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Just because Matt Drudge stopped agreeing with Donald Trump doesn't mean he "sold out to the deep state". Drudge is just as conservative as he ever was. Many conservatives just pul…

I worked for a start up that sourced truck drivers. One of the major factors is that sign on bonuses tend to be bigger than any kind of retention pay. So the 94% turnover is mislea…

The difference is that when you press enter I get an alert. Then you take 30 seconds or 2 minutes (or more) to think through and type out your question. Now I just have to sit ther…

You can say hi + ask a question in the same message. So I don’t really see how: Hi. Is any more polite than: Hi.

He’s the vice chairman of the intelligence committee. He is one of 4 members of congress who have much more access to intelligence.

The difference is China would likely cut off banks and countries who “hurt the feelings of the Chinese people”, i.e., refer to Taiwan as a country, or refuse to recognize the 9-das…

That's a nice succinct way of putting it!

Misunderstanding ECS is very common. Mostly because the name includes entity and component, so many people think that any architecture where you have an entity container with behav…

Yes those discrepancies exist. But they are almost always a result of imperfect information at hiring. No one hired 2 people into the same role assuming that one would only be half…

So post 2 positions. If Z is worth 50% more to you, then it's clearly a different position, even if the responsibilities are a superset of the lower position. Most companies have l…

>In the real world, companies can't go down to the local "Employee Store" and order up a 12 year engineer with a PhD whenever they want, even if that's what they would prefer. I ha…

Then you post 2 different job listings. It’s not hard. You’d write 2 very different descriptions for someone those 2 hypothetical candidates anyway. You also don’t need put $50k-$5…

Companies do this all the time. There’s generally no problem with it. We have an opening for an staff engineer at work, but we’d settle for a senior engineer. We definitely wouldn’…

Or you could just give the more qualified person a different title/level since they are clearly in a different role. A role that might be superset of role x, but a different role n…

It’s also very easy to just give the higher paid person a different title. Surely if they are worth 50% more, you can give them a better title to go along with it.

>2 years of experience vs PhD and 12 years of experience for a similar position Why would you hire those 2 people for the same position? If the PhD with 12 years of experience is w…

Instead of having 1 role with such a huge gap. Why not multiple roles. If you find a candidate who you really think is worth 50% more than the average salary for Role X, then obvio…

Not sure how much cash those people think that ATM can hold.

The difference being that lawyers generally need to pass the bar exam once. You need to brush up on your leetcode every few years.

I’ve always been able to successfully negotiate those IP ownership clauses. Usually without any hassle at all.

I’m not arguing about setting up your own infrastructure. Heroku launched when rails was 2 years old. What’s the point of this comparison if you arbitrarily handicap the most commo…

I was around in the early 2000s, and you certainly didn’t need a 3.5 GPA from a top tier school for anything but a very small handful of companies. In the early 2000s, you could ge…

> As someone who leans frontend > I would second guess SaaS startups that start by building the infra/data models unless they’re going for a highly technical play Do you not see th…

When was this? Maybe If you’re talking exclusively about FAANG.

Sorry I wasn’t clear. I got 6 weeks of paternity leave. I just didn’t take it until my wife finished her 12 weeks of (unpaid) maternity leave. Still super lucky to have that!