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The comment wasn't that opposition to welfare programs was solely caused by racism, just that it was one motivation. It's easier to defend a racist policy if racism is never explicitly brought up, the policy just has a disparate impact along racial lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater#%22Southern_strate...

> They can double or occasionally triple my salary, but they can't offer me a private office.

You might have more luck if instead you asked about working remotely full-time. It's not the same if you want to go into an office, but companies are seriously thinking about their post-covid office plans.

I've read there's a high correlation between family income and standardized test scores. But I think the sat and act are better for finding outliers than gpa.

I'm not really sure how options should be valued, and I haven't negotiated from a position of have a ton of unvested equity. But if an engineer got extremely lucky by joining the right startup, say Coinbase, leaving early might mean giving up a few million in unvested equity.

That's a lot of equity if the startup treats that lost income as if the engineer had invested that amount in the last fundraising round. Options instead of stock, common instead of preferred shares, and risk adjustment should all probably increase the equity amount. I'm not sure that most startups would give mid-level engineers millions in equity.

> If the company goes up in value a lot over 4 years, then yeah, the employee may lose out

This is horrible at pre-IPO unicorns like Stripe. One year vesting could cost normal employees millions if the company blows up.

Sure, the stock might not move much, or it can go down. A temporary dip means good performers are more likely to get larger refreshers to get tc up to market rate. And if pay is your driving motivation you can switch to a new job.

I really agree with your point. I don't see how most startups could make competitive offers with unicorns/FAANG, unless it was for non-monetary reasons like a promotion.

> There's enough disagreement about what this means that its difficult to say.

I remember a talk HR was giving about remote work. Someone asked about COL and salary adjustments. HR didn't mention cost of living, but they did mention cost of labor. That was a new term to me.

> But again, I'm talking out my butt on this. My point was not that medical necessity is a convincing case

I'm not a lawyer, or a manager, but I'm not quite convinced. I think OP should have that conversation with their doctor first. Claiming to need WFH to be safe is sounds related to some anti-Covid vaccination arguments. If the company cares about safety they are probably going to take reopening safely seriously, if they don't take Covid seriously they won't like accepting the initial request.

Though the eeoc does say having any WFH program makes it more likely it could be a reasonable accommodation. And I think my employer is already thinking about accommodations when reopening. Getting WFH might be a good possibility if their doctor agrees it's needed. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/work-hometelework-reasona...

I don't entirely agree, averages are useful for decisions like deciding if I want to move to a new city, or deciding what type of job I want. But I want a great fit when I'm looking for a new job. If I have an average job that I don't have strong feelings for, I don't need to accept the first good offer. So I can wait for something I'm really excited about.

I've got friends at Roblox. 250k sounds really low for a senior engineer that started pre-IPO.

> if the pay in the game industry was higher I'd have stayed without a doubt.

There are exceptions. Roblox has a reputation for being competitive with FAANG. You should check them out. It's also a platform company, so it has all the technical challenges of the gaming industry without the crunch-time that comes along with releasing a major game.

Copyright is probably YouTube's biggest legal risk. ContentID was developed in response to lawsuits over copyright. The DMCA has major problems, but I think the safe harbor provision is extremely important.

So does Google have liability for past copyright infringement when they quickly responded to his takedown requests? I don't think so. I'm not a lawyer, but if that's correct, signing a waiver won't cost anything. I understand why Google doesn't want to do more for someone who wants to sue them over their biggest legal risk.

I agree. I'll occasionally come across full episodes of TV shows on YouTube. Uploaders will try to get around copyright detection by doing things like flipping video or inserting black frames. I'm assuming a simple dedupe based block could easily be bypassed.

Personally I don't see that as a bad thing. I care more about ownership, I'd much rather be responsible for a project instead of just tickets.

Singer was quoted as saying “I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,”. Your quote implied that Singer was making comments about white supremacy, and Singer's reply to Casey Newton primarily focused on white supremacy in America.

I wasn't at the meeting, and it sounds like it was extremely charged. I don't think I can make nuanced comments about what was said there. But it seems clear that Singer made comments minimizing white supremacy in America, even his emailed reply does.

I don't know what was said at the meeting. But Singer did start making comments about white supremacy in America at a meeting about banning political discussion at Basecamp. I could see how it looked like his opinions were given more respect than others.

If he made statements about white supremacy not existing at basecamp, then that was a horrible defense to accusations of white privilege at Basecamp. Shutting down discussions over arguments about phrasing makes it looks like Basecamp would prefer just to ignore issues with discrimination if they did exist.

The article asked Singer for a comment, and printed his full reply.

> I objected to an employee’s statement that we live in a white supremacist culture. White supremacism exists, and America’s history of racism still presents terrible problems, but I don’t agree that we should label our entire culture with this ideology.

His reply was focused on white supremacy in America, he didn't mention a misunderstanding about referring to just the company. There's that other quote from him, but it's strange his entire reply focused on the country if he was just referring to Basecamp.

OneSignal has done great, but they pivoted out of video games quickly.

Microsoft and other large tech companies hire a lot of devs. You should apply to postings. Even if you don't get interviewed, your resume might be noticed by other company recruiters. Amazon recruiters do this a lot. Also, a security clearance will make you more attractive for certain positions at MS.

I've heard some places can make out of band offers to match unvested equity if they really want you.

Yeah, bonuses are nice, but I prefer raises or equity. Bonuses aren't necessary.

My employer has 105b plans available if you want to trade outside of trading windows. I think we should have something like that for politicians. Insider trading would be less of an issue if politicians and spouses were required to publicly announce trades 30-90 days before they were made. I don't think that would impact long term trading strategies, and I think it's reasonable to ask politicians to give up short term trading.

I'm not sure. From Lambda's website it looks like they are just releasing a program co-developed by Amazon. It's modeled off of an internal training program Amazon has. I didn't see any statements about interviewing or working at Amazon. I think Lambda would brag about a program that was designed to get students jobs at Amazon. I don't think there's any guarantee of a job or interview.

https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/lambda-school-launches-... https://lambdaschool.com/courses/backend-development

I don't see as much benefit from pair programming if it involves two students and replaces being taught by an instructor.

I've heard of vaccinated people coming down with covid. Vaccines are reported to be extremely effective against hospitalization and death, but it looks like there's some evidence vaccines don't completely prevent spreading it.

Not specifically. But when I got vaccinated the nurse told me she expected booster shots to come out later for the major vaccines.

A lot of states have public salaries. If it's not released then organizations like newspapers will file FOIA requests.

Google was involved in her employment. The Alphabet Worker's Union filed a complaint against both Google and Modis. There's no reason to assume that only one company was involved, who was responsible can be decided by the NLRB.

Harvard could easily do that. They have financial info on the parents family.

> the quantitative measures like SAT score had a lot more predictive value than interview/letters of recommendation/essays/etc.

I've also read SAT scores are highly correlated to family income. Family income probably has a huge impact on post university outcomes.