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Still, they’re likely to readjust your comp back up to baseline. You face the opportunity cost of not working for a company whose stock will rise fast, making it worth much more in…

When so much of your compensation is tied directly to the stock price, you also need to make a guess where the stock price will be in 2-4 years compared to your other options. FB i…

To save some people the trouble, here are some top-paying companies: https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ This was compiled in 2020 and Meta might move up the list in 2021. It’s worth noti…

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I wonder if this is a misattribution of Zuckerberg’s quote: “I want to stress the importance of being young and technical … Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess master…

I worry about this myself. I sought out my first “software engineer” job at 36. At some startups where I interviewed, I was already a decade older than anyone else in the room. I e…

Japan produced a lot of comic books and films, and nerds like comic books and films? Interest ebbs and flows. Korea is perhaps eclipsing Japan in general interest these days. But t…

It doesn’t seem strange to me. Why would a Japanese artist searching for the soul of France not find it? A lot of art is made by outsiders, who see the distinctive elements that in…

Yes. “For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Front…

They haven’t actually been decriminalized. Some crimes have been classified as lesser crimes (through Prop 47, for example) and many crimes the DA has simply refused to prosecute. …

It’s extremely important if you’re a white or Asian applicant whose parent didn’t attend or donate a large sum of money to Harvard.

As a transplant from Boston to California, every instance of “Miami” could be replaced with “California” in your comment and I’d be fine with it.

Where would that be?

New developers write simple but shortsighted code. It gets the job done, but it will be painful to work with in the future. Intermediate developers, bitten by their past mistakes, …

Between this and their employee-hostile changes to equity vesting, Stripe went from the company I was most interested in and one that I wouldn’t bother interviewing with.

> Advertising is disgusting honestly Again, they give you the options: subscription model or ad-based model. This covers the cost of infrastructure, paying creators, and paying dev…

> assuming you have an ad-blocker, which you obviously should Stating the the obvious, but these features were developed by real people and revenue pays these developers, pays for …

We can’t talk about the lab leak theory for the same reason a third of the country refuses to get vaccinated: it became a politicized issue somewhere along the way, at which point …

While I agree with your comment in principle, is any shopper happy with the utterly useless ranking system that everybody uses now? Ranking a 4.9 star item with 500 reviews above a…

“Luring” implies that you’re tempting someone with intent to trap and ultimately harm them. “Targeting” is more neutral. You might target someone with an ad because you believe in …

Smart, educated people do things that are bad for then all the time. And eating cereal (in moderation) is pretty far down on the “bad things” list.