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by temp99990 7y ago
My understanding is this is actually what’s exacerbating the “two-class” system at big tech cos like Google where something like half of all workers are contractors. Like it was bad before, but from what I hear it’s even worse now because c
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by temp99990 7y ago
Just because your impact on the world is not as huge or consequential as Facebook doesn’t give you free range to exploit user data as you please and protect you from legitimate criticism for doing so. That is classic “whataboutism”
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by temp99990 7y ago
You can google for it...both the lawsuits around misuse of user data and their notorious use of dark patterns
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by temp99990 7y ago
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth that Reid Hoffman, Jeff Weiner, DJ Patil et al get to live their day to day without the reputation hit or scrutiny of FB because LinkedIn is not as “sexy” a media target despite being notorious for using th
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Ask HN: Is now the best time to be alive?
12 points by temp99990 7y ago|22 comments
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by temp99990 7y ago
I’m a fan of the Chinese-style captchas where you just move a puzzle piece with a slider. I have no idea how defeatable it is vs reCaptcha but it’s far far less painful.
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by temp99990 7y ago
Interesting. I’ve gotten two offers from two European tech cos, one in London and one in Amsterdam though did not end up accepting either. In both situations I felt they were pretty eager/open to hiring. The biggest hurdle they face in
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by temp99990 7y ago
Increasingly very common? Without religion and people going unmarried/without kids, your career has become the thing that you pay more attention to. I don’t agree with it at all, mostly because too often a job looks like a toxic relati
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by temp99990 7y ago
Utterly depressing to see how much damage we can cause in 30-40 years, basically only since older “millennials” were born.
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by temp99990 7y ago
Knowing flexbox, positions, pseudoselectors, media queries, and how specificity works will get you very far with CSS.
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by temp99990 7y ago
I mean food delivery is becoming massively more popular each year w DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, Postmates, etc. collectively worth tens of billions. The trend is up and to the right. I believe in terms of annual deliveries the US is probab
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by temp99990 7y ago
Why just China? Wouldn’t the same be true in the US too?
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by temp99990 7y ago
I’ve had a lot of success using flexbox personally, and at least on my own projects I develop features on a page in 1D vs 2D...
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by temp99990 7y ago
This is partially why I like shopping at Costco. Usually there is only one or at most a few of one thing, and usually it’s of good quality.
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Ask HN: Why are European companies so stingy with employee equity?
5 points by temp99990 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What is your experience selling private shares on a secondary market?
3 points by temp99990 7y ago|1 comments
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by temp99990 7y ago
I’m surprised a year of runway could mean a house...?
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Women are happier without children or a spouse(theguardian.com)
18 points by temp99990 7y ago|7 comments
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by temp99990 7y ago
We live in a world where Michael Pollen, a widely known author, wrote a best selling novel on his experience taking illegal drugs while in the US.
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by temp99990 7y ago
Are you really citing a paper from 1995? I mean I’m a user of illegal drugs and would rather be safe than sorry. If you look at the mechanics of MDMA, it’s basically forcing your brain to release serotonin from the floodgates in a way that
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by temp99990 7y ago
There’s a ton of research online... https://dancesafe.org/drug-information/is-mdma-neurotoxic/
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by temp99990 7y ago
I’m a fan of MDMA but be warned you need to know what you’re doing and be well-prepared before and after due to the neurotoxic side effects which may permanently lower your ability to produce serotonin. Also cannot/should not take it m
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by temp99990 7y ago
Hard to be surprised. I am nowhere near the top of any corporate ladder, but having worked in several large well-known unicorns in SF I am more confident than ever that it takes a certain person capable of playing political games, pushing o
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by temp99990 7y ago
This is interesting though I remember seeing a ted talk on covering the corpse in fungi to detoxify the corpse while composting because human bodies are generally highly toxic...
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by temp99990 7y ago
Maybe this is a bit cynical but is this not like if the CEO of Pepsi spoke out against sugar? He and his VC partner are both YC-insiders. I don’t necessarily follow his tweets as much as his partner’s but his partner tweets are what I’d cal
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by temp99990 7y ago
AI based religions will be the next multi-bil institutions in less than a decade
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by temp99990 7y ago
Is there a “Marie Kondo” for the digital world? Seems like something or someone that could be just as relevant if not more than organizing your physical world.
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by temp99990 7y ago
I’ve been fortunate to have landed in a financial position where I’m not scraping by as a millennial but having worked for several years in SF tech one thing that I have felt increasing unease with is the feeling that the companies I’ve wor
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by temp99990 7y ago
I suspect the loneliness epidemic will be a catalyst for worshipping of AI gods in the not so distant future, which is a bit unsettling but seems inevitable.
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by temp99990 7y ago
Do you actually believe the profiles CA created were accurate or much more insightful over whatever demographic data FB or Goog let you target with? I did a very similar project for a CS/stats class in 2011. They did some basic k-means

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