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> I don't see how that's possible. Low value would skew it even more versus 2.9% + 30 cents

Because that’s not Square’s rate, they charge a flat 2.75%.

Consider explaining enough details in your comment so that it doesn’t require readers to investigate?

The transit already getting built in LA. It’s just slow (Purple Line won’t be finished till 2028). Measure R is effective over 30 years.

These things take time. It’s fine for a city to take a more measured approach to growth, and make sure that the infrastructure is capable of supporting it, before going full laissez-faire “build! build! build!”.

It's about knowing how to structure problems, whether the components are public or whether the problem space is completely unfamiliar.

E.g. someone who guesses "$3 billion" on only a gut feeling likely wouldn't be a strong hire even if the number is correct, while someone who can correctly decompose the final answer into its components and make reasonable estimates would be a much better candidate.

For estimation interview questions, and problem-solving questions more generally, a "structural" approach to breaking down problems is important because on the job the interviewee will need to be able to identify what levers are available to them.

Any source on "VK simply advertised the messenger actively at launch"?

As far as I've heard VK and Telegram have never had a very cozy relationship, certainly never going as far as VK actively promoting Telegram.

Why is this "not a simple A/B test"? It seems to be functionally the same (maybe A/B/C/etc. and not A/B), just with no actual product.

Is it the nonexistence of a real product which bothers you? Is it the comparison testing?

More generally, what do you feel constitutes an experiment that requires informed test subjects? I agree with you that there are shades of gray, but I feel the distinction likely lies somewhere between "red vs green button on landing page" and "new cancer drug," while you seem to be arguing that the former should still require informed consent. (Which could be a reasonable argument! But I'm trying to get a better gauge on what it is that you're saying.)

What would a better solution look like, in your view?

Is it the third-party aspect that you take issue with, or the fact-checking? Or the combination of the two?

> Lakes turn into swamps which turn into forests given enough time.

While this is literally true, it's not clear to me that it's a relevant metaphor for online communities.

I don’t think an incompetent school nurse would be a bigger problem to me than my child dying.

This is unrelated to the Hyperloop concept.

Reminds me of Jenny Holzer’s work (she’s a conceptual artist who works with text).

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/63755

"BAD INTENTIONS CAN YIELD GOOD RESULTS"

“CATEGORIZING FEAR IS CALMING"

Did you read the article? A big part of their financial problems was that the virtual assistants were full employees, not 1099/contractors.

At that level, they could be making the same money at any of the other tech companies, with the same freedom and same caliber of coworkers.

I highly doubt most of them believe that FB and the work they’re doing is evil. They would have no incentive to work there if they did.

In this case it's not a headline, it's literally a question that was asked.

> It's actually hard to be fully aware of the high levels of conformity one finds elsewhere until you have spent 6+ months in SF.

I haven't found this to be the case at all, at least compared to LA/NY/Seattle.

Yes, but the intention was to expand from there to allow community knowledge curation on anything.

See Ben Horowitz's note: https://a16z.com/2014/07/11/from-rap-genius-to-genius-2/

Marc Andreessen's note: https://genius.com/1102682

Smart move for Spotify, foreboding news for Genius.

This is also a cautionary lesson for founders about raising at inflated valuations--Genius's series B raise at close to a $1B post-money val will make it more difficult for them to exit with an acquisition.

(In fairness, they completed that round with the intent of "annotating the internet", not becoming the music content platform they've since pivoted to.)

Sure, but it’s not an option for brands, which is the more relevant comparison here.

> “Control” here is falling prey to the freedom fallacy; something we should expect a judge to overcome.

What is the "freedom fallacy"? A quick Google search only turned up a book with that title which questions liberal feminism.

NB this is "Time Warner the media company", not Time Warner Cable (which is now Spectrum.) This isn't broadband consolidation but rather media/entertainment consolidation.

The deal is most closely comparable to Comcast's acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011.

Sure, but it's not accurate to say

> I had to wait for the third section, not very helpfully titled "An open source architecture", to find any clues.

That's already accounted for in the "paid-in" figure:

> (Remember, the couple didn’t literally pay out $600,000; that’s the current value of what they paid out over the years, plus an additional 2 percent they may have gotten had it been invested.)

Even accounting for inflation and investment, the average worker still is paid out more from Social Security than they paid in.

For context, epriest (Evan Priestley) was the original author of Phabricator at Facebook and spun it out as its own company.

Yes, and per further up in this comment chain the purpose of that is to avoid signaling issues:

> For YC - we're thinking actively how to prevent any signaling. That's why we invest pro-rata in all of our companies in the same way.

Stupid in this context was pretty clearly defined in the article as low-IQ.

You're describing skilled vs unskilled.

It's easily verifiable, see [1] under "Educational Attainment of Adults".

13% of unauthorized immigrants have completed college, as compared to 31% of US-born and 30% of authorized immigrants.

[1] https://www.migrationpolicy.org/data/unauthorized-immigrant-...

The link isn't to Facebook, it's to newsroom.fb.com (which is a WordPress-hosted site.)

This is just what the comments you replied to were discussing

It’s a meaningless comparison, the median Swedish/Norwegian citizen is far more educated, wealthy, and capable of producing software than the median Chinese citizen.

China’s per capita software production is dragged down by its massive rural population, many of whom have never even owned a computer other than a smartphone. If you don’t account for that, then obviously wealthier/more urbanized countries will have higher per capita production.

> Also, it comes from Google so I can only assume it's doing some sort of tracking of me and/or my machine resources. No thank you.

Electron was developed by GitHub for their Atom editor, actually.