alkibiades

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by alkibiades 6y ago
uber has a lot of cash and yet still laid off. i think it’s in the shareholders interest to lay-off instead of eating into cash reserves
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by alkibiades 6y ago
the media really just wants fb to prevent division by only allowing a center-left world view.
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by alkibiades 6y ago
what’s the issue with this as long as the investors are also provided with the GAAP numbers? it’s not like the compensation is hidden
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by alkibiades 6y ago
i think therse a good subset of people who dont really care that much about their careers. atleast from my experience working at fang. they just like the high pay and WLB and dont seem to care about being promoted or advancement.
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by alkibiades 6y ago
thats not how the free market works. im not sure where people got the strange concept they are paid what they are worth to the company. or that they are paid based on how hard they work. its literally just supply and demand like everything
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by alkibiades 6y ago
it’s neither. it’s just supply and demand. in the bay you can have offers from facebook google twitter square stripe etc... and they have to all compete for you. a lot of cities you have like 2 choices
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by alkibiades 6y ago
then how come the same engineer at google transferring to a europe or india office gets 1/5th the pay? they are just as skilled. it’s the same person
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by alkibiades 6y ago
then how come the same engineer at google transferring to a europe or india office gets 1/5th the pay? they are just as skilled. it’s the same person
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by alkibiades 6y ago
yes because if a company goes bankrupt it’s future profit goes to zero
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by alkibiades 6y ago
i’m talking about what they did to mlk jr. even if it doesn’t affect me it still matters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
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by alkibiades 6y ago
even without location tracking it’s creepy. what happens when the govt contact traces a man with his mistress and then blackmails him?
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by alkibiades 6y ago
if you made your money off the thing you’re criticizing seems a tad hypocritical. he should try socialism and redistribute his wealth
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by alkibiades 6y ago
i’d think it would make you unemployable at another big company. but startups might still be interested
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by alkibiades 6y ago
if anything i’d expect them to go out of their way to fire some white men to avoid lawsuits
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by alkibiades 6y ago
it is. you guys just keep contorting the definition to avoid any critiques
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by alkibiades 6y ago
if he’s so against capitalism he should donate his considerable net worth to amazon workers instead of pointless virtue signaling. but somehow think that won’t happen :)
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by alkibiades 6y ago
why should you have gotten a federal tax break in the first place just because your state decided to have high taxes? maybe think before electing politicians who raise them if youre upset
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by alkibiades 6y ago
monkey writing shakespeare
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by alkibiades 6y ago
so why should people in texas pay for the stupid budget decisions of san francisco when they didn’t waste their money? it’s moral hazard
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by alkibiades 6y ago
honestly the low skill jobs are more important and needed
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by alkibiades 6y ago
going 7 times doesn’t actually increase the likelihood 7x but your point still stands that they would be far more likely to get it
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by alkibiades 6y ago
if that’s the worry we can just subsidize UPS etc to service them. it’s a lot cheaper and more efficient than this
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by alkibiades 6y ago
might be nice for employees but borders on negligent when private markets are practically begging for you to take their money and going public has alot of hoops and disclosures
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by alkibiades 7y ago
i hope so. millennials might finally be able to own
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by alkibiades 7y ago
some frustrating parts for me: 1. if i got an offer from your company a year ago, why do i need to redo the phone screen and entire process? 2. if someone has 10 years of experience at google and is L6, why do they need to do the standard p
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by alkibiades 7y ago
does the have anything to do with actual space travel or just a hobby project for global warming?
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by alkibiades 7y ago
because the government is the one forcing them to shut down. and now they want to forcibly take an equity stake? talk about totalitarian
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by alkibiades 7y ago
yes private universities like stanford and harvard would have no way of creating competent well educated employees. do you have proof the employees even when to state schools?
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by alkibiades 7y ago
they also don’t want to spread it to their parents or grandparents and kill them
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by alkibiades 7y ago
from what dr fauci said, they wanted to be sure there weren’t any adverse affects for people who already have covid. But that they know it’s safe under normal circumstances

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