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I'm glad he didn't say that it was "his responsibility alone" or that he is "holding himself accountable". Those are empty words that were being overused during this last layoff season and it was extremely disingenuous. From my perspective, this was a good layoff email, not flowery and very straightforward.

You are right, it was about smashing his relationship between his dad. It wasn't about rejecting materialism at all. Cameron used the Ferrari as an example of how his father puts so much time and effort into things other than his own son, and he was kicking it as a way of getting back at his dad but also make him notice him as well.

I'm in my 50s. The cognitive decline in my mid to late 40s was very, very real. I'm hanging on hard because I work at a FAANG and I have to keep my job, but I'm literally dumber than I was 10 years ago.

I don't know if there's anything you can do about it. I did start drinking those energy drinks with nootropics, at least the caffeine helps.

Some other suggestions are: get a lot of sleep, cognitively I declined tremendously when I got sleep deprivation. I would also get an MRI. I just read your comment about slurring words and I would spend the money and get an MRI on your own money just to be sure.

If everyone is in a recession, then no one is in a recession.

No, this is poor investment advice. The closer you get to retirement, the more your money should be in extremely short term, non-volatile investments like T-bills. You should not be invested in the stock market, because the risk is too high that you could lose a lot of your savings just before you really need it.

The beauty of reddit is that you can create your own subreddit with your own mods and have the discourse that you want. You're not held to just sticking with the subreddits that are given to you.

Sometimes, things don't work out. I joined a FAANG last year, and my stock is down over 50%. My children won't be provided for a well as they could have had I made a better choice. Who should I complain to?

I bought a Synology and left it at that. I used to DIY everything but at some point the time spent wasn't worth it, and Synology is just so damn good.

There should be no rights to give after you die. Copyright should die along with the author.

Who cares? That's their problem. Sometimes people invest money that loses them money. That's life.

This is NOT hard. Not at all.

Twilio knows which numbers will charge customers, THEY HAVE THE DATA. They can make a list of numbers that charge customers, and then have a flag that disallows SMSes to those numbers.

They also have relationships with phone providers in every market that they are in, and those providers can provide that same information and then allow a blacklist to those numbers or whatever format the premium numbers occur in.

It's not hard at all. It's a nice value-add feature and I'm sure if a competitor like MessageBird implemented something like this, it would be an easy differentiator if Twilio doesn't want to provide this.

The idea that someone's "estate" can exist for decades after your death is sickening. All copyrights should end with the death of the creator. Descendants should have no right to feed off the works of an artist in perpetuity. It's the ultimate in rent-seeking pigs feeding at the trough.

"Deprecate" is a great example of this. Everyone gets it wrong, but no one seems to care.

Deprecate means "to continue supporting but to discourage its use." 99% of people believe it means to end support.

Any staff level engineer at big tech is making that much in total comp (salary, bonus and equity). I have a friend who was making over $1 million/year including equity.

Auditors are not for your company. Auditors are for your investors. Auditors are not your friends. If you are investing a large amount of money in a company, and they are using a non-Big 4 firm, then any problems are on you.

I've routinely joked to my wife that her life would be much easier if they fired their auditors and went with BDO or some smaller auditing that they could bully around. The thing is, that's exactly how companies with weak accounting think, and FTX proves that point.

Armanino is not a top firm. If you're not using Big 4, there's a reason.

Doubling prices in the face of a recession, especially where tech companies are cutting back is undoubtably a company-killing decision.

How many months from now will there be a "I take full responsibility for these 25% layoffs" email?

I currently have a Tesla Model Y and a Porsche Macan. The Macan feels more luxurious, but the Model Y is easier to drive because of its unearthly acceleration.

The biggest thing that Tesla got right besides the acceleration is the value-add features like Sentry mode, the tight integration with the phone, the things like Walk-away locking (although I would very much prefer it lock closer to my car because it's about 40-60 ft away when it locks and it makes me nervous).

