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> That's your mistake right here - making long term plans while being on temporary visa. Just assume that you're here for a few years to make money, and then need to go back to your home country. That's the idea behind H-1B visas anyway.

Just to be clear, since H-1B (or visas with similar restrictions) are the only path to permanent residency for people of many countries, this attitude is tantamount to "we don't want any immigrants from ______, period".
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I don't think anyone, even proponents of cryptocurrencies think that the industry as a whole is 'on the right path'.
> 1/20th its current size. And then many many smaller platforms spring up

That's not how social networks work because the bigger they are the more useful they are to users.
Sure you do, just not linearly
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Musk indeed appears to see himself as an agent of humanity's salvation, including in its treatment of Twitter employees. And to be honest, while I and likely many people would see it as self-serving delusion of grandeur, it's hard to believe he's not at least genuine in his belief: you can't really suspect him of wanting to take over Twitter (and all of its headaches) for money.
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You assume that during a firesale they would actually get value approaching what they claim is worth 14.6B. Since FTX and Alamaeda are by far the largest holders of FTT and significant holders of Solana they will destroy the market for both if they had to sell. It's likely the real value of their assets is far lower, as the other commenter suggested.
Which is exactly why a book on the topic would be well received!
I was looking at buying some farm equipment to reap the rewards of that higher food price, but it certainly hasn't fallen in value. Very much the opposite.

He has a point, though. On a developer salary, the basics like food and gas make up only a small portion of one's income. It may be an increasing portion, but still just a portion. The remainder can buy more, depending on what you want to buy.
153 characters, in response to a message 152 characters in length. Did these shorter-than-twitter lengths destroy this discourse?
Or it's well architected. Most of the time, developers are ideally working on new value additions rather than pure maintenance.

The problem happens when something breaks - let's say your database changes the execution plan and it crawls to a halt. I've seen this happen out of the blue and it was a few hours of work to figure out a solution. If you don't have a developer who understands the code, you might be sunk.
If you are pregnant and low income, insurance and healthcare is free. I guess jobless would be low income. Every state has similar program, for example WA

https://www.hca.wa.gov/free-or-low-cost-health-care/i-need-m...
Twitter might fire 3500 people this year. Headline news. SpaceX and Tesla will each hire tens of thousands this year. Not news.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348716
So they’re saying we could crowd-fund an extremely shitty version of Snowpiercer?
Yeah, that's why I wrote it "prove" - it's not proving anything. There's absolutely no way they can prove that the code in that box is the same as on the repo, not to mention all the other upstream issues - it has to send that count somewhere to be aggregated, and now we're even further removed from all the possible points of "failure".
He's not quite as openly fascist as say, Peter Thiel, but he's clearly a douchebag who cares about nothing beyond himself. He's clearly sympathetic to racists and autocrats. He does not have a desire to make humanity a multi-planet species. He just wants an escape pod from the burning Earth.
Like I said, make an educated decision. However, the largest reason that authors make so little is that the publishing houses overwhelmingly give them next to nothing. So no, downloads are not the problem. Anecdotally, I have never had an author not send me a digital copy of a book I requested from them (generally because they were hard to get). At the same time, it is pretty obvious which authors are smaller and would thus fall into the category of "people to look out for" I indicated in my first post. And again, I am not here advocating for downloading, simply pointing out that it is quite different than strict theft (which is pretty obvious), and those who claim otherwise, by using a simplistic argument, lose a large part of their audience immediately.
The solution to that is to not invest (or gamble) more than you are willing to lose and not to take financial advice from movie stars.
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LTCM was also helmed by some smart guys who did a lot of math and understood risk management...
Sure, as long as it doesn't affect you / your industry, it doesn't exist.

You are either very naive, were manipulated into this conclusion, or you are playing naive to spark discussion (which would actually be commendable).
I don't get the XKCD analogy. Are you inferring that women who are aware that the actual statistics say that they will be murdered by a loved one are more likely to be killed by a stranger?
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Likely not in the EU:

If you bought a product or a service online or outside of a shop (by telephone, mail order, from a door-to-door salesperson), you also have the right to cancel and return your order within 14 days, for any reason and without a justification.

