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You are assuming that Apple has great cross-team communication. By many reports, they do not: I've heard that one team does not know what another team is working on, much less the status of that project.

The government is already being dis-intermediated. You could look at this as the government eliminating their competition.

These companies have more revenue and cash on hand than many countries. Looking at the Bay Area, Google and Facebook are taking the lead on repairing and improving infrastructure because the government can't do it alone anymore.

According to the NY Times, "the acquisition values HotelTonight in the range of its last private valuation, $465 million" according to two people familiar with the terms.

The article makes a bold and simplistic claim but in reality the economic transition happened for many more reasons that are undoubtedly complex. Overall it is an interesting article but be careful on basing too much analysis on it!

There are Indian products that can be superior in taste to their Western equivalents. In my opinion, Thums Up and Limca are not those products. I'm going to pick a Pepsi or Coke if taste is the most important factor and I want a soda.

Ever since the site redesign in May, popularity has been falling (source: Alexa Top Websites): https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com

I hope that affected the amount of money they raised. As a reddit fan, the site redesign has not been pleasant. The mobile experience, too.

Wish everyone knew this. I still work with vendors who do this sequentially. My company has a consecutive 64 block of IPs and many vendors insist it is too many to whitelist.

I doubt it. The founders the company saw Flickr starve to death after its acquisition. Surely they don't want the same to happen to Slack.

Side thought: I wonder if Flickr could have become what Instagram is today if not for the acquisition!

Because most apps require far more permissions than what is necessary in a browser. Who knows what they are sending over from your phone.

It's akin to having to install a program on your laptop to view a website instead of using the browser.

Google was known to have many remote offices during it's earlier years. It is rumored that they came to regret doing that so early on.

This is the official Facebook response on using your microphone: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/facebook-does-not-use-your-ph...

According to that, they do not listen for ads.

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I think the point OP is making is that incomes could not support that level of pricing during 2004-2006, only reckless levels of debts.

Now that 12-14 years have passed, incomes - and inflation - have risen and those same prices appear more reasonable. Accounting solely for inflation, $1.2 million today was worth $970,300 in 2006 and $901,900 in 2004.

He's been saying this since 2013, sticking the 15 year horizon (which would now leave 10 years): "Fifteen years from now more than half of the universities will be in bankruptcy, including the state schools. In the end, I am excited to see that happen." (source: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/07/disrupti...)

Even if he is directionally correct, he could be way off on the timing.

What if the high humidity of the bathroom causes the leather strap to break at an inopportune time? What happens if the strap gets misplaced or stolen? This is not a good idea.

The most recent assortment of high-flying tech unicorns were mostly started during the 2008-2011 period. Great startups tend to get their start in the depths of a recession, where perhaps economic conditions force founders to take risks and practice uncommon business creativity. We haven't had a recession in a while; I wonder if the talent that would oridinarily start a startup has chosen the relative comforts of existing large businesses.

I used to think so but I think that is incorrect for the following two reasons: - Stock compensation is not included. This is significant now. - I believe the salary numbers are purposely underreported. The numbers are given to show they are paying a professional wage. I heard (not confirmed) that someone getting paid $200k/year in base salary can be reported as $150k/year, since 150k clears the threshold. I saw salaries in my company that did not reflect what I understand to be the market rate.

Despite what the article says, Glassdoor still hasn't solved the fake review problem. The pay data is also woefully inaccurate. It works best only with a combination of other sources.

The biggest impact to my career has been the semi-anonymous mobile app Blind. I realized I was getting underpaid and I quickly fixed it. I thought I negotiated hard in previous jobs but maybr it was all a ruse to make me feel like I was getting the best salary. Glassdoor and Paysa had lower total compensation numbers for my position.

Would you mind to share what your impossible encounter was like? Did the paper report something else (like the Daily Mail reporting on a helicopter as the cause)?

I like this! This was an idea I toyed around with in my head for a long time. I am glad to see you actually implement it.

One suggestion I have is this: it would be great if there was a way to "peek" ahead and see what other items will soon be coming into season within the next 1-2 weeks.

I am not the original poster, but I share some similar sentiments. I will try to explain why I agree with that comment:

The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates artificially low through its programs, in order to nudge economic growth. In turn, companies have used these low interest rates to borrow vast sums of money. Most have spent it on share repurchases but others have used it to fund acquisitions to chase higher growth. It is in this environment that VC money has thrived, funding candidates for future acquisitions or providing money to large companies (like Uber) to continue growing their business.

I am by no means a professional economist. I am just trying to interpret the current situation with the little bit of knowledge I have. I welcome other opinions telling me I am wrong and why.

I did get and take an offer at a solid tech company. On Glassdoor, there were some impossible questions listed. I was referred to that company and I didn't get asked an impossible question. I attributed that to being lucky, but perhaps I lucked out in getting an abbreviated interview.

I actually would not agree. There is a common set of knowledge that one is expected to know, even if it isn't actively used daily. During the interview process, it was clear that many of the companies asked similar questions. It was possible to prepare for.

However, the two companies I referenced asked questions that were close to impossible to prepare for. These were also not whiteboarding questions (both did have separate whiteboarding sessions which were fair)

This situation slightly reminds me of the interview process at some tech companies. Over the past year, I have interviewed on-site at 10 different companies. Two of those companies had one interview where the questions were extremely difficult and uncommon. When I told my friends those questions, many also thought the questions were bad interview questions.

It is important in any selection mechanism, like interviews, that we have a fair and consistent method of selecting applicants. Yet the questions need to be varied enough so that candidates cannot cheat by hearing the questions ahead of time.

An alternate title would be: Jewish students were given more difficult math problems than their Russian non-Jewish counterparts

Otherwise, the title implicitly implies that Jewish and non-Jewish students received the same questions. That would be interesting!

New foundation, or maybe he finally got a job at Twitter?: https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/1895942068

(The backstory is: Brian Acton was rejected from Facebook and Twitter in 2009)

This is such a pain and ripe for disruption. No company has gotten it right so far.

First I look at flights: what is affordable and when? Some dates are much more expensive than other dates.

Then I look at hotels and itineraries: What do I want to see? What is affordable near where I want to visit? Hopefully there isn't a convention that overlaps.

Finally I look at rental cars: Is it still affordable?

Recently I've used the packaged deals websites or through the airlines. It can be cheaper to get it bundled.

If any one of those factors (airfare, hotel, or car) is overpriced, then I look at a different place. It is usually conventions that disrupt my plans and cause spikes in the prices.

Thanks for the information! The requirement for the FAA to establish a minimum seat size is in the House and Senate Versions of the FAA Reauthorization Bill. The House version is not passed yet, they have until September to do so before the prior one expires.

If the House Bill passes, the reconciled version that will be sent to the President should have this requirement.

I am skeptical. It sounds way too perfect, like a story manufactured for PR. If it really is that way, then great.

What is the reputation of Cruise in the self-driving community?

Yes. Although Administration / UI is slightly more confusing. We had unique performance issues with the ELB offering that couldn't be fixed because it was the way it was designed. With ALB, that performance issue no longer existed.