lmartel

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by lmartel 5y ago
You can make the opposite point with the same logic though: "the powerful, dangerous tobacco industry was given a loophole in the flavored cigarette ban allowing them to prey disproportionately on vulnerable Black populations."
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by lmartel 7y ago
Nonrefundable rates are not marketed as a bet against global catastrophe. They're a commitment that you won't change your mind. This epidemic is more similar to the hotel burning down. I would expect my money back in that scenario
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Away co-founder will remain CEO, after announcing plans to step aside(theverge.com)
2 points by lmartel 7y ago|0 comments
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by lmartel 7y ago
Cell service isn't for yapping anymore, it's for scrolling!
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by lmartel 7y ago
Assuming it's an entirely separate venture, sure. But from the OP it sounds like the cofounder might be continuing in the same line of business, but wants to "pivot" and jettison the now-dead weight of the technologist. If th
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by lmartel 7y ago
I agree completely. My favorite podcasts are crowd-funded with no ads, but the least-bad approach to ad reads is when someone reads a script, verbatim, in a bored monotone. Especially when it's not one of the hosts reading, but a produ
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Glassdoor's Best Small and Medium Companies for 2019(glassdoor.com)
3 points by lmartel 8y ago|0 comments
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Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong(highline.huffingtonpost.com)
6 points by lmartel 8y ago|0 comments
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by lmartel 8y ago
Couldn't you criticize the parent comment for exactly the same reason? Someone posted "I liked her" and someone else posted "well I didn't."
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by lmartel 8y ago
The big missing piece is roles. No service uses a root access key directly. Instead, there's a webserver role with access to a relevant secrets group but no access to data warehouse secrets, for example. Access keys can be provisioned
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by lmartel 9y ago
It was more than a few months ago, but they published a best-selling eponymous book.
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by lmartel 9y ago
So at minimum they've got your identity and much of your browser history. Seems reasonable to call that obscene.
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by lmartel 9y ago
That's not the purpose of grandfathered pricing, they just want to raise prices without upsetting active users. If you cancel you're not an active user anymore :)
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by lmartel 9y ago
This may not have been a serious question but I'll give a serious answer: depending on the interviewer, you could get bonus points for going "above and beyond" or, yes, you could be penalized for "not reading the spec.&q
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by lmartel 9y ago
It seems to me that "because, deep down, we don't want to" is a perfectly legitimate answer to the question posed by the title. I agree, though, that _why_ we don't want to would be a more interesting article to read.
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by lmartel 9y ago
This didn't make intuitive sense to me so tried to Google it. Is "Introselect" what you're referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introselect It's a hybrid of quickselect and median of med
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by lmartel 9y ago
I'm no fan of open offices but your workplace sounds like it has more issues than just the floor plan.
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by lmartel 9y ago
If one company will pay you 500k for working 60h/week and another will pay 500k for working 40h/week, then choosing the latter isn't entitlement. It's market forces at work. If you think developers are overpaid, then jus
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by lmartel 9y ago
I don't know if I'd be comfortable relying on a third party for data export.
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by lmartel 9y ago
People like Criss who ask this question in interviews are looking for a brute force solution with recursive backtracking.
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by lmartel 10y ago
You didn't answer the question.
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by lmartel 10y ago
No, that's not clear. What's clear is that if you press "no" on the popup, they'll terminate your account. What will happen if you press "yes" and then continue to discriminate however you like? My guess:
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by lmartel 10y ago
There's a difference between saying "I believe we can develop X" and "we currently have X." As I understand it, Holmes and Theranos did the latter. And that's fraud.
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by lmartel 10y ago
Lots of people here undoubtedly agree with you, but you're probably going to get downvoted again, because: Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Please don&#x
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by lmartel 11y ago
Is the pool of outsourced workers really so small that you can say "Greeks have great expertise in databases" and have it mean anything?
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by lmartel 11y ago
The "you" he's referring to is Pinterest, not the commenter.
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by lmartel 11y ago
I agree with the unrepresentative part, but absolute sample size numbers don't tell you anything. For some experiments, N=100 is more than enough, and for others N=10000 isn't even close. Did you look at the p-values or any other
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by lmartel 11y ago
Here's what you're missing: I do a lot of online shopping, but packages getting stolen have cost me, personally, $0. Your proposal would cost me > $0. Why should I participate?
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by lmartel 11y ago
If the posted speed limit is 55 and everyone but you is going 80, then exceeding the speed limit avoids danger. There's your situation. [Of course, you'd never get a ticket in this situation, and I think there are even legal provi
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by lmartel 11y ago
My favorite solution to the "I started n months before my cofounders" problem is to write an IOU from the company to the person for the work they've already done at some significant but less-than-1 fraction of their typical m

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