CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Some businesses, sure. Some of the big tech companies that are doing layoffs though (like Google) are just fine financially, and are losing two decades' worth of employee morale and goodwill for a temporary stock bump that is already d
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is one of the best fiskings I've seen in a long time. Just absolutely brutal.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's not just shoes, it's all clothing. Any individual clothing item below a certain cutoff is tax-free.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> Most places in the US, the local tax is the same statewide I don't think this is true. Sure, the state tax is the same state wide, but the county and city taxes aren't! To pick a random state: https://www.salestaxh
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Pay attention to the upcoming earnings call on Feb 2. I bet they'll talk about some of these details. Until then, saying anything would be, I suspect, materially significant non-public information.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The layoff didn't particularly target the rest-and-vesters, though. It frankly appears mostly random based on what I've seen.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
More than sometimes, I would say they are mostly paid in cash.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I mean, if you're illegally hiring someone, you're not gonna pay them on the book.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Just wanted to thank you for this astute point.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> However, no government office, neither a school library nor a general public one, is or ought to be required to carry your speech. That's the opposite of what's actually going on here, though. What's going on is that spe
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
To make an extreme example, let's say that 99 senators are great and everyone loves them, but 1 senator is terrible and the rules of the Senate happen to allow filibusters. You could have a situation as a result where 98-99% of people
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
There's no way. Most of the value of housing in expensive areas is the land itself, not the cost of the building.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
And building code too. There are plenty of cost-efficient designs built in Europe that can't be built here because we effectively require e.g. doubly-loaded corridors through stairwell requirements. The Europeans can put up more housin
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Agreed it doesn't matter much in this case, but it is a common misconception that employees don't cost nearly as much to employers as they actually do, so I wanted to step in and correct that.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
They know that the second they name any specific books that were actually present in classrooms, we'll all realize how ridiculous the outrage over such innocuous books actually is.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
To be clear, this isn't democracy, it's republicanism. Laws get passed in republicanism all the time that the majority of the people don't agree with, because their representatives aren't actually representing their int
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
What you're describing very much isn't happening, though. These books indeed were merely "present in school" on a book shelf. Nobody's being indoctrinated into practical terrorism in Florida schools by being force
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> There were some books that some segment of voters didn't approve of that certain school libraries were providing. I mean, so? This is small minority of people we're talking about. Why do they get veto power over everything
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> Also, don't confuse school libraries with public libraries. What's the actual meaningful distinction here? Both are publicly funded, that students/kid can choose to go to and browse books in (but rarely do). It's
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Please tell me exactly which books are so heinous that having them present in schools merits felony charges?
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> I'm not in Florida but I'll give you a local example to me that's come under debate. A book with sexually explicit material was recently pulled from an elementary school. What book was it? I ask because the first real sc
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Spotify pays significantly above the average, though. Not as high as the top-tier FANGs, but still high.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Levels.fyi supports me at least: https://www.levels.fyi/companies/spotify/salaries
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> When you get a speeding ticket, do you blame the cop, the car, the state, anyone but yourself? Or do you say "yup, I am the one behind the wheel so I am responsible" If you admit you're the one who was behind the wheel a
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
2X is my understanding as well. Whatever you think an employee costs based on TC, double it to get the rough cost to the employer. Some other big employer costs related to employees you forgot include employment taxes, hardware/softwar
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
They're all meaningless buzzy catchphrases. Until a CEO takes responsibility by resigning themselves, or forfeiting their pay, or something else meaningful, it's all just words.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
If you own a large fleet of vehicles, and especially with the way people treat cars that aren't theirs, some non-trivial percentage of those cars are going to need service that goes beyond mere fluid replacement, even within the first
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Apparently you don't need to return EVs charged, so it would've been less hassle for me on my most recent rental. I had a car for 4 days in Las Vegas and drove around 250 miles total. I had to go out of my way when dropping it o
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
That's gonna be people either in specialized areas, or non-native English speakers using their own words. I see British English spelling all over Wikipedia, for example, but I never see anyone in my actual life in the US use it except
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Most EVs won't ever have their batteries replaced; it simply won't be necessary. This is a perennial concern about EVs that simply isn't a big deal in practice, and EVs have been around long enough to have data points here. M

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