(source:https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...)
Computers have gotten so complicated, exploitable, and finicky that sometimes I feel only some programmers are able to fully enjoy the benefits of them. Likewise our legal system has gotten so complex, exploitable, and finicky that only lawyers can navigate disputes with other entities. I wonder which is a more valuable skill.
It's funny how the most privileged act the most spoiled. Imagine steel plant workers or car manufacturing jobs. Demand goes down? So does your job --union or not.

WallStreet is used to the ups and downs (they are somewhat comparable compensation-wise), and it's a way of life. You win big and you lose from time time. In tech you have some people who think it's their birthright to have good jobs with good pay and benefits and never have to go through a downturn.
On the small portion of the US railway network that Amtrak owns, its quite successful, the Northeast Corridor is most likely profitable (and probably the only profitable part of the Amtrak system).
> will the medications just be synthesized at home

How is this related to AI?
We have about a century of empirical data that says that automation does not cause widespread unemployment. Automating horses took away all the horse-care jobs and business, but they found other things to do. Computers automated computers (armies of mostly women who chugged out calculations), and they all found new jobs. Nobody has a secretary any more. All those people responsible for inter-departmental mail are gone, because nobody sends memos any more. Nobody has live-in servants any more, partly thanks to washing machines, dishwashers, and microwaves.

Actually, in some sense, more people have servants, just that they are part-time: cleaning services, people who keep track of your schedule (executive assistants, but for normal people, can't remember the word).

When Microsoft Word automated away secretaries, it also raised the level of quality to be what was formerly available only at professional printers, so people spend the same amount of time, but now the expectation of quality of output is higher.

There can't really be widespread unemployment due to automation, because then labor costs would decrease and handmade goods would become more affordable, so people would start doing that.
When you take a job at a consistently unprofitable company, you kinda have to accept that's what you signed up for. Every job at Twitter is a speculative bet that might or might not pan out. I'm not saying they're not allowed to feel bad or complain about it, but a sale followed by rapid staff cuts is what always happens to startups who don't do well enough on their own.
If actors and football players can unionize so can software developers. There’s no point in intentionally allowing our peers to be treated worse, because then it allows our bosses to treat us just as badly. The most famous actors have all the power to demand better and yet are still part the guild because the demands they can make actually rise as the floor of actor treatment also rises.
I was an SRE there (even senior SRE!) -- left in 2018 but have still been pretty in-the-loop for the past few years due to friends there. The question was, how long would thing stay up if everything stopped: the answer was <1 week for everything (including ads, things you don't see, etc). Maybe 2 or 3 for most core functionality.

With some of their service issues in the past few weeks (DC stuff that's been publicized), it could be less. To the very best of my knowledge no substantial resiliency work has been done recently.

I do know that a good number of folks on-call for core services were laid off while on-call, so, that bodes well. I feel bad for everyone left trying to keep things running.
I don't care a lot about Twitter itself, and I'm willing to entertain the notion that it could function equally "well" with a much smaller fraction of the workforce...

But this is something that should be implemented gradually. Here is someone who just stepped into the company, and he's laying off people en masse. Even if you concede that Musk is some sort of genius (which I don't, but that's besides the point), that doesn't mean that you can just walk into a company and tell from day 1 who is productive and who isn't. And even if you could, making redundancies obsolete isn't something you can just do in one go, even if certain people and processes are inefficient there would probably be a need for a transition period where the institutional knowledge can be transferred.

Given everything else I know about Musk and this deal, this looks to me like a knee-jerk action, not a careful business decision.
He has done a fantastic job at fundraising for SpaceX. Most other companies can't get past Series G as a private company. I think SpaceX is on series N, or around there. The talent pool available to SpaceX and Tesla is also very smart and motivated, and will put up with a lot of BS from the companies because they are so mission-driven.

That is his really great talent: getting smart people to put their resources behind ambitious projects. That was also Elizabeth Holmes's talent, and Adam Neumann's. So far, he has done well at pivoting that inspiring message to real results, unlike the other two.
> ideological bubbles

Good points. I agree with all you write.

However, Musk's stated intent when buying twitter, was to make it a non-partisan town square. This comes with a context of the US currently being divided more and more into two competing "tribes" of similar size and power. (Ie. the perfect setup for a civil war.)

If you look at the "ethics" teams kind of like law enforcement, it's important that they are neutral to this partisan divide, and don't have a "My side good, other side evil!" attitude.

