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by slumpt_ 6y ago
And that’s always been the case. The point is that joining any of those companies once they are notable and large means your strike and equity offering will be sufficiently small as to render it a nice consolation prize and probably (hope
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
How many HN posts did we have for all the startups that went under or sold for pennies on the dollar? My friends who spent 6 years at a startup just found out his equity is literally worth pennies on the dollar. It will be a write off at be
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
I will say that usually it is easy to move teams, but if the expertise of the team veers strongly from your background (web dev wants to work on C++) they might ask if you want to do 20% first to get a taste. Also can help convince a team
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
YMMV, that’s all I’m saying. Don’t come in expecting it or you’ll be disappointed. And that’s resonated with other coworkers of mine on other teams, too.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
I spent about six years in psychology with some graduate school so understand the biases you’re referring to. Generally awareness of them helps minimize their impact. Perhaps it is merely that we disagree on the matter (or where “center” li
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Been at Google for several years. 20% time is dead for all intents and purposes in all of the teams I worked (~4 dif teams). I would not join Google and bank on having it. It’s usually 120% time and done as a way to soft-interview for a tea
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
I’m sure they do! The comments that bubble up (or get otherwise suppressed with votes) speak otherwise. But “centrists” in 2020 are far closer to right-leaning because of said Overton window. If you want to call center in 2020 a true center
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Like a lot of right-leaning folks are inclined to do, affordances are made for “free markets” that adversely affect their property or net worth. There are certainly plenty of more progressive voices with broader concern sets about services
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
The modern democratic party is centrist at best. Things are a bit skewed in our ever-unequal society.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
The Overton window is reasonably pegged to the right, within the US if not globally. The dense tech community here espouses a lot of ideas around meritocracy and capitalism that make it reasonably center/right-leaning. This is of cours
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
My friend, has HN ever been anything other than right-leaning? Realistically speaking.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
You (and others, evidently) don’t pick up on the tongue in cheek nature of the comment. We all know we can simply raise pay at the bottom without needing to cut (or inflate) anyone else’s pay. They are similarly absurd propositions.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
It is unfortunate flagging censors the posts. Was interested to get more context in the thread and instead it’s hidden entirely. Regarding the rest, I’m happy to simply disagree with you having observed this in practice in other communities
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Never suggested everyone who posts shitty arguments is doing so disingenuously. Just suggesting there are many who do.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Sometimes snarky dismissals are appropriate. Trying to hold everything to some academic standard of discourse is implausible when we have deliberate bad actors pushing disingenuous arguments that - by this standard - must be repetitively ex
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
“Not good enough” is not an accurate description. There is an abundance of people more than “good enough” for roles at FAANGs. They may simply not be stellar at the examination process used by FAANGs to assess candidates. As much as many fo
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
I disagree. This taps into a lot of technical know-how and communication skills. It’s a well-rounded examination of how someone can contribute to the development of a product. That such a well-rounded assessment happens to include examining
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
I think it's pretty unlikely. More likely that he's simply trying to salvage his brand.
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“How to date yourself further in a persistently youthful tech workforce.”
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
A lot of folks new to the area don't appear very familiar with its history, but make strong proclamations of its fate all the same.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
You don’t see it as Facebook’s responsibility ? To not actively push malignant content just because it gets views? Everyone in this world bears responsibility to one another. Of course there should be regulation to prevent the circumstance
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
I see a lot of this on HN and it’s disappointing. Place can be a bit too steeped in privilege and survivorship bias at times.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Fair. Wrong word choice. The point just being that there could be a lot of company... encouragement... to be vocal about what you think of working at the org. And of course, to the point you raise, we must always take that with a grain of s
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Yeah. I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of these blog posts are just astroturfing. Well designed astroturfing, nonetheless. Edit: Astroturfing is the wrong word, perhaps. What I mean to say is vocalized better in the replies. These all sh
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
“do your financial planning assuming this equity ends up being worthless” Most important part. It’s a nifty mechanism to avoid the upfront tax burden but you’re partaking in a significant gamble with your money nonetheless. Would highly sug
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Careful criticizing libertarianism on here. This is the hive. A lot of survivorship bias on here and folks who want to think everyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get rid of taxation and large government etc etc It completely
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
Many of these things are short-circuited by China leveraging it’s substantial economic power to force the perspective in their favor.
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It is a country. The only reason it wouldn’t be recognized as such is related to the pressure China puts on other countries to not do so. Much in the same way they pressure other countries to ignore the abuses of Uighurs and Tibetans.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
It depends on the trait in question and nearly always is a mix of both environmental and genetic factors.
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by slumpt_ 6y ago
It makes me sad seeing a community I’d otherwise regard as intelligent being so profoundly ignorant. But I also acknowledge this is a western culture issue more than one of intelligence alone. Discouraging nonetheless. We’ve really messed u

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