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by bink 4y ago
or ChatGPT works as poorly as VR.
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by bink 4y ago
It's sad to see that so far much of the conversation here is going exactly how Twitter would prefer it goes... focused on whether 1% of funding qualifies as "state affiliated". When the real story is that Musk decided to arbi
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by bink 4y ago
I did something similar when I relocated. I made plans with the company to be remote for the first month, though I was coming into the office on odd weeks. They understood I'd be out for a day or two here and there as I tried to find a
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by bink 4y ago
That seems just as risky as quitting the old job, if not moreso. One of the few things employers will confirm on a background check is employment status and period. If the new employer runs the check late and finds out you'll lose both
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by bink 4y ago
I have to wonder if she was simply told that their expectations for junior recruiters were lower than more senior recruiters and maybe that they even had people who, despite their best efforts, were unable to get anyone signed for up to a y
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by bink 4y ago
Their original policy literally used NPR as an example of something that wasn't state sponsored. They removed that from the new policy.
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by bink 4y ago
The NSA uses private data to spy on potential dates, of course Tesla uses private photos they collect to mock customers or for prurient purposes. It makes me laugh when Congress talks about banning TikTok because it can be used by China to
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by bink 4y ago
This reminded me of a story in Carl Bernstein's book about being a newsboy for the Washington Post. He talks about a time when he was in the room where they did type setting and someone tricked him into touching one of the plates. Beca
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by bink 4y ago
Did we learn nothing from Son of Anton?
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by bink 4y ago
That last example is the tough one. IMHO most companies that tried to transition to remote work during the pandemic did so half-heartedly and then blamed the failure on remote work instead of their own decisions. It'd be like deciding
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by bink 4y ago
It's been forever since I've looked at comments on either site, but hearing that youtube comments are "too serious" caused a double take. Hasn't that site always been known for the toxicity of its comments?
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by bink 4y ago
I'd argue that that doesn't have to be the case. The companies that are failing their junior employees and new hires are doing so not because they are remote/WFH, but because those companies did not invest the energy and reso
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by bink 4y ago
I generally agree, but some of those claims were true. It wasn't entirely immaturity. I was part of the group at the 2600 meeting near the Pentagon that got raided by Secret Service dressed up like mall security. They conducted some bu
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by bink 4y ago
Shout out to Jason Scott and textfiles.com http://textfiles.com/directory.html
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by bink 4y ago
These offers usually don't let you sell 100% of your shares. I was at a company that did two offers before the IPO and the most you could sell was 20%.
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by bink 4y ago
Isn't that kinda like blaming the crowd when someone yells "fire!" in a crowded theater? I don't know how much influence Thiel had in this particular failure, but I don't think it's appropriate to completely ab
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by bink 4y ago
Fired -> Let go -> Laid off -> Impacted I'll be curious to see what comes next.
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by bink 4y ago
One could argue that SVB depositors would not be expecting the be made whole if it weren't for the bailouts of 2008. The precedent has been set and reinforced. It's hard to argue that this will not encourage more risk taking and m
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by bink 4y ago
I've been a student of housing bubbles for a long time. I remember back in 2003 I was participating in an online forum covering the bubble. The conventional wisdom back then was that when the bubble popped not even the Fed or Alan Gree
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by bink 4y ago
Not valueless, exactly. The mortgage backed securities were rated more highly than they should have been as the default rate was assumed to be much lower. When that became obvious the securities lost a lot of value and the banks found out t
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by bink 4y ago
Yeah, I don't know anyone saying "it's just SVB since 2000". They're saying SVB is the first major bank in a long time (and hopefully not a harbinger of things to come).
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by bink 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the reasons behind those particular subs being banned, but in my experience "toxic communities" are a more common reason for a ban than the subject matter. If a sub wants to discuss gender identity and p
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by bink 4y ago
Reddit admins only set some very basic guardrails, typically around things like hate speech. Everything else is controlled by the mods. There are subs that are toxic and many that are not. Which you subscribe to is up to you and will determ
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by bink 4y ago
Maybe not that exact phrase but it does conjure to mind the video of Cramer saying Bear Stearns was fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkbdjetlY8
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by bink 4y ago
I think you're probably right, but "Low level of contagion" sounds exactly like what we heard in 2007.
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by bink 4y ago
Behind other banks or behind tech companies? Every bank I've ever used is about 10 years behind when it comes to tech.
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by bink 4y ago
If I'm understanding it correctly, the employees won't have a tax bill if they let the options expire, but they are presumably worth millions so they don't want to just throw that money away. If they exercise then they will o
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by bink 4y ago
I wish I could agree with you, but there's a lot of smoke and mirrors with "AI" right now. These companies are letting people believe these services are thinking machines that are on the verge of consciousness when they are f
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"It's different here". You'll hear that across much of the country.
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by bink 4y ago
I mentioned this in the other thread, but the excuse vendors often use for not offering a self-hosting discount is that their support costs are often much higher for self-hosted customers. I've never been provided direct evidence of th

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