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Considering the median tech startup employee is already above average, I think the 99th percentile, and above, really only belongs to literal, bonafide, geniuses…
Is this true? I look at jobs on well found and most startups pay worse salaries than what I was making at insurance companies. Not too mention the worse benefits that they appear to offer as well.
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We didn't see it or demote it—it set off the flamewar detector. I've turned that off now, in keeping with the principle described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511529 . p.s. @dang is a no-op - I only saw this thread because I was doing our standard review of the flamewar detector. If you want guaranteed* message delivery, hn@ycombinator.com is the only way. * Well, mostly guaranteed. I assume there are…
That's awfully convenient. You don't moderate the content, your flame war detector goes off, and the algorithm removes it for you.
Annually HN sees about 150k active users, 400k stories, and 4m comments:
https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective> (2021 retrespective by Whaly.io).
It has one public-facing moderator (and apparently a few others who don't post publicly on the site). HN's own mods see very little of the total site content. Automation and member votes, flags, and vouches, as well as emails to the mods, are what keep HN humming. Not perfectly, but quite frankly one of the better-run online discussion sites, and one whose quality has remained remarkably steady over nearly 20 years.
If you see something you think isn't right (bad content not flagged, good content flagged, whatever, email the mods, and they'll take a look. I do this a lot myself, usually with positive results.
I got access to Pave through one of my investors. Seeing the data made us set salaries and contractor rates higher, not lower. It’s like salary banding at big companies. It’s a framework for how much other people are paid at the same level, not a contract. HR will make it seem like a rule, but if you do spectacular work - you can always negotiate. Collusion requires an agreement between rivals that negatively disrupt…
That's the point of these systems. If it's not illegal, then it should be.
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But why not just pay by card, that must be even easier?
I'm not going to pay by card for a huge purchase, and have the card company take 3% off the top. That's just a dick move when you can just write a check that does the same thing.
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I am an investor in equifax. Let me clear up a misconception on where the data comes from. Half the data comes from large enterprise customers, who “sell” the data in exchange for Equifax doing I-9 verification for free. The other half comes from 39 payroll companies. Every single payroll company except for Rippling and Gusto sell paystub data to Euifax. (Rippling will start next year). Those are exclusive revenue sh…
Maybe I'm missing something... If the data doesn't come from the employer, then how does the "payroll" company get it?
I got access to Pave through one of my investors. Seeing the data made us set salaries and contractor rates higher, not lower. It’s like salary banding at big companies. It’s a framework for how much other people are paid at the same level, not a contract. HR will make it seem like a rule, but if you do spectacular work - you can always negotiate. Collusion requires an agreement between rivals that negatively disrupt…
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It still is.
At the US federal level. It may or may not be illegal at the state level--and is regulated in any case.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216332
The singular of anecdote is not data. Getting hit by lightning is also unlikely, but it happens to thousands of people every year. That doesn't mean I'll be flying a kite in a thunderstorm, but it also doesn't mean that you should lock yourself in a bunker the moment the sky turns grey. Most of the taboo around this is cultural, not retributive.
No funnier response to a post directly proving you wrong. L
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But then we're not sharing other people's personal information.
Isn't levels.fyi or similar just the employee side of the coin?