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> Best case people find out that people are getting paid rapidly different amounts for the same job, get angry, and leave. This is only a problem if the disparity does not match th…

This is true in theory. In practice, most managers either do not understand what "performing well" for an engineer means, or willfully go against what they know to be true due to i…

regardless of "process", work items should be tracked (in the problem solving record for our future selves sense, not time keeping sense), so you can follow those. If you're a non-…

This actually sounds like a workable idea, but the implementation would be extremely thorny (impact on covenants, governance, voting rights, non-listed companies, etc) and take for…

Don't know the details here, but email is still very much broken, and a number of large companies, including in the financial sector, are spoofable even after checking the usual bo…

Just watched the second video and I am confused. It starts with some general points one could summarize as defining a "good culture" and how that should pay off for both employer a…

> 2) assuming that what you are building is something the user wants - until people use it, you have no proof for this. Lots of startups fall into the trap of building stuff that n…

I can accept that this is effective with most companies, and I don't blame you for doing what you can to increase your chances, but in an ideal world each side is their genuine sel…

Fully agree, and it's probably intentional. It's not entirely fair, but I suppose most countries would do the same given the chance. Clearly it's not how you want to get ahead as a…

> If you actually printed money, which does not have interest to be repaid, then the amount of circulating money would've increased permanently. You have to get your head around th…

The argument that this is simply the market rate required to attract a person with the required skills can be proven false in so many ways, for example: 1. It's not a market, there…

This sounds strange. Banks typically hedge their fixed rate loan portfolio because there aren't many equivalent long-dated fixed-rate funding sources available to them. If the US m…

> What used to be a common journalistic intent of "let's find out who else this might have happened to" is completely gone, replaced by sensational clickbait titles. > > A similar …

Unless you're based in some lawless jurisdiction, a privacy policy absolutely does protect users. If you believe otherwise, it's probably not a good idea to verbalise that opinion,…

Might be a stretch for cloud services generally, but for public dns resolvers there's definitely an argument to be made: a) you pay nothing for the service, b) providing the servic…

This would be good advice, if not for the fact that that approach essentially means you become just another politician. Being _aware_ of office politics is important; _focusing_ on…

Do you have a source for either of the numbers? Not sure a credible source even exists for the figures we are looking for, but I would be surprised if they showed the difference to…

It can't be assessed by a single dimension, but it doesn't have to be. A high quality engineer absolutely can rank the technical competence of other engineers in his field (not jus…

This is setting a very low bar for entrepreneurs. What else should be only a "mature company" problem? Should startups also not have to care about doing a good job in other fields …

These programs should have been blocked by the EU before entering into force. When you're part of a free-movement union, you shouldn't be allowed to create such programs without th…

Genuinely curious, why do you use that web app over whichever bare-bones editor is available on your system?

Somewhat related and also amazing: https://www.youtube.com/@animusic6837

strictly speaking UTC is not a timezone

> You will continue to get the short end of the stick until you gain leverage. How you gain leverage is situational. At some companies, going above and beyond actually _reduces_ le…

> consensually decrypted by the Blockchain system how would this work in practice? if the contract is to guarantee decryption, wouldn't the key(s) also need to be on chain? how do …