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There are diminishing returns to more engineers. Also hiring more is like investing with leverage. You might increase EV but also increase the chance of going bust if things go poo…

Found the person who didn't read the article lol

ozontel.com doesn't exist. Is that a typo or did a competitor really buy ads to a nonexistent domain?

So Trevor fabricated evidence to fool the police? That's a far more serious offense than the sexual misconduct, and frankly it's hard to believe he could pull that off, unless he m…

If you look at it in terms of risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe ratio), a fixed transaction fee costs more Sharpe on a low-variance bet than it does on a high-variance bet. The varianc…

A large proportion, if not the majority of my doordash orders include some sort of promotion. They're everywhere and at this point I almost have an expectation that doordash will a…

Yeah, but left/right is a big part of what differentiates political parties. It's like the first factor in a PCA decomposition.

I don't get it. If the landlord wants the filming to happen so badly, why doesn't he kick in a few grand to compensate his tenant... That's a lot easier than kicking and screaming …

If ROM space is so valuable, why is ASCII text (which I imagine is relatively large) stored on it?

If true, that's uncannily reminiscent of North Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inebLA3HqPo

That's the fundamental problem of hiring: you have to make educated guesses about who is going to make a better employee. And you should be willing to pay more to hire someone who …

They can't lock me out of my account if I do it myself first!

Have you talked to the person who made the not? They might not realize how distracting it is. Maybe they'll move it to another channel as a compromise.

It's about supply and demand. If he really is the best person for the job, then there's nothing to be gained from paying him a higher fixed salary. But if there's someone else who'…

That's a uniform distribution

You can even use an android emulator for this - some of them come with location spoofing too.

My impression is that Uber fulfills a niche for drivers who want a certain tradeoff between flexibility and job security. There are people who fit into that niche and people who do…

You're the one who brought up the forest metaphor, where plants compete for light.

I share a monitor and peripherals for both personal and work stuff, and find that an effective way to "turn off work mode" is to simply switch the hub from my work laptop to my per…