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by shmatt 4y ago
Part of the H-1B process is to prove you (hiring company) can't find and equal American citizen to come work for you. During a downturn in the tech sector, while companies are boasting about "cutting the fat" in their workfor
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This is oversimplifying complex investments to a point where no one is investing in anything anymore, just a lot of hand waiving a money exchanging hands Bureau of Labor Statistics could announce a new equation for the CPI next month. Which
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In short: the anger over what happened yesterday is overblown. If a commodity is sellable, people will sell it. The ONLY option here is to make tickets non-transferable, full ID check to verify the name on ID is the name on the ticket Point
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I can't believe I missed the news the big corporate Gemini also halted withdrawals on their APY product If its not completely clear by now: no, these companies can't promise you 8% APY without essentially running a ponzi scheme. I
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This approach was made popular by Steve Jobs at Apple. He would have multiple teams competing to who's solution would survive, while the other teams products were thrown away This goes all the way back to his early days (I think I reme
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I mean, what are they doing to generate you that money, and how safe is it? FTX gave customer deposits to Alameda, without much knowledge I'd guess they wanted Alameda to generate that 8% APY, but customers weren't in the know &qu
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BlockFI was offering 8.5% APY on deposits. FTX was offering 8% A true exchange, where you just buy and sell, will never pause withdrawals because they won't be acting with these ponzi-like methods A decentralized exchange won't gi
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>The first $10,000 USD value in your deposit wallets will earn 8% APY (This is what FTX was offering customers) And now we know the accounts weren't actually covered by real money (or "value" as they called it). So when pe
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CZ knew about the bad leverage to begin with, which is why he tweeted about selling all of the FTT What are the chances he never intended to buy FTX, just to destroy it after their public back and forth? It's almost like a reverse Musk
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Sure they should, but there are a lot of moving parts, written in different decades. Bugs are found every day even in projects that have 100% code coverage PagerDuty is a multi billion dollar company for a reason, and they're not even
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IMO non top paying companies have been hiring more regularly, across the world. It's nice that you do not consider FAANG, but some people do just for the 2x-3x raise is income. When the top payers do layoffs and/or stop hiring, ov
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Well, lets skip the fact he didn't build those companies. Both companies rely heavily on government subsidies. He's in part 3 of his dependence on big government, demanding they start subsidizing Starlink Remove those subsidies to
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I feel like the LeetCode companies are currently the loudest about preaching to employees about having dead weight / needing more PIPs / a lot of people don't need to be here. And yet they're still heavily dependent on t
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This is March 2020, When Fauci was on TV claiming 200,000 Americans will die, even though we didn't see those numbers just yet If you chose not to sell at that time, that's on you, but his subordinates believed him according to th
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I'll start with the second part > why should they page a German wage I totally agree. In the U.S there is a lot of discussion about most companies introducing location based remote pay, based on the cost of living in your city. Peop
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I envy your perception. My office days were people coding for 20 minutes, then going to talk about fantasy football for another 40 minutes. Im proud to say I haven't heard any fantasy football discussion since spring of 2020 Meetings t
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You're confusing apartment living vs. living in your own private house with an H.O.A You can't live with 200 other families in a shared building without some sort of structure. What's allowed and what isn't, Can dogs swi
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Shared spaces need shared employees. Employees legal to work in the U.S, at the wages which are normal in SF (you don't want to keep hiring and have people quit after 1 month because someone is paying them more) I also find elevators t
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I wouldn't put this against Parler actually thinking they have some future. They're just looking to unload their highly unprofitable business[1]. The CEOs wife has been following Ye around supporting him at the controversial Paris
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I find Roku's search engine great for this scenario. Tells you which service and also if its free with membership, without membership, or paid per episode
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That would explain the 12GB RAM
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So, craigslist? Airbnbs biggest problem I see complained about online is the lack of customer service when your host cancels/you find a spy cam/the place looks nothing like in the photos Im assuming in this case no income equals n
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My bet is on the rest of the communications being publicized by the court. Billionaires aren't used to their private texting being public like that. Musk might like the circus around him, but a lot of people who have been texting him p
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The much larger than understood cyber weapon world definitely enjoys how much of a PR loving extrovert Shalev Hulio (NSO founder) was. It takes the spotlight off them NSO is just a commercial company buying and looking for 0-day exploits, 0
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Like anything non-hurricane related, either find a private insurer you can afford, or risk being uninsured and losing everything you own
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Blind gives you a tag based on your verified work email address. Except this poster does not have a verified Meta work address. Call it a joke, call it an attempt to manipulate META stock (down 15% this month, maybe the OP is hoping their r
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Remember everyone: not your GPU, not your character
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One thing I've noticed that no AI tooling company is building is a good/easy to use feedback loop. A high quality model needs a lot of human feedback. No one is really building a strong platform to do that. But eventually someone
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This hits home for me for a completely different reason. I'm currently hybrid and notice some issues do get fixed faster in the office following that same 90% rule In the office people don't mind tapping their neighbor on the shou
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Not the same exactly but this really rubs me the wrong way about Gergely Orosz. He was an EM (not even Senior) at Uber, overall tenure of 4 years. Left 2 years ago. But writes about the place like he was some SVP or CTO There were literally

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