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You might be confused by the CPI. The GDP is actually adjusted using a different measure of inflation (the "GDP deflator"), which looks at the actual purchases made in the country …

They used to have a higher bar before 2020, but since then it's been a bit soft. I think this is mostly a return to that earlier time.

Why wouldn't you wait until the vest?

I think most companies would be jealous of this sort of "downfall".

You're absolutely right. However, 5% is so low that it's hard to believe that there isn't at least that many underperoformers.

The 80s were a reaction to the "liberal" 70s. It's just the natural cycle of history, the majority of people are in the center so when culture shifts too far to one side they start…

The majority of people are in the center. That's kind of how distributions work.

The goal is to replace that 5% with new hires, resulting in higher average performance. It has nothing to do with total hiring amount.

It's not like the firing is random. "Low performers" get a lot of warnings throughout the year. Most people are average or above so they will be completely unaffected, it's not lik…

As a former interviewer at Meta who did hundreds of technical interviews, I can tell you that the people that I hardly expected "Djikstra or Knuth". Honestly I gave pretty reasonab…

It does support dynamic values.

Bondholders get the $$ first when a company goes under. And typically businesses don't completely disappear and lose all their assets. They usually have a slow decay then get acqui…

I do think it's odd that the FTC is going so heavy on one company. Shouldn't we have laws that apply broadly to the industry? It's not as if Meta is the only social media company a…

I just close it immediately when there is a preroll.

The founders were pretty mercantilist so it's not surprising. Would be better if there was a Constitutional right to International trade :).

Current SCOTUS makeup is very pro free speech. However it's really hard to say for this case since it doesn't seem like Americans are really that burdened if they have to use, say,…

What reason do we have to believe that TikTok would follow those laws? Are they going to allow US auditors to visit them in China and make sure?

TikTok itself doesn't produce any content. They host the content of others. So shutting down TikTok cannot infringe on TikTok's own first amendment rights. Compare to last year whe…

Given all the leaks it seems reasonable that these layoffs have mostly been priced in already.

From what I've heard attrition is very low right now. Which makes sense... why leave when you might get paid four months of salary if you are laid off instead.

Inflation is another way that salaries get cut without officially getting cut.

Being a "senior dev" is a lot more than just language familiarity.

But it might be better to move those "A Players" to a critical project (ads? lol)