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Communication is a skill. It needs to be practiced. It usually means that people need to get out of their heads, and imagine what the other person currently knows, and what information you can provide to them to bridge the gap between you and them.

I work with a brilliant programmer who is one of the worst communicators I've ever worked with. It's exhausting, because he doesn't have the empathy required to properly explain things to others. I'm definitely bringing this up to him during feedback time.

Just another example of medical misinformation or disinformation that has been propagated by our media and science community. How many times do we have to fall for the same trick and just fall for what we are told, hook line and sinker?

"Low fat diets are heart-healthy" was false, "high salt causes high blood pressure" was false, and now this "red meat causes cancer" is false. The same goes for "blue light causes sleep disruption" was shoddy science as well, conducted on 8 people with an average difference of 15 mins. Yet Apple and other phone manufacturers modified their settings because of this bad science that made its way through our society.

There was a time when people who disputed low fat diets by pointing to the Mediterrean Diet, and they were considered heretics.

This is why free flow of scientific information is vital to a well functioning society. Without it, we tend to fall into groupthink and we never advance our thinking. MY ENTIRE LIFE, I've been inundated with the idea that red meat caused cancer, especially burnt red meat, and at first I was scared, and then I started eschewing it, and I was right. I'm glad these scientists had the courage to go against the "accepted" view and every scientist should have the freedom to do the same without being castigated. That's one of the biggest problem we have in society today.

Autumn Glory apples are the absolute best apples I've ever had. I love it so much more than other apples, but I can't find them anywhere this year! The fact that this site ranks them so low means I can't trust any rankings from it.

I'd be willing to work "hardcore" if there were enough reward, ie a huge raise and lots of equity in the new company. I have a feeling if I asked him what it would be, he would fire me though. There's no point in working for a mercurial boss like that. No ability to freely speak your mind is a complete waste of everyone's time.

How many of those wallets are lost forever?

Apple Maps took 10 years before it was usable and dare I say, it's actually better in many respects that Google Maps or Waze. The only reason why I use Waze is because I trust that they have better traffic and police updates. But Apple Maps navigation is much, much better with their "At the next stop sign, turn right", or "Make a u-turn at the next traffic lights." That's a really great way to navigate.

When I was at Yahoo, I remember someone famous (either Jeremy Zawodny or Rasmus) running a query and discovering that there was something ridiculous like 20 employees for every VP. Maybe someone else on HN has better details or a better memory than me, but I remember being shocked at how top heavy it was, and it explained a lot of what I saw at Yahoo over the 4+ years I was there.

Also the mission. If I didn't have a great gig right now, I would absolutely join Twitter, just for the opportunity to add new features and prove that the old Twitter was sorely underperforming and that Twitter can be a force for free speech, which I believe in an absolute right.

You can buy chemicals online in small quantities for home schools. When I was home schooling my children over the pandemic, we bought a lot of different chemicals, like HCl, concentrated H2O2, etc. It was pretty great!

Well, if the customers are holding FTT and they're trying to get rid of their FTT, that could cause the liquidity crisis. The crisis isn't with the customer assets, it's with their FTT side of the business.

This feels like an extinction-level event for crypto. If they survive, I guess Coinbase will be the King because they are very conservative so they really won't run into any of these liquidity issues that these other companies are finding themselves in.

The biggest thing is that they no longer need to worry about competing on price because people know they will get their money back from Coinbase, I imagine.

This EXACTLY happened to me at a somewhat well known software company. We were working on a project and I spoke out that the performance wasn't anywhere where it needed to be. I was pretty sure it wasn't going to work in a real situation.

I proposed solutions, and the lead engineers rejected my ideas. My manager gave me a horrible performance review filled with lies. I went to HR and then all of my coworkers stepped up on the record and said what was written was wrong. He was forced to rewrite my entire performance review. I changed teams shortly after this and the project was canned 6 months later.

Everyone who was wrong "failed upwards" which is usually how things go in Silicon Valley and everywhere else unfortunately.

That feature is really awesome and game changing I think, as long as it can't be gamed or brigaded, etc.

The biggest problem with have with inflation right now is that it's being persisted by the upper middle class and above, ie. the white collar workers. Meanwhile the lower-income people are the ones that are truly suffering but they have no control over it. The massive amount of income inequality we have seen since Obama in 2009 is causing this to happen.

The white collar workers are persisting inflation because they can afford to keep paying whatever it costs to get whatever they need. They can get wage increases commensurate with inflation. Meanwhile, the lower income, ie. The Poors, have no control and just have to endure and suffer with inflation.

The only way we cut inflation is by having mass layoffs of white collar workers. We won't see a recession at all until white collar workers stop spending. Until we see that, we're going to get very sticky 5%+ inflation, and then once layoffs start happening, then a recession will be quick and sharp.

This will be an extremely hard landing for all of us.

In fact there is so few evidence of this actually happening I'm not sure the facts of this article are real. This should be flagged.

This is from 2016.

