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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
It is not shocking to me, and like I commented in a separate comment here you see it in NYT's coverage of international politics. That is harder for people from US to notice as they don't have the ground truth to tell apart the nu
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
If you see coverage of any countries not part of the western countries, you will see a similar pattern in NYT, BBC, etc. This just looks like a domestic equivalent with one industry in cross-hairs.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Personally whenever someone uses the term "Big Tech", I see if it is originating from "Big Media" and most of the times it does. These articles are nothing but potshots taken as part of the culture/turf war between
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
That's hiding behind technicalities. A person on H1B needs to leave the country within 30 days after being laid off. What life plans can one make around that? Even a simple housing lease is minimum 12 months in most parts of the countr
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> A huge number of people have lost their livelihoods, sense of belonging and might fall into financial hardships in current market conditions At the end of the day, CA is an at-will employment state. Anyone can get fired anytime, and it
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Can you elaborate on what kinds of fraud? Like for ex. someone can transfer money from your account, or impersonating someone else, etc?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Similar to musicians, some would be able to live off of the royalties. Some more would be live off of touring. Some might be able to sell some merch. Some might get beer money - but overall the ecosystem gets more alive than the current sta
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> Talking about poets, it's interesting that there's not many full-time poets in the world; most poets need a paying job (often in academia) to cover the bills Why don't they release poems like songs? In South Asia, there
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> Old money reigns supreme because the "new" voices are not independent Are you implying there are no legitimate discussions between non-checkmarked users today on Twitter? That there is only a leader(check-marked users) and fo
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> I look forward us acknowledging that Zuck was merely lucky, not some visionary Isn't that already acknowledged in the tech circles?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Are you also willing to pay the extra Apple tax for this convenience instead of expecting the subscription provider to eat those costs?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Does reputation matter if there are no alternatives? For those who are looking at good quality hardware and a software ecosystem that works for basic use cases, they might have to continue to tolerate Apple products even if they introduce a
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> When it comes to banking there are a lot of modern "shortcuts" that make it safe and painless pretty much everywhere in the world. Can you elaborate what shortcuts are you referring to in this context?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> Technically, everything you do affects end-users - including faster deployments - although in some cases that effect is more obvious than in others. I agree with this. This is why the dev managers/directors/VPs own the _deliv
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> at other times, the priority will be to resolve some technical debt to make deployment faster; and so on It's interesting you mention this. In my experience, PMs have only owned end-user experience, they come up with end-user proj
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Curious, what about that title caused bad outcomes?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
There is nothing illegal or unpopular about this answer. It doesn't happen as commonly due to large cultural differences, and there is more to life than just a visa (as important as that might be).
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> What is the exact reason for such a big backlog ? The two political parties can't agree on reforms for legal immigration. The current rules were written for a generation when the quantity and nature of immigration was very differe
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
There are still many who are coasting along because there is no better alternative.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
It's the constraints that come from working in a large team/company - the bureaucracy, the politics, the kind of work (focusing more on scaling vs fun features). A lot more features can be tried out in a startup due to their small
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
There are also plenty of people unhappy with their FAANG jobs and don't want to trade it for a growth-chasing but ultimately unfulfilling startup. Those might be tempted to join a more robust startup.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
That TC might be life changing if they earned that much in their current cities/towns. That TC would involve moving to SV and the associated costs of living in SV - specially housing.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Have an alternative job offer in hand so that you can leave on your own terms. I've been in similar situation in the past, and in hindsight if the top layer is toxic/incompetent, it eventually trickles down.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
I've personally gone back to reading more books instead of watching more TV, and it has been more fulfilling. It doesn't work for everything I used to watch - but for my main consumption of fiction, I now prefer books/audiobo
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Making cool and useful stuff is not easy and requires the right ecosystem. For example, take all the immigrants working at FAANG. They could have been working in their countries and building something cool/useful/or something more
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
It has happened before in cricket[1], I don't understand how do people not see this coming, or why they think it's still ok. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_controversies_in_crick...
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Isn't it well known by this point that all customer support chat messages (even drafts as you type) are visible to the agent?
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Wow, that's crazy. Is it possible to find this out while interviewing? My worry is some company might be willing to pay high salaries to new hires to recover from situations like these, but it would suck for me to join such a place.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
Not all content there is good. I see the pages on some political content, or in general a lot of content about country X (intentionally omitted) are of pretty poor quality.
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by wobbly_bush 4y ago
> Reduce crops that are heavy water users(almonds etc). Would you extend that to include cattle? If not, why not?

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