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who do they manage? or what is meant by "capital-M managers"? If they're managing junior PMs(or product management folks with a lowlier title, analysts, etc?) wouldn't that mean yo…

KCL was Informatics and it was broadly classed w/ maths/'natural sciences' when I was there 10 years ago - according to a younger colleague they have since rebranded to CS.

she's 4'8 - that's not like an extreme left end of the curve dwarf height on a global scale, is it? NBA centers are all 7 feet tall which precludes most people from being NBA cente…

PT says interesting and thoughtful stuff. A thing I dislike about much of his coverage, including in this piece, is how much is surface level ad hom of various people who have talk…

this was how things worked before supermarkets in general - you'd ask the general store clerk for x units of y good, think the deli counter or auto parts store model.

even on trains? amtrak specifically questions people about cash? This seems weird -- compared to traveling by air amtrak has approx 0 security, no TSA equivalent, bag scan, etc(unl…

maybe the implication is that it is surprising he would be cracking whipped cream chargers vs. using his billionaire concierge connections to get a tank(crooked dentist, whatever).…

I am not a banker and so some of my terms might be wrong, also some of my views are probably wrong, but here's my lay understanding of the work for front office IB folks in groups …

this is false. First year associate all in is slightly sub 300, but compare to similarly type A hoop jumping prestige chasing programmers in NYC(or SF) it's a bad deal - plus taxes…

I hear, anecdotally(n 100 spike bad weeks. What I hear is that revenue is at record levels, deal flow is so high they can't keep things staffed and are pulling in junior bankers fr…

The federal inmate locator lists him as not in BOP Custody. Did he get extradited somewhere? House arrest for covid?

In (technical) outerwear things with no labels it seems are either low end(uniqlo, rei white label etc) or you end up paying a super premium for unbranded stuff. Think Veilance(Arc…

LV stuff being leather the costs of an equivalent quality knockoff(if such a thing exists) aren't dirt cheap like cotton. The heavily branded stuff(monogram canvas) tends to be on …

this article about how gumroad works was at the top of the front page yesterday. https://sahillavingia.com/work discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275

I recently "kondoed" my books down to like ~2xx total volumes and once I had them all organized it only took me an hour or so to scan all of them into the LT iOS app. Very few woul…

I think those are worth a lot because there isn't a comparable thing in the market anymore. At least there wasn't when I looked a few years ago.

I just ordered one of these for my bad at computers dad yesterday - having to wait longer for the 16gb upgrade but consider it 10 year proofing. This article makes me want to buy o…

So $225M lawbreaking fee on $11B? Maybe 2.25B on 11B if you count the company bk, if they were still invested. edit: the above seems wrong. More like $8B + 2.25 maybe? https://www.…

Palantir does not pay well, or at least used to not. They had a disclosed relatively low salary cap back in the day. https://www.quora.com/How-does-Palantir-attract-talent-if-it...…

it's ~$2000, or $2500 for the new "plus" bike. I was a skeptic but peloton is a super compelling product, esp in the quarantine.

Yeah I have the relatively plain old nokia 'body' scale and it's nice -- does the job and syncs into apple health(which is great and plays very well with everything else I use - my…

It seems to me that most schools with substantial D1 football revenues are also R1 universities. Thinking of the "P5" football conferences(SEC, Big 10, 12, PAC 12, ACC) I am not co…

Apollo is also maybe the only iOS app I have used that put real thought and effort into idiomatic 3d touch/pressure/etc UX patterns. It's lovely and pro was like $3? $5?

minor nitpick - B&J was purchased by Unilever which is similar but less reviled online than Nestle.

Are these that unusual/dated? I read the article and couldn't tell if these are distinct from mail chutes in general. Both my home and office buildings in DC have them and they're …