhaps under the mistaken impression that h
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by valar_m 4y ago
This is a ridiculous misrepresentation of what I said, and I suspect you know that. Why on earth would they be able to burn crosses on anyone's lawn? Hate speech is currently protected by the First Amendment by decades of well-settled
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by valar_m 4y ago
Yes. It's important for people like David Duke to let us know what he truly is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Louisiana_gubernatorial_e... "Vote For The Crook: It's Important."
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by valar_m 4y ago
East India Company employed 260,000 soldiers alone, not even counting the entire rest of the company. That took 20 seconds to find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
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by valar_m 4y ago
Mark my words, this will be used to punish people for ideas that those in power don't like. Hate speech laws are dangerous because hate groups are far more dangerous when their true motives are hidden from view.
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by valar_m 4y ago
So what'd you come up with?
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by valar_m 5y ago
I'm asking for data for this claim that you made: > Reduce onlyfans, self-objectifying gamer girls, and other bait, and the problems will disappear.
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by valar_m 5y ago
So no data?
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by valar_m 5y ago
Any data to support this claim? Because porn has been on the internet for far longer than the incel thing has been around.
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by valar_m 5y ago
I should have been more explicit and less clever in the part about being a VC. I'm (poorly) suggesting there that it's detrimental to the company to treat employees as an adversarial relationship because the company will have a gr
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by valar_m 5y ago
What are some of those different reasons for asking a candidate for their current pay?
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by valar_m 5y ago
Seems like you're saying you ask for salary requirements, not for them to reveal how much they currently make. That's something else entirely. What I am specifically referring to is asking a candidate their current pay.
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Tell HN: Recruiters asking for current salary may respectfully fuck off
31 points by valar_m 5y ago|16 comments
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by valar_m 5y ago
> This used to work well but moderators have "professionalized" and nowadays will viciously stamp out any kind of separarism. How would they go about doing that? I see new, competing subreddits being created all the time. Like,
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by valar_m 5y ago
Though it doesn't address the problem in TFA, I recommend setting up billing alerts in AWS. Doesn't solve their issue, but they would have at least known about it sooner.
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by valar_m 5y ago
> Subs have their own "reddit" brands in accordance to the topic. They also have their own "reddit" opinions shared among almost every sub with enough people in it for justify propaganda. Which is actually the cool th
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by valar_m 5y ago
Sure, I don't think he actually came up with it himself. I'm saying it didn't happen without Zuck's sign off. If no one told him it was awful, that's worrisome. If they told him and he ignored it, that's even w
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by valar_m 5y ago
Is there no one there at all who would tell him this was a terrible idea? That it's an absolute parody of working in a corporate hell? If I had any kind of stake in FB, that would be the most worrisome part of this.
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by valar_m 5y ago
If you are saying that the checkbox option is no good for fixing unnecessary job requirements, of course I agree - but that's not its purpose at all. If you are saying it would be no good for improving the application process, I'm
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by valar_m 5y ago
I've heard this idea before and I like it, but my guess is that there's no realistic chance of something like that becoming standardized across companies. There would need to be some standard format established somewhere, which is
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Tell HN: "Upload your resume and then type it out” is hurting your company
184 points by valar_m 5y ago|94 comments
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by valar_m 5y ago
Former Amazonian here. When i was there, they made us take this antitrust training course that had things like "don't use terms like 'market share' in internal communications", but all along there were people doing
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by valar_m 5y ago
> At least until comics are no longer being produced because the straight male-hating audience is actually not as big as they think it is. This reminds of a quote from something I read recently, about 90 seconds ago. The link to the arti
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by valar_m 5y ago
Do you have any recommendations for the "good proxies" you mentioned?
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by valar_m 5y ago
Why would rising pay for engineers make companies want to increase turnover? > Most companies won't _really_ care if you sign and then rescind your acceptance if you get a better offer. What? Of course they care - finding good candi
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by valar_m 5y ago
In the case of failed background checks, the solution is actually quite simple - tell the candidate it's an offer contingent upon the background check. But you're right - rescinding job offers is an absolutely vile business practi

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