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by tempsy 6y ago
I didn’t say it was. I challenge the need to censor comments from some random anonymous poster vs taking the comment with a grain of salt but leaving it up. This pretty much mirrors the national debate we’re having about social media and ce
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by tempsy 6y ago
something that is not immediately verifiable is not reason alone to censor something.
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by tempsy 6y ago
I don’t think something in bad taste needs to be censored. Just my take. It’s the difference between taking a comment with a grain of salt and saying “no one can read this because we can’t prove it.”
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by tempsy 6y ago
no one on here has credibility due to the anonymous nature of this site.
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by tempsy 6y ago
What do you mean by credible? How does anyone on here present proof of credibility about knowledge of a particular event or issue? The comment in question was from someone who created a throwaway “exzappos” username and claimed to have work
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by tempsy 6y ago
As an aside: I hadn't bought anything off Zappos for years, and checked it out when the news hit and surprised that it still basically looks the same as I remember it maybe 10+ years ago. Certainly looks and feels like an eCommerce web
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by tempsy 6y ago
cases are not hospitalizations are not deaths. San Francisco had their first death in 9 days this week.
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by tempsy 6y ago
I'm not talking about whether you individually choose to ignore the bad parts. I'm saying that LinkedIn takes advantage of your need to be on their site whether you actually want to or not to introduce some very annoying features
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by tempsy 6y ago
If a site doesn't add enough value for you you aren't going to put up with it. There are certain news sites like Forbes that are so annoying that I don't deal with it. The point is LinkedIn is in a category where you "n
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by tempsy 6y ago
You’re still creating a profile on a site where you admit is full of nonsense. You’re just saying you ignore it as best you can. That is still a situation where you’re using something even though you realize there’s a lot of nonsense becaus
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by tempsy 6y ago
The main point of the post is not that LinkedIn isn’t useful, it’s that it is useful but takes advantage of your professional need to be on the service whether you want to or not that is akin to a hostage-like situation. The hostage dynamic
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by tempsy 6y ago
But the point of this post isn’t that LinkedIn isn’t useful, it’s that it does have value but at the same time takes advantage of your need for their service in a hostage-like way by using lots of dark patterns and psychological tricks to
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by tempsy 6y ago
Lots of people find LinkedIn to be silly.
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by tempsy 6y ago
Of all the categories of social media apps I genuinely believe an entirely new professional networking app reimagined from the ground up could very easily “disrupt” a legacy app like LinkedIn. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen anything
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by tempsy 6y ago
Ok but I don’t think it had anything to do with being burnt out at any point either due to founder stress. He had always been into the rave scene. His entire instagram page was like one big love letter to Burning Man. He had a new tour titl
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by tempsy 6y ago
To be fair Hsieh’s story doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with “pressures of being a founder”. I mean his “work 100 hour weeks to achieve success” days were long over. He was basically quasi-retired, and clearly had been checked out
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Stay-at-home order issued for San Francisco Bay Area, ahead of state mandate(cnbc.com)
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by tempsy 6y ago
There were just as many people all over that thread that attempted to rationalize the unusual circumstances of this death by pointing to how quickly fire can spread, why someone would be awake or in the basement or difficult to reach by fir
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by tempsy 6y ago
What is “dangerous” about it? It isn’t as if the DOJ is the one speculating as to what the motive is or was, it’s that they have specific evidence of communication between Plaid and Visa that spelled out Plaid’s plan to basically “scare” Vi
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by tempsy 6y ago
Yeah I really didn’t like this deal when it was first announced. Plaid has a ton of bank account and transaction data on competitors to Visa that gives it a ridiculous advantage over its competitors.
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by tempsy 6y ago
So you’re arguing compensation has zero to do with preference for H1-Bs over American workers?
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by tempsy 6y ago
base salary is similar everywhere. equity comp is highly dependent on how much leverage you have and what other offers you have.
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by tempsy 6y ago
I agree but everyone on HN regardless of whether they actually work in SV or not seems to be under the impression that every new grad working in tech are all pulling $500k right off the bat :)
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by tempsy 6y ago
I’m talking about situations where they are possibly fired.
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by tempsy 6y ago
and? with tech stocks at record highs it’s useless to look at current value of RSU comp vs what they got when they first signed. all i’m articulating is that there are incentives that tech companies like FB have for hiring H1-B over America
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by tempsy 6y ago
Base salary is similar everywhere. It’s the equity comp that is the difference, and the part that is more a function of the leverage you have as a candidate. H1-Bs are more desperate and less likely to have leverage to ask for high equity c
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by tempsy 6y ago
Yes most people probably can find a new job without being actually kicked out. You still only have a little time to find a job. Just because you could find something fast doesn’t mean it’s not stressful, especially if you were fired for per
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by tempsy 6y ago
Not everyone at FB gets paid $500k a year, especially if you’re on H1-B which is mostly for entry or mid level immigrants who have just graduated. And if they do at the entry or mid level it’s because they joined at a favorable time and see
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by tempsy 6y ago
It’s less than what an American worker of the same skill level would get because their ability to negotiate is way reduced. Some companies do care about costs. FB cares more about the second part. And knowing that someone is getting $500k i
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by tempsy 6y ago
Some companies do care about costs. They care more about the second part. But it’s also silly to say FB doesn’t care about overhead when they made a big deal about paying workers less if they moved to a lower cost of living area.

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