seibelj

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by seibelj 4y ago
Monopoly money does prevent spam. In decentralized networks preventing people from DDOSing the network becomes extremely important and very difficult.
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by seibelj 4y ago
I am assuming twitcoin is coming and I will buy in
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by seibelj 4y ago
Oh wow running a social media company is just soooo hard how can he possibly figure it out? It must require some super human level of insight /s
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by seibelj 4y ago
Everyone on the internet knows how to run Twitter better than the richest man on earth who revolutionized both the electric car and private space industries. I wish I could invest in Twitter now but I’ll wait for the cryptocurrency launch.
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by seibelj 4y ago
No 25% every quarter. Essentially doubled our salaries to stay a year. Was a very profitable business being operated with a skeleton crew and we were burning out, there was no other option.
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by seibelj 4y ago
When things start getting really bad you make retention bonuses widespread. Was at a collapsing company and we all got a years salary paid quarterly for staying, but if you left before a year had to pay it back. Everyone was pleased.
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by seibelj 4y ago
It’s like HN discounts all his other successes and can’t believe he can attract high performing employees. He clearly solved much harder problems than short-form blog posting so it’s not a stretch to think he can flip Twitter back to an IPO
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by seibelj 4y ago
Bigco software engineering has been quite chill / slack-off for some time. Rude awakening for a lot of devs if they have been resting on their laurels.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Wow that's so great what a paradise of freedom
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by seibelj 4y ago
Wow so I can vote against the communist party? And protest the dictatorship without getting disappeared / bullet in head?
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Amazon Is Pausing Hiring for Corporate Workforce(wsj.com)
71 points by seibelj 4y ago|47 comments
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by seibelj 4y ago
10-20% of their staff so far
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by seibelj 4y ago
It might be possible to train yourself differently. Since having kids my sleep is much more like a control knob - I can go more days without it before needing a recharge.
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by seibelj 4y ago
If you are a highly skilled technologist you will not have any issue finding a new job. If you are greatly bothered by the changes at Twitter and the new ownership it is almost certainly for the best that you leave and do something else. I
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by seibelj 4y ago
All sides of the political spectrum do this but it’s hilarious to me the “The 1950’s were amazing and we had high income taxes!” and ignore all the other things - like the entire world was bombed to shit and the seeds of stagflation were pl
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by seibelj 4y ago
Right! Better to destroy a business via government intervention “just in case”
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by seibelj 4y ago
Oh man remember when Meta / Facebook was a monopoly and we had to do everything in our power to stop them? And now their stock is down 75% in the last 12 months and they are getting beaten up by competitors? And without any government
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by seibelj 4y ago
So brave!
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by seibelj 4y ago
Realizing no one is going to make your life better. Everyone is dealing with their own stuff and waiting on anyone else to do things for you is a poor life strategy. You have to take control of your own life and stop blaming others for your
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Boston surpasses San Francisco as second-most expensive city for renters(boston.com)
6 points by seibelj 4y ago|0 comments
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Nancy Pelosi's husband 'violently assaulted' at San Francisco home(abcnews.go.com)
8 points by seibelj 4y ago|0 comments
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by seibelj 4y ago
I'll take a standardized test over arbitrary grades any day. Grades are far, far easier to game in so many ways (switch to an easier major!) than the SAT. Just ask anyone gunning for med school or law school - they will opt for the eas
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by seibelj 4y ago
There’s a range you can improve on. If you are an idiot you don’t have a chance of improving that much, but mommy and daddy can buy you a 4.0 at a private school. Can’t bribe your way to a 1600 SAT anywhere near as easily as the private sch
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by seibelj 4y ago
SAT / ACT are basically IQ tests. Grades are far more fuzzy but generally show an ability to stick with something over the long term and execute on projects. I think both are important to being successful. Ignoring one for the other is
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by seibelj 4y ago
Strange I’ve never worked for unionized workplaces, from retail and fast food to high tech, and they were wonderful places to work with happy coworkers. It’s almost like your vision of a miserable capitalist hell hole is a fantasy, while so
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by seibelj 4y ago
The only issue I’ve had is randomly the trackpad will stop working, then I reboot. I think I also made a few tweaks a while ago to some config for them. Otherwise, top notch machine.
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by seibelj 4y ago
Business and commerce are emergent phenomena and they would exist without the state “allowing” me to organize freely with other people for financial gain. Property rights are the foundation of civilization. Please - go start your own commun
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by seibelj 4y ago
Also check out Theme Hospital open source remake https://corsixth.com/ The websites are rather similar!
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by seibelj 4y ago
I live in Boston, which is a similar size and population to SF, and it's extremely safe. There is some crime but even something minor like porch pirates are pretty much not a thing. There is a skid row named "Mass and Cass" w
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by seibelj 4y ago
I've found official stats to be a lagging indicator of anecdata, and my anecdata shows a lot of people moving away. If I owned an expensive condo there I'd sell ASAP.

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