__derek__

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Comment · 2 years ago
Airbnb sellers can charge a fixed fee directly by setting minimum stay lengths or by charging different nightly rates based on the length of stay (e.g., weekly and monthly stay discounts).
Comment · 2 years ago
As Matt Levine says, everything is securities fraud. Boeing defrauded its shareholders (and its public company customers) by saying that it was building safe planes. Even beyond that, the law guarantees protection for whistleblowers within these companies.* These hypothetical engineers would have absolutely been protected.

* If you work for a public company, you've almost certainly had a training about its ethics hotline with information about your protection from retaliation.

Comment · 2 years ago
That's not perjury. Trial attorneys are not under oath because that would conflict with their duty to advocate for their clients. Their duty not to lie to the court is a matter of professional ethics.
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> antisocial = commits crimes and harms society

The GP conflates "tech workers" and "CS" but it's pretty clear that this is the target of the second paragraph: folks who are happy to do work that harms society without doing anything that rises to the level of mandatory treatment. That tendency has been a big part of the so-called "techlash" the last several years.

That said, I don't think this is unique to tech (cf. finance or politics).

Comment · 2 years ago
Post-GFC, that's not a real risk for retail MMFs. They're de facto narrow banks now.
Comment · 2 years ago
Lots of ex-Amazon directors and VPs, FWIW.
Comment · 2 years ago
Anecdotally, some factors I've heard that make YoY comparisons questionable:

1. With RTO, folks are more likely to eat out during the week (especially for places in SLU), so weekend demand is probably lower

2. With commutes, folks are more likely to pick up on their way home, so demand for delivery is probably lower

3. With the poor level of service, folks are more likely to pick up in order to ensure that their food is actually edible

King5's post itself notes another potential confounding variable: more drivers.

Comment · 2 years ago
The post is an advertisement:

> The following content is sponsored by New York Life Investments

The "content" is just an image with an affiliate link.

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My info was not leaked because I've never done business with Delta Dental of California. The title omits the essential "of California" context.

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