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by blahblahblogger 6mo ago
Do interviewers still ask LC questions? It's been a while since I last interviewed.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
No.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
> Tell that to Pieter Levels, who's made a fortune off travel planning software as a one-man shop. A "fortune". He has a lot of little projects, what % of his revenue is his travel site/app? And how much?
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
> In Minneapolis they want to dismantle the existing police force and replace it with another. A big reason for wanting to do this is to get rid of the problem cops. So throw out the whole bunch because of a few bad apples? And what happ
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
"Democratize". lol. It's now a weasel word used by start-ups. Merits an eye roll before moving along.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
I'm not trying to be a troll with this, but is that true? I don't mean the fact that Iraq and Afghanistan were failed missions. But I've heard that 90% of the money spent on those wars went to Americans in some way or another
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Journalism is a punch-line now. In my mind it used to be a respectable profession, but now it's just partisans against partisans. Even for issues that aren't on their face overly political.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Ah ok, definitely in agreement. Not a good move on their part.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Agreed. Obviously I won't be using GoDaddy. And I'm not a pro-lifer, I don't agree with the law.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
> If you like Section 230 as it is, don't test it. What do you mean? Section 230 means GoDaddy isn't liable for hosting this site or a site by the Taliban. Are you saying GoDaddy is testing 230? Or that if 230 is repealed there
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Agreed. My company (Pinterest) recently opened "new offices" for engineering talent, but they were in Mexico City and elsewhere. The idea that we'll be competing with other US-based workers is wrong. In the long run our remot
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
protonmail?
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
And that's crazy to me. I would have figured that with the CCP having ~1.5 billion people to choose from, that they could move a few million Han into Tibet (current pop. according to google: 3,648,100). Even just 1-2 mil could potentia
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
> It seems to be working for now - they've had 619 emmy nominations I canceled my Netflix sub. Maybe this is why? Netflix became desperate to be legitimized by "big Hollywood"/"big entertainment". It used to
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
I also stopped Netflix at some point early in the pandemic. More and more I was seeing good shows go away and nothing decent replacing it. Then they had all these weird shows (Cuties?) coming around that left a bad impression. Ultimately my
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Same here. I joined a company pre-IPO several years ago and even though though Wall-street just punished us (hint hint) I'm still making close to 1m per year due to stock appreciation vs when I joined. Unfortunately I'm not worth
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
I didn't like them banning episodes too. There were internal movements from Spotify employees (liberal Silicon Valley workers) who wanted episodes completely censored and removed. Joe talked about it a few times and I read some article
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
I'm honestly not a fan of this, despite how well intentioned it may seem (road to hell?) AirBnB is honestly trying too hard with this PR move, it boggles my mind that shareholders don't reign in corporate stunts like this.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Yea really, has Brian even been outside the AirBnB offices in San Francisco? I work near their office and remember a couple years ago they were offering their employees self-defense classes after several employees got attacked.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Thanks for the insight. At this point in my life I'm interested in WLB, sounds like engineers there may be more likely to be on the younger (in their 20s?) side of things.
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
> This won't be true no matter how many times you repeat it. "As a white person", I have been accused of racism. My response was to apologize and attempt to do better in future. I have largely been successful in those bett
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
> I've been to one of such trainings that demonstrated what we would call "a struggle session" (using the Mao's terminology). Did you have to take part in this in any way or just observe? I've had to take trainin
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Honest Q for anyone here, how is Tesla's software-eng culture? I've of course heard of people on the ground floor of Tesla (factory workers) not being treated well, I've heard of SpaceX employees having high churn as they get
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
I like the comedy channel "Awaken with JP" which has been brought on as an initial creator, there's an hour-long conversation w/ the founder on the channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAanV-46qd8 . I
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
He doesn't identify with the Republican party, but he is a "disaffected democrat" - a group that increasingly has seen the democratic party leave them, rather than them leaving the party. Joe may be considered right-wing by t
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
Generally it's a normal thing to think about FAANG. I've interviewed at a few and they were the hardest interviews I've had. So it stands to reason that the people making it through must be good. Of course you could claim the
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by blahblahblogger 5y ago
right ... wouldn't they need to at some point start narrowing things down?
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
Journalism, "the 4th estate", in the past was used to go after the powerful but it has recently become the power. It's a concerning change and I don't see it getting better. Maybe it's "corporate journalism&quo
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
> Long ago railroad networks, water pipes networks, and landline phone networks were private companies free to do whatever they please with the property they own. I agree about social networks, but I'm not sure how good of an argume
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by blahblahblogger 6y ago
I agree, I'm glad to see some bipartisan support for holding big-finance to some accountability. I'm not so glad with AOC's response to Ted Cruz which was literally: "Your help is not wanted on this. If you want to help

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