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> Humans only care when the house is on fire In corporate context it's because that's, in theory, an effective use of resources: If 20 teams are constantly "there is a huge risk of…

Scanning, dumping, and diffing of active directory also helps seeing when people got promoted. ("Software Engineer" -> "Software Engineer II" -> "Senior Software Engineer" etc). Us…

Back in 2021, Seattle's courthouse introduced armed escorts for the same reason. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/king-county-courtho... Not sure if it's still going on tod…

> In-person is much better if you don't know what you need to build, are trying to "figure it out as you go along", and are relying on the implicit fast feedback loop of standing n…

Meanwhile in WA state, the house bill advertised by https://washington.repair.org/ has, in its most recent iterations (after 02-08-2023, in this list https://app.leg.wa.gov/bi/tld/…

> Seems like Americans are left with the choice to either risk killing someone/themselves driving home or just not going out. If only there was a service where you can pay money to…

> Programs which have offered the homeless real homes, with privacy, the ability to safely store belongings and keep pets, and the ability to decorate, cook, and sleep in quiet, ha…

> They couldn't do a massive layoff in the past because it would get them bad rep Forget about "bad rep", it was a bad economic decision: why let go a slight underperformer (a now-…

The original source seems to be posted at https://www.flexport.com/blog/flexport-co-ceos-note-to-emplo...

A bit disappointed that until pretty recently I'd still see "Flexport is hiring" advertisement posts on HN frontpage

This was probably very org/team dependant. This announcement will at least make it more fair going forward to teams that sticked to the rules and did report the days off. The teams…

> I went back to Microsoft consulting as a both orange and a purple badge Orange badge is for contractors, but purple badge are for dogs: https://twitter.com/juliehubs/status/89245…

As an employer, stopping in Colorado is only cutting you off of 5.8 million talent pool. Stopping in both NYC and WA state would cut you out of 16 million, so the equation becomes …

It's pretty straightforward, especially for the first 4 major levels: - salary bands (+ stock awards & bonus. i.e "TC" bands) - average seniority - title change ( I (entry level) -…

This extreme of "no zoning" doesn't work because of the negative externalities you can create, affecting your neighbors Simply put: if you get to build your perfect house, with a n…

3rd time I tried posting this url: https://fortune.com/2021/10/07/playbook-funding-lower-taxes-... HN keeps modifying it to " https://fortune.com/http:/playbook-peter-thiel-startup…