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> Second point is that evidently twitter didn’t pay its bills (hosting maybe?) for Spaces.

This is Musk’s #1 play in his playbook. Stop paying people and see who is willing to fight for it legally. Then negotiate down.

He did the same thing with Solar Roof customers when he doubled their price and asked them to sign a new contract even if they had a signed contract. My friend was one of those and he simply refused to sign anything because he knew better but I wonder how many signed the new contract. Eventually they relented and honored the original price but it was disgusting to even have to deal with that.

As soon as I get this email I’m going to cancel Netflix and start pirating anything I want to watch, which frankly isn’t very much on Netflix anymore.

I heard that 2/3 of the weight loss is muscle, do you find that to be the case?

Another person dying of pancreatic cancer. I commented on this less than a week ago. It’s getting more and more common and we need to figure out why.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920445

> I am sure they pay their H1B workers less than their non-H1B workers.

I’m quite sure they don’t. My friend makes over $1M total comp. Are you saying he would be paid $2M if he were a citizen?

The biggest concern is that people spur the government into forcing companies to fire H1Bs before US citizens. There was a time when I thought that could never happen but given the political climate it might happen, with disastrous consequences.

What is the evolutionary reason for the blood brain barrier? It’s absolutely fascinating. No other organ has this, but you would expect through randomness that it would exist outside of the brain.

For as long as the biotech company can keep it there

Pancreatic cancer terrifies me and keeps me up at night. It has virtually no symptoms until it’s too late. My friends dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died 6 weeks later.

Every time a celebrity dies of cancer I always hope that it’s not pancreatic but the numbers keep increasing. Patrick Swayze, Steve Jobs, Alex Trebek, Aretha Franklin, now Jerry Springer.

As someone with type 2 diabetes it’s something I worry about very often.

So you don’t have the data but you know that the mean raise for SI is not 1%. Basically “Trust me bro!”

Do they pay for a news feed to get the original articles to desensationalize? I’m curious about any copyright or licensing issues around using external news articles as source material for desensationalizing.

The study was an internet survey with no verification and they mixed the data between a wide variety of types of remote gigs, including upwork and fiverr and the further mixed the idea of “waiting for work” which falsely decreased the average wage.

Can we please delete this post? The “study” is absolute garbage. It’s an internet survey with no verification. Reading through the “study” was a complete waste of time.

70% were given SI rating. The increase for SI was between 0% and 1%.

What was the average raise then

It is accurate.

Google raises for most employees was between 0% and 1%

Sounds reminiscent of the highway that would be made of solar panels that everyone thought was an amazing idea that never ended up happening.

The pandemic proved that pollution is primarily caused by trucks and not cars. Most of the highest polluted cities in the world that were clear during the global lockdown regained their pollution once trucks went back on the road.

I worked for a 100% remote company during the pandemic. It was the least productive job I had. So much time was wasted waiting for people to respond it was driving me crazy. People would disappear for hours at a time and the “asynchronous” working was accepted as the norm. I didn’t even have an office I could drive to to meet other employees. I quit after a few months.

I now work for a company where I’m on site but I work on a team that is remote. I’ve made friends with the people around me and when I can’t get answers from my team I can ask the people around me. Being able to have an adhoc 5 min conversation to explain a very complex idea vs scheduling a zoom hours later saves an immense amount of time.

The difference in productivity is night and day. I’m so happy to be back in the office.

> I am a lot more productive, and even creative working from home

What’s the data to support this statement? It sounds like a feeling. Do you have data to support whether or not your teammates’ productivity are affected by you being remote?

When I first came to Silicon Valley, the free soda really hurt me. I gained 30 lbs because I was drinking over 6 cokes a day. I didn’t realize the damage it would do and now I have type 2 diabetes.

There should be only 2 or 3 types of plastic allowed and they should all be recyclable. Single use plastics and non recyclable plastics should be outlawed. I don’t care how expensive that makes things. We need to recycle our plastics instead of burning them like we do today, after china refused to take out plastic which they later burned.

First republic had a lot of high net worth individuals. Similar to SVB their high bank balance made a percentage of them moving away very damaging and it looks like it accelerated.

With a regular bank, you would have much smaller accounts so a proportional number of accounts leaving Wells Fargo would have less of an effect.

Everything on Roblox is gamified to suck as much money out of kids as possible.

When my kid was using Roblox several years ago, all the games were made by kids. Nowadays all of the game developers moved from phone apps to Roblox. There’s no way I’m letting my kid get addicted to their tactics which are very effective, especially on kids.

It’s creating a generation of black and brown students that are uneducated and won’t be able to compete against anyone else. It’s the ultimate in racism. Overt racist policies couldn’t be more effective and de-educating these students more than these ”progressive” policies have. Half of Black SF high school students can barely read.

https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/half-of-black-students-c...

Decades of EXCLUSIVELY PROGRESSIVE policies have lead to this end result. There aren’t any Republican boogeymen you can blame for this damage these policies have created.

If you were a hardcore racist and systematically wanted to keep Black and Brown kids uneducated, you would throw out all expectations and requirements and let them pass every year until they graduated high school with almost no education. The white kids and the rich kids will find a way to educate themselves, either through tutors or private school but the poor kids with no options would be stuck in this worthless system and graduate high school completely uneducated.

This is exactly what’s going on right now in SFUSD, and it’s so blatantly bad I honestly believe they are white supremacists in charge of the curriculum. What we are seeing is true systematic racism. How do they expect these kids to compete intellectually when they have lived an entire lifetime with lowered expectations?

People are always unhappy. My wife is an exec and most of her direct hires are clueless as to their worth. One of her direct reports got a promotion and when another found out, he complained. Meanwhile, he did less than half the work of the other. When she pointed that out, he got quiet. He’s probably still going to quit because most people can’t take the truth.

I don’t remember hearing about offers that were recalled during the dot com bust. Is this something new that is now the new normal?

The age of Social media.