Myocarditis in young men below the age of 18 from the vaccine is real and verified. This was even shown by the CDC during the ACIP meeting for the bivalent booster. It's roughly about 1 in 5000 chance of getting myocarditis, and about 1/3 of the patients are still suffering from it 90 days after diagnosis.

I talked to Pave last year and bowed out after hearing how they do business. Their business model and their techniques could have changed since I last talked to them.

At the time, customer companies give all their compensation data to Pave, including employee names, and then they use that to create compensation data across the list of their customers and share it. They were targeting startups, but I don't know if they have expanded since.

If I remember correctly, because they have your name, they also scrape LinkedIn data about you and try to get as much information about you as possible like job titles, etc. I wasn't comfortable with this so I bowed out. I'm not sure how much control employees have to prevent this sharing to Pave, because I would not want my entire salary history to be shared with prospective employers so that they could definitively say "Well, this person got paid X in their previous position, we shouldn't pay more than 5% above that."

They may have changed their data policy, like I mentioned I haven't talked to them since last year.

There's probably a ton of employers that passed them up without even contacting them. I know I certainly would pass on this candidate if I saw the data from this page.

Because we aren't worried about ICBMs anymore. We are worried about hypersonic nuclear missiles launched from nuclear sub that are off our coastline. All you need to do is design missiles that will fly low enough and fast enough so that no type of anti-missile system would be feasible. And they basically already have this.

Amelio was going to drive Apple straight off a cliff with his vision of opening up MacOS and basically destroying the brand. SGI did that and the company no longer exists now.

Steve Jobs' vision of a walled garden with tight vertical integration was what has kept Apple alive all these years and why things like the iPhone are so successful. I have both an iPhone and an Android, and the integration between iPhone and all its products is beyond comparison to Android.

I didn't work there, but for all you old-timers, I attended the Brass Ring job fair at the Santa Clara convention center, early 1997 before Jobs rejoined.

I distinctly remember the Apple recruitment booth was empty, vs all of the high-activity booths around them. I remember it vividly because it was sad seeing how far they had fallen, people weren't interested in even talking to the recruiter.

Imagine getting a job at Apple in 1997 and never selling a share. I know some people that have been at Apple for 12+ years and are planning on retiring next year, they are multi-multi-millionaires just from regular stock grants.

Which part of the world are you located?

When you say 40 interviews, do you mean 40 separate companies?

You probably need to get your interview behavior evaluated by a friend or someone else. Either your technical chops are not good, or you're giving off the wrong vibe. Maybe get rid of Technical Lead off your resume and shoot for a lower-level position, and see how you do.

This is what decades of single-party dominance turns a city into. It has reached a fevered pitch in the last few years.

I'm voting Republican across the board, no matter what, until the Democrats regain some semblance of sanity. The Democrats have taken our vote for granted and are not only sucking the state dry with their corruption (a la Nancy Pelosi) but layering on ridiculous social justice programs that are destroying this state.

ALL of my friends are doing the same, and many people I've met are also doing the exact same thing.

The fires happened because of the disastrous mismanagement of California's "Wildfire Prevention" efforts. By cutting back significantly on prescribed burns for decades because of perceived emissions, all the growth in the forests has created the perfect conditions for extended and humongous wildfires that we have seen in the past several years.

I've sacrificed my entire career so that I can take be the primary caregiver of the kids, and my wife can concentrate 100% on her career. During the pandemic, I quit my job and concentrated solely on the kids, and now that the pandemic is over, I'm at a much less demanding job so that I can do all the pick ups, drop offs, homework assignments, etc.

I love it, and I feel truly lucky that my life has given me the opportunity to focus on my kids.

Breastfeeding is overhyped.

Both my sibling and I, along with my wife and her siblings were formula fed. My kids were 100% formula-fed as well, because my wife decided she didn't want to waste her time pumping. Both generations are perfectly normal and healthy. We all caught COVID with only minimal symptoms.

Not having to breastfeed took an enormous amount of stress off my wife, and allowed us to split the work of raising our kids more efficiently

In Canada, I've heard that breastfeeding has been taken to a religious morality war, where some parents had to sneak in formula into the hospital because the mother couldn't either breastfeed properly or weren't producing enough, or simply didn't want to.

There are some advantages to breastfeeding and some disadvantages. I think the narrative of companies in the 3rd world trying to hook low-income families on formula should be considered a crime. But there's nothing inherently wrong with formula and it raises perfectly healthy children.

I love going in to the office. I willingly go 5 days a week despite the 45 min commute. The reason is I get separation from work and home, I can talk with people, get free lunch, etc. Also, I'm much more productive and in the face of an impending recession, I want to be as productive as possible so that I can keep my job.

All my friends have guided their parenting based on this song. It has had a tremendous effect on me.

No. The Core CPI should have gone down from the steep interest rate hikes. But they didn't and in fact it's still going up. That's huge. 0.4% MoM increase is 5% inflation annualized and that's just for the core. Other parts of the economy are inflating faster and that's a huge problem. The target is 2%. The Fed needs prices to drop and inflation to abate but it's not.