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by wgerard 7y ago
Sounds good.
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by wgerard 7y ago
And people are allowed to criticize his reluctance to accept those vital security patches, because he submitted code packaged as a crate to be used by others on a public registry. By publishing something to be used by others in a public reg
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by wgerard 7y ago
what are you talking about? The code was submitted to be used by the public as a crate on a public registry. There were ABSOLUTELY discussions of the soundness of the crate - that’s literally what sparked this issue, security flaws in the
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by wgerard 7y ago
> in my analogy you're the homeless person and the maintainer is the charitable person. in your analogy the homeless person is getting advice from ...? the maintainer? > completely specious. code in a github repo is not active pa
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by wgerard 7y ago
> what is the relationship of your analogy to this situation? is the maintainer the homeless person in your analogy? It's your analogy, you tell me. > you can criticize all you want as an exercise of your critical thinking facult
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by wgerard 7y ago
Here's another analogy: A homeless person asks for money. You don't give him money but give him some advice. Can the homeless person rightfully criticize you? You can absolutely criticize choices made by volunteers. I don't t
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by wgerard 7y ago
They're 20 year loans. I'd be hard-pressed to think of a single person that wouldn't tell an unverifiable lie to get a lower interest rate on 20% of their loan lifetime. Doubly so for loans with compound interest (as some pri
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by wgerard 7y ago
So I’ll double major in biology and something else I’m actually interested in, say my intended career is medicine (even though it’s not), and maintain my low interest rate for four years (or even longer)?
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Well you won’t switch your major if your loan depends on it. I'm not sure what this has to do with anything I said. If you're referring to my second statement, I met many people in school who intended to go into engineering o
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by wgerard 7y ago
> but allow lenders to differentiate with rates on the basis of area of degree earned This makes little sense in the current system, where many students don't even declare a major for their first year (or two, sometimes). They'
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by wgerard 7y ago
> Maybe they’ll look at your major That wouldn't make much sense, many students aren't accepted into a major until a year or two into their education. "Intended major" would also be a poor choice, as I think we all kn
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by wgerard 7y ago
> The first two points don't seem to have anything to do with _why_ bankruptcy shouldn't be used for student loans. n.b. I'm not suggesting this is a GOOD system, just explaining the reasoning behind it. I mean, they kinda
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by wgerard 7y ago
> However, these jobs are not meant to create wealth. They're meant to provide subsistance. This is much the same goal of UBI. I'm not even a proponent of UBI, but I immediately see a few problems with your argument here: 1) Th
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by wgerard 7y ago
As a teenager, I used to skateboard a decent amount. Sometimes businesses would put juts on rails, or little lips on things - stuff like that to keep kids from skating on their property. It didn't stop us from skating, obviously; we ju
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by wgerard 7y ago
It's not meant to be a benefit for the company, other than good PR I suppose. It's meant to be a gesture of good faith towards the candidate that invested their time and energy to interviewing with you, i.e. at least the candidate
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by wgerard 7y ago
Yes, people frequently request justification when they're rejected romantically. This is also why people get ghosted while dating nowadays. Many of the same reasons at play.
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by wgerard 7y ago
This is why people don't give candidates feedback, FWIW. It's a bit like arguing with a potential romantic partner who doesn't want to go on a second date: You might win the argument logically, but you're not getting ano
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by wgerard 7y ago
Two main reasons: 1. You're assuming they're using an ATS with that feature, which isn't as common as you'd think. You'd be surprised how many companies track incoming candidates using spreadsheets and email. 2. Par
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by wgerard 7y ago
Just explaining not defending: That's partially due to the volume seen with online applications. Even 2-5 person companies will sometimes receive ~20-30 resumes a day for an open job, and 90% of them will be obviously inappropriate for
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by wgerard 7y ago
Not too many places will straight up ghost candidates that have done on-sites, that's pretty unusual. Sometimes they'll dangle candidates if they're waiting to hear whether their first choice accepts, but even then it's
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by wgerard 7y ago
We interviewed a lot of hiring managers/etc. while we were working on a previous business in the hiring space. As part of that, we asked them this very question. The fear of litigation was by far the biggest reason we heard, but there
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by wgerard 7y ago
Not really, the truth is likely much more mundane: People are fairly predictable [1] and their predilections aren't that unique [2]. 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-ta
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by wgerard 7y ago
Living in a college dorm isn't a common occurrence for most people for the majority of the nation's history.
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by wgerard 7y ago
Ah fair, and I knew someone might bring that up :). I meant more that I don't think that type of situation was common throughout history, more-so just for that time period for a certain group of people. My impression is more that while
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by wgerard 7y ago
That would likely be illegal, for example in NYC an apartment must offer 80 feet of space for every tenant (so those 10 people would need to have a 800 sq ft apartment). Sure, easy to skirt around if you're just an individual landlord,
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by wgerard 7y ago
> A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month It would likely be similarly priced to the article, i.e. closer to $1200/month. I think that's the real downside of things like this: They're offer
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by wgerard 7y ago
A key difference: I don't think it was as common to be "co-living" with complete strangers (though maybe I'm wrong on that). Sharing a room with someone you're pretty familiar with is a much different experience.
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by wgerard 7y ago
I think the point is more like: It's hard to imagine a recent college graduate understanding the machinations of corporate entities enough to give meaningful advice about how to run more "efficiently". It's a bit like wh
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by wgerard 7y ago
> I realized that one of the things that brings me the most joy is a clean house; but I hated to clean. On the flip side, obviously only if it's something you can manage to do, this is also a good litmus test for whether you should
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by wgerard 7y ago
Funnily enough, HN actually works reasonably well in lynx.

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