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901.
by runako 2y ago
Increased UI premiums on the remaining employees are not likely to approach the cost of "normal" severance for 80%+ of the original staff.
902.
by runako 2y ago
Many sources for this, including: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-has-a-huge-tw... and https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twit... https:/&#
903.
by runako 2y ago
> American ad revenues was down 80% to $114M/quarter since the acquisition Debt service was estimated at ~$100m/mo, with the likelihood that rates on some of the debt could increase substantially since the financing was initial
904.
by runako 2y ago
Only if you pay severance/etc., which X doesn't.
905.
by runako 2y ago
Revenue is down by a larger percentage than the headcount, right? I think that counts as "collapse" by any reasonable definition.
906.
by runako 2y ago
Models cost a ton of money to train. GPT-4 training was > $100m. GPT-5 training is estimated to be order of $1B-$2B. This is in the same ballpark as Tesla allocated to get the Fremont facility online. It is likely training generations be
907.
by runako 2y ago
That last part is a key differentiator between Stripe and OpenAI. Stripe had high variable costs (staff, COGS of pass-through processing fees) but low fixed costs. OpenAI has enormous fixed (pre-revenue!) costs alongside high variable costs
908.
by runako 2y ago
> the author doesn't remember how nonobvious Stripe's utility was in its early days, even in the tech scene I have to push back on this. Anybody who had built for B2B credit card acceptance on the Web prior to Stripe's fou
909.
by runako 2y ago
Is this something people believe is a reasonable expectation?
910.
by runako 2y ago
> 20 years from now If racism is a 'was' in 20 years, I would be happy to take the win.
911.
by runako 2y ago
You're addressing a lot more than I even attempted to address. I was really just pointing out that devices like this: https://www.hmd.com/en_us/nokia-2780-flip?sku=16WNDL11A01 and services like e.g. SMS text remin
912.
by runako 2y ago
> iMessage bubbles are green for Android There are non-Android devices that can send texts as well; they also appear as green. It's probably more accurate to say that encrypted messages are blue and unencrypted are green. Look at th
913.
by runako 2y ago
> It's for engineers. You clearly have a lot of privileged background information you have not shared yet (for which I do not blame you). So it's going to be very difficult to pre-but some of this. For example, the BLS report y
914.
by runako 2y ago
> What is hard to understand here? What I said: > how did it handle that case? You haven't said a) whether this hypothetical actually happened or b) how it was handled. That leaves all this in the realm of rage-bait hypotheticals
915.
by runako 2y ago
I think you're reading a lot into that policy which is not stated. This looks a lot like "opportunistic" hiring as it is described. In any case, this looks like more of an announcement and less of a policy document describing
916.
by runako 2y ago
The scenario at the end really illustrates how important it is to not evaluate partial policies without accurate and full knowledge. In particular, we don't know how whether this hypothetical situation ever happened (and if so, what br
917.
by runako 2y ago
> it should match the representation of the field Why? You have not supported this at all. If the field is staffed by wildly bigoted hiring managers, why does your assertion follow? Separately, why would this be obviously best for the co
918.
by runako 2y ago
I'm not reading anywhere in there where it says anybody is denied a job under any scenario. Perhaps if Dropbox had fixed hiring numbers like your hypothetical, but that was not data you submitted.
919.
by runako 2y ago
Nobody can manage anything with this little information. A KPI set at a particular value cannot tell why the KPI has that value. Thus without more information, your hypothetical is not productive. An illustration by way of example. In a fie
920.
by runako 2y ago
Reading your description of the policy, it looks like what it does is say a team can hire from the "Opportunistic" bucket for "free," but does not freeze out anybody else. Is that a correct read? > 20 heads were reser
921.
by runako 2y ago
> You can’t freeze out white males simple because they are white males. I agree with this. However, I have been working in tech for quite some time now, and I have not seen any place where white males have been frozen out of employment o
922.
by runako 2y ago
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/inclusion-equity-dive... https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/dei-backlash-diversity etc. There is a backlash underway against any effort to expan
923.
by runako 2y ago
This is definitely not true in the US. https://thespoon.tech/juicero-to-lay-off-25-of-staff-as-it-a... https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24032274/humane-layoffs-ai... https://
924.
by runako 2y ago
> "call us if you need something more bespoke" OP is specifically saying this is always a scammy sales tactic. I am asking for a way to arrive at a scalar $ value to put on the website to avoid this tactic of "talking to t
925.
by runako 2y ago
That's not a number that represents what the buyer is looking for though, so it doesn't help. I guess to be transparent you could put some text like "if you don't want to buy one of these plans, we are not the vendor for
926.
by runako 2y ago
> Custom: Call +1 555 1234 5678 OP is specifically saying this is a scummy pressure sales tactic. I am asking for a specific number to put there instead, in the interest of transparency.
927.
by runako 2y ago
> complexity in enterprise agreements > be honest, clear, and upfront with pricing I have seen SaaS sales where the prospect (not the vendor) required contracts to be executed prior to determining requirements. This involved legal on
928.
by runako 2y ago
Isn't the Passwords app essentially just existing features of the OSes extracted into an app? Or does it add new capabilities as well (other than obviously the Windows app)?
929.
by runako 2y ago
Consider that "state actors" also includes US government officials and this becomes obviously true.
930.
by runako 2y ago
Use Levels, but change the location to the other big cities in California. The LA number is ~$80k lower than the SF number, while the Fresno average is $120k. The SF area is a wild outlier even in big California metros.

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