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I disagree. Zeroing the tip with a message for management encourages workers to go to less abusive restaurants or to complain on my behalf. It is literally the only way to provide feedback.

Generally yes. I do this 10-12 hours per day, and I'm tired at night. Also, somebody once asked me to write a video game in 2-3 hours on a laptop that I'd never used. I did it, but they didn't really have a position. Was a huge waste of time-unless they've invested in the relationship, it feels exploitative

My recollection was that in NY, you could have,drink,and buy alcohol as a minor. You just couldn't SELL it to a minor, and, at least in my nbhd, that wasn't really enforced. I saw a couple guys drinking a six-pack at an AP exam in the morning in full view of a proctor. Colleges didn't seem to care much as long as you drank relatively low alcohol beer. What got scary was when I visited a more hard-drinking and yet repressive college where I saw 17 year olds with enough liquor under their beds to kill an elephant. I happen to think that we lost something when adults couldn't drink with college students -- underage drinking without adults easily goes overboard.

It is a cult stock for a reason. There's nothing that will make it go back to rational pricing except bankruptcy or massive dilution

There are lots of projects that require at least a good undergraduate level understanding of compiler concepts. They aren't advertised as such though, but if you can make the link between the problem someone wants to solve and your experience, they'll hire you

The standard way to do this is to say I'm resigning as if such as such a day, and optionally that you are not joining a competitor

But from personal experience, this is a bad long term idea- much harder to get hired when you are unemployed, and no reason to offer to pay up to get you to leave. This will cost you in the long run

Goldman regularly takes down giant portfolios and sells them off. They have very good interest rate risk management software and good contacts to resell the stuff. They'll make money, but not rip your face off money.

The driving issues are the area per employee in the working area, the number of employees present, the volume of the employee conversations, and the sound absorption of the office surfaces.

Meta packed lots of people into small spaces where everyone has crappy for audio phones in an industrial look with concrete floors. It was worse than a trading floor imho

No. For the most part, success in this field requires having access to capital or debt, which would provide a platform for loan to own folks

I would love to get a signed picture of Darl McBride for my bathroom. Because he paid for it. I heard about this lawsuit, called up a couple of IP lawyers, talked to a bunch of programmers, and read everything on groklaw. I called both analysts who covered the stock -- one had a price target of $5, while the other had a price target of $45 (stock was about 20 at the time). Then I shorted it with most of the money I had. It went down and I used the equity to short even more of it. In retrospect, the analysis was correct (i.e. don't sue a company that has more lawyers than you have employees without a good case), but the level of risk I took was insane, and it kept me up late at night for a long time.

Someone should bring back the original model t planetary gear transmission with the three pedals and the clutch on a stick. Retro seems cool now...

The us will happily give a 30 year mortgage to a 100 year old provided that the loan to value ratio is low enough.

This is the key point not discussed in the article - what percentage of the price the buyer is financing. The difference between a long term loan with lower payments (aka one where the buyer is essentially trying to immediately finance an asset) and a bubble is whether the bank thinks that they can sell the collateral for more than the debt. Here it doesn't sound so good.

This has happened in NYC as well, but is rare in such large buildings. Every offering plan contemplates deconversion; the issue is the pricing

They teased the gravity suv, which Osborned the air. Apart from that, the number of people who want a 1000 hp sedan enough to pay what lucid is asking for it is somewhat limited

The cost of a trial is significant for the state. They generally do not charge people unless they have substantial, if not overwhelming evidence. The sentencing guidelines are known to both sides. So a deal that skips a trial in exchange for 75% of the expected sentence is a win-win for both sides.

They have lotteries for the good stuff when they should have had auctions. Hence the opportunity for mischief

There are structural reasons why this would happen:

Bigger companies can get better financing enabling them to pay more. Bigger companies can claim depreciation vs individual owners who can't. Companies don't have to sell and pay transfer, estate, and capital gains taxes. Property taxes are deductible against rents, but not on individual returns.

So basically, the tax code favors rentals over ownership, and now that the private equity guys have figured out how to cost effectively manage the properties, you are starting to see the inevitable result.

I suspect that the breakdown occurred higher up in the organization. The TASPs ran quite well for almost 70 years, and there was a process around them.

They were originally created as a way to identify great HS students and funnel them into the Telluride House at Cornell, and for many years students regularly turned down Harvard and Yale to go do this; many of them became College Scholars, and the Telluride House had a reputation for having many of the best students on campus.

The endowment did quite well (they were early adopters of indexing and the Yale model) and they started the TASS programs. This created a different funnel of almost exclusively black students not recruited based on a standardized test score or 'elitist' credentials, and this group gradually took over the organization and co-opted the giant pot of money. This led to a schism where the 'elitists' left, and the result is the current groupthink as well as the difficulty in recruiting factota (the college students who help the HS students).

First slowly and then quickly

I suspect that the online conventions did not allow for nuance in discussions, and the politically correct faction took over

It was the most astounding intellectual experience. You have no idea. 250 pages of reading per night, two college professors per seminar (two of whom are now quite famous). The students were genuinely diverse and formed their own community.

The house is more like a frat house- two floors of common spaces including the seminar rooms, a commercial kitchen etc and two floors of bedrooms

The expectation that your can start working in your late 20s and stop in your mid 60s and live another 20 years is clearly untenable. Vonnegut lamented that people no longer had 50 that working lives, but a world in which you start working at 16, stop at 70, and die at 75 allows for a better retirement

Road damage is the fourth power of axle weight. So these things are nothing compared to a semi.

This is not likely to move the needle much.

The last movie I saw at an AMC location in NY had fewer than 10 people at it on a Friday night.

Laws just changed. This will become more common. Similar to how NYC paid out 500m to a collection of some legit and many scammy 'police misconduct' lawsuits.

Tons of foamers in the HN community. I'm sure that it is a lovely experience, and seeing America is incredibly powerful.

But the truth is that you are in an extremely heavy, expensive, and slow vehicle that requires over 1000 man-hours to carry fewer than 300 seats the whole length of the ride. That doesn't account for the capital costs of the vehicle or maintenance on the route, or overhead for the stations.

Loosening regulations to reduce the staff, making the train itself go faster (if possible), and allowing for lower cost and lighter weight cars (possibly to include the much denser sleeping cars found on Chinese and Swedish railroads) would change the economics from 'taxpayer subsidized cruise' to 'reasonable form of luxury transit'

That's the tradeoff -- lifetime employment doing what you love should only go to those who are supremely dedicated and won't abuse the privilege.

Part of her issue though is that academic research and academic writing are two different skills, and being a productive researcher essentially requires you to spend a lot of time writing papers. I would think that a grant that allowed scientists (especially) to hire dedicated scientific writers would have a multiplier effect on the productivity of the scientist and would also improve the quality of the papers produced, as having to explain the concept to a non-expert tends to crystallize ideas on presentation.

The issue now is that the employment laws are so nasty in places like NYC that a scammy nanny can financially wipe you out with zero evidence. That doesn't happen with a dog.

What are the eviction rules like in Milan?

No. People would have stolen them.

When I see this, I multiply the charge by 2 and deduct it from the tip paid to the server and add a note. I don't like surprise charges, and I feel that the restaurant should charge appropriately and transparently in order to pay its employees. It isn't my responsibility as a guest to pay for the food as well as the back and front of house staff separately.