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by Cookingboy 6y ago
> Allowing Free speech still is the hill I'd like to die on At this rate it will be the hill that the civilization dies on. The whole "absolute free speech is a sacrosanct human rights for everyone" is an ideal that simp
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>Can Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Google Chat, Slack, Discord, and others operate freely in China? Actually yes , as long as they adhere to Chinese data laws. That's why iMessage, FaceTime, Skype, etc are all ab
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>other than when the drivers choose to work. You can't just hand waive away a fundamental difference like that. From my conversation with some Lyft/Uber drivers they really treasure that aspect and they would rather quit if t
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
I wonder how skewed these discussions are on HackerNews. All the surveys from big companies show that an overwhelming percentage of people would love a mix of WFH and going to office in the future. I really think HN is just super introver
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>They certainly can offer flexible hours to full time employees - no where does it say "Americans shalt work from nine until five so sayeth we the founders". I don't think you understand how a business like this works. For
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>Doesn't this lawsuit prove otherwise? No, you can have a lawsuit for anything and from anyone. All this article suggests is that some Uber/Lyft drivers want to work as full time employees. In the case of this suit, it was fi
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
Nothing, but since now they have the added cost of health insurance, minimal wage, etc, it would make more sense for them to arrange pre-set shifts for the drivers to optimize for supply/demand based on time of the day. Some drivers wo
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
There are no Chinese restriction on U.S. companies. Why do you think iMessage and Skype are popular in China? If FB/Google doesn't want to operate in China because they don't want to comply to the same law that applies to eve
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>For years China has banned systems and applications from other parts of the world. That statement is a lie. Not a single one of those companies are banned in China, they voluntarily choose to not operate there, mostly due to them not wa
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
Again, complete lies. Ownership requirement is only for joint ventures. Both Apple and Microsoft operate in China in full capacity and neither companies are majority owned by the Chinese lol.
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
> Also, the companies these Chinese companies compete against do not have equal access to Chinese markets That's just not true. All American tech companies can operate in China if they follow local laws, that's why Skype and iM
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
And Edward Snowden is living in Russia because he loves the food there.
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At the point of $10-30T market cap you probably own, even if not literally, but figuratively, whatever regulators there are.
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
It just sounds like you have a bad job, and yes, in that case it is a feature, not a bug. Because any system that lets you stay far away from a bad job is good. But there plenty of people who actually love the place they work and the people
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
A full time job is something you spend 40 hours a week at and your coworkers are human beings you spend a lot of time working together and very often you share similar goals. You don't have to drink the Koolaid and all that, but if you
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
But not if you want to trade certain contracts positions. For example I'd like to sell some covered calls for my AMZN as a hedge against a correction later, but since I don't own $300k+ of AMZN share, I literally cannot sell a sin
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>I would switch sites easily if there was a compelling alternative, but I haven't heard of one. I think you just answered your own question on why people are willing to throw money at them.
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>I think the issue has nothing to do with it being Chinese, but with the extent at which it swallows up data on Americans But it's A-ok when NSA powered/hijacked/collaborated U.S. social media companies do the same to the
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
For companies like FB and Google that's actually far below the level of a senior engineer (E5/L5), which is usually at around $350-500k range. $280k sounds about right for someone who's about 3-5 years out of undergrad at the
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
Of course, very few people actually like democracy in practice, they just tend to prefer whatever system/government that agrees with them. Imagine you let people from one party (doesn't matter Democrat or Republicans) to anonymou
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>FB should pay more to remote workers. All your arguments are about why FB can pay more to remote workers, but just because they can doesn't mean they should and definitely doesn't mean they will .
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>Those 2m starter homes will get cut in half or more if this becomes wide scale. And then people will start moving in because CoL is suddenly cheaper and they get to enjoy all the nice stuff Bay Area offers without suffering through the
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>I'm merely showing that there is life and work without an office, and better one much of the time. Better for who? Everything you described as "better" doesn't sound that way to me at all. What makes your opinion obj
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>Your work buddys today will be gone tomorrow Nope, still friends with many of them after years I've left the company. >If that's your thing because you're extroverted then great but a lot of people in tech are more amb
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
> It was quiet, nice food and much socializing towards the evening. What's not to like? To me the smell of alcohol would be awful? Or maybe I don't like noisy strangers ? Or maybe I can't bring my comfortable chair and tw
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>What I say is that _if_ they would have changed their lifestyle _then_ they would not have craved the office experience. I can say the same thing about WFH. If you have made the lifestyle adjustment then you wouldn't crave to be wo
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>But recently in discussions about this topic it feels like WFH fans want to “convert” Office fans to their preferred model. I don’t think that’s the right approach. Thank you for that nuanced view. Many comments here want to drive home
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>Also, I don't really know any software engineers that "thrive" in noisy environments. If you need noise cancelling headphones to thrive, I'm one of them, and I'm also exceptionally good at multi-tasking. I also
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>This basically means that they did not modify their lifestyle for remote work. I really can't understand how one can be this shallow minded. Maybe the life style required to make remote work effective is not the desirable lifestyle
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by Cookingboy 6y ago
>I have been in Silicon Valley for 5+ years and I agree with his assessment. Culture here is fake and hollow. A lot of hypocrisy. I've been in SV for more than twice as long as you have and have worked for companies ranging from YC

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