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by mattzito 4y ago
Depends on the city/locale. In NYC most drivers don’t own their medallions, they drive shifts for someone else’s medallion. In fact I’ve had a lot of conversations with Uber and taxi drivers who started as taxi drivers, switched to Ub
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by mattzito 4y ago
You said: "both sides are bullshitting to get a better price" Which implies that this number is related to Twitter trying to get a better price. However, if this is the number they have always said, regardless of the methodology,
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by mattzito 4y ago
The only one bullshitting is Elon Musk - that 5% number has been in Twitter's 10-Q for literally years. Here's the 10-Q from Q3 2020: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/cb1d93d... "We
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This study is a great example of how you can use the data you have available to talk yourself into your conclusions. The implicit point of the study is to refute the "5% of Twitter accounts are spam" stat from Twitter's 10-
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by mattzito 4y ago
I grew up in a restaurant family, and it's a rough business. Long hours, often seasonal revenue swings, subject to forces outside your control, etc. Sadly, many of the things that make your life easier or increase your revenue often
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by mattzito 4y ago
As the person who experienced this particular moment, I can assure you there was nothing combative about it. It was a one off comment, a one off response, everyone moved on. Is every disagreement you experience combative? Every correction?
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Like if I had said, “thanks for the feedback but I’m going to continue using this other word”? I think we probably would have just moved on and the individual would have been offended, but - why would I do that? To whose benefit? Mine? Beca
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by mattzito 4y ago
I mean - it feels like you’re creating a combative situation where one does not exist. “And just who are you?” - what is the point of that? To what end and whose benefit?
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How was I punished? What tribunal did I face? And how does the other person think they’re better than me? You’re inventing all of this context about a simple conversation that just doesn’t exist.
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Starting when I was a kid, I used the expression “gypped” without concern or awareness, and then at some point someone maybe in high school or college took me aside and explained that it was based on a stereotype. I was nonplussed for a mi
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by mattzito 4y ago
Yeah, I’m the same way - also a googler, I used the term “grandfathered” in a meeting with a bunch of people and someone on Meet chat corrected me to “legacy” or something, and I said, “oh, okay, no problem” and corrected myself and moved o
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by mattzito 4y ago
So - any protest where 5 protesters were killed at once would be dramatic. Some light research suggests that basically all of the people that have been killed at protests were using the protests to cover up some other activity, or because
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by mattzito 5y ago
Did you read the whole article? It actually covers a scenario where the wrong person was killed-dead due to some bad intel. In fact, the whole point of the article is that there's a population of people who got lied to and manipulated
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by mattzito 5y ago
Thanks for the additional context, it's helpful. Here's my guess as to what happened - you went through your interview loop, and the feedback was mixed, maybe one interview was a "no hire" or two were a "lean no hi
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by mattzito 5y ago
I am very open to feedback, thank you for sharing your thoughts. As a quick note just as a reminder, I'm on the PM side of things, so I don't have ANY influence on SWE hiring, and things might not work the same way over there. W
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It's hard to know what happened here without knowing the company and the internals - I know for Google, for the hiring committees I'm aware of (I'm a PM hiring committee member), we cant' even easily see where the candid
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by mattzito 5y ago
Hey, happy you’re doing this, as a sleep apnea sufferer. But in my hometown, they’re doing at home sleep studies, with a recording unit you wear at home and upload the results. Way more convenient than an in person study. Not sure if that
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by mattzito 5y ago
I debated replying to this, since the thread has long since moved on, but FWIW, I work for Google, and I’m in a position to know how many SWEs we have. In general, looking at the companies you cite, I would estimate that roughly 40-50% of t
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by mattzito 5y ago
My mistake - I read the "unacceptable conduct" and automatically parsed that as dishonorably - will fix my post.
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FWIW, for the people rolling their eyes at the "waste of government time", the actual report is very interesting: https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/20... As far as I can
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by mattzito 5y ago
The numbers are extremely off - google alone has probably 50k SWEs
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by mattzito 5y ago
Why wouldn't we want to make it as easy as possible to vote? For everybody? I don't know that we have to uber everyone there and back, but why not make it super easy to vote by mail? It's not even a partisan issue, per se, l
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by mattzito 5y ago
> The Party is correct, especially when not, and no one else may speak freely. Fox news, #1 cable news channel for 20 years - https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-january-2022-ratings-cnn-ms... top link posts on facebook in
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by mattzito 5y ago
FWIW, the fonts issue isn’t a technical limitation, it’s a legal/licensing one. Font foundries license by the seat, and scenarios like docs where documents can be shared outside an organization and the font travels with it are against
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by mattzito 5y ago
> In ethnic prejudice, there’s no clearly defined interest. > Ethnic bias is bad, but it’s not a conflict of interests. Okay, so - for sure, if you're from an opposite "frictioned background" and you can interview someo
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by mattzito 5y ago
I literally quote what she said in my post: "So, this disclaimer — it’s a positive step. But we want every platform to continue doing more to call out misinform- — mis- and disinformation while also uplifting accurate information.&quot
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by mattzito 5y ago
As I pointed out elsewhere, the White House didn’t criticize anyone, they were asked about how they felt about the disclaimer that Spotify had added, and the White House said they were in favor of calling out misinformation and uplifting ac
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by mattzito 5y ago
The White House said nothing about taking joe rogan podcasts down: Q Sure. Last week, the Surgeon General also was asked on MSNBC about Joe Rogan’s vaccine comments on Spotify. And he said that tech companies have an “important role to
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by mattzito 5y ago
The argument that is being made by the article is "natural immunity is better than vaccine acquired immunity because unvaccinated and previously infected people get hospitalized when they are reinfected less often, so vaccine mandates
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by mattzito 5y ago
As another poster pointed out, the CDC says nothing of the kind, I believe what you are referring to is statements the CDC has made similar to my original point - that _once infected_ vaccinated people spread as easily as unvaccinated, some

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