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by staunch 4y ago
Those examples couldn't be less like Musk's strategy. There are both good/ethical and bad/wrong reasons to do layoffs. Musk's primary strategy at Tesla has been to create innovative products that people want to buy
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by staunch 4y ago
It's often better to be hired by the new guard rather than the old guard in situations like this. Your entire department/team might get the axe.
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by staunch 4y ago
Sounds like a good first step. Especially if his plan is to run Twitter in a more hands off way. Instead of 7,500 employees, they can probably do the job with 700 people that are specially picked, and make the company much more efficient. R
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by staunch 4y ago
That's probably closer to the truth but doesn't seem like the whole story. Modern environments are very different but it seems a stretch to claim they're always (or even often) better . We're usually comparing modern
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by staunch 4y ago
I learned a different lesson from school bullies. Which was that, as a nerdy/shy but big/tough kid, I could protect other kids by telling bullies that they'd have to deal with me if they messed with anyone else in our class o
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by staunch 4y ago
> Source? I don't have the interest in doing the legal research. I could be just wrong about the requirement. Or it could be that in practice HR lawyers advise companies to make a token effort of recruiting U.S. workers as a precaut
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by staunch 4y ago
> Of course, I knew that cargo-culting... You're cargo-culting the phrase "cargo-culting" here, i.e. using the term blindly without understanding it. Using a programming language and related frameworks repeatedly, based
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by staunch 4y ago
> It's easy to project your hopes and dreams onto a person when you discount the meaning of their literal words and replace them with your own biases. I have no illusions that Musk's own conception of "free speech" i
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by staunch 4y ago
Okay, you're right, at least in 2022. I believe it was relaxed in this regard (well placed political "donations" at work) because I'm fairly certain there used to be requirements to recruit U.S. workers first. Today, it
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by staunch 4y ago
YC asks primarily questions about the company applying (but also has founder profiles attached). This A16Z program only asks questions about an individual applying, and seems most interested in their corporate pedigree. The "Meet o
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by staunch 4y ago
Musk seems to have used the term "free speech absolutist" as a means of contrasting his First Amendment-style view of free speech with the severely qualified and diminished version currently available on platforms like Twitter. So
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by staunch 4y ago
Which could be their first mistake. YC gets a lot of signal by requiring people to clearly answer so many questions. YC's questions are really good and it wouldn't have been a bad idea to wholesale copy them like some other&#x27
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by staunch 4y ago
> What makes you think he is willing to sacrifice short term revenue? Because we already know from his past behavior that he's willing to make long-term bets. And his statement that he doesn't view his interest in Twitter as
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by staunch 4y ago
Accepting applications from absolutely anyone "over the transom" is the biggest innovation behind YC's success. It's not a small thing, and something major VCs have historically refused to take seriously.
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by staunch 4y ago
Out of dozens of fairly lame attempts by others, this may very well end up becoming the most serious competitor to YC so far. It'll all come down to who they get to run it, how well they run it, and if they can consistently get the att
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by staunch 4y ago
This doesn't even seem like a legitimate security vulnerability at all, just a generic behavior bug. I'm guessing there are countless bugs like this in a common Linux userland. I'd argue that the security vulnerability only e
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by staunch 4y ago
No one claimed such a ridiculous thing? The fact is that no one in history that has great things for humanity did so without having some degree of mixed motivations. There's no inherent contradiction in wanting to make lots of money, b
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by staunch 4y ago
You seem to have it backwards. He became a billionaire as a consequence of creating immensely valuable companies, not the other way around. And he risked the entirety of his previously earned fortune in order to so. These are facts that you
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by staunch 4y ago
I agree sites had different policies and I'm (intentionally) simplifying the history. > Neither one of them had any common carrier protections to protect or to lose by these policies. That is precisely the reason sites had a light
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by staunch 4y ago
> how can you be both honest / sincere and a "mixed bag"? Because people can be both honest and dishonest about different things or at different times. No one is perfectly honest and even the worst person is probably hon
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by staunch 4y ago
1. He needs Tesla to be highly profitable to achieve his ambitious goals of renewable energy. It's expensive to build factories, etc. 2. He needs SpaceX to be highly profitable to achieve his ambitious goals of multi-planetary life. It
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by staunch 4y ago
I think 99% of people would agree it's reasonable to have a very few, very clear exceptions. And it's possible to do so without falling down a slippery slope. We know this for a fact because sites like Reddit did it for over a dec
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by staunch 4y ago
I say day-mon because it's less alarming for non-technical people and less ambiguous for technical people. But, in accord with the robustness principle, I'm happy to accept any pronunciation.
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by staunch 4y ago
I simply believe he's being honest and sincere in this case. That doesn't mean I condone anything and everything he's done or will do. He admits himself that he's a "mixed bag". Which is of course true of all o
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by staunch 4y ago
A limited edit window with a changelog seems reasonable to me but yeah I think immutability is elegant, if somewhat inconvenient.
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by staunch 4y ago
1. Improve the product (make Tweets editable for a period of time and things like that). 2. Run the service as if it was bound by the First Amendment (i.e. only illegal content should be removed, basically how every social network ran prior
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by staunch 4y ago
Most embedded/embedded-like devices running Linux are running a modified version of the kernel with a heavily customized userspace. These are still Linux by any reasonable definition. I'll leave it at this.
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by staunch 4y ago
> They don't have to try and fail to hire US workers in order to use the H-1B program. The US Department of Labor disagrees with your assertion: "The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obt
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by staunch 4y ago
Nice! Looks like a good start. As some have noted in this thread there are some issues but nothing you can't fix. I'd recommend running `go vet -a` and `golangci-lint` on it to see some of the current issues: $ go vet -a $
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by staunch 4y ago
That's how it works at most tech companies that run this scam, which is most tech companies. The point is that FAANG companies should have a tiny number of H-1Bs if they were following the law. Instead, they have the most H-1Bs. And in

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