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ajaimkon Twilio is laying off 17% of workforce

Mods please change the title. Layoffs and Firing aren't the same.

ajaimkon Tell HN: Confluent laying off 8% of staff

A Google Monopoly that needs to be broken up and opened to the public (mainly, xooglers).

ajaimkon How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2M a Year

Live to be a 100 but don't actually live a single day

ajaimkon Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%

Can a mod rename this: sounds like base salary is being reduced by 6%

ajaimkon Tell HN: Sundar Pichai made $8M today

Every googler who got laid off today that owns google shares made the same % in earnings today. This doesn’t matter.

The goal is to increase shareholder value. And most of the increase today was due to macro market trends and not due to the layoffs (everything went up today)

ajaimkon Demanding polished work is a power play designed to take options away from you

I’ll be a C student and graduate in 3 years vs. being an A student who graduates in 4.

ajaimkon The 5% Rule

Only 5%? That gives me hope for humanity.

ajaimkon Ask HN: Why is Tesla stock dropping? Meta?

Let me explain it like you are a (very smart) 5 year old. Prices go up when more people want to buy something than sell it. They go down when more people want to sell than buy.

With Tesla, more people want to sell than buy for a multitude of reasons: cashing out on the 2020-2021 rally (20x), seeing it as over valued in 2022 or just seeing Elon not paying enough attention to Tesla.

With Meta, people are selling cause we’re in a recession and Ad spending goes down hard in recessions. Additionally, you have Mark burning money on the Metaverse which no one thinks is a good idea (he’s not selling anyone his vision on the metaverse but since he controls the company with more than 50% of the voting shares, he can do what ever he wants).

Long story short, investors have lost confidence in these stocks.

ajaimkon Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

I just want to watch the world burn

ajaimkon Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

This is starting to become verbal gaslighting: if you don't mention it, it doesn't exist.

ajaimkon Software workers labor union sues Klarna over layoffs of 700

They’re suing for less than a $100,000 according to the article. This doesn’t even make sense

ajaimkon Sildenafil as a candidate drug for Alzheimer’s disease

That's a roller coaster for this drug; Started off as high blood pressure candidate, ends up at Alzheimer's candidate (with a detour in the middle of course).

ajaimkon Warren Calls Out Wells Fargo and Zelle for “Evasive” Responses about Fraud

I watched the hearing a while back and honestly don’t get the fuss Warren in making in this specific scenario.

She calls out scenarios where people willingly sent money to someone over Zelle themselves. This wasn’t a compromised account; it was people being conned by other individuals (think Nigerian Prince). Why should Zelle be on the hook for someone being stupid? They did exactly their job.

Should the US Mint refund me money if I gave a fraudster cash?

Update: Love the comments below folks. I get it now.

ajaimkon Binance to acquire FTX

"Note that http://FTX.us and http://Binance.us – two separate companies–are not currently impacted by this."

ajaimkon Privately-Owned Rail Cars

Amtrak does this for free - check out the Writer's Residency Program

ajaimkon Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

They set a new record of x% YoY. They hired expecting that records to be 114% of x%.

ajaimkon Starlink Aviation

Just claim the wifi was down on the plane. It's an easy lie that can't be refuted.

ajaimkon How Faithful Is Amazon’s Rings of Power to JRR Tolkien’s Books?

Minus 10?

ajaimkon Unlaunching the 12GB 4080

Now will Nvidia have the courage to re-release it as the 4070?

ajaimkon Lesser known Apple Watch workouts

I actually use "Outdoor Walk" for Walking the dog. Mainly to track how much exercise he gets.

ajaimkon Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

The 12 makes sense for being divisible by 3 and 4. 60 does the same but also for 5.

The rest is chaos.

ajaimkon How the iPhone Ruins Walking

100% Disagree with the opinions of OP. I live in NYC and walk 6 miles a day (the joys of having a Jack Russell terrier).

Every walk we take is random; the phone allows me to stay connect if I need to but doesn't control my path. My Apple Watch keeps track of my distance/time walking (I get an alert at 35 mins if I'm on an hour long walk => 25 mins to walk home). The AirPods are always in Transparency mode where I can fully hear what's going on in the city with some music I like playing as well.

If you want to wander; you will wander.

ajaimkon Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast

Doing the math… this would cost me $50 per year in electricity bill

ajaimkon TikTok privacy policy says they monitor names of other installed apps

But they don't. I see ads for installed apps all the time.

ajaimkon The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

HACK THE PLANET!!!

ajaimkon Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

They've had 3 months to test the new iOS software. That's the whole purpose of WWDC in June and new OS coming out in September

ajaimkon GeForce Now: A Review

I played a lot of Anno 1800 on GeForce Now but got stuck late game with only 8 gb of RAM :-(

ajaimkon Mainnet Merge Announcement