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by gsibble 4y ago
I was paid $165k a year by a neobank startup to.....build their bank. It's now responsible for over $200mm a year in revenue. I was the sole engineer on the project. Good engineers are worth their weight in gold.
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by gsibble 4y ago
This is my attitude. Come 5pm, the phone goes into a focus mode ignoring work. I ignore any other desktop communications, frequently closing Slack and Superhuman. Disconnecting from work is the only way to stay sane. No one has yelled at me
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by gsibble 4y ago
They make a case that there's a difference between men and women in how much overtime work is put upon them. In my household with my wife and I both working from home with lots of off-hour communications and demands, I see a clear diff
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by gsibble 4y ago
This. We have hundreds of Aegis boats sitting off our coasts waiting for it to rain MIRVs.
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by gsibble 4y ago
This is why I primarily prefer and frequently am the lead on backend APIs. There's no BS. I spend 90%+ of my time coding and architecting the system. No bickering, etc.. Here's the API, now use it. It's a great little niche.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Yikes. That's horrible.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Of course there is formal due diligence. He basically gave them a term sheet and now they've opened their books. That's why he can walk away and pay $1 billion if he doesn't like what he sees.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Probably. Except I don't live in SV. I did for 10 years but now live in Boston. Entirely different environment.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Hey, you can say you were rich enough to smoke a million dollars. There's some street cred to that.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I feel bad for people losing money, but crypto has not lived up to its potential at all, remains a solution looking for a problem, and is an environmental disaster. I used to be a huge believer. Brian Armstrong gave me my first Bitcoin in 2
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by gsibble 4y ago
What, did they think it came without risk?
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by gsibble 4y ago
This. I cannot stand the modern crypto bro. I've met some truly insufferable people. The term "New Money" doesn't even do enough justice to how horrible these people behave.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I got my MBA in '08 so I'm sure some has changed since then. We had an ethics class which focused solely on ethical financial reporting (ala Enron). But for sure we were taught to look at the majority of workers as one might look
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by gsibble 4y ago
Whoops, my bad!
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by gsibble 4y ago
Indeed. The market cap of YC backed companies has tanked in the last few months, even days.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Personally, I want to know how much Y Combinator companies have lost in Market Cap in the latest route. Many are trading below their IPO prices and have lost a huge amount of value.
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by gsibble 4y ago
The thing is all of those assets are generally only owned by the top 5% (mostly top 1%) of the wealthy, so in reality, the Fed only serves the interests of the wealthy and everyone else gets screwed.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Not in the slightest.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I can tell you as someone with an MBA, we are not taught to think about workers, or safety, or anything except the bottom line. We are taught to stretch everything to the absolute breaking point, supposedly within the law, all in the name o
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by gsibble 4y ago
I have an MBA and a computer engineering degree, both from Vanderbilt University. I had never thought to compare the difficulty of achieving either for some reason. Looking at both......the MBA is indeed trivially easy compared to my engine
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by gsibble 4y ago
Indeed. The Fed is supposed to be politically neutral so for them to be supporting one party's major bill is a clear violation of that. And I fully believe they didn't raise rates earlier for political reasons.
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by gsibble 4y ago
That sounds accurate but truly horrible.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I feel called out.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Certainly seems to be what they are trying to do.
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by gsibble 4y ago
This isn't good for startups being able to hire and retain talent. Engineering compensation, especially for those with experience, has increased significantly over the last 2 years and smaller rounds at lower valuations will make it in
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by gsibble 4y ago
Here, swing this one, a minority of Americans support the President, Democrat policies, and plan to vote for a Democrat in 2022. There's your minority.
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by gsibble 4y ago
LA Times is a leftist paper FYI. More opinion masquerading as news.
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by gsibble 4y ago
No, it doesn't show that. You are a partisan trying to make a partisan point.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Agreed. Also, calling conservatives a minority is misleading since I'd hardly call like 47% a minority. It's technically true, but it's awfully close to even.
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by gsibble 4y ago
They aren't a minority. As of 2021, there are more Republicans than Democrats. https://news.gallup.com/poll/388781/political-party-preferen...

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