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the soupy sales "little green pieces of paper" trick

I got a job at AWS/EFS from a post here on hacker news. Stayed there almost 2 years until RTO took its toll (left early 2024). If not for that, I'd still be there... and I went in …

I made $10.50/hr washing dishes in 1998 lol it's not a fair wage for anything today, really.

> IOW, they're being underpaid relative to market, in exchange for ownership, expecting to get more later when they sell the shares. So far so good, but how does this look when the…

$4k is a slap in the face for someone who wants to keep their job.

Cobham!

I've been saying this for years: climate science isn't science (in the falsifiable sense), climate is nonlinear and humans don't like to rock the boat. This is especially true with…

There was measurable temperature change in the days after 9/11.

I think "transformative use" is the term you're looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use

I live in one of four US states where you must be 18 to get married. Most other states have "parental consent" laws that allow you to get married at age 16. https://www.pewresearch…

Then we can combine AD and numerical solvers like is found in modern weather and climate models. I don't quite understand but it has something to do with sensitivity analysis and i…

This seems to be changing a bit. I have two children in a US public elementary school. The teachers use various apps to have children review mathematics facts. The apps allow child…

Agreed, I've also been waiting to see a system with spaced repetition (to help memorize and retain) + dependency graph (to choose what new topics to present). Not sure what the AI …

Yeah, the whole aspect of teaching C++ to beginners is fraught with tooling issues. That school is moving to Python (years after main campus switched)... but I'm not sure how I fee…

I also told them this, to encourage searching. Though I hate Chegg and the like with a passion, since this sort of thing takes a lot of work (over the course of teaching same class…

Thank you for making the point about accreditation, it's sort of a pet peeve of mine. I taught "intro to C++" last year at the Harrisburg campus of PSU. The students were a mix of …

Supposed to break 70 tomorrow in central PA. But chaos? Nah... simply an intense frontal system (ie. big temperature gradients).

I don't know, I've worked countless 60-70 hour weeks at a restaurant... some days both opening and closing the place... and food service just doesn't seem comparable. Perhaps fishi…

> "The rise of precision scheduled railroading has resulted in resource and staffing cuts; to compensate railroad companies have enacted strict attendance policies for employees. T…

> for example software engineers in San Francisco Uhm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

I can't believe I'm saying this, but it's hard to even watch old episodes of The Simpsons without explaining to my children why the multitude of lazy "gay jokes" aren't funny.

> users get a subscription to binge / burn thru several things in a single month and then cancel their subscription Surprisingly similar to the old days of bugging my parents for t…

> WAY cheaper than games used to be, when you look at inflation. I recall $60 NES games in Toys R Us and a quick google shows that to be correct (for the top tier games). That's $1…