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New comment by wp1 in "Planetary Protection Officer"

wp1 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 06:48:19 +0000

Positions are available: https://careers.orkin.com/

New comment by wp1 in "Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers"

wp1 — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:26:48 +0000

FTFY: The guy you go to lunch with during your on-site interview @Google is most likely the one who hasn't completed interview training yet.

New comment by wp1 in "Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses Tools"

wp1 — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:51:15 +0000

Pigeons and bats were both used in separate projects. You're thinking of the bat one.

Incendiaries were attached to bats, who were dropped from planes. And then expected to fly into buildings. Incendiaries go off. Building burns down.

Pigeons were used as the guidance system in an early smart bomb. Rather than tracking a target with a laser or GPS, trained pigeons would steer the bomb.

New comment by wp1 in "Otto joins Uber"

wp1 — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:19:40 +0000

This is how harbors work. Ports employee pilots, who board ships, get them through busy waterways, and dock them. The regular crew on a large ship just sits back when coming into port.

New comment by wp1 in "Birchbox Cuts About 12% of Staff"

wp1 — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 02:25:56 +0000

I've always been impressed that Dollar Shave Club was able to build a business around selling a single product available on Amazon for a higher price.

New comment by wp1 in "The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options"

wp1 — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 01:32:32 +0000

A reasonable argument for a 90-day exercise window could have been: employees are told upfront that they need to remain with the company through a liquidity event for their options to be worth anything. The incentive to stay is both transparent and explicit. And aligns everyone's incentives, e.g. long-tenured employees perform better, making the startup's equity worth more, enriching the employee who stayed through the IPO.

The arguments in this article however were wholly incoherent.

New comment by wp1 in "An Expensive Law Degree, and No Place to Use It"

wp1 — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:18:13 +0000

This is exactly what most companies do. They hire in house counsel for their baseline, routine legal needs. And then outsource to biglaw for peak law stuff (litigation, big transactions).

In house counsel salaries are way less than those at a top law firm and you don't have to pay the difference between the firm's billings and what an associate--who's actually do the work-- gets paid.

New comment by wp1 in "Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)"

wp1 — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:14:36 +0000

To qualify their leads

New comment by wp1 in "How to win the coding interview"

wp1 — Tue, 31 May 2016 07:00:11 +0000

In a whiteboard interview, comments can/should just be said out loud to the interviewer.

New comment by wp1 in "All-electric trainer aircraft, cheaper than Cessna"

wp1 — Sun, 29 May 2016 23:05:30 +0000

I would gladly pay for 5 hours of training for a combustion endorsement, if I could avoid fuel costs for 40+ hours of training to get my private certificate.