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by dnissley 4y ago
what is this "purpose/ meaning/ calling/ value" thing? It's actually a pretty interesting question, one that David Chapman tackles in his work-in-progress book Meaningness. In fact, the appetizer for the book
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by dnissley 4y ago
Interesting there are so many different names for these types of cookers. I've always heard this referred to as a haybox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox
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by dnissley 4y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of people are missing that these layoffs are not necessarily about Twitter's financial situation. They are very much about it's cultural situation -- both the culture within the company (reputation for being un
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by dnissley 4y ago
Copy pasting my reply from a different thread on that topic: You think that if he paid completely up front he wouldn't care about cutting costs? Why? The pressure would still be there -- it would just be in the form of pressure to reco
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by dnissley 4y ago
The anger at Elon et al is understandable -- but I hope they can spare some anger for the years of stagnation (if not outright neglect) wrought by the former operators that led up to this moment.
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by dnissley 4y ago
> But the real pressure for cost cutting and the layoffs is that Musk purchased Twitter via a leveraged buyout You think that if he paid completely up front he wouldn't care about cutting costs? Why? The pressure would still be th
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by dnissley 4y ago
My experience is that most companies are pretty averse to firing people in general, even in the US with at-will employment, and even when there are many people who are moderately incompetent (so long as they are not posing obvious risks to
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by dnissley 4y ago
I heard that what typically happens in this situation is that one company pays the other a consulting fee. In this case Twitter paying Tesla.
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by dnissley 4y ago
The way I think of this is if Apple had to invent the smartphone when only desktop and laptop computers existed. No dumbphones. No mp3 players. No other second rate smartphones. The budget would far exceed $250M if that was the case, since
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by dnissley 4y ago
2021 was first full year of Quest 2 sales (released Sept. 2020). No new headset in 2021, so that's probably why revenue slipped.
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by dnissley 4y ago
Went viral on Twitter though, so maybe Musk will be having the last laugh after all
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by dnissley 4y ago
Whatsapp partnered with JioMart to place orders through the app in India: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/08/shop-on-whatsapp-with-jiom... Progress is being made on this front, albeit slowly.
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by dnissley 4y ago
This is also the first rule of front end / mobile development (if you're a full-stack dev)
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by dnissley 4y ago
What is the risk? I.e. what bad outcome could happen to me that impacts my day to day life? Perhaps a detailed description could help people realize what you have in mind
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by dnissley 4y ago
Most likely because of the pandemic -- that's what happened at other companies, e.g. Meta
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by dnissley 4y ago
Unless you're part of the 68% of the world population who are lactose intolerant
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by dnissley 4y ago
To clarify: "no amount of legislation of grocery stores / the grocery industry"
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by dnissley 4y ago
> Towns live and die by grocery stores Do they? Or are things like food deserts transitive symptoms of deeper problems? E.g. that the surrounding area is poor and getting poorer. If so, no amount of legislation will change that
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by dnissley 4y ago
More fundamentally, does this tech actually make one's life completely legible to tech companies?
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by dnissley 4y ago
Not malice, not stupidity, but a third even more prevalent failing: incentives.
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Quite different than those arguments for incorporating democracy into a company, and also quite different to those arguments for incorporating democracy into a family structure.
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by dnissley 4y ago
We live in an age where we are often told to always believe those claiming victimhood.
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by dnissley 4y ago
No. But we are often told to always believe those claiming victimhood.
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by dnissley 4y ago
The idea that these companies escape scrutiny because of a $1k donation is truly silly. Think harder about this. The $1k is just an understanding that says "we provide a somewhat unsavory but necessary service to the country (with pret
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by dnissley 4y ago
Where did you hear that?
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by dnissley 4y ago
Simply put: There are reactions for every action! The most optimal outcome is not easily legislated.
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by dnissley 4y ago
What do these permanent and temporary contracts stipulate? Presumably they are quite different than the standard US employment contracts that basically just confirm at-will employment, etc.
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by dnissley 4y ago
No need for those positions if you're just trying to keep the lights on
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by dnissley 4y ago
No one's going option 1? Are there any stories of people getting pwned because of old android vulnerabilities?
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by dnissley 4y ago
Those people already left or are on their way out soon, and there is a fresh crop every year

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