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by bradlys 2y ago
The stock market is mostly based on the greater fool theory. You can’t really escape that. Most VCs doing 99 investments for the 1 big are akin to YC. They’re not doing series C for $100m and expecting 99 of those to fail. They’re expecting
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by bradlys 2y ago
This is exactly how Silicon Valley works because this is how investors work. Investors aren’t really looking for true innovation - they’re looking for an idea that will let the next sucker take the hit. When one company is doing very well,
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by bradlys 2y ago
I’ve taken three years off. I’ve spent the majority of my time trying to improve my health and looks while living in a new city. All in the pursuit of finding a partner. It has not been successful but a lot of people say that I need to do a
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by bradlys 2y ago
Jesus Christ. That’s not how it works! Capitalism is explicitly not about that. Holy shit this is insane that you think that’s how capitalism works on a website that’s literally about venture capital. What the fuck.
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Isn’t the most effective way to find out what you’ll be doing is by measuring how many people are going to be under you overall? A “vp” at a startup with 20 people under them will likely have very different responsibilities than a faang dir
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by bradlys 2y ago
Tech is a big industry. It employs millions in the US. I’ve met people who only work 20-25 hours/week while pulling down $500k/yr+ at a known company that has a very toxic work culture. I’ve met people making under $150k who are w
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by bradlys 2y ago
In a capitalist market, it is explicitly not proportional to the amount of value you provide. That is the underlaying principle of capitalism… Read up a bit, man. Even a capitalist would agree with this.
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There are places not experiencing a housing shortage that are still seeing rents go up. When a sizable portion of the landed gentry decide to band together to do price fixing, supply doesn’t matter. Supply and demand don’t follow closely in
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by bradlys 2y ago
Yeah, this doesn’t really land. Your argument is basically “we’re all going to be outsourced by Indians.” Your EU-centric view of how contracting works (probably more due to labor laws than anything else) isn’t an accurate assessment of how
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by bradlys 2y ago
Are you advocating for everyone to create their own SaaS here or what? End of the day, most engineers need to join employers. We can’t have 10M+ different SaaS out there and each engineer develops their own personal brand of it. That’s not
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It is safe. People do this already on their own with some medications. If you’re very paranoid, you can get it third party tested again and it will still be way cheaper than buying from a compounding pharmacy.
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Yeah, I just want to be clear that it’s also way cheaper. This is where the compounding pharmacies are often buying from too btw. The price for tirzepatide is under $0.50/mg at this point.
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If you’re someone who is interested in these drugs, just know that you can get them from China for 1/10th the cost of what telehealth providers want. I’ve since supplied a few of my friends who have been interested in various peptides
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by bradlys 2y ago
Older wiser developer has less tolerance for bullshit and wants higher pay. Older wiser developer is less likely to be on a visa because they've probably been working in the country for a while. They're less likely to be foreign a
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It's not about advancing. You're working in a stack ranked world where 2/3+ of your peers are on H1B visas are at risk of being deported (plus that's the culture of their home country). You could do the same job but just
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by bradlys 2y ago
By getting a manager who wants to have effective 1:1’s. The reality is that the effectiveness and quality of a 1:1 has very little to do with your own actions and more to do with who you get assigned. Some managers only want more status upd
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I find a good manager treats me like a peer and not some superior. Part of that is being in the trenches and having experience with what I'm working on. Maybe they're not taking on entire features anymore or doing the same level o
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No idea. They obviously don’t tell you anything about that but there are people who’ve waited the full year. I don’t know what happened to them. Meta has very few openings and does a lot more interviews than necessary to fill seats. There a
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by bradlys 2y ago
Varies on the company. Meta does a relatively thorough background check as of this last year. They verify past employers and other background check stuff using HireRight. If you accept an offer in their NYC office, they do a more extensive
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by bradlys 2y ago
Talk to them about how they feel around men they don't know.
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> Most gay men are just average dudes and you'd never be able to tell, no matter how many overly dramatic portrayals of gay dudes there are on TV. Let's not be obtuse. You're acting as if most gay men are completely straig
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by bradlys 2y ago
This is extremely variable upon where you live and the culture of your workplace. For me, most of the places I've worked in SV have had a very active lunch culture where we go out for group lunches and have a nice time and shit talk ab
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From 1992. It’s almost always when someone says that “I’m barely eating and can’t lose weight” that they’re not counting calories accurately. Many people try to count calories using rough estimates but unless you’re putting every single thi
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by bradlys 2y ago
One of the reasons I don't travel as much is due to this. I used to live in the peninsula in SFBA. I was about 20-30 minutes away from SFO. Unless it was an international flight or I had checked luggage, I would never get to the airpor
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by bradlys 2y ago
Google search has become terrible for finding answers due to its insistence on keeping you on Google so you can keep getting shown ads and making Google dollars.
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And popular with women too. You’re not going to meet many women if you’re racing motorcycles.
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Your fallacy is thinking that all of these kids are miserable. I know a lot of these children and they're very happy. They work reasonably hard in school but then after they get out of school - everything is so incredibly easy. They we
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Again, your lifestyle might work for you but it doesn't work for everyone. What you want is to travel a lot and nowhere do you mention anything about kids. If you're wanting to make sure your kids have every option available, they
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I didn't put any of those specific requirements out there. I've said a professional working woman. If she made $500k+/yr, that'd be very nice but I don't think that's even remotely plausible for someone of my l
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How much of what you want is really representative of what an average American man wants? You want to travel fulltime, probably don't want kids, and are okay with a woman regardless of her income. It's a very niche target you&#x27

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