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> RSUs are taxed like income though, so from a tax perspective it’s pretty awful. One approach is to accomplish the tax withholding by withholding some of the RSU grant at each ves…

> You should always ask, and they should always tell you. I'm currently on the job search. One of my offers was quite forthright and included the total number of outstanding shares…

I appreciate Maciej Cegłowski's perspective here: https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

"our understanding of critical aspects of the ancient glass industry is fragmentary" I see what you did there...

Seems a bit early/late for April Fools.

> No one really cares if it’s 1ms or 30ms or even 200ms. You would definitely care about 200ms latency.

This isn't "How Zoom works". It's a 72 slide deck of complaints about the Zoom UI.

The Google Flights data is not "scraped." They interface directly to the airline reservations systems.

Unethical? Yes. Illegal? How?

> The Brock Turner case, while horrendous, is not representative of how rapes are prosecuted or sentenced. Indeed, my understanding is that rape is typically not prosecuted at all.…

Yes. Brock Turner got six months for rape. Here's a selection of decade+ prison sentences for marijuana: https://www.boulderdefenseattorney.com/top-10-non-violent-ma...

Shocking - just a week ago he was posting like nothing was up. I know it's traditional to not talk about the cause of death, but -- was it Coronavirus?

» Unrelated to the brouhaha on the West Coast, tobacco farmers in Kentucky were seeking a new cash crop. In 2011, James Comer won the race for Kentucky state agriculture commission…

TIL that CBD was kind of "invented" around 2011.

> From my experience, Filipino's speaking English Hey there - this seems like unnecessary ethnic stereotyping. Also, no apostrophe is used in this situation.

What program do those disassembly screenshots come from?

Yeah, and Italy, Spain, and France are some of the sunnier countries in Europe (compared to Germany, UK, Belgium, Scandinavia, etc). If anything I would expect vitamin D deficiency…

or continues propagating into the endless depths of space

Do intubated patients have to be sedated/anesthetized?

> When did we stop using lead and iron piping? Who says we stopped? Water mains often have service life > 100 years. Old buildings have old plumbing.

What is a GADT?

How does F# compare to OCaml or Haskell?

I remember feeling this in regards to some early "rapid application development" software in the 90's (Visual Basic or Borland Delphi or something). "Look how easy it is to make a …

If it's that vital, you should have a spare, or perhaps rent or borrow one.