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by jhwang5 5y ago
It's actually possible that the NK hackers are taking blame on behalf of CCP. Would take too long to explain fully. Just imagine NK as a "blame proxy" for CCP when it comes to the edgiest operations
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by jhwang5 6y ago
B/c billionaires got everything, they also want to feel good about themselves & righteous too. Thus you see a lot of virtual signaling
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by jhwang5 6y ago
In this thread. Bunch of people who haven't won anything criticizing the methods of the greatest winner.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Downvotes are probably due to jealousy / discomfort
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by jhwang5 6y ago
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by jhwang5 6y ago
exactly. they panic hired a bunch of contractors with no real operating plan on how to utilize them, and now taxpayers are footing the bill for the contracting company CEO's third mansion.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
The question is - was the egregious price the contractors charged a good price? I have the right to care about that as a tax payer
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by jhwang5 6y ago
In the U.S., we send them to private prisons instead and make them do free labor.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
What is this guy smoking? He presents a false dichotomy of saving "labor" vs "assets". Look, if assets depreciate, it affects balance sheets of everyone, including corporates, and induce a balance sheet recession which r
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Having managed and laid off people (unfortunately), I would guess middle managers have already been given a number X to cut already, and they are spending some sleepless nights already trying to figure out exactly what to say (unless they a
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Yeah, but you always "kinda" know where you stand with your boss.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
The best way to know if you're getting fired: If you don't have a "cue" from your boss that you are safe PRIOR to the layoff, then you are pretty much on the chopping block. In other words, if you don't know who the
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by jhwang5 6y ago
He worked at AWS, not retail
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by jhwang5 6y ago
By definition, so are the incidents that are reported by NYTimes. Amazon has hundreds of fulfillment centers around the world, and it's possible that the sufferings of some workers are exceptions, not the norm.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
I think growth of cloud business - net / net - will decrease in 2020. 1) The basket of customers who may do a big Cloud migration may shy away from big CAPEX projects (unless it's a very low hanging fruit that saves money). 2) It&
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by jhwang5 6y ago
You will get that answer in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's Q2 earnings. I can't wait myself.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
"Over the past few months, we have experienced the mainstreaming of technology-enabled behavior previously thought of as being on the fringe. Shopping for groceries online and having them delivered, for example, was something of coasta
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by jhwang5 6y ago
How so? Different in what sense?
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Are we giving FB a pass for stealing competitor ideas? IG stories (from Snap), FB Room - Zoom Clone, etc.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Ok, so you got rejected and didn't receive meaningful feedback, so you are venting on HN.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Quarantine only reinforced people's zombie-browsing (FB, IG) habits, since there's nothing else to do.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Boeing was negotiating with gov to drop the equity requirement - does anyone know what the upshot was? They also did take money from other programs targeted at Airline industry, though I don't know exactly how much.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
The Boeing bailout was sold as a measure to keep jobs, then of course they turn around and do this.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
More importantly, do they want the masses to get back to work, now that funds got their chance to buy the dip, or no?
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Counter-take. Since the SEO content garbage is currently spewed by hordes of content writers making little money, a successful AI can help them find a higher calling.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Food for thought - if say 70% of cases are asymptomatic or mild (and therefore they don't get tested), then NYC's CFR already drops to 0.2% for the bucket you are referring to.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
They have the charts in the article
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by jhwang5 6y ago
I think discipline != penny pinching
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by jhwang5 6y ago
These are aggregate metrics - in a country like the US that's in top 5 in terms of income gini-coefficient, I suspect medians will paint a very different picture.
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by jhwang5 6y ago
Now try 1) plotting that against household debt, 2) and against other countries.

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