If Elon is of the opinion that Twitter has been engaging in a partisan way, it is natural that roles like this are torn down and built from scratch, where the new teams are thoroughly screen to make sure they have as little affiliation with each of the tribes as possible, and to make sure that any affiliation remaining is balanced between the tribes. (Kind of like one does when recruiting a jury for a high profile court case, and also how presidents should select supreme court justices)

Hopefully, Musk goes through with this the way he has stated, by aiming for non-partisanship, and not in a pro-Republican way.
True, the average voter is not inclined to hire a computer expert to do an analysis, but if there is widespread suspicion, they will at least have the ability to vent their collective outrage into an actual audit of the code. This transparency can provide some assurance.
I doubt it. Automated spam detection is pretty good. It's rare that even a single piece makes it to my gmail inbox, and I don't see why Twitter couldn't do the same.
I remember friends coming back to the university job fair telling me how bad it was out there. With 1-2 years experience they came back to our engineering job fair looking for internships and entry-level positions. Those without prospects just rode it out in graduate school. If you weren't in a position to repay student loans it was better to load up more debt and delay it a few years.

I was c/o 2003. There was a lot of slack in the entry-level pipeline as companies were recovering but didn't need to seek new graduates because there was a 3 year backlog.
It's hardly an obsession. I spend approximately five minutes a year thinking about Musk. shrug Just wondered what would happen to Twitter after the takeover. Now we know.

More to the point, though, I don't think we should normalize the exploitation and mistreatment of labor. Doesn't matter if it's one CEO or ten or ten thousand, it's not cool anywhere.
You probably want to consider the political normal to be the landscape that corporations is comfortable with. If companies become defensive then it might be politically extreme. If they are not, then it probably isn't. I think this idea that "every large company on earth seems to be 'far left'" is probably a sign that the vantage point might be shifted...
They got the equivalent of their years-long salary paid out every quarter?
Are you being sarcastic when you present 'board and shareholders' as a 'check and balance' ?
I'm honestly not sure if you are, because the idea that a board and shareholders can be thought as a counterpower is ludicrous to me but it's hard to detect sarcasm in a message
> But that 20% raise you got

I'd gladly take a 20% raise with this inflation. I'm taking a pay cut, plus the inflation's reduction to real pay, plus rent will be going up at a rate outpacing inflation.
The audacity to think that running a company well involves running your employees into the ground is peak Republican stupidity. There are thousands of companies that are great and profitable and yet are still great places to work.
hot take:

big tech layoffs are actually very good because they release into the wild a slew of competent workers with great credentials who will hopefully get hired by a company which does something useful for humanity instead of selling ads
What do you mean 200$
That said, I find a return rate of 18% extremely high.

I have maybe returned two or three purchases over the past decade and a half...
Yes, I well remember when the US pressured many big financial companies to stop financial transactions with WikiLeaks, and cut off something like 95% of their funding. (Bank of America also didn't like WikiLeaks' planned release of the bank's internal documents.)

I'll note that WikiLeaks is still around, and I believe they could always receive wire transfers. (As a less relevant point, WikiLeaks uses the money for ongoing acquisition and curation, and not only dissemination. The information was mirrored and available elsewhere.)

This therefore isn't an example of b800h's "private companies own every method of articulating your views."

Which other examples were you thinking of?
The green card wait for chinese and indian citizens is decades long. This is "don't make any long term plans until you are 50" kind of advice.

The idea behind h1b is to bring people to this country to work in useful and productive ways. Telling people to get the fuck out after a few years of work (even if they've spent 8-10 years in school here prior to that) is heartless and definitely not good for the country.
It is impressive how these are coordinated.
Really? How does it work? Is in an NFC implant? Which PC/phone software do you use to read it
All the UA reduction proposals still include sending the browser major version, which is what you need to handle this kind of incompatibility.
The financial system of today is under full control of international banks, it has levers to be anything they want at any given time, with few limitations.

The financial collapse will likely come early next year, with CBDCs being promoted and offered as a way out of it.
I have no interest in Sam, Sam coins, or the cult of Sam.
As someone in the industry, it's almost certainly not.

First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere. They may have a lot of junk tokens on their balance sheet, and these tokens may be overmarked, but Alameda's cost basis (most of them were from seed rounds) is still way below their current value.

