ashurbanipal

There is no notable evidence here, just theoretical hints. Sympathetic magic, translated into modern context.

Good story thanks

You’re welcome

Is this cold fusion? The article contrasts this experiment with a plasma tokamak in the UK. I suppose the lasers require a lot of energy but it doesn't sound like there is a plasma is there?

This seems to be case. Google Jebel Irhoud to learn more.

This story is about the legalization of psychedelics. If it don’t believe me, read to the end.

Children of Ruin

Very cool, I endorse this post!

Older episodes of Dan Carlin’s hardcore history podcast that cover this period have put the whole ancient near east into context. highly recommend.

How would this situation qualify for a class action? You don't seem to be a member of some large class of people to me.

This would be better if it was only 10 years of the Simpsons.

Like Bats of the Republic, similar idea.

Just like in classic sci-fi Dragon's Egg. Supernova happens at the same time hominims begin to become human.

It looks like Hangouts can make free calls, but GV cannot. At least according to their respective descriptions in the Play store. That seems like a major downgrade.

i think that's the only way it works

If a credit card company can make money from me by charging the merchants I use the card with, and the credit card company gets its money for free through bank deposits and the credit card company has decades and hundreds of millions already invested in its underwriting model, how can Tally sustainably charge me less than the credit card company?

Tally appears to do no underwriting it simply offers you a lower rate than your current cards offer and allows you to pay all the bills at once? Or does Tally have a proprietary method to tell which borrowers are worthy of a lower rate, the story is not really clear on this point.

Hold on, so we call it "Mind Control" when Google shifts our preferences toward one of two pre-selected choices? What do we call the state of the world that leaves us with only 2 pre-selected choices who happen to agree on 90%+ of all policies?

inhabitants of Lovecraft's Nameless City

FLSA is not a joke anymore. Especially for a big company or one that has aspirations of becoming big.

Thank you for that link. I am not expert on statistical methods - is the reference to the F-stat in the link meant to indicate that the p-value was only 7%?

the tick has to stay attached for 24 hours in the first place. If you let a tick stay on you for 24 hours, you have a lot of other issues beyond Lyme.

I don't think a monkey would have burned $2b on a non-sensical Skype purchase. So she's got that going for her.

Thank you for this article, the data is great. Since you've speculated as to the causes of the declines in the markets with large declines could you speculate on the reasons for the fastest markets to be growing as quickly as they have? Or on markets which you would think should be growing more quickly but aren't?

That's a great point. I wish everything written by Farhad had a warning label on it for gross stupidity.

Sarb-Ox is clearly a big deal. However the bigger challenge facing these "stay private" companies is their massive need for cash. Traditionally, private companies generate a lot of positive cash flow which they use to support debt loads from either banks or the bond markets. These companies are starting to access the debt markets (witness Uber's large LOC and recent convert issuance) but without the cash flow to back up that debt. This will become an issue, because as of yet there is no private market for equity capital to be used to pay off debt at par - private equity and VC investors are not in that business as they have time-limited funds which need to produce positive cash returns in 7 - 10 years to pay back the LPs... The public markets represent the largest pool of permanent capital out there so unless the Unicorns stop bleeding cash they will have to come to the public markets eventually.

AMZN seems like the best possible outcome for these companies.

This is a great idea - is there any reason why there isn't a generally accepted coding equivalent of a CPA or a CMT or any of the other very successful professional certification programs out there? Does the field move too quickly? Is there too much dispersion in talent (or perceived dispersion) by programmers themselves to make it worth turning them into "certified programmers"?

You make a great point. Although I think that the line about producing broken people is overwrought. I manage a number of college grads who have achieved a lot under this system and I actually think, as a manager, it is quite helpful to have them "broken in" and follow what may seem like arbitrary rules - oftentimes seemingly arbitrary rules are actually quite rational and it may just take too long to explain to a new employee (which is what our education system is aimed at creating) exactly why a problem should be approached in a certain (again seemingly arbitrary) manner.

What are the potential returns to "winning a market" that has no IP protections, no barriers to entry, and a host of substitutes? I would argue that the industry characteristics suggest that any winners in this market will have low margins and few profits. I suspect you are right about the current supply/demand mix for investments driving unrealistic optimism on the part of VCs.

I'm sorry if you found my post to be tremendously weird, and congratulations for making so much more than the average undergraduate upon graduation. Was my math wrong?

I actually employ a large number of undergraduates (in non-developer roles) and it is really typical to pay them somewhere around $50k for the first 2 or 3 years (depending on geography + what year it is), the good ones are kept on and get substantial raises to low 6 figures. This is pretty typical across many companies. Her experience is pretty typical for recent graduates, not a special burden to bear.

$40,000 initial starting salary * 1.10^3 = $53,240. Therefore, she was at her company for the first 3 years after college until asking for this raise after her third year. She characterizes this period as "many years" - this seems disingenuous to me. She took a $40,000 offer right after college, this is close to the median starting undergrad salary - therefore she was not underpaid for the first year. This limits the period of underpayment to about 2 years. Which is definitionally the shortest period of time it can be while still being described as "years of underpayment".

And still, it is very common for recent grads to endure 2 or 3 years right out of college at their starting plus a meager raise until they get that second job which requires education + experience. While I agree that employees should negotiate, this particular woman's plight is totally and massively overblown.