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by smugma 4y ago
Whole Foods started charging $9.99 for orders a year or so ago. I still sometimes order from them but try and avoid it. I sometimes use Fresh, sometimes do WF in the store (pickup or just going to the store), and also shop locally more.
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I tried my name with a capital letter and got: This is a premium username, get yours for $29/mo
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I work with a manager who has the inverse problem. He has multiple (2-3 out of 10) low performers but had pressure to only mark one as a low performer. Now that one person has left the team he’s able to mark a new person as the low performe
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Agreed. Except this year it’s probably more like a 7% cut (inflation is still pretty high).
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Hyperbole. From a recent WaPo article: Apple chief executive Tim Cook has voluntarily taken a 40 percent pay cut for 2023, an unusual move that comes “in response to shareholder feedback,” according to the company's annual proxy statem
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In a high inflation environment, not giving raises is essentially a pay cut but doesn’t have the same negative psychological effect. And RSU’s are a huge portion of comp in tech companies, it’s easy to cut RSU’s. Setting aside the very top
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Apple
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Not this millennium.
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Prices for Mac products are about the same; the difference is taxes (how they are treated and the rates). 1. Taxes in the US are added on top, not inclusive. 2. Taxes in Europe are generally higher than in the US. Looking at the MacBook Air
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Is Apple the last major tech company standing without layoffs? Yes, at least for FANG/MAGA. I wonder if they will avoid them or just be the last one to cut. Related, with employee growth charts: https://www.cnbc.com/amp
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Previously (2010): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444653 His hijinks remind me of Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman, which I happen to be re-reading right now.
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I graduated 20+ years ago from a top CS school, and this was the norm then as well, whether you wanted a job at a big company like Microsoft, a consulting company, or a hot tech startup. The good news for me was that even though I had terri
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Other companies stopped backfilling a while ago but doesn't mean they plan on laying people off (and you can look at 2008-2010 for reference to see that some companies didn't backfill but didn't have layoffs). Not over-growin
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The flipside of this is some of my best foreign experiences have been in Airbnb’s and VRBO’s. * A lake house in Washington that had a boat that I could row to get to my friends house on the other side (a few hundred yards away). * A cute ap
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Best Western, etc. have variety in quality but still pretty consistent overall with a floor on quality. If your shower is leaking, you’ll be able to get a new room. Maybe the hot tub is broken but that’s pretty rare and will probably get fi
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The inverse of this is that in the early days, you’re getting amazing value while these unicorns burn through billions scaling up. Airbnb 5+ years ago have incredible value for money, as did Uber and more recently some of the eBike/sco
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Didn’t realize this, thanks! But I also like the IRS limits. It limits how much my family/in laws think I might be able to give them in a year :)
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This posting has a greater range ($330,000 - $1,800,000): https://jobs.netflix.com/jobs/253949563 As the range is based on total comp, it makes sense. If you are at the bottom of that range (which is likely just the ba
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> Writing is to a large extent the process of expressing a thought or feeling. Agree. > Clarifying exactly what one wants to say is a central part of writing and editing. In professional/technical writing, sure? Authors have been
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This made me LOL, as I’ve had this happen many times. But much less so in the past 2 years, around the time iOS Photos started integrating with Apple Music.
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Ask HN: Aggregation of salary ranges for CA job?
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New California law means employers have to tell you what they pay(sacbee.com)
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It’s great to see this sort of transparency on such a broad scale. Of note: * most companies only provide range for base pay, the minimum required by law * Netflix gives total comp ranges. For one Director position is listed as 330K-1.8M (!
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Two weeks ago I was heading to go for a run and my 8 year old declared he was coming with me (this was 630AM on a school day). We did 1.25 miles but the most interesting thing he said was that we weren’t running, we were just jogging. It wa
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Apple would rather you build native apps, not cross platform ones.
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They lost $300M in Q1 and made $800M in Q2. They can take another $300M loss (1B?) in the short term to mitigate reputational damage and legislation.
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Good point. I think it will be smart for them to post a record loss for this quarter. Accrue a few billion for refunds, depreciate your software to zero, and start to set aside a few billion for new cloud whatever. Basically, take this as a
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Don’t forget the $150 “Contract Termination Fee” when you quit your shitty job.
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Americans work 15-20% more hours, at least compared to Europeans (<2 weeks vacation compared to 4-6, etc.), and have to pay huge amounts for healthcare. In almost all fields, Americans make more money. The tech 2X is that historically hi
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This is a good play by play of the SEC’s civil complaint. Full tweet is: We just discovered Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang turned on @SBF_FTX , rattling him out to the Feds. The SEC’s civil (non-criminal) complaint is built on their partic

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