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Also, it sounds close to a limit where a buyer would need to get the purchase approved. I don't know what common approval limits for team spending are, but sales will be easier if people don't need to go through a long process to get it approved.

> are used to working with onshore talent that has context

What do you mean by this? Context is really important in programming. I'd say offshore devs are at an actual disadvantage if the offshore team always has less context than the onsite devs.

Doesn't it also reduce the incentive to outsource jobs overseas? It's harder for lower-skilled jobs in the US to compete with overseas workers working for less than minimum wage.

I've made several trips to visit my parents while working, even redirecting mail once. But I still have an apartment in the bay area. I'm sure my family would be happy if I moved in for awhile. But I like my apartment, and I would expect that officially moving out of the bay area would come with a salary cut, I don't think it would save me that much money.

For work there's a bunch of random applications I need to use. Most documentation/IT support assumes you are using the standard macbook/windows machine. I'd rather not do the work of trying to use linux as my main OS. Plus I'm regularly writing code for mac/linux/windows hosts.

Overall I like Windows as an OS, but I like using a linux command line for development. Windows with WSL2 meets most of my dev needs.

I've heard that FB doesn't really hire people with a few years of experience. They hire interns and new grads, but once you're past that they look for 5-6 years of experience.

I'm not offended. I'll give you housing. I'm nowhere close to being able to afford a home. But I'm fine with an apartment. Doing a rough estimate of housing in places I might consider moving to, I might be able to save 5k-10k/yr. I could save more after actually looking, and maybe get a nicer place.

But I don't think saving that money would be worth the long term cost of moving to a place where I would be overpaid for my experience level. I might get lower raises, and I think I would have a hard time getting a competitive offer as a remote worker.

The calculations would change if I had a family. I'd be be able to afford a really nice house in the state where I went to school.

How do you handle promotions and negotiating raises? I'd be concerned about the long term effect if I went remote. The bay area is expensive, but a 50% or 100% increase in compensation seems possible. That only seems possible in areas like the bay, Seattle, or NYC.

Even if the data was misreported, which is a possibility, censoring or deleting it in some way is the worst option. Lets say Florid's growth for that month was 30%. But because of bad reporting it thought it had a growth rate of 15%, until the end of the month when all of the missed cases were reported. That spike will not be accurate, but just deleting it would make it look like Florida still had a 15% growth rate. Reviewing the full months data to correct those issues would give the clearest report, but reporting the raw data is more honest than just deleting the anomaly.

Floating desks sounds really unenjoyable. Plus I'd have health concerns about that before a vaccine is developed.

I have the same concerns. Personally I liked coming into my office. My workspace was decent, I liked being able to have lunch with my coworkers, and the free food was good. Plus my commute was basically non-existent.

I also have long term concerns about my career. Most of employees were working in the office, and the few employees who were remote, regularly came in for a few days. I was happy with my rent, and I wouldn't want to move that far away. So I wouldn't see much savings in time or money from moving.

Full self-driving is a long way off, but GM can use Cruise to develop new active safety systems for their current cars. I don't think GM is doing as well there as Toyota or Honda, let alone Tesla.

The workers aren't risking any criminal consequences. It's much more effective for CA to go after the company.

The email is just trying to intimidate people into coming in or not filing for unemployment.

The normal process is that an unemployed person files for unemployment and also reports earned income and rejected job offers. Both can negatively impact their unemployment claims. Unemployment actually costs companies money.

Normally turning down the same job with the same pay you were laid off from would disqualify you from receiving unemployment. You'd need a great reason. A pandemic, and a shelter in place order are both great reasons. I'm assuming not showing up the factory would not disqualify you.

But CA's unemployment system is overloaded right now. I really wouldn't want to be dealing with it, let alone have my claim be a special case.

Sure, I'll switch between ride sharing apps based on cost alone. But I'll still want available drivers near me. I'm not willing to try multiple apps just to see if it's usable.

I think Uber/Lyft's customer bases are definitely valuable. There's a real business there post Covid-19. I'm not sure what the margins would look like though. I think an acquisition might be a good idea if it was cheap enough and it looked like competitors wouldn't be able to use vc money to offer rides below cost.

I've also heard that large investors are much more cautious about doing large deals right now. I think with all the uncertainty with Covid-19 would mean a major acquisition would be unpredictable.

That makes sense. Even if private information isn't leaked, Amazon would still know things about usage and billing.

I knew they were successful, but I didn't know they were valued at 1.5 billion.

Is medicaid a good option? I think you should qualify in California. Also, I don't know your situation, but has your health needs changed recently? I know Kaiser is trying to limit unnecessary office visits.

I was little curious why Newsom wasn't wanting to release details of California's billion dollar contract for N95 masks. His office even said disclosing details could threaten the supply. It makes a lot more sense if they're afraid the government will seize them.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-s-...

Techcrunch wrote an article in May 2019 about Carta raising a Series E. They also reported an annual revenue run rate of 55 million with nearly 600 employees. That's less than 100k per employee. I'm not sure if Carta's profitable.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/carta-was-just-valued-at-1...

Or just do a credit card chargeback.

I meant I know he's doing research, I don't personally know him. I'd try his public email, bj@bjfogg.com.

I know BJ Fogg, Stanford behavior scientist, and creator of the Tiny Habits program is doing research into habits and COVID-19. Your brother could reach out to him about this.

https://www.tinyhabits.com/handwashing https://www.tinyhabits.com/stop-touching-your-face https://www.tinyhabits.com/expert-help

I think most students would be more self-contained off-campus. Going entirely online helps, but I wouldn't call college downs clean. Clearing them out is a good idea.

Users caring might mean that a user is 15% more likely to select a 5 star host over a 4.5 star host, not that the user will say a 5 star rating is a top concern.

I think part of it is cultural. The majority of Americans speak English as a primary language, and there's only one set of federal laws. That makes it easier to grow your userbase.The EU has a large number of residents, but also has 24 official languages, and the member countries have much more distinct cultures. Localization can be a huge problem for startups there. The potential for growth and access to investment capital means tech companies can and do pay engineers very well. Of course there is China, but China also has a lot of unicorns, and it looks like Chinese developers get paid a lot of money compared to the average income.

I also really don't get it. Obviously things like company compensation are really important in a job offer. But what matters for my day-to-day work satisfaction is the work I'm doing, my team-mates and my team's culture. I don't think I could get really excited about a new opportunity before I knew what I would be doing daily.

It maybe different from Facebook and Google, but is hiring for positions on teams that unique? That's how my employer does it. A lot of our public facing job ads are for specific teams. We have a few general public-facing job ads but I think team/group matching is done early in the process for those also.

It still is a little bit unnerving that older models can accelerate based off of speed limit signs alone. That seems like a dangerous approach.

I'm not sure how great that channel is for in-depth advice. The best case is that he's got a really dry, sarcastic sense of humor. And I think he's currently just running his cs interview prep business on the side after getting fired from Facebook.