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Cheezewheel

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Cheezewheel··on Fake Books
>Bitcoin is the first (and most stable) theoretically unseizable currency

This is an absolute farce. Maybe talk to us when there are no longer reports of being able to easily scam someone out of all of their money with a non-reversable transaction just by sending them an image with a script in it.

Cheezewheel··on Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
But it isn't even a problem that experts don't know how to solve it. We know how to solve this issue. The problem is that at basically every large company someone's bonus is tied to keeping the current status quo. There are all these measures and statistics around ad revenue and spending, but the problem is that a lot of it is naïve and outdated, but nonetheless John's quarterly bonus is tied to a program that is defunct and wasteful, and often these are business people, they are not going to blatantly work against their own interests.

It is like with Google. They have a huge issue with the company spinning up new projects and then abandoning them at the drop of a pin, and it is crystal clear why this happens (people take on impactful[i.e. visible] projects for their promotion packet, but the incentives are for heading a project, not for maintaining it). It isn't a matter of figuring out a solution, the problem is that the problem will persist as long as important stakeholders are financially incentivized to resist change.

Cheezewheel··on Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
There is a huge difference between the sort of PR crap that companies post on websites and actually sitting down with a human being and have them explain it to you. "What problem is your company solving?" is pretty general, to be fair, but it would be a red flag for a startup that is selling a product but cannot articulate what problem customers have that the product is solving. It is in fact a pretty central differentiator between startups that succeed and startups that fail.

They are all good questions, but you would probably want to say more along the lines of "I understand that X is your companies product. Can you go into some more detail about what specific problems this product is solving for your customers?"

Cheezewheel··on Why I left Google: work-life balance
If there is a company that is a hellscape for 30% of its employees, and works just fine for most of the rest, then I would describe that company of having a hellscape culture. The existence of positive experiences doesn't change the fact that a lot of these bad experiences, at Amazon, at Google, are directly due to corporate policies, incentives, and the decisions of upper management.
Cheezewheel··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Well you can't, can you? They can just point to another violation or, more plausibly, vague "violated site wide rules". That is kind of the point.
Cheezewheel··on Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
Is it market manipulation if he is ostensibly willing to follow through with the purchase if they were to accept?
Cheezewheel··on Launch HN: Litebulb (YC W22) – Automating the coding interview
>The number of candidates filtered out by the "take home" exercise is very high. 85+%

For a 90 minute take home exercise that I have to complete before I am allowed to speak to a human being, that is on average about 10 hours of work your company is expecting me to do, for free. And then I have to do a coding assignment afterwords anyways.

I will say that the fact that you post the salary range is good. This is the sort of time investment that would only be worth it for a top end salary.

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