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lexapro··on Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
"this is on me" --> "look at what a great leader I am, taking responsibility for other people's mistakes"

"i've been genuinely embarrassed" --> "yep, totally not my fault actually"

"I should have known" --> "other people fucked this up, and they didn't even inform me"

lexapro··on Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark
Enhancing your productivity can lead to an improvement in job performance, which in turn, may significantly increase your job security.
lexapro··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
But then I'd have to install an entire browser compared to just installing an extension. And I'd have to use Brave...
lexapro··on Why don’t more people live close to friends?
A person being killed and a person not being born are not the same thing at all.
lexapro··on The Inverse Jim Cramer ETF
His show literally starts with "my mission is simple, to make you money".
lexapro··on They say that stocks go down during the day and up at night
There are even ETFs that take advantage of this: https://www.nightsharesetfs.com/nspy

Has a pretty high expense ratio as it's not cheap to implement this strategy and there is no competition at the moment.

lexapro··on Everything You Can’t Have
>I know of no less than 7 separate things I'd lose myself into

Consider yourself lucky then. Privileged even. Money is not the only privilege there is.

lexapro··on Bleach Is Toxic, but Plenty of Americans Are Still Drinking It
Especially since drinking bleach is a somewhat common meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bleach-drinking
lexapro··on The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
So 50% were not 300K/year engineers.
lexapro··on The Google layoffs are about personal ambition and poor leadership
And I think almost no one really works 30 hours productively at any company.
lexapro··on German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal
Amazon Pay is very convenient.
lexapro··on Code reviews need to shift-left
>review time which is never going to exceed 2% of the dev time

What, why?

lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Happy no, but he didn't fire them because he had to. He fired them because that's what's expected of a CEO, maximizing shareholder value.

You know, he could have fired 11k instead of 12k. I'm sure he sleeps just fine and would have also been okay with 15k.

lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
The honest way to phrase this is "I'm the one who caused this."

"Responsibility" is ambiguous as you said, and that's exactly why he chose that word.

lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
It's like a murderer saying:

"I don't regret what I did, I don't think it was wrong, I would do it again, I haven't been caught BUT I take full responsibility for the death of the victim."

lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
>To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.

He kinda did.

lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
The fewer jobs are available, the more desperate recruiters become to earn their commissions.
lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
You think executives had to watch TikTok videos to know what's going on in their companies? I mean they allowed this to happen. It's not the fault of the employees. And of course these videos don't show reality, they cut out the boring parts (the desk work).
lexapro··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Is this possible in the US? In many European countries you couldn't do that unless one of the companies employs you "unofficially" (thus breaking labor and tax laws).
lexapro··on Stock market charts you never saw (2021)
Price increases are taxed as well (eventually), do you also remove them?
lexapro··on Stock market charts you never saw (2021)
The tax situation also obviously depends on the investors' tax residence. For example in Switzerland, private investors don't have to pay taxes on capital gains. And many countries have a flat tax for dividends and don't consider them income. But then dividends are often additionally taxed at the source, even though you can reclaim it in some cases.
lexapro··on Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
Your website was down for more than 2 weeks not because 2FA is badly designed, but because you bet everything on your phone not getting lost or damaged. And now you refuse to secure your accounts.
lexapro··on Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
They can't send a link to a colleague?
lexapro··on Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes
Grandmas usually don't set up two-factor authentication in the first place.
lexapro··on Restoring a Vintage Rolex GMT
I only have a case so that the iPhone cameras don't stick out and I can lay it flat on the table without wobble.

I know other people who have it because they want better grip or they just want to customize the looks of their phone. Protection is not always the #1 reason.

lexapro··on Tell HN: Gmail's spam filters have gone bonkers
Using quotes in search is hardly power user knowledge.
lexapro··on Kanye West is buying Parler
The "George Bush doesn’t care about black people" incident was in 2005. Not saying that was a manic episode, but it certainly could have been.
lexapro··on Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
You sold at a not so bad time then. The "mistake" was to not reinvest at the 2019 lows.
lexapro··on Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret?
How did you waste it?
lexapro··on SAT score distributions in Michigan
The question is whether it's biological (I doubt it) or cultural.
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