With Three Arrows it was very obvious where the loss was from, they were hyper-bullish and doubling down on BTC all the way from $69,000 to $18,000 using leverage. By contrast Alameda is notorious for being dollar maxis, constantly taking money off the table, and very rarely having any sort of long-term major beta exposure. (A big reason they have a reputation as mercenaries in the space.)

The second point is that the bulk of their liabilities are in the same tokens on their balance sheet. This is particularly true for the FTT token, almost certainly the FTT on their balance sheet is simply a loan from FTX (which is essentially the same org) to Alameda to make a market on FTT on FTX. Regardless if FTT collapses, it wouldn't matter cause insolvency both the asset and liability side of the balance sheet would go down.

Most likely this is true for much of the rest of their liabilities. Crypto trading firms like Alameda make a huge proportion of their revenue from being "paid market makers" for specific token projects. It's very hard for new tokens to bootstrap liquidity. So the typical arrangement is a token project will "lend" Alameda something like 5% of the supply, which Alameda will use to be a market maker in that token at all of the major venues. Most of the liabilities on their balance sheet are probably these token deals, rather than loans made in hard currency.
that was for tax reasons.
Paypal owes me $200.

They locked an account and wouldn't unlock it.

Years later I get a letter from the State Comptroller about how they are about to receive my balance ($200) from PayPal because they (PayPal) haven't been able to contact me (Don't they have my email address?) There's a number to call, I call it, the PayPal employee says "How do you want your money, check or in your PayPal account?" I choose check, of course, because the account is locked.

And that's the last I ever heard of it. No check. No new letter from the comptroller. PayPal must have kept it. They found a loophole in the system.

It's literally not worth my time to pursue it, so instead I just mention this story in public from time to time.

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Is the modern data stack just old wine in a new bottle?
show us your 'creative' system so you don' have to remove what is on top to get what's below in a chest freezer.
Anyone working as an engineer could get paid more and get better benefits from other tech companies. Leaving Amazon my pay nearly doubled.
For cli tools startup performance matters a lot, and many languages struggle on that point (eg Java) go and rust would probably be acceptable though.
At present there are other options available for Twitter workers. You make a reasonable point though; Its easy to imagine skilled engineers are doing well but equally we could say that its just the lowest common denominator terms and conditions for that kind of job are better than those for most other jobs.
I’d guess a long time!

The way we engineers build systems is to have a solid core and then a lot of fancy cruft to handle the constant stream of inevitable changes that bring in new features or update stuff. Take the changes away by removing people who’d roll them out, and you have the core running as it was designed to do.

I believe when the remaining engineers or the new ones(if they will be..) start rolling out changes is when shit will break and make the whole thing wildly unpredictable.
> He created Tesla for the money that's in the growing electric car market

He arguably created that market. The same applies to your other points. Musk created the markets that didn't exist before. Others had tried and failed, so I'm sorry, but you just can't deny that. It could be luck, so I suppose we'll see.

I have no doubt that Musk is interested in making money. I also have no doubt he enjoys that money from time to time. However, I think it's indisputable that no other billionaire works as hard as he does at his ventures, and I think a lot of his interest in that money is so that he can continue funding work to combat those existential risks.

> It's probably more because they like getting paid so they can afford nice things while they're not working.

Maybe you should read up on the working environment at these companies. There's not as much downtime as you imply. I personally wouldn't want to work for him given his management style, even on these existential problems.
> AMD is well behind nvidia on Linux.

It is sarcasm, right? Last time I checked nvidia GPUs on Linux required proprietary nonsense and could not even run Wayland.

> AMDs Linux support for anything except it’s core driver is crappy.

Fortunately, the vast majority of users want their GPUs to display graphics. If the Steam Deck is any indication, AMD GPUs on Linux are quite capable of that.
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Or. Maybe, just maybe, he used it to avoid paying taxes like other billionaires do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/business/donor-advised-fu...
SEV as in "severe"?
I don't know about 50% but Citi group, Boeing, Ford and GM all did lay-offs in the 20-30% range in the last 20...

https://fortune.com/2015/09/20/biggest-corporate-layoffs/

HP did 30% in 2008 over multiple rounds.

Does anyone actually know how many Musk is laying off? (It seems there is an enormous amount of BS being claimed here, I heard 80%+ but with no reliable numbers, who knows)
I accept that Paypal is part of my financial life. Therefore I aim to manage the risks. I use a "burner" bank account to send and receive funds. It's a bank account with a bank with whom I do no other business.