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by bthrn 3mo ago
I once watched a Vice President at an all hands explain that the company's decision to have non-competitive wages was because "it's not that we're underpaying, it's that everybody else is overpaying. If you want to
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by bthrn 7mo ago
Diff is Phabricator terminology. A diff is roughly equivalent to a Pull Request in GitHub.
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by bthrn 11mo ago
This guy burgles
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by bthrn 1y ago
The most profitable way to fill a plane would be to knock everybody out and just pile them up in the fuselage.
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by bthrn 1y ago
There is a 90 day decision timeframe starting from the time of submitting a complaint. But note: > Due to a high volume of complaints, there will be a delay between when a complaint is submitted and waits in the queue and when the compla
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by bthrn 1y ago
That process remains tied to an employer, which is the very point that was originally made. Many employers simply won’t do that paperwork by policy and treat that process as no different than sponsorship.
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by bthrn 1y ago
Property taxes and insurance go up pretty much every year.
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by bthrn 1y ago
It's funny how employers try to rationalize this -- take Coinbase, for example: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/how-coinbase-is-embracing-ai-i... > While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we belie
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by bthrn 1y ago
It's not really a vulnerability, though. It's an attack vector.
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by bthrn 2y ago
Anchoring
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by bthrn 2y ago
Why does it matter either way?
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by bthrn 2y ago
At work I coined the phrase "Fast & Furious Planning" to describe teams that plan only a quarter at a time (without regard for longer term thinking).
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by bthrn 2y ago
> Also, if you factor in that cash is an option Lots of places stopped taking cash. In many places my only option is to pay with a card.
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by bthrn 2y ago
The difference is, Microsoft has a robust and sensible testing and rollout model.
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by bthrn 2y ago
The goal here is to submit what appears to be a sequence of innocuous changes, none of which on their own are “obvious” vulnerabilities. The truth is, we don’t know what the strategic depths of this actor are. It may be years before we know
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by bthrn 2y ago
For some reason I read this and then think of Arnold saying, “it’s not a toomah!”
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by bthrn 3y ago
It's usually accurate, but I've had planes changed on me a couple times. For example, there could be a delay that results in it being used for a different flight, and you end up with something else. Or if the plane you're sup
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by bthrn 3y ago
" Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account." > Am I supposed to believe that if their backend crashes after a user query, that can’t tell what has been queried? I'm sure they'll know the query. They ju
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by bthrn 3y ago
I have a watch that would be considered expensive by most. It’s not really about telling the time - I simply appreciate the complexity and beauty of handcrafted mechanical watches. People spend years learning how to build them. It takes a l
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by bthrn 3y ago
> Fwiw I'd (very loosely) classify the points you're bringing under "prestige". If I'd like my clothes made and sourced ethically, or if I want to support a local business that makes leather goods rather than buy
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by bthrn 3y ago
It really depends what you mean by “optimal cost” and “better value”. For example, if you want something that’s handcrafted rather than made in a factory on the other side of the world, you have to pay for the skills and labor that go into
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by bthrn 3y ago
…such as deferring how old people are when they are first given cell phones?
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by bthrn 3y ago
The first amendment only applies to state actors. I’m not sure why it’s so frequently used broadly as a blanket for free speech in any context.
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by bthrn 3y ago
As annoying as this is, I was mildly amused at the irony that this article itself has ads shoved between paragraphs.
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by bthrn 4y ago
The point stands - if everything is fine, as many banks seem to be saying, their intervention would not be necessary.
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by bthrn 4y ago
“I’m so confident that X is solvent that I’m giving X a bunch of money, for solvency” seems a bit odd to me. If everything is fine, why would any of this be necessary?
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by bthrn 4y ago
The author is French. I'd be curious to see if you could write something in a second language well enough such that the only criticism a native speaker had was your use of a technically valid, but uncommon word.
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by bthrn 4y ago
The claim is that this $16,200 monthly cost was cheaper than the alternative. So it's not entirely silly to include rent in this figure.
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by bthrn 4y ago
I think you mean to say “compliment”
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by bthrn 4y ago
It’s heavily dependent on the quality of the search offered. For example — Reddit’s search functionality is terrible. I’ve found that Google is much better for searching Reddit.

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