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by baskethead 4y ago
You do sound like a luddite. Also it sounds like you're not used to remote work or interacting with other people in a remote-first environment. Meetings are essential. Seeing people face to face is essential. I had lunch with a teammat
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by baskethead 4y ago
With a 1000 people you should be streaming. There's no conceivable way 1000 people can have an interactive meeting.
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by baskethead 4y ago
The funny thing is that the presentation was completely wrong. The "good times" were only about to begin. Within a couple of years, tech went on probably its greatest stock market streak in history. If you look at tech from 2010 u
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by baskethead 4y ago
Except that's not how the markets work. Historically the PE ratios were much lower and the rates were much higher. Your model doesn't even work 5 years ago.
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by baskethead 4y ago
I don't need a medal, the money I earned is good enough.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Everyone knew that the Macarena was a fad.
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by baskethead 4y ago
I'm up 40% since Jan 1 2022. I've been short the markets and shorted AMZN since November 2021. I've made roughly $100k on it and just closed my position today.
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by baskethead 4y ago
A PE ratio of 30 for a value stock? You have got to be kidding me. Average PE ratio for the SP500 was about 15 until the pandemic.
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by baskethead 4y ago
The PPP was precisely Bernanke's "Dropping money from helicopters" scenario. I think the fear of a Depression was real, and the government was willing to pull the level on the most outrageous tool they had, which was drop mon
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by baskethead 4y ago
Can you not turn this into something like a libel or slander lawsuit? They are impugning your name by preventing your ability to sell on their platform by claiming you're fraudulent when you're not. Can that not be taken up by a l
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by baskethead 4y ago
Are they just optimizing for certain data sets? If you take that same AI and apply it to other tasks does it produce above-human results?
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by baskethead 4y ago
> I don’t think the leaker was an opponent of the opinion, because there would be no tactical value in doing so. This is terrible reasoning. Of course there's tactical value. It would create an outrage before the opinion was offici
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by baskethead 4y ago
Then we are in agreement. Even if it were the case they had to do 800 separate recoveries (which I vaguely remember reading they couldn't do it individually), it means they never tested a large scale recovery situation and had no idea
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by baskethead 4y ago
I wish there were a pro bono or law-student organization that would take on cases like this. I actually don't know if there's a case here but it definitely sounds like legal bullying. Jump Trading suffered no loss by the person ba
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by baskethead 4y ago
What it means is that they never tested their disaster recovery system, because this would have been found right away. Or, someone would have reported it and an upper level exec would have signed off on it being okay to take 14 days to rest
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by baskethead 4y ago
There's a time period before which you need to permanently delete the data. A soft delete will allow you to delete the data quickly and you can see what happens. If everything is okay you can then purge your database of all soft delete
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by baskethead 4y ago
Oooof. Passing in Application IDs will delete applications and passing in site IDs will delete sites. That's a really really bad design. I'm bookmarking this so that I can use it as a showcase going forward. Just this week, I chan
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by baskethead 4y ago
You are blessed to be surrounded by a great group of friends! I have a friend who is short as well, probably 5'5" and he married a girl who is taller than him when she wears her heels. Neither of them care, which is great and I lo
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by baskethead 4y ago
I work at a fully remote company. To be honest, I don't like it very much. I like that I don't have to commute, but I pay for it in lost productivity waiting to hear back from my coworkers when I have questions. What would normall
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by baskethead 4y ago
With supply chain issues, there's no point in advertising goods that you can't sell, so it makes sense.
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by baskethead 4y ago
When I worked at Yahoo at the turn of the century, whenever earnings were too low on our property, we would pump up the number of ads on our pages. It's a very common and might be a good way to see if an ad-based company like Google or
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by baskethead 4y ago
The reason why forward guidance matters is because of valuations. Google PE is over 20 as of close of day. Entire S&P 500 PE is 15 and even that is traditionally high. If Google's PE reverts to the S&P500, you're talking a
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by baskethead 4y ago
> - shares down slightly, but negligible. As of right now, shares are down $120, after being down $80 during the trading session so it's pretty huge.
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by baskethead 4y ago
Because the charge that this is indoctrinating young children to be anti-conservative would be valid. This isn't a free speech issue, it's a question of appropriateness. Having a graph showing about oranges vs lemons is appropriat
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by baskethead 4y ago
> And Florida recently rejected math textbooks claiming they push critical race theory. It wasn't just a claim. One example shown was a math textbook that showed a graph saying that conservatives were more racist than liberals. I&#x
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by baskethead 4y ago
You will never show impact for the purposes of a promotion with this feature, therefore no one will work on it. That's how anything is being driven at Google now. Look at Nest. Barely any useful new features at all in years. They could
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by baskethead 4y ago
Indians and Asians tend to vote Republican. Indians are the riches ethnic demographic in the US, almost 3X the average wage of white people.
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by baskethead 4y ago
There's only 1 real answer to hiring. Make sure the candidate's personality is a good fit for the team, have them do a fair coding question, and then hire them quickly. Give them 3 months to become productive and if not, fire them
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by baskethead 5y ago
I fully believe in the climate crisis but this sort of talk is religious extremism. This is what religious extremists say and if you dare to disobey oir question them, you are considered a heretic and should be essentially punished or kille
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by baskethead 5y ago
1) Talk with recruiter 2) Phone Screen 3) 4 tech interviews (2 coding, 2 systems design) 4) 1 behavioral interview, sometimes. To be honest, this isn't egregious. Given how much we are paid this doesn't seem so bad. Whether or not

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