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Pretty vicious. As an employee I wouldn't consider working at Oracle or any company that's done this when there are plenty of companies which, despite layoffs sucking for everyone involved, at least compensate their employees decently when it happens.

It sounds like OP is talking about having this extra pair with them where they go, not just having a pair in general.

Can you name some companies whose products are built on original ideas?

Does this mean he owes US income tax? Maybe the IRS will get him.

Korea too, and any other country. There are some great movies that push the boundaries of storytelling but those are just as rare as great American movies.

It's too bad Whedon won't be a part of it. I wonder if there's a way to sufficiently un-cancel someone like him. Like sit him down and say, we're going to give you another chance but you need to be on your best behavior or you're out for good.

Source?

Not even good seats, but if you're in a group you may not be all able to sit together. Or if you get your tickets and someone wants to join you later, there could be nothing left near you. I'm not a fan of assigned seating for those reasons.

The interviewed individual worked at the US state department. But The Walrus is a Canadian outlet so their writings are rarely about the US.

If you're wondering "Why is this on HN?"

> “It was a choice. It was a choice that was made at the start of the civil war. It was the most accurately predicted massacre in human history. We had two and a half years to stop it. We had the full weight and the full capability of US-intelligence-level collection tools,” Raymond tells me. “We knew everything.”

Do a search for "Meta" in HN and their 2022 layoffs of 11000 people is one of the most-voted posts with over two thousand upvotes. Now in 2026 it barely registers as news.

I doubt it, E2E isba huge part of Whatsapp's selling point considering it's exclusively a messaging app. Instagram is primarily a social app with messaging features.

When Meta starting introducing E2E messaging it was a huge push. I wonder why they're doing away with it.

I read this as techno bros. Frankly that wouldn't be a bad life.

Are drugs in high schools really a problem in WA? Where are you in Canada and how does it compare?

Another option is to increase the tax base. Washington has had high population growth this century which has been great for revenues.

Who are the "good" immigrants? It's a topic that's been talked about a lot recently but most countries, and I imagine states too, prefer that people with more money or income potential move there versus people with less.

When I was a new grad moving to the US and deciding where to live and work, the biggest draw of Seattle was its lack of income tax. Of course this particular $1 million threshold wouldn't apply to me until I'm very late in my career, or have a lucky year, or get married to a high-income person (the $1 million threshold applies to married couples, not just individuals) but Seattle loses a lot of its appeal if it's not financially advantageous. Of the other tech hubs, SF beats Seattle on weather and jobs and New York beats it on urban lifestyle. Or if you want to avoid income taxes, why not go to Florida or Texas.

I wonder if introducing income taxes will impact Seattle's tech hub status going forward. Sometimes people talk about how much these measures will lead to rich people moving away, but discouraging high-income people from moving there I think is a bigger long-term impact.

The bigger news is that it would be WA's first-ever income tax, along with the tax on capital gains income they just introduced. You can look at any historical example of introducing income tax in the US to see that the rates always expand to lower brackets over time.

Anthropic is a supply chain risk. Why on earth would they allow them to be used in such important tooling?

To any Iranians of HN: how do you feel about the current situation, and what's the sentiment of Iranians abroad?

Are they legally required to agree to a new contract? Which law says this?

Singapore? The UK, apparently, since they don't do these things?

This sounds like a message to would-be founders: don't base your company in the US. The strongest markets to do business are the ones with the most freedom from government meddling. In the US, big government is happy to use its power to crush private enterprise that it doesn't like.

I'm a senior in NYC, considering changing jobs but haven't pulled the trigger. I've got a good amount of reachouts from finance recruiters and small-to-medium sized startups but haven't heard anything from the established players (admittedly I haven't been looking).

To anyone who's been looking for SWE jobs lately, has this been your experience?

I miss those days. It may have been economically silly but there was so much optimism, especially in the tech world.

Does anyone know what teams are affected?

I wonder if this is the beginning of a new wave of layoffs across the industry like we had in 2022.

Advertising? "We don't want to pay an artist" goes a long way for a small business with a limited budget.

> Speculative as it is, the scenario has unnerved investors. The S&P dropped more than 1% on Monday, and the software component of the index fell to its lowest level since Trump’s “liberation day” tariff announcement in April. Doubtless some of the wobble is attributable to Trump’s latest tariffs, but Uber, American Express, Mastercard and DoorDash, specifically named in Citrini’s report, all lost between 4% and 6%.

So how exactly does the article attribute the movements of the market to this Substack post? What is the proof that this was the cause? Journalism usually deals with proof of what it says but I don't see any in articles like this.