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by phphphphp 4y ago
it was tongue in cheek because you insulted the bean counters :) There’s not much more I can say because you’ve just outlined an operationally expensive strategy without appreciating the costs. I recommend spending some time in a big organi
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by phphphphp 4y ago
And that’s the sort of thing I’d expect from a programmer! The operational complexity of anything operating at scale extends far beyond the immediate cost. For example, play your scenario out: they give you a raise, you start managing somet
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I went through the process of considering this recently, and considered a safe deposit box, but as mentioned, they're not viable in many places. I eventually settled on multiple security keys, distributed across multiple locations I ha
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by phphphphp 4y ago
You’re drawing an arbitrary line. The majority of digital advertisers are using digital advertising because the value is quantifiable through attributable revenue. There are certainly a minority of major brands that operate as advertisers w
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by phphphphp 4y ago
That’s not how advertising works, advertisers don’t care about “quality of the audience” in the abstract because digital advertising is results driven. There’s a great deal of fraud in advertising across the industry, and it’s certainly not
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by phphphphp 4y ago
it’s a nonsense argument, most people (including musk) couldn’t even articulate robust criteria for measuring a “non-human” user — musk himself has undermined his position on this topic multiple times. Twitter has never claimed that the num
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Most people don’t know how to interpret financial information, nor do they know how to value equity (with or without the financial context). You can look at equity crowdfunding to see how completely underprepared most people are for assessi
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean. Uber could immediately offer flexible employment in almost all jurisdictions within which they operate, the reason they don’t is because it’s substantially more expensive to have employees than it is to have cont
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by phphphphp 4y ago
the idea that flexibility of employment is a binary is a tool Uber are using to shape the perception of the issue. Nothing stops Uber from offering security and flexibility, except the economics — which is Ubers burden to carry, not drivers
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The upside is that Coinbase is very clearly trending towards substantial layoffs if the market doesn’t recover, and if she did join now, she’d have been straight back out the door in the first layoff. Therefore, while this is painful for he
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I do consulting and use GCP on behalf of clients so I’ve been through this process of creating a new account about half a dozen times now, and your experience is mine, every time. Blocked, submit information to verify identity, hear nothing
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by phphphphp 4y ago
For future reference, Silvergate CEO has denied any relationship with Tether in a podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/02VtOivOHp3spZ2qOxMhdC
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Right about what? There’s great economic value in collocated work, absolutely, and I personally much prefer it… but there’s also great economic value in remote work. The premise that the last 2 years (in which remote work was forced because
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Azure.
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I say this without judgement, but it's very possible that the OP isn't able to hold down a job: not through any fault of their own, but because employment is extremely narrow in what it can accommodate. As they clearly state, they
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I just bought one off eBay, cost ~$100. Totally pointless but what’s an overpaid software engineer to do with their money if not vanity.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I (in London) bought one recently (a COWAY Airmega) to try and improve the air quality in my apartment, specifically, the dust which has been reeking havoc on my breathing because of allergies. There is a noticeable improvement but it has n
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I really struggle with the analogy of technical debt as equivalent to financial debt. The analogy works great in theory, but it doesn't translate to the real world. The technical decisions we make today will influence the decisions we
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’m not sure I agree. Technical debt is a symptom, it’s the consequence of bad management that leads to working on the wrong things. If you’re running a startup and haven’t yet found your feet in terms of a product offering, and you’re buil
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Can you share more about the stock option loan program? If it is what it sounds like, that program is unconscionable insanity and whoever is encouraging employees to engage with it is setting employees up for a world of hurt.
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by phphphphp 4y ago
very broad strokes: money is raised to be spent. each round gets you to the next, or you reach some measure of sustainability before the money runs out — layoffs like this should be expected, regardless of the amount raised, if there’s a sh
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by phphphphp 4y ago
May seem pedantic but it’s important to add some framing here: How do I find experts that care about helping a person they have no connection to with a problem for no reward ? There’s lots of easy to access experts on every subject, howeve
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I’ve heard this theory a few times but it doesn’t sound very plausible: could you speak more to why you think the goal was always to mine wifi network information? We know that Google was doing that, but I thought it was an after thought as
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by phphphphp 4y ago
thank you! Very interesting. According to their latest financial reports, their volume of deposits doesn’t marry up with the claims made by Tether. Will be very interesting to see what Silvergate report as inflows/outflows at the end o
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Something I’ve been wondering is how Tether, which has a very difficult history of banking, has been able to pay out billions of dollars in USD in a few days (regardless of having it — even if they had it, I assumed it would be very difficu
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Layoffs are hard. People will be upset no matter what. The responsibility of leadership is to make hard decisions that have the best outcome. Telling 7,000 people they might be laid off this week and so they must stay home so that the compa
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Right, and I’m arguing that informing 700 people today that they’re being laid off is more humane by an order of magnitude than telling 7,000 people they might be laid off this week and to stay away from their peers. There’s nothing in Swed
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You can’t discredit me based on your own hypothetical about what I might believe.
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Right, a lay-off is a terrible experience for everyone and there’s no “right” way to do it… but there are less awful ways. There’s 7,000 Klarna employees currently wondering if they’re losing their jobs! If they had simply informed everyone
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by phphphphp 4y ago
That’s not what they’re doing though, they’ve announced it and plan to tell people over the next few days, certainly not enough time to negotiate with a union. They’ve already chosen who is being let go, they’re simply delaying the process

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