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People complaining and people actually leaving are two very different things.

I work on accessibility. Apple has always been the recognized leader.

This is not a catfish. This is a person lying on their resume

Regardless of your opinion on military projects, I hope we can agree that voting with your feet is a good thing.

Another commenter said Peterson is not an empty self-help guru. I suspect the only difference between the "real deal" and an "empty self-help guru" is how much we like the person.

Why don't he fix medium or twitter first? This guy talks a lot.

Hahaha, I saw someone in the hallway wearing a contractor badge and a MIT hoodies. I am an alum so I asked about their time there. They said they graduated in 2003 but started in 91. I said, "Woah that's one helluva of a PHD." Turns out, they took a 10 year gap to play blackjack. Now they just work for fun every couple of years because they otherwise get bored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Blackjack_Team

>When it landed on certain web sites, some of the commenters dismissed either it ("impossible") or me ("doesn't know anything about load balancing").

Does anyone have a link to what she is talking about?

How can Zuck's speehwriter write about experience without violating her NDA?

This post reminds me of Gavin Belson's blood boy. I assumed CEOs locked down the people close to them with NDAs.

It's not. I had offers from multiple companies at sde 2. Amazon's was so bad that the recruiter was embarrassed to tell me they couldn't up the offer. I'm sure there are huge variances but the last comp survey on hn showed Amazon is a bit behind.

That's a poor argument. I've gotten offers from many tech giants. They all included a sign-on cash bonus. Often much bigger than Amazon's.

Amazon's total offer was usually about 100k lower. Sometimes more. Amazon SWEs still earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. So being treated poorly and paid less is relative.

In Amazon's defense, I have friends who enjoy working there. The MBAs especially love it. Again, it's not like anyone is stuck in some Nike sweatshop from 1974.

Bezos. Jeff Bezos is the reason why Amazon treats workers they way they do. Compared to other tech giants, Amazon is incredibly anti-employee. Look at how their stocks vest.

I worked at Microsoft during Balmer's reign. The founder/CEO's attitude dictates the work culture. And causes harm if it's bad.

I live in Seattle and often hear this joke: Being an Amazon customer is the best. An investor is great. An employee not so much.

I worked at Amazon in 2005 and was a customer before that. But I can't support Bezos anymore because he negatively impacts how people are treated. It's not on par with Nike's sweatshops in the 90s, but I still canceled Prime and stopped buying things from Amazon.

But how is this scalable? You need manual labor. This is a bigger headache than hiring agents as full time employees like Redfin.

I don't think it's hard to get why. Punishing Bezos for Washington Post.

Edit: I dislike Bezos and am boycotting Amazon. I quit my prime sub and stopped buying from my Amazon account. And this is still obvious to me.

I hate that face so much. I always assumed it appeals to a younger crowd but then I have friends my age who use similar profile pics on facebook.

I took classes at the local juco as a high school students. I met three types of people. The first were kids like me who all ended up at good schools. The second were older, actually junior college students. They were smart and worked hard. They ended up at decent schools too. The last were people didn't do well. That was either due to motivation or other factors.

The middle group was the smallest by size.

The people who are NFL cheerleaders have other opportunities.

I have friends who tried out for NFL cheerleading. The amount of effort, skills, and genetics required is high. It's incredibly competitive for a job that seems to lack wage and autonomy.

I think he's trying to hard with the historical and pop culture references. But I do agree strongly with the article. Cheerleaders and players are treated like children. Few of us would put up with it.

I've heard the pay for NFL cheerleaders is ridiculously low. So I wonder what the benefits of being one are.

lol, what did you expect?

I worked at Microsoft when the Playstation got hacked. They were like, "let's not say anything and attract attention from the hackers."

I wish there was a website that collected all of the times a company promised to "never do x" and then changed their word. Companies break promises all of the time. It's impossible to predict what they or anyone else will do in a few years.

I'm surprised a C level exec can sell their shares like that. I thought they all had to announce ahead of time? I'm a lowly employee at a big tech company and I have blackout periods.

I'm a little suspicious when people call it black vs white.

Boondock clip where Ann Coulter is BFF with Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1seThIG34R8

We should start a pool on how many years it will take for Cannes to accept Netflix and other streaming sites.

Define "hidden."

I hate to say this but 90% of what I know about NASA comes from that movie and the one with Tom Hanks.

There are lot of data where white students are admitted with lower scores than Asians on average. Without these handicaps, Asian Americans would have even higher rates. The exact same thing happened to Jewish students a generation ago. I thought everyone knew this?

"Writing in the New York Times, Harvard political theorist Yascha Mounk points out that Asian students must outperform their white peers by 140 SAT points to win admission to elite universities." [1]

"Today, according to a survey by The Harvard Crimson, Asian-American freshmen had higher SAT scores than any other ethnic group. It's not enough for them to be as good as everyone else: To get in, they have to be considerably better.

The problem seems to be that, in the absence of measures to limit their representation, there would just be too many Asian-Americans. So, from all outward appearances, Harvard has a quota to prevent that unwanted result." [2]

There are tons of results. [3]

[1]http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/10/the-asian-disa...

[2] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-asians...

[3]https://www.google.com/search?q=asians+and+white+sat+scores&...

Every group but Asians get better treatment in college admissions. Yet we, in general, ignore the group with the most admits due to privilege schemes.

People need confidence, entitlement, or experience to ask for their worth. Employers know this. Companies brag about taking advantage of information asymmetry to pay us less and we applaud them for it?

3. it divides Asians against other people of color. So white students can be admitted at lower GPAs and SAT scores than Asian students without upsetting them.

Number 2 could be a positive spin on not wanting to pay employees more.