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sithlord··on Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
I would hazard a guess that no one likes ads except the likes of google and meta SHAREHOLDERS).
sithlord··on Story points are pointless, measure queues
In my world, on my team - everything is a 3. and if its not a 3 lets figure out why. IE, lets have a fairly sized piece of work we scope for most tickets. If its bigger than that, lets discuss it, see if its worht breaking down (if its larger) and if not lets just agreee thats a larger piece than 3. that way we can just keep an eye on relative size of issues.
sithlord··on KPMG Fined Record $25M in Exam-Cheating Scandal
Really not sure why the firm is paying fines for this. Seems more like each individual should lose their license.
sithlord··on IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states
Whats with arbitrary monetary limits?
sithlord··on Claim: the ideal PR is 50 lines long
sounds like the ideal PR includes no testing
sithlord··on Ask HN: How do you know it's time for you to quit your FAANG job?
well its historically the highest paying, especially cash, also a lot of tech innovation back when the acronym became a thing.
sithlord··on 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing
This is usually related to drivers who do not use the cover of their truck they are legally supposed to. So rocks fly out the top.
sithlord··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
didn't see the email that was posted over the weekend?
sithlord··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
From what I read, its an independent subsidiary, so in theory keeps the freedom, but I think we all know how that goes over the long haul.
sithlord··on Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode – Try Code Reviews Instead
>5. Interview and code review session. Bring a side project, show us how it works.

So you are filtering out candidates that have families or lives outside of work that do not spend their free time coding?

sithlord··on US car giants gripped by history-making strike
if the final outcome is that everyone will be on strike eventually, the automakers would be wise to just cut to the chase and lock them out until resolved.
sithlord··on Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
its generally not, because they fully want to convert you to fte.

sure, they have extra time to see you work before the conversion, but its still very expensive to host interns, especially ones you aren't confident in converting.

sithlord··on Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices
This. It isn't the Doctors responsibility to know all the prices of things and such, they should know what meds you need for your ailment. I would say it would be good if your doctor found out about something (via a pharmaceutical rep or another patient) to pass that along, but not sure it makes sense for them to necessarily know the ends and outs of the current best coupon.
sithlord··on Baldur's Gate 3: New Standard for the RPG Genre?
lmao, big name AAA names saying, please dont rate us against this, they have 400 people and 7 years!

Then diablo4 credits almost 10k people in making it, and although a fun game, feels like its basically still in beta with all the basic features its missing.

sithlord··on My total comp for creating GitHub Copilot
20k bonus is a joke of a bonus. probably like < 2-3% of the total comp?
sithlord··on Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests
> Corporations only speak Money.

it seems reddit is already struggling with that piece, so gotta do whatever you can.

sithlord··on How Reddit became the enemy [video]
except their "biggest" competitor, the official app that makes hundreds of requests a minute.
sithlord··on IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants
they know for probably 75% of the country, imo what should happen:

they send a bill of the expected amount, and you do your taxes on your end (if you so choose) to make sure its correct. If wrong, you submit your taxes, and move on with life.

for the vast majority of people, you have a w2 or some other accounts that submit stuff to the IRS, and these same people mostly take standard deductions, its a simple computation.

The US likely wont do this, because they potentially miss out on income that honest peopel will report, when it hasn't been reported to them (for example cash tips / gambling winnings under W2G and things like that.

sithlord··on Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
no results, USA....wild stuff
sithlord··on Chess, unlike war, is a game of perfect information
that doesn't matter, you have every bit of information from the board to in theory know every possible outcome. It's not like the opponent can't sneak an extra piece in behind your line. Or randomly turn your rook into their queen...
sithlord··on Salesforce is shuttering Slack’s remote work research group Future Forum
I think the show Silicon Valley does a good job of portraying that transition.
sithlord··on Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
thats why its "the algorithm" not the source of data/truth
sithlord··on GitHub Actions Incident 29.3
Wonder if these were managed by a defunct team from India?
sithlord··on Fed will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions
excessive risk? I mean one could argue that the MBS they bought were slightly risky, but its not like they bought a crap ton of crypto - or bought a bunch of high risk mortgage securities.

They got bit by interest rates, which they should have managed better, and the bank needs to go down, but dont bring down a huge amount of workers with it.

sithlord··on Fed will make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions
I may get downvoted, I may not. But, I am really surprised so many of you all are all about putting likely hundreds of thousands of people out of work. It goes so much further than the "billionaires".
sithlord··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
I am stating for prior fails, the number from SVB was that only ~3% were insured. Which was my point, that in the past, there wern't as many e(a)ffected (and they (uninsured) could have received special treatment for all I know).
sithlord··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
My guess ( I havn't looked at is the last ones ) is that the majority of deposits were well under 250k, and that hundreds of thousands of jobs weren't on the line.

Also, you are talking about a major banking collapse if people start thinking that their deposits aren't safe. (a lot of people will start pulling money, even if under 250k). There are so many irrational people out there...

edit: I guess somewhere in what I said was confusing, I was referring to past fails where most deposits were likely well under the 250k. NOT SVB where the vast majority were well above that threshold.

sithlord··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
a bailout, would mean the bank and its shareholders would survive. Making depositors whole is about not having people lose faith in the banking industry.
sithlord··on Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
This actually makes a ton of sense, lets not forget that a bailout in this term is really pointing towards saving the bank itself, and its shareholders. There is inherent risk in equity investments, and it likely should have to suffer for its poor decisions.

But when it comes to depositors, I think it makes a lot of sense to make them whole, especially in the case of SVB where the bank likely has pretty close to enough assets to cover the liabilities (deposits), but its tied up in such long term investments that it could take a long time to get it out.

But moreso, when we invest in companies, we deep down know there is a possibility of the investment going to 0. We often don't think when I put money in a bank it can go belly up, this would obviously hurt the trust in our banking environment if depositors not made whole.

sithlord··on Etsy Delays Seller Payouts Due to Run on Silicon Valley Bank
I think that there is misconceptions on what most people think as "bailouts". I think what a lot mean is that the usgov should just buy up all the deposit assets, and fund out the money, since its fairly certain that the assets are pretty close to deposits, but just wont mature for a long time, and in turn the bank is still dead, no more SVB.

A true, "bailout" would basically be that the bank survives, they are given moneys to make it through and then all the workers/deposits are screwed. ie. 2008

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