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This is a really good interface but the assumptions backing the results seem weak. The growth rate on conservative and aggressive portfolios are high. The recommended amounts of sa…

This is a good point. As far as I remember Amazon had/has a contract with the CIA for 100s of millions. When the rich own the media there is always a risk that they will hire those…

One critical point I feel this piece does not touch on is how diversity of experience is great in the workplace. It's a huge benefit as a developer (and obviously other professions…

If you can get a remote job Portland Maine is an amazing place to live. Don't expect to get any kind of high quality tech job in Maine though. I've lived in both I don't think sf i…

This happened for a short while at an old workplace that had an extremely toxic environment, this didn't improve the environment. People were expected to clock in/out when they arr…

One thing to remember if you keep him on and he continues this behavior you might not find out about it for a while. People won't always speak out and tell you. What happens when h…

This actually happened last year at their biggest tournament. A well known bug caused several champions to be disabled midway through the tournament. This happens regularly that ch…

I thought this was a pretty good follow up to show the strengths and weaknesses of this approach: https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/ . Personally I think this appro…

I am curious to hear your experience hiring or getting hired using https://www.starfighters.io.

Having spent countless hours working with third party apis that are poorly documented and business critical I can understand how unexpected changes can be frustrating. But asking p…

I would guess someone showed them an a/b test where showing the clown led to less mistakes. Of course it's still fairly disgusting behavior for a company to take. But are morals re…

That was updated later, after she got let go for writing that piece.

It's very possible that many people used the vending machines as impulse purchase vs planned purchase. My understanding is lots of effort goes into having people make impulse purch…

If someone is threatening violence to suppress speech it is even more important that speech be heard. Huge failure on sxsw part.

I really enjoyed the post and the idea of proposing alternate theories, but it doesn't discuss the mentality of those without a strong opinion of Airbnb. I assume that people who a…

That's actually exactly why US and Israel make great allies. Both have great interest in aggressive imperialist foreign policies with little international oversight. I think the be…