laboratorymice

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by laboratorymice 10mo ago
> Best case people find out that people are getting paid rapidly different amounts for the same job, get angry, and leave. This is only a problem if the disparity does not match the difference in contribution. I'm sure most of us ha
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by laboratorymice 2y ago
This is true in theory. In practice, most managers either do not understand what "performing well" for an engineer means, or willfully go against what they know to be true due to internal incentive structures. For example, favorin
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by laboratorymice 2y ago
regardless of "process", work items should be tracked (in the problem solving record for our future selves sense, not time keeping sense), so you can follow those. If you're a non-technical manager, then either a) the impleme
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by laboratorymice 2y ago
This actually sounds like a workable idea, but the implementation would be extremely thorny (impact on covenants, governance, voting rights, non-listed companies, etc) and take forever to get done. It would also punish everyone equally, eve
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
Don't know the details here, but email is still very much broken, and a number of large companies, including in the financial sector, are spoofable even after checking the usual boxes.[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
Just watched the second video and I am confused. It starts with some general points one could summarize as defining a "good culture" and how that should pay off for both employer and employees, but then later tramples all over it
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
> 2) assuming that what you are building is something the user wants - until people use it, you have no proof for this. Lots of startups fall into the trap of building stuff that nobody wants or needs. > You have to pitch and explain
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
I can accept that this is effective with most companies, and I don't blame you for doing what you can to increase your chances, but in an ideal world each side is their genuine self. I understand that some people see an interview as a
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
Fully agree, and it's probably intentional. It's not entirely fair, but I suppose most countries would do the same given the chance. Clearly it's not how you want to get ahead as a country, since all it takes is for the world
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
> If you actually printed money, which does not have interest to be repaid, then the amount of circulating money would've increased permanently. You have to get your head around the fact that this is an open-ended system, the music
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
The argument that this is simply the market rate required to attract a person with the required skills can be proven false in so many ways, for example: 1. It's not a market, there is no job advertisement for the CEO role that the gene
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
This sounds strange. Banks typically hedge their fixed rate loan portfolio because there aren't many equivalent long-dated fixed-rate funding sources available to them. If the US market is such that borrowers can repay early or renego
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
> What used to be a common journalistic intent of "let's find out who else this might have happened to" is completely gone, replaced by sensational clickbait titles. > > A similar incident occurred last year when a C
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
Unless you're based in some lawless jurisdiction, a privacy policy absolutely does protect users. If you believe otherwise, it's probably not a good idea to verbalise that opinion, especially if you are offering mailbox services :
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
Might be a stretch for cloud services generally, but for public dns resolvers there's definitely an argument to be made: a) you pay nothing for the service, b) providing the service costs money, c) the provider benefits indirectly from
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
This would be good advice, if not for the fact that that approach essentially means you become just another politician. Being _aware_ of office politics is important; _focusing_ on it means you're a politician. Just focus on doing the
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
Do you have a source for either of the numbers? Not sure a credible source even exists for the figures we are looking for, but I would be surprised if they showed the difference to be that large nationwide. A quick search gives me significa
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by laboratorymice 3y ago
It can't be assessed by a single dimension, but it doesn't have to be. A high quality engineer absolutely can rank the technical competence of other engineers in his field (not just computer science) with a high degree of certaint
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
This is setting a very low bar for entrepreneurs. What else should be only a "mature company" problem? Should startups also not have to care about doing a good job in other fields orthogonal to the product itself like recruiting,
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
These programs should have been blocked by the EU before entering into force. When you're part of a free-movement union, you shouldn't be allowed to create such programs without the consent of at least a majority of member states
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
Genuinely curious, why do you use that web app over whichever bare-bones editor is available on your system?
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
Somewhat related and also amazing: https://www.youtube.com/@animusic6837
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
strictly speaking UTC is not a timezone
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
> You will continue to get the short end of the stick until you gain leverage. How you gain leverage is situational. At some companies, going above and beyond actually _reduces_ leverage, because you may find that after five years workin
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by laboratorymice 4y ago
> consensually decrypted by the Blockchain system how would this work in practice? if the contract is to guarantee decryption, wouldn't the key(s) also need to be on chain? how do you keep the secret?
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by laboratorymice 5y ago
I vaguely recall reading that Google uses time spent on a page/domain as an indicator of the relevance or quality of the search result/content, but I just googled to try to find that source and only found articles stating the oppo
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by laboratorymice 5y ago
Don't mean to take a side here, but just because a rule sounds hard to enforce doesn't mean it doesn't have an effect in practice. People will often change their behaviour out of sheer societal pressure if something is explic
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by laboratorymice 5y ago
Does this apply only to corporations above a certain size? Otherwise, if I can provide my service as a self-employed consultant, then why would I be employed by another company and pay income tax x%, when I could just offer the same service
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by laboratorymice 6y ago
Hasn't it been proven that showering money on an economy only helps to address isolated disruptions where the system's design prevents it from recovering quickly on its own? Why do we think UBI is necessary, when there are Europea