NeverFade

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by NeverFade 3y ago
Not to mention, Silicon Valley is called that because the first major chip companies all resided there.
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by NeverFade 3y ago
International STEM graduates are also targeting FAANG and similar jobs in droves.
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by NeverFade 3y ago
The fact FAANG jobs pay better means the supply/demand ratio for talent that can do semiconductor jobs is higher than for talent that can do FAANG job. GP is right, so rationally everyone who could - would rather live in Mountain View
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by NeverFade 3y ago
Exactly, the reason "active shooter" situations frighten ordinary folks is because they're the rare type of shooting that can victimize you even if you're law-abiding and don't live in a very high crime area.
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by NeverFade 3y ago
In 2022, a 5-year peak year, 313 people in the entire US died from active shooters: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/active-shooters-fbi-report-2022... That's out of 330 million total population.
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by NeverFade 3y ago
> Wages are not downstream of profits - they are a price in a market for labor. That is correct, and a point many in this discussion miss. > It's better this way - otherwise employees at companies that make no money would have
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by NeverFade 3y ago
> Why don’t we band together, mass produce 2500 nuclear plants that are at least as large, and make an actual difference. Because the same climate activists who keep harping on the "climate crisis" and successfully push polic
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by NeverFade 3y ago
Sure, but there's no fundamental reason for them to be the primary shareholders. The average holding time in the 1970s was 5 years.
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by NeverFade 3y ago
My point is that shareholder capitalism doesn't necessarily lead to the short-term focus you describe. Shareholders can in fact be the group with the longest-term focus of all. They can still be there and care about the company long af
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by NeverFade 3y ago
> It is oriented to appeasing stockholders (investors), who want to see earnings grow. This strategy appeases short-term shareholders, at the cost of significantly penalizing long-term holders. It's not a simple case of "appe
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Even Minneapolis ended up reversing their "defund the police" effort: > Dealing the final blow to the local "defund" movement last year was a city council vote to essentially refund a cut they'd made the prior y
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by NeverFade 4y ago
There's been plenty of evidence posted to this thread showing that SF is more dangerous to law-abiding civilians than other cities. This in addition to the incident that started this thread in the first place: the homicide of a law-abi
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by NeverFade 4y ago
This argument makes no sense at all. San Francisco homicide count is close to the national average, however, unlike most cities, these homicides aren't confined to bad neighborhoods and criminals operating within them, but can affect a
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by NeverFade 4y ago
We're really assuming a lot about the new employer here. Let's not get too smug about the great employment market we've had for the past decade. It may not last forever, or much longer. Also, it depends on the opportunity cos
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I think it's much less of a problem these days, partly because the talent crunch forced tech companies to hire older employees as well. It's still present, but not as rampant and intense as it was. Also, note that it was discussed
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> If such a situation occured with my boss I could just resign and have a new job in a couple weeks. Why should you leave your job because a criminal chose to sexually assault you? Yes, you could find a new job, but what if you're
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I have witnessed first hand discrimination based on race and gender. Ageism too.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> More curious is the very direct "your team is too male" and the encouragement to fire someone. Everyone in tech knows this is happening, and it's illegal, but nobody will do anything about it. Similar to ageism back in
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I clarified the comment, since suicide rates aren't the only factor by which to judge or point out the issues at Foxconn. Foxconn had a long list of labor abuse[0], and apparently they still do given large-scale worker protests last No
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I'm not pretending Apple is worse than the rest of the industry. I'm refuting GP's blanket statement that they are much better.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> Apple has always led the industry in their auditing of their supply chain and taking proactive steps to address illegal and unethical behaviour. Based on what data? The workers staged massive protests just a couple of months ago: ht
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by NeverFade 4y ago
You make them sound like saints. They are not, and they have a history of being less scrupulous than some of these other companies. Here's just a small example of what they're capable of when their obsession for secrecy and contro
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Linus himself uses Asahi over an M2 Macbook Air: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-...
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by NeverFade 4y ago
You're writing this as if Bezos / Jaffy or anyone at their level is even going to read some random person's angry email.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
If you can prove that the offer letter was issued in bad faith, for example the employer issued 2 offer letters for 1 position (hence one of the letters was issued for a job that doesn't exist) then I suspect you may have a legal case.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
> The best you can hope for are that they respect the law Offer letters never provided much of a legal protection. We just treated them as if they did. Amazon et al wouldn't rescind them by their thousands this year if that create
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by NeverFade 4y ago
I don't have much of an advice for you, OP, other than what you already knew: try to find a new job ASAP. You may have to leave the US for a while, and come back to interview on a visitor visa, until you can get a new job to sponsor yo
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by NeverFade 4y ago
"Smaller places are more trustworthy" is not true at all. They have their own set of issues.
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by NeverFade 4y ago
Apple margins may have improved, but the M2 Extreme that Gurman posits would be a beast of a chip and much more expensive to produce: > The company made the decision because of both the complexity and cost of producing a processor that i
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by NeverFade 4y ago
The implication in the article is that M2 Extreme would not be cheaper, but would cost substantially more than these Intel chips. It would also perform far better.

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