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by freyir 6y ago
I started a Silicon Valley FANG job about two years ago. I now wake up early most mornings with anxiety. I’m close to 40 years old, and this is the first time in my life I’ve experienced this. I’ve wondered if the pandemic and quarantining
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by freyir 6y ago
I’ve read that the vast majority of GME stock is held by institutions, mainly a dozen or so Wall Street banks. Redditors apparently had enough pull to move the needle and drive a short squeeze, but it seems like these banks will be the main
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by freyir 6y ago
Kalanick said that self-driving was “existential” to the company. But in context, he didn’t mean Uber needed self-driving to exist. He meant Uber can’t be left out if self-driving becomes a reality. In that sense, the sale seems pessimist
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by freyir 6y ago
Calling SV compensation “very high” seems short-sighted these days if you don’t already own a house here (and assuming you want to own your own house). The compensation just won’t seem so great when you’re paying off millions on a mortgage
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by freyir 6y ago
Companies could already outsource their development to Estonia or Ukraine (and done do) but there are many hidden costs to this.
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by freyir 6y ago
They’ve tried countless times for the last 30+ years. It has not ended well. Maybe this time is different with the advent of better online collaboration tools. But these tools do little to help with real-time communication across time zones
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by freyir 6y ago
“I am making content for them for free.” YouTube is a business. Hosting and serving your content costs them money. If your content provides no means to recoup those costs, you’re not doing them a favor, they’re doing you a favor.
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by freyir 6y ago
The article seems pretty upfront that ads may be played on videos uploaded to YouTube. “Free” means he doesn’t need to pay for hosting, and he doesn’t.
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by freyir 6y ago
Isn’t that essentially a manager’s job? I’m not sure why any of that needs to be outsourced.
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by freyir 6y ago
Oh, you're right. Google pulls up FIDE's blitz rankings when you search for bullet chess rankings.
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by freyir 6y ago
> "probably 50-100 points higher than the world #2" He can't be 50-100 points higher than himself. Hikaru is #1. https://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men_blitz
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by freyir 6y ago
Mixed in with some general solipsism & selfishness: “The government said not to do something that I want to do, so I’m gonna do exactly that even if it causes people to die!” OP going to the park or boarding a train without a mask might
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by freyir 7y ago
My father is in his late 70s, but he still runs a business employing a few dozen people. He probably can't afford to keep the business afloat while everything is shut down, and he might not have the money or energy to start everything
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by freyir 7y ago
What's the plan? Where do you think the cash comes from? How will climate change going to factor in?
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by freyir 7y ago
Even if they can't test everyone who dies for Covid-19, I'm sure Italy is recording the total number of deaths. It should be possible to determine how much the total death rate increased each week or month relative to the average
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by freyir 7y ago
I agree, the way Prime Now removes half the items in your cart is infuriating. Especially when the items are still available and you can manually add them back.
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by freyir 7y ago
Amazon completely lost my trust due to their poor quality control and flagrant reselling of counterfeit goods. And that makes me hesitant to buy their groceries. But Covid-19 has kind of forced my hand. They've consistently provided sa
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by freyir 7y ago
They're on the handset side. The cellular infrastructure itself comes from Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia.
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by freyir 7y ago
The US hasn't had domestic telecom infrastructure firms for many years. We rely on Nokia and Ericsson, and both have failed to compete with Huawei.
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by freyir 7y ago
This seems to be a consistently popular course. For anybody who took it, did it teach you to be happier or more positive?
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by freyir 7y ago
A lot of intermittent fasters follow something less extreme: a 16:8 hour fast. You eat normally during an 8 hour window (lunch, a snack, and dinner, for example) and then don't eat for 16 hours (no after-dinner snacks and no breakfast)
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by freyir 7y ago
Apparently Israel, Iran, and China are all using people’ cell phones to track infected people. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman...
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by freyir 7y ago
UC president Janet Napolitano was caught on a hot mic a few years back saying, “We don’t have to listen to this crap”, when grad students protested for living wages. Sounds like not much has changed. Of course, she lives for free in the UC
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by freyir 7y ago
a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves It’s right there in the first sentence. Nothin
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by freyir 7y ago
He’s been a known sex trafficker with close ties to US politicians for decades. You think the CIA would not look into him?
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by freyir 7y ago
How many billionaires and high-ranking officials could one guy set up before rumors started circulating and people caught on? And why wouldn’t they have had him knocked off sooner?
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by freyir 7y ago
If I had said “a human palindrome will be born...”, I think your argument would have more some validity. But I gave him a proper title (e.g., the capitalized The Human Palidrome), which makes him fictional. I regret not using “their,” so th
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by freyir 7y ago
> NOTHING has changed and pretending there's new insight is pointless. The book is 35 years old, and Drucker himself was 76 years old when it was published. He was considered a well-respected guy in the field, to understate it som
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by freyir 7y ago
The Human Palindrome will be born tomorrow and die on 2121-12-12 at the age of 101. And in true palindromic fashion, his life will start and end with diapers.
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by freyir 7y ago
> I see no need to read that pablum. Maybe it would expose you to information that's outside your own personal experience? AT&T was quite a big company in its prime, a monopoly in fact, but extremely innovative. Same goes for

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