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Nice, sounds like the cost can be recouped after just a few trips to Whole Foods.

OP said it’s strategic, not that it’s protectionist for US companies (in fact, they pointed out that no US companies are competing in the next sentence that you didn’t quote). I think you’re both saying essentially the same thing.

Yes, those are the only cellular infrastructure companies besides Huawei. There was Alcatel-Lucent, but Nokia bought them a while back.

I’m the same way.

His cadence and intonation is intolerable. It’s as if he’s every every syllable needs to be as dramatic as possible. He also slips into a half-whisper sometimes that perhaps is supposed to be soothing but I just find unsettling.

Not to mention, the constant interjection of hmms, huhs, and ahs as guests are speaking.

As much as I appreciated the content, I found the delivery so incredibly grating that I had to stop listening.

Not sure if it’s true, but I heard Facebook did a hiring freeze on junior engineers for a while. Too much technical debt accumulating too fast.

I have colleagues who work in the London office and make similar numbers. Depends on the company.

These numbers are much higher than most of the US as well.

They're mostly representative of Seattle, NYC, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Also note that housing prices in these regions are astronomical, particularly the Bay Area. Even a relatively small house can cost millions.

You were being underpaid for SF.

That's why surveys like these are useful. There are many companies who will happily underpay unsuspecting employees for years or decades on end.

You probably made the right choice though. Even at compensation levels posted in this survey, there's no value for your money here.

> ”because of an obscure clause that no one has ever read, which was created for this very purpose.”

I don’t like that OP was locked out of his email.

But besides that, it’s not as if he broke some obscure TOS clause. He actively subverted the company’s revenue model to take its product for free. That’s about as obvious as it gets that you’re risking being blocked from a service.

Sounds like San Francisco. Just swap dog poop with human poop, and a glass of beer with a needle of heroin.

I had turned to Target for online shopping, and recommended it to others, but now they’re opening their site to third-party sellers too. They’re claiming they’ll be more selective about who they allow on their platform, but it’s still a worrying development.

Costco actually struggles to purchase small chickens, which it uses for its $4.99 rotisserie.

According to this article published last week, it’s opening a $450M poultry complex in Nebraska because suppliers aren’t providing enough small chickens.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/business/costco-5-dollar-chic...

Ok. Keep blaming the employees for your retention problems. It's definitely not your fault. I'm sure it will work out.

Sounds like you’re managing to get the work done, even with the constant churn. If you can make it work, why should the boss pay your mentees more? May be time to look at other options yourself.

I get a few notifications daily from my manager: “Hi. You there?” Morning, noon, and night.

Maybe the intention is that I don’t have to respond. But every now and then, it’s about something important.

So I have to stop what I’m doing every time, respond, wait for the actual message to be typed out, and realize it’s something unimportant that doesn’t need to be discussed on a Saturday afternoon. Maybe this is humane, but it’s also annoying.

These 5 cities are not directly related to Uber. Read again.

I actually prefer that policy. At least they stuck to their guns.

We had an inexperienced junior dev come in with an “amazing offer.” This signaled to management that he must be amazing, so they offered a promotion to team lead to keep him. Half the team quit within a month, then he proceeded to run everything into the ground.

There was a certain amount of shadenfreude watching that play out.

You act like you’re doing them a favor by hiring them. You’re not. You’re trying to get cheap labor, and expecting them to feel indebted to you and work at below market rate. It’s not going to happen.

Pay them cheap during training. After they’re trained, pay a premium to the ones you want to keep. Let the rest go to a competitor. It’s simple.

If you can’t afford that, that’s a problem with your business, not the employees.

You think you’re entitled to a trained developer for the price of an inexperienced developer. That’s not going to happen. No wonder they leave.

I feel for you, but then again, why do you keep hiring newbies? You get what you pay for.

Also, maybe the employee is worth the 20% pay bump after you’ve trained them? It sounds like you’re letting another company enjoy the fruits of your labor at a relatively cheap price.

My last company would insist that they couldn’t give promotions or significant raises. Until you came in with an outside offer, then they’d roll out the red carpet and bend over backwards to keep you.

It breeds distrust, discontent, and disloyalty.

The best people don’t like this and leave. They company is left with people who can’t land outside offers. And the company ends up needing to pay market rate anyway to replace the good people who left.

Idiotic.

What has caused that? What isn’t working?

It’s not that Uber can’t be self-sustaining. The problem is that’s not enough to justify their insane valuation.

They titillated investors with tales about autonomous vehicles leading to skyrocketing profits. But now the hype over autonomous vehicles has faded, and it seems unlikely that fully autonomous cars will be mainstream any time soon.

$100B+ for unprofitable ride shares and lukewarm burrito delivery? If you say so.

The Nordic countries, New Zealand, Switzerland and Singapore are perceived as least corrupt by experts and in opinion polls. Do the citizens agree?

A good video on the topic:

https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw

It’s not a homelessness crisis. Homelessness is a symptom. Our cities are in the grips of a heroin & meth epidemic. Until we acknowledge that, it won’t get better.

Murder is down, but non-violent crime (burglary, theft, car break-ins, vandalism) is way, way up. San Francisco now has a higher property crime than any large city in the United States. Literally the worst in the nation.

Not to mention, the trash, used needles, and human feces now covering the city.

I deny he's a talented rapper (that was easy) but I would concede that he's a world-class producer.

> we can now all listen to the very best musicians in the world

The article isn't about politics, and controversial topics are not out of bounds. If you don't like an article, you have the option to ignore it, or even better, contribute your perspective to the conversation. The flag button isn't there to suppress any and all discussion of a topic that you don't personally care for.

I see at least two [flagged] comments. Do flagged comments cause the article to get buried?