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by yaacov 6y ago
Facebook giving data to researchers who promise to behave is how we got the whole Cambridge Analytica mess.
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by yaacov 6y ago
Because they’re driven by trained professionals? I’ve never seen a bus or garbage truck run a red light at full speed, drive 50 on a neighborhood street, or do donuts in an intersection. I see cars do those things all the time.
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by yaacov 6y ago
Side point, but > This, in turn, leads Google’s suppliers to work to make Google better — what is SEO but a collective effort by basically the entire Internet to ensure that Google’s search engine is as good as possible? Feels pretty con
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by yaacov 6y ago
How about Dominic Cummings? I don’t like the guy, but he clearly thinks of himself as a rationalist and has been extremely successful.
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Ask HN: How is your company doing university recruiting during Covid-19?
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by yaacov 6y ago
I work at google. My grandfather spent a couple years in a Gulag. We both got free food at work, but I’m allowed to leave at the end of the day, and my job is writing code instead of counting dead people.
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by yaacov 6y ago
It’s just as insane in the US. 10x higher than average in Florida and 30x my small apartment in Washington state.
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by yaacov 6y ago
That’s by far the highest residential power bill I’ve ever heard of anywhere. It’s 10x the Florida average!! Either you have a poorly insulated 25k sqft mansion or your neighbors are siphoning off your power for an indoor weed farm.
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by yaacov 6y ago
There was a proposal to do this to the California aqueduct, but it turns out they don’t lose much water from evaporation and it would be cheaper to put them on land. https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/
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by yaacov 6y ago
Do you think any of those are common in twitter’s codebase?
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by yaacov 6y ago
Yeah agreed that the substance of the complaint might have some merit. This sentence just really rubbed me the wrong way.
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by yaacov 6y ago
> The posts rankled some workers, who found that her decision to write about the media in the midst of her maternity leave, rather than Black Lives Matter or Pride, reflected poorly on the brand. How is this real?
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by yaacov 6y ago
> He says the plant now uses seven million tonnes of pellets sourced from commercial forests in the US a year
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by yaacov 6y ago
The disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again. Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/techno
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by yaacov 6y ago
First off, thanks again for taking the time to speak with us on HN. I think you’re missing/avoiding the issue that people might want to hide the very fact that they have a Triplebyte account at all. It implies that they have job hunted
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by yaacov 6y ago
Thanks for coming to answer questions here even though you’re likely to get dragged through the mud for this decision. FWIW, I agree with other commenters that this is a betrayal of trust but I don’t have anything original to add.
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by yaacov 6y ago
https://outline.com/9UKJg6
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by yaacov 7y ago
Seattle is one of the most prosperous regions of the US. Even so, your suburban lifestyle is probably subsidized by people who live in more urbanized parts of the metro. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/4&#
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by yaacov 7y ago
I discovered Omni yesterday when League of Legends dumped 20 gB of text logs on my brother’s old MacBook, eating up all available disk space and crashing it. He asked me for help. I didn’t know what was taking up all his disk space so I sea
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by yaacov 7y ago
He talks about that in the end. Here’s the relevant section: Is this even a good idea? We’ve just spent several thousand words on methodology to show how the original FSE paper was flawed. But was that all really necessary? Most people po
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by yaacov 7y ago
That deal valued Zume at $2.25b, which is about 1/5 of the market cap of market leader Dominos. So SoftBank was betting on a >20% chance that Zume would succeed to that degree. This is quite different from traditional VC, which expe
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by yaacov 7y ago
> and i’m not talking about size Was what OP said, so I think it’s reasonable to assume they weren’t talking about size.
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by yaacov 7y ago
Most importantly, their comp is really good. Second, it seems to me that there’s more room for growth at Airbnb than other companies with similar compensation. (This is an impression with no hard evidence to back it up)
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by yaacov 7y ago
Anecdotal, graduated 1 year ago and have many new-grad friends looking for work now: Airbnb is probably the most desirable non-fintech company, Uber and Lyft were in this category too before their IPOs. Of megacorps, Facebook generally has
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by yaacov 7y ago
Cars are supposed to crumple when you crash them. This looks horribly dangerous.
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by yaacov 7y ago
If there was a monopoly on advertising, wouldn’t we expect advertising revenue to grow, rather than shrink?
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by yaacov 7y ago
Google lowballed the heck out of me to start, but they were willing to match absolutely any offer from any other company. Their recruiting process is rough but everyone I’ve spoken to has ended up with a competitive offer at the end. You mi
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by yaacov 8y ago
I don’t get anxiety from cities. I love cities. Your experience is common but not universal.
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by yaacov 8y ago
Wow, that graph is atrocious. Another issue is that I can’t tell what age groups are included. What on earth does “modal age 23-28 mean”
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by yaacov 8y ago
Maybe... but I’ve noticed this far more at NYT than other newspapers

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