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by abdabab 2y ago
That’s not true. It’s a dual intent visa [1]. > Dual Intent: The H-1B visa type carries “dual intent” which means that the holder may intend to return to his/her home country or intend to immigrate to the United States. However, it
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by abdabab 2y ago
> I mean all USA debt delinquencies are currently between the same levels as Q1 and Q2 of 2008... Where did you find this? None of the data in https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/32440 confirms this other than th
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by abdabab 3y ago
Yes, now return to office. /s
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by abdabab 3y ago
Mainly Blind, LinkedIn and searching. After an offer is made and if you’re taking time to decide, recruiters often sets up a meeting with an executive to talk to you.
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by abdabab 3y ago
I tried that. It didn’t work out for me. Politics, organizational instability, bad executives and a never stopping pager are all insufferable. It kills the very thing, the entirety of joie de vivre that is the main reason for making money.
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by abdabab 3y ago
> how completely fucked up the world’s economy Wasn’t economy always effed up that way? I can’t think of a time economy wasn’t driven by corporate greed to make more profit.
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by abdabab 3y ago
Pittsburgh, PA has plenty of houses under 100k. Here’s one that’s less than 250 miles away from you. Although this particular one is not a countryside house [1]. [1] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1401-Cresson-St-Pi
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by abdabab 3y ago
Point taken.
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by abdabab 3y ago
> Google's revenues were flat last year but costs were up. Wrong. Google made 181.69 billion in 2020, 256.74B in 2021 [1] and 283B in 2022 [2]. A 10% YoY increase [2] is better than most of the years they have been public. They poss
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by abdabab 4y ago
I thought health insurance puts a cap on how much you can get charged. Could you add a little how that can happen?
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by abdabab 4y ago
Who are these investors that he’s fighting?
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by abdabab 4y ago
> Also, if there was any interesting work, if you weren't some sort of political beast or very assertive, somebody would just steal it from you before you could do it anyways. This happens in every company.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> Keep your head down and weather the storm. This certainty a good way to survive but not a good way to live.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> Tech jobs at FAANG no longer look attractive or stable. Google hits the final nail in the coffin (not necessarily involving the layoffs) This is already happening. FAANGs no longer pay the top dollars according to levels.fyi report: h
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by abdabab 4y ago
> Labor unrest will increase everywhere Why do you think this will happen?
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by abdabab 4y ago
Aren’t you adding extra work for him out of pity?
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by abdabab 4y ago
My impression is Twitter handles traffic and complexity in a different magnitude than Netflix in the 2000. Internet usage was significantly smaller back then. On-prem is a good point though. I don’t know a lot about their core infra.
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by abdabab 4y ago
I think she never intended to be a billionaire. She doesn’t fall under the usual bucket of billionaires.
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by abdabab 4y ago
I’m sure Netflix in 2000 had a lot simpler tech stack than Twitter in 2020. However your point is taken.
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by abdabab 4y ago
Where did you find that Elon was fired from Zip2 and PayPal?
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by abdabab 4y ago
I read it as an advice to chill, as in the opposite of working too hard.
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by abdabab 4y ago
When the valuation drops those money just evaporates. They don’t go into economy.
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by abdabab 4y ago
Looking at their last comment it looks like OP worked for Amazon. It’s an interesting thought experiment to think what would happen if Amazon fails. It can bring down a big chunk of US economy with it.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> They will even have less manpower in 10 years. And I think this is going to drive China to attack Taiwan What would China gain by attacking Taiwan though? They only have 24 million people.
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by abdabab 4y ago
> People have left Snapchat for TikTok[1]. Social media users, especially youth, are fickle and the industry relies heavily on network effects. The article you mentioned didn’t describe an exodus of users leaving Snapchat to use TikTok.
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by abdabab 4y ago
Ditto. Java is like C++‘s popular cousin who lives nextdoor, talks too much and doesn’t like to take his trash out. It won’t take you long to get familiar with it.
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by abdabab 4y ago
Where is that?
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by abdabab 4y ago
How’s the quality of life otherwise?
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by abdabab 4y ago
> Basically, behaving completely disrespectfully to my boss. Anywhere else I’d been fired, but I guess if you deliver it’s fine? This usually comes back to bite you during PIP, layoff and promo decision. > How do you handle such situa
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by abdabab 4y ago
> "Best people" according to what metric, other than salary? Facebook scales. It’s not easy to scale computing infrastructure to support billions of daily active users. Only a handful of companies can do that right now. On top

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