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by tock 3y ago
I believe this is their third round of layoffs within a year?
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by tock 3y ago
Its getting more useful over time. There are good fiat backed stablecoins + ethereum and its peers are all proof-of-stake so no ridiculous electricity usage. But the risk premium of using it(falling prey to scams, hacks, etc) makes no sense
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by tock 3y ago
I say this all the time: the large Indian consultancies pay their new grads ~$4500 YEARLY. I know plenty of people who used to work there. They were all treated like livestock. Please do not expect them to care about quality when treated li
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by tock 3y ago
Ben and Brian's Google IO talks were fantastic. Their talks always made me realise that Google was a special place. Sad to see its not the case anymore from Ben himself.
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by tock 3y ago
I mean ..... yeah. The other path is becoming a manager. But no-one is really being promoted into the C tier.
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by tock 3y ago
Oh no whatever will I do not being promoted. My kids are going to hate me for not being a L9 at XYZ firm.
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by tock 3y ago
Companies become very successful and grow large enough to hire MBAs as leadership and then die a slow death over a few decades.
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by tock 3y ago
I really really love your sense of design. Feels very calming!
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by tock 3y ago
The US has double taxation treaties with tons of countries. Every remote worker I knows benefit from it.
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by tock 3y ago
What are you talking about lol. Plenty of people work remotely for American companies and get paid over wire transfer.
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by tock 3y ago
Because its good money?
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by tock 3y ago
Yes a software engineer understanding data structures and runtime complexity is akin to a violin player understanding the physics of acoustic dispersion.
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by tock 3y ago
Everyone using fiat backed centralised stablecoins these days like USDT and USDC. Not only do they have blacklists but they can also burn your balance + they are fully upgradeable aka they can add/remove any functionality they want any
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by tock 3y ago
> Leadership? He doesn't seem great at leading an engineering or research department, he doesn't seem like an insightful visionary Most of the company was ready to quit over him being fired. So yes, leadership.
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by tock 3y ago
Most likely some sort of cold wallet. With some in hot wallets for liquidity. There are many crypto custodians who do this. Now they do have to design redundancies for the keys. eg. they should not lose access to the assets because say they
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by tock 3y ago
I believe the fee = the ETF holds bitcoin securely for you instead of you having to deal with wallets.
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by tock 3y ago
Ah my bad. I just checked the OpenAI site and you're right Mira wasn't a board member.
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by tock 3y ago
So both Mira and Ilya voted to kick Sam out. And are now on team Sam. This makes absolutely no sense. Why did they vote yes in the first place then?
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by tock 3y ago
Nobody could have predicted this level of incompetence. I wonder if Satya has actually gutted OpenAI in some way and Ilya regrets it now big time.
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by tock 3y ago
Reminder: popular stablecoins like USDT, USDC all have something called a blacklist in the contract using which they can block you address.
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by tock 3y ago
Ah I think you misunderstand. I think employees in the west being pissed that someone in a third world country makes the same salary as them is crab mentality. I totally understand why companies want to pay less though. It's massive co
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by tock 3y ago
It's just crab mentality unfortunately.
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by tock 3y ago
For context: your average outsourcing companies like Infosys pay their new hires ~$4500/year. And before you say thats a lot for India: it's not. That's paycheck to paycheck life in cities where these outsourcing companies ha
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by tock 3y ago
It's BS because its unilaterally telling everyone to come back to office without data supporting the move.
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Has Software Development Become Slower?(registerspill.thorstenball.com)
4 points by tock 3y ago|0 comments
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by tock 3y ago
Developed countries definitely emit more per capita than less developed countries.
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by tock 3y ago
China, the United States and India also make up 40% of the world population.
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by tock 3y ago
> We're going to help them find jobs. Can't just give out cash tho. CEO of a company with $1B in cash after they "accidentally" hired 75 people who were due to start on Monday. Source: 1. https://twitter.co
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by tock 3y ago
1B in cash but not profitable: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1700108412024127569
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by tock 3y ago
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1700114432792363016 Nope nothing.

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