You're doing their work for them!

They've merely rightsized their organisation to wikify their newsroom with crowd-sourced insight. It's totally thinking outside the paradigm, a true hack on pivoting.

Does this take into account other types of compensation like stock options? I've accepted a position as an H1-B and the salary I was offered is over 10% lower than what is listed in that data ... would it be prudent to bring it up?

It might be average salary.

looks like it's bricked.

on a serious note, i've heard of people doing this to store bought items and then returning them for a refund, is that common?

what about handmade crafts? there will still (always?) be a market for high-quality goods made by a person, even if machine made goods are of the same quality.

This happens every day in mexico. Paying the ransom will unfortunately only validate the kidnapping "business model". There's no easy solution.

I think back-of-the-envelope will at least get you within an order of magnitude of the real numbers, which gives you a reasonable range to make assumptions.

I guess this is why the other book lending services got crushed ...

what's an example of one of those "strong procedures" ?

Evaluating communication tools (IRC, bug tracking tools, etc) and encouraging (requiring?) use of them.

I'd be surprised if this hasn't been done before, but I hope they get the execution right! Does anyone know how previous attempts have fared?