bethly

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by bethly 3y ago
Direct democracy is easier to buy than representative democracies for two reasons: first, voters have other things to do with their time than become experts on every bit of law that comes before them. And second, they don’t have the ongoing
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by bethly 3y ago
I’m curious what maximization function you are considering
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by bethly 3y ago
It is so interesting to me the way “nerd” and “geek” function as quasi-diagnostic categories for Boomers: not specifically medicalized, yet used to describe developmental differences. It demonstrates both the power and limits of the social
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by bethly 4y ago
I would recommend reading the blog post; I think there is context you have missed. I'm describing interactions here I am having with my peers, not people I'm in a service relationships with. We are practicing a highly-skilled trad
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by bethly 4y ago
Is anyone else only able to see the first page of the PDF?
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by bethly 4y ago
I am sorry your work has been frustrating. Here I was talking specifically about code reviews, so the context is pretty different than an incident retro. A code review where there is nothing nice to say is probably not going to merge into t
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For Delightful Code Reviews, Say Nice Things(blog.bethcodes.com)
2 points by bethly 4y ago|4 comments
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by bethly 7y ago
It's not like he's from the Middle Ages or something; 1964 is within living memory.
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by bethly 7y ago
He was creepy and unprofessional, not a criminal. “Be fired” is the proportional and appropriate response.
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Building Minimum Viable Employee Resource Groups(blog.ltse.com)
9 points by bethly 7y ago|0 comments
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by bethly 7y ago
This approval is just a first step; we intend to augment (subject to SEC approval) the exchange's listing rules with those innovations.
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by bethly 7y ago
We are thrilled that the SEC has officially approved the Long-Term Stock Exchange as a national securities exchange!
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by bethly 8y ago
In the data set I used for reference, Series C+ companies still mostly failed to exit. Even at the furthest extreme the data tracked, of the 35 Silicon Valley companies that raised a fifth round 18 failed to exit or raise more money. On the
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by bethly 8y ago
Building this I used information from CB Insights, which looks at companies that receive VC funding by cohort. Their most recent report covers companies that raised seed rounds in 2008-2010: https://www.cbinsights.com/rese
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by bethly 8y ago
Then you're stuck: there isn't any way to value shares in something without knowing the denominator. Your company should be willing to provide the "fully-diluted basis" for your shares if you ask.
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by bethly 8y ago
Building this tool we purposefully steered away from education. We found that the users we talked to, people considering startup jobs who didn't know how to value options, were frequently overwhelmed and discouraged by tools with more
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by bethly 8y ago
If you are looking for more detailed scenario modeling, we've also built a free cap table management tool that takes into account the specifics of a particular company: https://captable.io/
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by bethly 8y ago
Only if it exits at that seed stage: if it raises more money, the number goes up. If the company makes it to Series C+, the number is probably going to be higher than $35M. Which is what taking the average does: for about half of exits tha
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by bethly 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! That's a good idea; I'll add it to our list!
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by bethly 8y ago
It's fun to watch a market that's actually nearly perfect: no barriers to entry or regulation to capture means that lead time is about the only source of surplus and profit consistently trends to zero.
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Stock Market Reactions to Long-Term Plans Measured for First Time(businesswire.com)
1 points by bethly 8y ago|0 comments
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by bethly 8y ago
When TDDing the tests are going to change a lot, just like the code you are saying you write anyway. I recommend the book Refactoring for the tools so you can make the changes without breaking the test, then clean up the now-unimportant te
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by bethly 8y ago
This only comes up if you have data that isn't bundled with logic: as long as there is some logic to test, even enums end up with full coverage. The outstanding issue with Java code coverage tools is switch statements, because there ar
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by bethly 8y ago
Your assumption that they generate more revenue is sexist and incorrect. In 2015, when the complaint was made, the women's team raised more revenue than the men's team: https://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2016&
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by bethly 8y ago
Certainly once you control for mechanisms by which discrimination is enacted some of the effects of discrimination disappear. I don't understand why people think that is exculpatory rather than explanatory, indicating which interventi
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by bethly 8y ago
This is interesting less for the science and more for the conflicts between different camps of "rationalists" about what "science" means. Especially given that the "rockstar physicist shows up with a model, gets ang
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by bethly 8y ago
https://tldroptions.io is all about estimating the approximate upside under a wide variety of exit scenarios. Even the basic answer ends up being “it depends...”
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by bethly 8y ago
One of the prime advantages for me is that I could find a company with women in leadership roles and I could interview everyone at the company before taking the job. I am absolutely willing to give up monetary compensation in exchange for w
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by bethly 9y ago
Well, she didn't disrespect Wu-Tang. More seriously, this is why often people who know they've been caught dead-to-rights settle early: the government wants the W and doesn't want to have to spend money to get it. Shkrelli ma
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by bethly 9y ago
The advice is not all bad. I certainly agree that slicing a problem into small, concrete steps that can be achieved in less than a day (and then less than an hour, and then in the next five minutes...) as one of the central skills a program

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