The build quality is cheaper, the sound system sucks, and I generally despise how many things are tied to the screen. I want buttons and knobs for the air system, to have to hunt for that on the screen is very dangerous, I hate it.

The Porsche feels more luxurious but it's mindblowing how they get so many things wrong. The dashboard is much too complicated with a lot of redundant buttons. Something as simple as there's no place to put my phone, there's only extremely awkward locations that cause my phone to fly around the car when I go around any turn, which is so dumb in 2022. The backup camera has way too narrow field of view, I've almost backed into 2 cars in parking lots, something the Tesla got right. At least they have Apple Carplay, but activating it is extremely annoying.

I also have BMWs before (X3 and X6) and overall my favorite car of all time is the X6.

A lot of people are acting out of anger, as if the companies are conspiring to keep the salary secret.

Could it just be they made an innocent mistake?

I have a fairly large position in Meta because I'm sure that the US government is going to ban TikTok. I think once it spikes from that announcement, it will at least make it back up to over $200, for the time being.

Telling someone to stop gatekeeping is not gatekeeping.

I'm pretty sure this is the email they sent their employees. The blog probably got posted once everything was finished.

>For those of you leaving: I’m very sorry to be taking this step and I take full responsibility for the decisions leading up to it

I HATE when people start saying "I take full responsibility." Okay, if you do, then how are you being held accountable? Are you losing your bonus? Are you losing shares? Or is it just the social media equivalent of saying "Oh, my bad!"

I want concrete examples of how you are holding yourself responsible, not just lip service.

>> You don't have the right to gatekeep on HN. >Absolutely not.

Then I suggest you stop. If you don't like an article, then you can skip it. There's nothing worse than people not liking an article and then decrying about it on the comments when all they need to do is move onto the next article.

Mentally ill people are not homeless because of Airbnb or capitalism. Mentally ill people are homeless because they are MENTALLY ILL. 99% of homeless people are either drug addicts or mentally ill, and they need help, even if we have to force it upon then. It's not freedom to be living on the streets in piles of your own shit. It's inhumane that we as a society just abandon them because we are afraid to force people to get better and it's even worse that formerly honorable institutions such as the ACLU prevent these people from getting the help they need. We need MORE forced help of mentally ill people, not less.

It's getting help when they are mentally incapable of getting help for themselves. Do you honestly believe letting them suffer on the streets is better for them? If so, you're a monster.

This is good. We need more of this, especially in California. The idea that we just let mentally ill people out on the street is not "freedom". It's disgusting and creates danger for them and for others. We need to hospitalize mentally ill people and force them to take medication if they are unwilling.

You don't have the right to gatekeep on HN. There are plenty of people here that aren't Electrical engineers and the article will be great for them. I certainly enjoyed it. The thing I love about HN is exposure to various types of articles, even things not even remotely related to tech, and certainly YOU should not be some sort of purveyor about what belongs on HN or not.

No, I'm not that good. I enjoy trading very much for myself and trading with other people's money would be too stressful.

I 100% believe in market timing. I usually do extremely well during market crashes, and average during market rises.

I missed the dotcom crash because I didn't want to invest at all, but caught all of the 2008-2009 crash and went long on the bottom in March 2009, but was mostly average after the crash. I caught the entire pandemic drop in March 2020 and also got long at the bottom, but again was only average for the last 2 years. I then went extremely short November 2021 and have been short ever since, and have doubled my trading account. I'm still very short, but by rolling over my options and extending the strike price, I've pocketed most of my gains so if the market rips higher from here I'll only lose about 10% of my gains, but I'm also long META and other stocks, so I'll participate on the long side as well.

What we really need is a more flexible time to leave.

I come in at 8am and leave at 2pm, when my commute is about 1/4 what it is during rush hour. Then I hope on for another couple of hours after dinner.

This type of flexibility gives me the best of both worlds, I get to go into the office because I LOVE it, and HATE work-from-home, and I skip the commute.