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I guess you don’t remember the dot com bust and all the salary cuts that happened with some companies instead of layoffs.

Lol this is completely wrong.

Time to make those on-site interviews more rigorous. Looks like too many bad coders are leaking through the interview process.

Everyone who is responding doesn’t understand the core benefit of Substack: the writer owns the relationship between them and their subscribers. Substack has no such ownership. Substack doesn’t take payments from the subscribers and then pay the writer. The subscribers directly pay the writer and the writer is charged a fee by Substack. It is VERY easy for writers to drop off Substack. They own their subscription lists and if they want to move to Patreon they can. But Substack’s incentive is to make their product so good that the writers stay. That is how the company is set up. They could have created a moat where Substack owns the subscribers but they chose to flip it so that it is very easy for writers to leave. Literally writers can leave Substack with the click of the button and they can take their subscribers with them, and that’s a core value of the company. I think the company values are amazing and new and something you don’t see anymore. I actually applied to the company last year but didn’t pass the interview which was very disappointing but I plan on trying again this year. It’s a company I firmly believe in and I love the mission.

What is insane is when people frame anti-censorship as an alt-right value. That offends people like me who are staunchly liberal but completely anti-censorship to my core.

The vast majority of Uber drivers are part time by choice. You don’t have that option with taxi driving. One driver I had would wake up early and drive people to the airport before work and that helped him pay off his car sooner. Uber is extremely flexible and the engagement model isn’t predatory. You make money from your first trip and everything is clearly spelled out. You can even work for Lyft and Uber at the same time.

Flexibility is the key for most drivers. Is every driver happy? No. Is every google software engineer happy? No. Some would accuse google of being predatory but just because some people say that doesn’t make it real. Go ask most of the drivers and you will see that it’s a part time job to them and for what it is it’s fine. They don’t look to it like some career and they shouldn’t.

I think the more you write the less you make sense and you’re really grasping at straws here. Nothing you say at this point is more than strawmen, meanwhile everything I have said is not only internally consistent but makes perfect sense. I think you should give it a rest.

If this question became popular how would you change it so that people who were prepared wouldn’t have an advantage?

Surviving a “few decades” sounds like a successful business in anyones eyes.

Only in hacker news do you find people who think the taxi industry is some bastion of freedom and some poor victim of Uber.

Does no one know how the taxi industry works and the insane levels of corruption involved? Most taxi drivers start their shift IN DEBT, every single shift. They owe the taxi company $100 at the beginning of their shift to rent the taxi and then have to work to pay off this debt every shift. Once they have earned it they can keep whatever money they earn. If they need to stop working in the middle of the shift, they are net negative.

They need to pay for their own gas, they need to clean the taxi, and if someone pukes in their car they have to clean it themselves.

There is no vacation pay, they have no freedom at all.

Most Uber drivers are happy. That’s a fact. I dare you to ask your next driver. I just took 2 Ubers today and they were happy. My second driver told me he felt lucky because he had Uber to fall back on during the pandemic. You get a small number of professional drivers who want to destroy uber and journalists that want to as well so you get completely slanted articles like this. Somehow Lyft is the hero and Uber is the bad guy, when both do exactly the same things.

The simple fact is Uber provides a great service and most drivers are happy. In terms of investment, post-IPO it has been largely dead money but the idea is never going away.

Taxi companies are not the heros here. They were even more predatory than anything claimed here about Uber which are mostly twists or flat out lies.

When you see a combination with a bunch of possible letters, you have to try to eliminate the letters instead of going for the win. Lots of people keep going for the win and losing when they could have eliminated a bunch of possibilities with a completely different search.

You need to read more carefully. The author goes through great pains to ensure he doesn’t admit fault. Never once does he say “okay I admit, I should have been more careful.” He doesn’t take ownership ever over the fact that he made the mistake. He thinks this is all GitHub’s fault because of his misunderstanding and carelessness.

I can generally hate someone but also see their good qualities. It’s not mutually exclusive at all.

Do ISP block this sort of mass scanning? Seems like something that is easy to detect and block.

Pretty interesting perspective, I wish it were in a different format so I could read it easier.

I think the biggest problem with globally scaled companies is that HUMANS can’t mentally scale their expectations with the size. Meaning, if you have 10,000 people pissed and tweeting about something, you think “Oh my God this has gone viral, something has to be done!” But 10,000 angry tweets are nothing. 100,000 angry tweets are nothing. But to a single human it’s humongous but compared to the size of Twitters audience, some 300,000,000 people, 100,000 is not material.

Combine that with the majority that probably agree with you being silent, it’s easy to feel like you’re on the wrong side if you disagree. But you might not be.

Someone with guts needs to say, fuck the 100,000 angry tweets, this is the right thing to do. That person is Elon. And I’m not a fanboy at all because I generally hate him. But I admire his actions here. All I know is that he is a “fuck it” kind of guy and that’s what will lead social media out of this mess. People need to stop worrying about tens of thousands of angry tweets and just have the proper internal compass.

I am very compassionate towards their loss. It must suck to have mistakenly destroyed their community. However I draw the line when they falsely blame others for their own mistake.

You can be compassionate for a mistake and still insist someone take ownership over this own careless error instead of blaming others. You mistake compassion for “let them do or say whatever they want because they are a victim”.

I work in enterprise software and around 2000 the combination of Solaris and Oracle database was the most rock solid out of all the various OS/DB combinations. I vaguely remember the threading model was weird and I think limited stack size per thread but overall it was my favorite combo because of how reliable it was.

The speed with which Linux killed Solaris however was astonishing.

I take ownership over my mistakes. I don’t try to blame others. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.

I did RTFA. I do not accept the excuse that he didn’t read it properly. He skimmed it because he thought it was the same box but it wasn’t. He even admits that it contained the exact information that he was looking for. I don’t see any way he can complain.

I came in to say precisely this. It’s easy to point fingers after the fact but probably the person wouldn’t have checked regardless of the message in the dialog box.

“They warned me but because I didn’t read the dialog box because it was too boring!

The former head of the ACLU from the 80s who famously defended the Nazis for free speech even though he is Jewish has been rallying against the current ACLU for precisely this reason.

Why would he sell shares? He would have to pay income tax on that. He will borrow against it obviously.

It’s not just the government. Companies like Twitter are so ubiquitous that they are a form of government entity now, especially when they enforce government talking points. When Twitter decides that talking about the lab leak theory gets you kicked off the platform, they are becoming nothing more than a government tool. This was the breaking point for Musk and for me as well.

Not giving a “platform” to alternative views, no matter how “damaging” you or the government feels it is is crucial for a democracy.

ACLU of 2021 no longer supports free speech. The ACLU of the 80s and 90s were a bastion of free speech.

I gave some very honest feedback during my exit interview at Yahoo when I left, and I was blacklisted. So from then on I never ever gave exit interview feedback ever. It’s not worth it.

Why is the terrorist activities EXPANDING when there have been not even a single coordinated terrorist attack in over 20 years?

This is why people fight against vaccine mandates and I’m about to join them.

I guess they better increase the difficulty of their coding interviews to LC hard to fix this problem.

Ketamine therapy is supposed to be revolutionary for depression. You should look into it and it doesn’t have to be taken daily like SSRIs.

My sister is on SSRIs. It took a couple of different meds but she is pretty happy now. You need to do both meds and therapy for good results.

If the same study previously showed that women were paid less than men, but now show they get paid more, does that not show that things have changed? Are you more inclined to believe it when it showed women earned less and more inclined to not believe when it shows they earned more?

I wonder what the most powerful server you could create given reliable solar power like in the Bay Area.