Huh, never thought I'd see Rayiner agree that the electoral college is fundamentally anti-democratic.
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A certain Person B: "Yet you participate in society! Curious!!"
Some more info on the "Tu Quoque" logical fallacy being employed by the certain person B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
It would be very valuable to the community if you name-and-shame the company and manager that would evangelize such an obviously dogshit idea.
The narrative has officially shifted to, "ICE subdued an armed supremest with gang ties."
It's not the end of the world, but it's also not really remote work if you have to live within commuting distance of an office.
Absolutely not true. It means someone made money, but it very much does not mean that "everyone" made some money.
In deals like this, common stock often is valued at $0, and employees are instead given a 4-year grant of RSUs in the new company. In other words, their time at Brex was worthless, and they have to last 4 years to get anything. The schedule is often back loaded (eg $0 in the first 2 years, 50% at year 3 and 4). Since most folks won't make it to 3 years, the company knows they won't be paying out almost any of these grants.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
Most ICs figure this out sooner or later. Unfortunately many only discover it after being screwed hard financially.
I wouldn't be surprised if, despite the large-sounding acquisition sum of ~5b, many employees are getting their equity zero'd out and replaced with a back-loaded 4 year grant, with vesting starting today and no credit for time already worked.
Something that's been made very clear over the last few election cycles is that a lot of voters will go against their own interests, as long as it hurts their perceived "enemy" more than themselves.
Mail-in voting enabled citizens who otherwise simply couldn't vote, to vote. Citizens who, more often than not, were from already disadvantaged backgrounds.
> Even Bill Gates has admitted that it's not that concerning.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/bill-gates-memo-climate-chan...
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5585562-bill-...
Tl;dr: Gates still thinks climate warming is a major threat, just not to the extent of using it as a doomsday threat of "guaranteed destruction for all of humanity."
I find it fascinating that climate change deniers will often say absolutely anything to discredit Bill Gates, but the second he says something that could even be misconstrued as support for their side, all of the sudden he's a trustworthy authority for their beliefs.
This statement is so strongly emblematic of today's political discourse.
1. Use Bazel for everything. Doesn't matter that the documentation sucks and it's unbelievable bloat for smaller companies: use it anyway. Use it for everything.
2. Write things from scratch. Need a protobuf parser in C? Just write one up instead of using any of the battle-tested open source options.
3. Always talk down to frontend engineers and treat them as lesser/ not real engineers. Real engineers are backend engineers. Frontend is so easy that they can do a perfectly fine job if needed. Make sure to use Bazel for all frontend builds.
4. Did I mention Bazel? It's the solution to all problems for all companies.