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I once watched a Vice President at an all hands explain that the company's decision to have non-competitive wages was because "it's not that we're underpaying, it's that everybody …

Diff is Phabricator terminology. A diff is roughly equivalent to a Pull Request in GitHub.

This guy burgles

The most profitable way to fill a plane would be to knock everybody out and just pile them up in the fuselage.

There is a 90 day decision timeframe starting from the time of submitting a complaint. But note: > Due to a high volume of complaints, there will be a delay between when a complain…

That process remains tied to an employer, which is the very point that was originally made. Many employers simply won’t do that paperwork by policy and treat that process as no dif…

Property taxes and insurance go up pretty much every year.

It's funny how employers try to rationalize this -- take Coinbase, for example: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/how-coinbase-is-embracing-ai-i... > While some worry AI will dehumaniz…

It's not really a vulnerability, though. It's an attack vector.

Anchoring

Why does it matter either way?

At work I coined the phrase "Fast & Furious Planning" to describe teams that plan only a quarter at a time (without regard for longer term thinking).

> Also, if you factor in that cash is an option Lots of places stopped taking cash. In many places my only option is to pay with a card.

The difference is, Microsoft has a robust and sensible testing and rollout model.

The goal here is to submit what appears to be a sequence of innocuous changes, none of which on their own are “obvious” vulnerabilities. The truth is, we don’t know what the strate…

For some reason I read this and then think of Arnold saying, “it’s not a toomah!”

It's usually accurate, but I've had planes changed on me a couple times. For example, there could be a delay that results in it being used for a different flight, and you end up wi…

" Kagi does not log and associate searches with an account." > Am I supposed to believe that if their backend crashes after a user query, that can’t tell what has been queried? I'm…

I have a watch that would be considered expensive by most. It’s not really about telling the time - I simply appreciate the complexity and beauty of handcrafted mechanical watches.…

> Fwiw I'd (very loosely) classify the points you're bringing under "prestige". If I'd like my clothes made and sourced ethically, or if I want to support a local business that mak…

It really depends what you mean by “optimal cost” and “better value”. For example, if you want something that’s handcrafted rather than made in a factory on the other side of the w…

…such as deferring how old people are when they are first given cell phones?

The first amendment only applies to state actors. I’m not sure why it’s so frequently used broadly as a blanket for free speech in any context.