gopher2000

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by gopher2000 3y ago
This was also while Elon was spewing that he was a "free speech absolutist" yet was kicking very specific accounts off Twitter. So the hypocrisy was a little different.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
So what would you advise?
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Large layoffs are rarely, if ever, performance anchored at the IC level. They're anchored in the performance at product/unit level. So the major decider for layoffs is whether you're working on something that is deemed as bus
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> Is a google employee in US somehow more competent than the one in India? Broadly speaking, I would argue yes.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Are you sure we're reaching that point? The market has certainly cooled but tech jobs are still available. I do think that many new grads will have to adjust their expectations from high 6 figure jobs in FAANGs to normal-but-still-fine
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by gopher2000 3y ago
I've never seen a company where performance evaluation gets as much focus as it does at Meta. Some people's entire existence at the company is to game PSCs.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
It just makes it a strange argument to use against the Lightning, specifically.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Also, in higher earning roles and industries (e.g. tech), a high % of compensation is in equity. So you'll see some roles advertise wages as $180k-$280k but actual compensation be in the range of $600k-$1M (made up but realistic number
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by gopher2000 3y ago
That's not why. E3 lost out to the big game publishers doing their own events. And so it lacked purpose. I also don't think it adjusted well to COVID. The Game Awards has a similar but different format with a clearer purpose. And
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by gopher2000 3y ago
I would feel very confident saying that the percentage of gamers is higher among tech people than people in general. It's easy to point to pretty direct relationships with tech and gaming - and with overlapping cultures.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> I do regret the obsession I had with video games when younger because of the huge time sink I put in Don't regret time spent doing something you enjoy. So as long as you enjoyed it, feel good about it.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Lots of teams/groups have open video conferencing rooms where people can just hang out without any specific purpose - while doing other work. It works to some extent.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
This is standard procedure for Broadcom and acquisitions. Not necessarily a symptom of industry conditions.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> It is extremely easy to disconnect from work. Clearly that's not the case for everybody. Don't assume that your reality - and what works for you - is universal truth.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> The only skill you need to get promoted is to laugh at the jokes of your boss and schedule meetings to demo your n-th rewrite of the same thing. This is some bullshit that losers subscribe to.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> But I gave it up because counting calories is soul sucking. In the beginning it certainly is. But once I did it for a while, I found that I had developed a mental understanding for what various foods represented in terms of calories an
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by gopher2000 3y ago
It connects you with products and services that are relevant to you. If you're buying things that you shouldn't, that's on you.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
It offers value to you if it improved your ability to discover products or services that you need. If offers value especially to small local advertisers because it allows them to target a local audience on a very limited ads budget.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Because they are for-profit organizations and thus greedy. Pretty easy.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> Also everyone: "you should work more and take on more responsibilities at work" Eh this doesn't sound like something everyone says.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
The article is literally titled "Association Between Slow-Wave Sleep Loss and Incident Dementia". Association is not causation.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Why would they offer it at a rate that certainly loses money compared to existing ad options?
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by gopher2000 3y ago
That speaks in favor of the value of personalized ads. Yet people will generally see it as a bad thing if asked.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> Tell that to the current tech layoffs - while there's some middle management heads rolling there's very little "top level" layoffs. From an organizational efficiency standpoint: If a large company lays off 15% of it
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> A company that fires the "ground workers" quickly gets no work being done. Got any examples of this ever happening?
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Have any streaming services gone ad-supported beyond introducing lower cost tiers as an alternative to existing premium subscriptions without ads?
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by gopher2000 3y ago
Twitter claims something like 2-300MM MAU. Which I just struggle to buy. I'd consider myself fairly well connected in a segment/industry that should be among the primary adopters of Twitter - and very very few are actually active
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by gopher2000 3y ago
> Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? This has been the case for years, IMO. I noticed a rampant increase in it through the 2016 election and everything that followed.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
That doesn't even read that bad IMO. They are recognizing that they're organizationally bloated today and are laying people off to be more cost-effective. Pretty straight forward.
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by gopher2000 3y ago
The one that most others moves to. Until then, being a pioneer in terms of moving early to a new professional networking platform with little people on it just seems pointless.

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