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remote_phone··on Ask HN: Anyone having issues with job applicant fraud?
My friend has personally interviewed 3 people in the last 2 months who were lip synching answers. One was a woman who was trying to lip sync to a man’s voice. It’s really insane what’s going on right now.
remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
Nothing you posted contradicts what I said. Questioning the vaccine doesn’t mean that he didn’t think it was safe for most people. He even almost got the vaccine if not for a scheduling conflict.

When I said “mainstream” I didn’t mean they were generally accepted. I meant that the issue of gay rights became a topic. Some places like Canada openly legalized gay marriage without much of a protest. Gay rights infection point was definitely in the 90s and only got stronger. It wasn’t like the 80s where gays were openly mocked like in Three’s Company

remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
That in response to the growing pro gay rights movement.
remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
He unfortunately taught a generation of millennials that simply pointing out hypocrisy was enough.

Trump’s presidency showed that it entirely wasn’t.

remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
He also had Kristin Beck, former Navy Seal who is transgender.

The parent post is someone who doesn’t listen to Rogan, and a perfect example of someone that casts Rogan as a transphobe because he dares to not tow 100% of the views that they want him to.

This type of philosophical fascism is what is ruining our world today.

remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
You’re wrong on many levels.

Joe Rogan as recently as last week said the vaccine is mostly safe and saved millions of lives. What he says is that the vaccine is more dangerous to some people than the narratives and pharmaceutical companies says. And he despises how you can’t even talk about the negative effects for some people without being cast as an anti-vaxxer. You entirely proved his point.

The exact same thing applies to transgender people. He believes 100% in their ability to be treated as the gender they believe they are. But his main disagreement is pretending that it’s okay that biological males vs biological females is fair. It’s not, especially in sports like MMA which he is an expert in.

Yet by talking about it, he is cast as a transphobe just like you accused him of.

And to correct you further, the 90s were the period where gay rights went mainstream so you’re even wrong about that. That when people started understanding that it wasn’t a choice and was biological. Shows like Dawson’s Creek really humanized being gay for an entire generation. That’s when Canada made gay marriage legal.

remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
They also fact checked EVERYTHING Jones said. They would interrupt the conversation and fact check him real time which I really liked.
remote_phone··on Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
Lulu Cheng Meservey’s twitter account is one of the best ever. Her mastery of tweets is on par with Donald Trump, but in a good way.
remote_phone··on Can We Throw Satellites to Space? [video]
I’ve wondered this about airplanes. Couldn’t we launch an airplane into the air and it spends the rest of the time gliding back down to earth? It would make things a lot simpler and the chance of something going wrong is much less since it’s in a perpetual state of gliding back. Is this even possible?
remote_phone··on The Merge
Will this drop has fees? Gas fees are keeping crypto from taking off, it’s ridiculously high
remote_phone··on Ask HN: Anyone else feel trapped in FANG? How did you get out?
Try changing teams first. You should be able to find something there that appeals to you. You cant work in a single team in one of the largest tech companies in the world and expect it’s the same way throughout the entire company.
remote_phone··on I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E
If you gave those same instructions to humans I’m sure the output would be just as varied. I’d be interested to see a comparison between dall-e and humans.
remote_phone··on Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?
This has little to do with the banking system and everything to do with counter party risk. As a consumer you don’t know if you are getting ripped off. Having the weight of a credit card company on your side makes it much easier to buy something knowing you have fraud protection.
remote_phone··on How to access Reddit without ads and tracking
Yes they can definitely monetize their followers.
remote_phone··on How to access Reddit without ads and tracking
When Reddit goes public and everyone EXCEPT the subreddit moderators make millions/billions, I wonder how long Reddit will stay around for?

It’s the subreddits and the moderators that make what Reddit is today, and they are the ones that do all the hard work and yet somehow they are the only ones that won’t profit from an IPO.

remote_phone··on Donate Unrestricted
Schools like Harvard and Stanford give away free tuition to students whose families make less than 120,000. This is directly from their endowments.
remote_phone··on Donate Unrestricted
But the end recipients are getting the money, so who cares?
remote_phone··on Donate Unrestricted
> I could build them one for a few hundred

No, you couldn’t.

It has to keep working for years/decades, be maintainable, survive bad weather conditions, etc. even if you made the scoreboard out of wood and painted it, it would have to be large enough so that the stadium could see, the paint would fade and it would take weeks to make it, etc.

remote_phone··on Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
Why is this relevant? Rules and laws are there for a reason. If society lets taxi drivers steal from people because they are taxi drivers, where do you draw the line for expected fair treatment of everyone? Do only rich people have the expectation of behaving correctly?
remote_phone··on Little League wants all your information
Having a cleanup script that strips the + in an email is the first thing they do.
remote_phone··on Taxing Families Like Companies
We need a flat tax for everything.

The main benefit of non-flat tax is you can shape behavior by offering tax incentives. But I don’t think those work anymore. I think flat tax needs to be tried and everyone including corporations should do it.

remote_phone··on Wi-Fi 6 is designed to reduce congestion from devices
It’s pro-sumer, definitely not enterprise grade gear at all.
remote_phone··on My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
Microsoft had all day interviews back in the 90s. It’s more efficient for both parties and has been for decades.
remote_phone··on Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley Dead?
Most the weak players leave for Texas and Seattle. Anyone who loves being in Silicon Valley won’t leave here. The weather is better than both places and the political climate is better.
remote_phone··on Ask HN: Is Silicon Valley Dead?
People have been calling the death of Silicon Valley or its replacement by other parts of the world since I arrived over 20 years ago.

Silicon Valley will never die. There are too many rich people here, and the culture is too strong.

Did Hollywood die because films were made globally? Nope. It’s even stronger.

Silicon Valley has had its ups and downs but it will always be the center of the universe for innovation. The closest it got to death was the dotcom bust, but all that really did was get rid of all the weak players. And when the next cycle crashes again, it will again drive away a lot of the weak players again. But the core innovators and people who love technology will never leave and that will always attract more talent.

remote_phone··on My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
That’s because the interview is basically memorizing algorithms.

A real on-site interview should be:

1) give vague instructions on a fixing/modifying a moderately complex piece of software

2) have them ask good questions until they get to the heart of what they are supposed to do.

3) work with someone to accomplish this task. Use google or whatever else you need to finish it.

This interview should be 5 hours long including lunch. This is your best indicator of success.

remote_phone··on Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees
This should be illegal. How do we get the politicians to make a law over this?
remote_phone··on Mars landing: Photo shows Perseverance rover during landing
Has NASA started doing research on what the requirements would be to land a rover on Venus? I would absolutely love to see this in my lifetime!
remote_phone··on Ask HN: Boss ignoring me – what next?
If you’re not working on something your boss values, you are setting yourself up to being fired. Why should you be getting paid if you’re not doing something that your boss thinks is useful?

You should request a weekly or biweekly meeting 1 on 1 and talk with him. If he refused then try to switch to a different group, or leave the company on your own terms.

remote_phone··on Ask HN: Startup employees getting nothing after acquisition, is this normal?
This happens all the time. You have to watch out for liquidation preferences. Anything over 1X these days means stay away. It completely changes the calculus of whether or not it’s worth it to exercise your options. And if the company isn’t forthright about it, then leave or don’t join.
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