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faangiq
4y ago
It gets cloudy when you’re dumping on “retail” investor’s 401k’s and every scumbag along the way is getting a cut. Actually, not so cloudy.
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faangiq
4y ago
No. Namecheap sold out years ago.
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faangiq
4y ago
Harsh jail sentences and asset seizures are needed here.
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faangiq
4y ago
Well, now you have a layer of banks collecting interest on what was previously a cash purchase at 1/100 the price. So, yes, someone is winning this game.
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faangiq
4y ago
Uber and Lyft already dumped their bags on your 401k.
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faangiq
4y ago
This was all part of the plan to build a nation of mindless debt slaves. It was very effective.
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faangiq
4y ago
It’s actually super easy to shut them down. USG just waiting to rugpull for max pain.
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faangiq
4y ago
Good luck when USG helicopter raids you.
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faangiq
4y ago
He’s a high priest of the economics cult.
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faangiq
4y ago
Now is always the best time.
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faangiq
4y ago
I’d try getting someone to pay first.
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faangiq
4y ago
Honestly the bar is very low for managers in this industry. If you’re remotely intelligent you’ll do fine and/or fail upward.
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faangiq
4y ago
Yes this is the life of a 10-100x dev. Sounds like your team and company suck. Find a new one with smarter people.
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faangiq
4y ago
Of course not. This was disproved ~3000 years ago. Said another way: can the Constitution save your soul?
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faangiq
4y ago
If you can enjoy the boring life, by all means do so. Some of us are cursed to want something else.
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faangiq
4y ago
No bonus clawbacks, no care.
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faangiq
4y ago
Oof the junior-senior. A classic in coding. I’d just ignore their comments and get someone else to PR.
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faangiq
4y ago
Just stop working at Amazon.
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faangiq
4y ago
VC is a good fit for the scam economy. Unfortunately it will probably grow as a sector.
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faangiq
4y ago
Meh. Their job is to dump their bags on you. No surprises here.
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faangiq
4y ago
Jail time for writing such trash articles seems fair.
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faangiq
4y ago
“Western” capitalism happened.
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faangiq
4y ago
Low IQ headline. Apple did it two years too early.
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faangiq
4y ago
Burn his reputation? No one knew who this guy was 2 weeks ago. Now he will just fail up like all other execs.
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faangiq
4y ago
It’s because we generate millions in revenue per person and manage projects with enormous complexity that are not fungible. (Whereas most corporate functions just require a warm body.) We are vastly underpaid.
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faangiq
4y ago
Both programming and CS are easy. But I’ve never heard a CS prof admit this in public.
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faangiq
4y ago
“Generous but not FAANG level” for some crap startup no thanks.
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faangiq
4y ago
You’re right, except that the founder’s experiment clearly failed very early and was foolish to begin with.
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faangiq
4y ago
Listen, EBay is a trash company and all its executives are bad humans. This has been known for decades.
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faangiq
4y ago
They’re reaching a market cap where it would make sense to fire everyone but AWS.
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