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https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Amazon,Google&track... says higher numbers are better (more senior, more highly paid) at Facebook, so maybe the GGP post is talking about w…

I have a strong suspicion that doing pure keyword searches of job descriptions (or resumes, on the employers' side) probably has some pretty hard limits on how well it can work, es…

Exactly. When I read "Amazon Unlimited FTP Server" i heard a modem handshake sound in my head.

They leak uninitialized memory contents into the HTML being served; that memory could (and did) contain data from any other traffic that passed through their hands. So a request se…

I'm a long ways from being a VC, but I see one reason they might prefer the larger, higher-burn-rate company. I think one of the hard jobs for a VC-funded startup is growing really…

Also, there's apparently evidence that prior trauma puts you at greater risk of PTSD from subsequent trauma. Which helps explain why different people in more or less the same situa…

One of the biggest invisible biases is thinking you've managed to free yourself of invisible biases.

So you're advocating forgiving the educational loans of doctors who lose their license? Or do you leave them massively in debt, without the (relatively) lucrative profession they h…

Example where the pilots involved pushed their luck until that 1% chance finally killed them (and their passengers): http://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/how-to-d...…

I think that's a bit harsh; it's more like "If you know how to issue instructions to a computer, you can derive anything else about the world from first principles."

The author keeps talking about going through all possible proofs built from the axioms, as if that's a thing that obviously could be done. However, if your system is complicated en…

My understanding is that telephone, cable, and power providers share the poles. Don't the power companies usually own the poles? So if they added internet providers to the list of …

One obvious reason would be if they don't trust the book value. For example, if the assumptions made in computing the book value are systematically wrong in some way.

The fact that the article presents different metrics in response to different inputs (CEO expressions of disgust correlated with 9.3% boost in overall profits over the following qu…

It's not £8 per call, it's £8 per minute. I don't know the protocol for satellite calls, but I'd been taught that for both 911 calls and VHF-Marine distress calls, you're supposed …

According to https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/02/meet-the-new-lastpass-logo... they had to come up with a new logo due to "an unanticipated trademark lawsuit, filed early last year".…

The difference is that if NASA screws up, there's a certain percentage chance that the bug will be exposed, and cause a problem. That percentage usually stays constant over the lif…

There's a slightly longer press release about the Alzheimers findings at http://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/alzheimers_disease_... ; searching for the co-authors' names led t…

Presumably anyone who invested in etsy 9 months ago was surprised.

If you reach the page through a Google search ("tea grown in scotland" gave it as the 8th result), they show you the article after a short marketing-interests questionnaire.

I used to work in a 50-story building that had banks of elevators, each of which was hard-coded to only visit the lobby and the appropriate range of floors. For example, the first …

My understanding (from H1B coworkers and HR managers in previous jobs) was that the H1B is transferable to another company IF the other company agrees to sponsor it, and there's a …

Pretty much everyone with a million dollars laying around declined to spend it on acquiring Google back then, it's not like Yahoo was the only company they approached.