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by shmatt 4y ago
He literally says "you can never say never" Every CEO says its a last resort, they tried everything, etc. Cooks statement isn't any different
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by shmatt 4y ago
Wild guess says you're not paying Amazon/Twitter compensation. And thats fine, they shouldn't be your target It would not be smart of them to accept a lower paying job immediately. A lot of them have life expenses directly ti
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by shmatt 4y ago
I suspect the remote aspect is the biggest thing slowing you down. I go in once a month, which is practically a remote job, but those who moved during the pandemic and wouldn't fly in and take a hotel on their expense once a month had
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by shmatt 4y ago
This doesn't really make any sense to anyone actually living in NYC They don't really explain how they are guarding you and not the 79 other strangers on the block or your subway car Will an armed ex-military person confront every
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by shmatt 4y ago
How would you explain that? Most people I know (NYC Metro Area low 6 figure earners) who aren't, are getting a monthly stipend from their parents People get high paying jobs then rent a 1br for $4,000 (at that price its not even that n
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by shmatt 4y ago
According to surveys most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, including most making over $100k/year [1][2] So...yeah saving is a nice idea when rents don't increase in 40% in the past couple of year. Low income households also ha
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by shmatt 4y ago
LLMs need to consume websites to give answers. No websites = no LLM. If your websites add no value to the LLM (hence to the searcher, to the world, how deep should we get?), well then thats a good side effect
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by shmatt 4y ago
Bringing on a friend, telling them to learn everything the smartest and best engineer on the team knows, and them succeeding at it, honestly sounds like some dream situation. I wish I could just magically have people become a copy of the be
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by shmatt 4y ago
New startup pitch: Bring a Trailer, but for rare hardware builds
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by shmatt 4y ago
The federal, state, and even city governments paid millions to business owners. So it was an easy decision in 2020 Could the same owner shut down for a full year without thinking twice, just to avoid giving people a few more bucks an hour i
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by shmatt 4y ago
rents never get lower when things get better. rents get lower when things get bad. thats my point if and when things get better, they will pretty much go back to higher than pre pandemic overnight, with Manhattan as a very good example (als
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by shmatt 4y ago
>Slowly increase As someone who just got their second 50% rent increase in NYC (33% higher than pre-pandemic). When people wan't back, they wan't back, and the landlords do not hesitate
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by shmatt 4y ago
1 and 2 can't work together unless the private market is somehow cancelled and the government retains ownership of the buildings If downtown becomes some safe green utopia, rents triple downtown SF has a limited amount of square footag
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by shmatt 4y ago
If you don't respond PP give the benefit to the person submitting the ticket. Meaning they would have gotten their money back, and PP would not have awarded it to the person not responding Generally this sounds off, but these "HN
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by shmatt 4y ago
It's very naive to think these huge orgs don't have dead weight which is much bigger than 6%. If you start figuring some of your moonshot ideas aren't hitting their OKR's, you have a few options: * Just let them keep doi
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by shmatt 4y ago
This is the conservative playbook. Cut funding until the entity can't run properly, then yell JEEZ GUYS YOU REALLY SUCK wHY DON'T WE SHUT YOU DOWN The previous president significantly cut the FAA's budget, maybe we're ju
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by shmatt 4y ago
Corporate Americas' bloat has been the butt of many jokes for decades. Big tech is just as guilty. They still do want to keep high performers, which is usually why its not just a layoff announced, but a "re-organization", aka
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by shmatt 4y ago
I was hoping this was for Blink, the security system by Amazon
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by shmatt 4y ago
From my experience, this is pretty common in AI Internal tools used by a dozen or a couple dozen AI engineers/Data Scientists, the models they output used by millions. It's totally worth keeping 5-10 person engineering team to cre
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by shmatt 4y ago
* Food at home +0.2%, smallest since March 2021 * Fuel oil -16.6%, biggest decline since February 1990 Seems important to point out to anyone reading your comment
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by shmatt 4y ago
I think the point here on how AirBnb isn't changing things because the money keeps flowing in, is that you continued to use them after getting scammed not once, but twice The odds of getting scammed is probably 1:100 if not less, and i
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by shmatt 4y ago
...Also your lifetime account is basically worthless if more people don't sign up and pay. As there is no reason for the owner to lose money giving you services
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by shmatt 4y ago
They're definitely still a tech firm, just one that consistently misses promised release/delivery dates by 2-3 years Any other company that would miss release dates as much as Tesla does would have crashed by 90% by now
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by shmatt 4y ago
I feel like im stating the obvious but you can't just double the headcount on AWS and expect AWS profits to double The profitable divisions are probably still hiring, and there might be an option for some of the 18,000 to interview int
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by shmatt 4y ago
Making profits does not have to mean funding teams that aren't generating anything significant in terms or product and/or income. Many of these companies have a small portion making most of the profits, and all the others eating t
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by shmatt 4y ago
Things were transferring from non digital to digital decades ahead of expected[1], so head counts had to be adjusted to where companies thought they would be 30 years from now. The gamble was once people went digital only, they won't g
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by shmatt 4y ago
This is just another flavor of the Musk-esque belief that the ratio of delivered production code to man hours is too low. Engineers should be coding, not in meetings. This is a plausible thought for anyone with 1-2 years experience, and a f
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by shmatt 4y ago
Any other company that missed this many release dates / promises / targets would have crashed faster and stronger. There was always the mystique of the genius knows what he's doing, which has unraveled a bit in the past coupl
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by shmatt 4y ago
im kind of doubting that thread, not necessarily fraud but not every employee has the full picture * this memo[1] from the SWA VP thats circulating dated December 21st calling a staffing emergency saying all hell is about to break loose. I&
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by shmatt 4y ago
An artist can demand no resale of tickets, and ID check at the door (TM tickets have the buyers name printed on them), LCD Soundsystem has done this when their fans got angry at a similar scenario. Swift hasn't. And probably won't

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