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Nothing beats an internet random telling us how much a successful person is silly and also can't meet their own superior standards.

It's not about being a fan or not, it's that you're not actually providing any real insight other than signalling how smart you are.

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These people behave just like the irrational fanboys, except they just do the exact opposite. Being a sheep and being a contrarian sheep are the same thing.

I've no dog in this race but I'm excited to see what influence, if any, this will have on the topology of similarly inflated tech companies.

Honestly, I'm hopeful that other coastal tech companies do clean house. I genuinely believe it could lead to a resurgence in the lives of Midwest/middle American states and cities.

There is an absolute vacuum of technology specialists in the middle of the US, because no one wants to "live in the middle of nowhere," and they don't want to earn less than FAANG (MAMAA?) salaries, when half of those salaries can give you an amazing life in the middle of the country (source: my piss-poor salary compared to yours).

"Knowing that haters are just fanboys with the sign bit flipped makes it much easier to deal with them"

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