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by wskinner 6y ago
You didn’t miss it. If you’re aware that these packages exist, the wording is extremely misleading. Hard to imagine someone reading the article with no prior context and guessing that employees who left received 3 months (IIRC) of severance
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It would be interesting to see the raw data and compare to the base rate (exodus / ingress over the last few years). The article doesn’t seem to link to its data source.
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> In the analysis, 90 of the patients received the placebo with the remaining five the vaccine. Why is the trial so small?
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If it would hard or impossible to produce evidence of tampering, it’s easy for that statement to be true.
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Airbnb. There is a lot of inventory available if you book 2-3 months out. It is pretty annoying to travel with a cat, as many Airbnb hosts mark their place "pet friendly" even though they don't allow cats. But we've stil
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The hardest part for me was the initial push to pack up and leave. Our general strategy is to stay in Airbnbs for at least one month at a time, triggering a discounted rate. All fees included, the monthly rate for the 2br/3br places we
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Unsurprisingly, this piece focuses on outliers that are entertaining or cringey. The unsexy version of pandemic nomadism is safer, easier, cheaper, and boring enough not to warrant a snickering write up in the NYT. My partner and I are curr
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Uber, Lyft, Postmates, DoorDash, Instacart. And as a driver, the switching cost is roughly zero. The companies absolutely do have to to compete for workers, which is why they spend so much on attracting them.
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This is the real issue. CoC proponents seem to think writing down the correct rules is sufficient. But rules are only as good or bad as their enforcement.
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Very true. Is it the case that PoW provides the same security value as PoS?
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That standard is not applied to many things. There are many cases where it makes sense to use a technology that uses more energy than technically feasible because it offers other benefits. For example, using java instead of assembly.
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Why is that the right amount? Does proof of work have no value at all?
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How much energy would be the right amount for Ethereum to use?
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https://patrickcollison.com/fast is a great catalog of similar issues. It is periodically discussed here.
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Reminds me of the time GMail launched gestures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KEcfP_CWVo
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> Disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself, e.g. unverified information about election rigging, ballot tampering, vote tallying, or certification of election results. What if the process is in fact broken and corr
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Fire on the Mountain – Rethinking Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada (2018)(lhc.ca.gov)
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This has been posted a number of times. The largest discussion was this thread from 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943185
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This looks cool. I'm curious how it compares to frameworks like Dask and Ray.
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Can you share the professions of the people you know whose jobs were destroyed?
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You're probably getting downvoted because you're making confident-sounding but wrong claims. I posted a top level comment that should resolve all your confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24202814
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For those in the comments who are confused about how various equity compensation schemes work, the best guide I'm aware of is https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation/about . It covers all the common typ
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Yes, kind of - what you're thinking of is known as an 83b election. But you still owe tax in the year you are granted the stock, at the current fair market value. If your startup is pre-funding, that's fine, it will be 10s of doll
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Maybe a bit overstated, but yes. When media outlets orient their offerings toward particular groups, it is in every outlet’s interest to publish ingroup vs. outgroup pieces and exaggerate the conflict. This collective action problem is igno
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This kind of claim needs a citation. The article we're discussing does not support it.
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It is often assumed, including by several comments here, that membership in a group implies agreement with some or all of the content within the group. This is false and harmful. This faulty assumption can be used to exaggerate the populari
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Eliezer Yudkowsky and Robin Hanson.
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It’s not really the same. One person is a pseudonymous blogger who requested to keep their pseudonimity. The other is a reporter for the best known newspaper in the world. But I agree it’s a bad look, I have removed the comment.
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Edit: this comment was not constructive.
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> E2EE as an advanced add-on feature for all of our users around the globe – free and paid How will they square this with the censorship required of them in China? Presumably they are not going to shut down the service in China.

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