benmller313

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by benmller313 5y ago
No, he's not. He's saying the stock award, had he vested it all and not sold it, would have been worth 500k per year because of how much the stock has gone up. New grads at amazon make 100 - 120k + 30-60k of stock or bonuses per y
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by benmller313 5y ago
That isn't quite how I understood this to have gone. It seems like the Russians very much did want to go to the moon, and would have beaten the American's there if they had succeeded in getting their version of the Saturn V off th
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by benmller313 5y ago
I don't think Amazon has done stock buy backs in almost 10 years.
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by benmller313 5y ago
Yes. Is that not true?
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by benmller313 5y ago
Is the more likely scenario that you just had the seasonal Flu, or that there is a non detectable covid variant?
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by benmller313 5y ago
You're missing the point the article is making. If people choose not to take the vaccine, why stop them from going out and getting infected? They have informed consent on the dangers of covid, they can make their own decision.
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by benmller313 5y ago
Isn't the real solution just to use a bigger int?
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by benmller313 5y ago
Then why do the hackers keep asking for BTC?
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by benmller313 5y ago
I've never been laid off before but I think you can be empathetic of the people laid off here without treating them like emotional simpletons.
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by benmller313 5y ago
There are more solidly middle class golfers than rich ones.
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by benmller313 5y ago
Are you sure the job market is softer now than in 2010?
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by benmller313 5y ago
This seems like a much more positive response than the one they took with MongoDB. I agree, Amazon hasn't done much, but maybe this could be a start?
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by benmller313 5y ago
I think the cost of living in Small town Alabama is going to compare pretty favorably to anywhere in Europe.
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by benmller313 5y ago
Not just "A World" but A decentralized world without a central authority that could just sell scarce goods. Think in game skins or second life property.
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by benmller313 5y ago
Do the people you weed out that suggest using a library know that the purpose of the question is to walk through how to code something?
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by benmller313 5y ago
Any idea what's up with the two peaks in the price of 10 cylinder cars?
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by benmller313 5y ago
Why wouldn't a woman be able to be good at a game made by a white man?
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by benmller313 5y ago
Would it be a good thing if businesses could be registered in all international character sets? I could see this causing problems. Government officials are only going to be needed to speak the official languages. How would they even refer t
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by benmller313 5y ago
Native language adoption in BC is totally doomed by this writing system. No one knows how to say that name and I don't know how they will learn.
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by benmller313 5y ago
If updates to some software "Just breaks your stuff", you have bigger problems with the software than the decision to auto update or not.
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by benmller313 6y ago
I have this dream constantly. Always that I forgot to ever go to the class, never that I'm struggling in a class or that I'm going to fail I class I've been attending. I wonder, did you skip a lot of classes in College?
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by benmller313 6y ago
Magazines are full of interesting side bars and short, non substantive bits, mixed in with longer full articles. It makes reading them very enjoyable.
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by benmller313 6y ago
You're not wrong, but you can imagine for a non technical audience, the "internet" is the thing you browse, and "zoom" is the meeting machine you use and they are not inherently related.
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by benmller313 6y ago
It's interesting, but I hate to think this might have been the response to a junior developer's suggestion to clean up unused functions in a code base.
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by benmller313 6y ago
Not feeling a lot of sympathy. How did anyone expect this to go any other way?
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by benmller313 6y ago
Are you exaggerating or is it really normal for a family of 4 to live in a 500 sqft apartment? This seems impossibly tiny to me.
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by benmller313 6y ago
This isn't a very good way to critique an idea. People got by just fine before the internet, email, personal computers, cellphones... but they find them indispensable now that they have them.
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by benmller313 6y ago
Is this a standup comedy routine?
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by benmller313 6y ago
I think this person actually means "We can imagine doing better than DuckDuckGo".
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by benmller313 6y ago
I'd guess just savings on paying capital gains tax vs income tax?

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