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Well you could be right. His stock comp for 2013 was $40m. That was the scrappy year.

The point is that instead of cutting the travel and entertainment budget for the whole company it would have been a lot more effective to simply show Pichette the door.

Pichette got a 56-million-dollar payout just for quitting. That was shortly after the “scrappy” year.

The article is about bringing transparency to HN operations. To allow what I believe to be a factually inaccurate statement by one of the operators just stand as the last word is against the spirit of the discussion.

This is not accurate based on my testing. If I browse to HN while logged in to my account from the affected network, that account can never post properly again.

I don’t know if you were here long enough to experience the range of promotion processes, but only the lowest levels of tech promotions are based on individual contributions and ability. To reach “senior” grade, the lowest career grade at Google, requires significant demonstration of leadership. To get above “senior” based on individual contribution alone is virtually impossible. But to rise higher based on leadership alone is quite doable.

I would say technical ability is the least important of the three dimensions of Google’s promotion process for SWEs.

I have a few Busch & Mueller lights I like. To my knowledge only Peter White Cycles sells them in US.

I would like to see American magazines taking a more critical look at these lights. Like virtually all bike front lights sold in the USA, the Garmin UT800 has a circular beam, making it pretty much useless for anything. Proper bike lights have asymmetric projection beams that put the light on the road, not up into the sky. Unfortunately an American bicyclists who wants one of those lights is pretty much obligated to import one from Germany, where bicycle lighting is a matter of law. It seems really weird that these very bright, very expensive flashlights are the only thing available in US bike shops.

I agree that we should just build social housing and give it away until housing/land is worthless, and universal free health care has obvious utility, but for everything else just giving away money is a lot more effective. Suppose you give someone food assistance, now they can buy food, but what if they don't have clothes? How are they going to participate in civil society while naked? Handing out cash handles those corner cases.

You’re not really comprehending what I am saying. If I create an account, never post or comment, and just browse HN from the IP in question, that account will be banned. It has nothing to do with behavior.

If you want to ban some IP, just serve 403 to that IP. Deleting all of the accounts of people who like to order toast and eggs in the morning at the same place is what makes no sense.

Actually I didn’t say that. The phenomenon in question has nothing to do with where the account was registered. The accounts get banned if I just browse to HN from that cafe. The first account that got banned that way was years old and had 5000+ karma. It took me a while to figure out that it was banned because you can still post and you can see your posts and vote and whatnot but nobody else can see your posts at all. It’s pretty evil.

I mention it because the article says shadowbanning is rare. It’s not that rare if they’ve got some kind of stored procedure that just goes around doing it.

Well only one at a time. Then as each gets banned I make another one. Note that they get banned if I just visit HN from the IP in question no posting required.