whymauri

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by whymauri 5y ago
This website used to be clearer on correlations versus causation. I'm not going to die on this hill because food is likely a factor, but you do understand my fundamental point of correlation between factors when one of them is literall
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Sure, but at any given time there is unrest in the world. Is there more convincing evidence for a causation? Did food in the Arab world rise even more than other countries? Is the general unrest, when dissected to specific regions, usually
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I can't imagine having Zillow's financial resources and losing money in the Miami market, of all places. Dear god that place is hot (real estate and weather!).
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by whymauri 5y ago
Until you tell them that there's other companies willing to match or nearly match that compensation for seniors... https://www.levels.fyi/
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by whymauri 5y ago
Isn't this how it already works in the US?
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by whymauri 5y ago
One just has to read the leaks of internal employee messages to realize that FB is clearly not doing the best they can do. Literally by admission of their own employees. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/20
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by whymauri 5y ago
No, I think targeting COVID conspiracies makes sense. I think this video _specifically_ is small fry compared to some with 100k-1M views peddling the same nonsense in prettier packaging. I'm thinking about podcasts, radio show recordin
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by whymauri 5y ago
Exactly what I thought. I disagree with the video and lyrics, but there's bigger rappers that have been peddling conspiratorial, third eye awakening wish-wash for at least 20 years. This is a weird video to target, and I feel like ther
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Who does this refer to?
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>You can't un-make the choice to adopt electricity, you can make the choice to support Signal or Telegram or MMS or whatever. But... you absolutely can. This is getting pointless. You're not going to be convinced, nor are you w
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by whymauri 5y ago
>Facebook is not as necessary as electricity. It's insane to me that this is where we are in the discourse, that those are the analogies being used to describe one of dozens of ways to communicate with others. Once again, this is a
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by whymauri 5y ago
There is no duty for a corporation to be ethical, sure. Arguably, the incentives to produce endless profit and growth drive the opposite. But the decision to be unethical says something about that company's leadership and their values.
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by whymauri 5y ago
They can hire 20k engineers to build a doomed-to-fail metaverse that most of the world neither wants nor understands, but they can't dedicate the same headcount to making their platform healthier. Incredible.
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basically, get to the point of how you can make them money. if you can't clearly make an argument for that, you've ended up in the room too early.
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by whymauri 5y ago
>In his own memorandum to the court, requesting that he be sentenced to a year of house arrest, Kail, 49, described himself as a “global power leader, top dev ops influencer and a thought leader.” So very humble of him.
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by whymauri 5y ago
The IT in my district was so bad the students basically ran it for my middle and high school. We did all the desktop repairs and component swaps for free. I don't even think we had an "IT guy." This was 2009-2014 for me. On t
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by whymauri 5y ago
Wow! They got Sipser on OCW. This is widely considered to be one of the best classes around.
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by whymauri 5y ago
It is completely arbitrary. Arguably, all roles at seed stage or earlier are arbitrary.
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'Acknowledging discrimination in our industry is distracting, so to stop being distracted I'm going to focus on writing on how un-distracted we are because we're _mission focused._ I'm going to do this several times.&#x2
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt... https://www.lieffcabraser.com/employment/coinbase/ make of this what you will.
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You can read it with the 'past' feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05
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Huh? I would hardly describe this as technical. Someone with a high school education can read it and get the gist. It's actually somewhat impressive how it toes the line between accessibility and 'just detailed enough'.
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by whymauri 5y ago
>I find it weird for a whistleblower to be so "lib", as the kids say. There's like, a 0% chance she doesn't have a PR agency/person at this point. The rhetoric sells to centrist Americans and geriatric congresspe
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you jest, but they are up 170% since the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Bezos is a huge Trek fan, so he'd be equally mortified is my guess.
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by whymauri 5y ago
Pretty much every team is a network... which is to say, I think this advice applies to hiring, generally. Not just engineers. Some people have made the solid point that a corollary to: > After a baseline level of competency is satisfied,
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I can't recommend david attenborough's "a life on our planet" enough to gain some perspective on this. You're completely right: it's already happening.
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non equity baring contractors. is my guess, at least.
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https://archive.is/BqXIl
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In my anecdotal experience, a locked account == locked everything else. That's why they had to make the post from a different account than the locked one.

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