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Totally fair! I think it is more of a reminder that making impact at large companies can be hard even for competent people.

The only thing I will now remember this guy for is when he volunteered to work for Twitter/X after Elon took over. He failed to get twitter code building locally for about 4 weeks …

It wasn't leadership doing this though. Any meta IC can generate internal apps and dashboards. This was unofficial and unsupported. Some random IC just made it for fun. Management …

To the same point I also don't want the index itself picking and choosing which companies to apply which rules to.

Their advertising revenue grew 33% YoY last earnings call. They're literally making so much money they don't know what to do with it so they plow it into each new fad as to not mis…

What if these existed, but Facebook sold them?

At a bare bare minimum accounts over a certain size of follower count should be excluded from this flow. They should basically have account managers anyway.

I mean paying for deepseek is sending money to China, and any company in China is pretty much an extension of the CCP (or can become one at the snap of their fingers). I don't thin…

NYC was the complete opposite. Our company did a scavenger hunt and people were so annoyed at us for interacting with them when they realized we needed more than just directions. I…

Weren't there reports of Anthropic's stock trading on secondary markets at $1T valuation recently? Now Google invests at a $350B valuation. I get valuations are often times just sm…

In general is there any practical way to fix the issue of "Every rewrite was someone's promotion project"? There doesn't seem to be any incentive for employees to care about projec…

If college is considered a glorified high school diploma, then not having one is like not having a high school diploma.

> How is it that a handful of companies are taking off like a spaceship, and the rest, including Google, are mired in inaction? Which companies? Not counting companies directly ben…

I always thought the comparison to real life falls a bit flat. In the movie there’s a scene where Camacho has a town hall and the audience yells something about everything bad. Cam…

Hopefully I didn’t come off as dismissive. Love the hustle here. It’s always been a dream of mine to quit big tech and do something local like this. Glad to see others have made th…

> We have an acquisition of a small residential operator lined up, which we'll build the tooling for and grow a platform around once we’ve proven the model works and can scale. Thi…

I think the bigger precedent is that he has already blanket pardoned all J6ers.

I remember a long time ago on Reddit I saw a post saying (paraphrasing) "AMA: PayPal locked up $600,000 of my money because my video game is selling so quickly they think it is a s…

Venmo is owned by PayPal

My first reaction to this was: Matt Levine will need to cut his vacation short. Again.

> The plaintiff is a 20-year-old California woman identified as K.G.M. because she was a minor at the time of her alleged personal injury. I didn't realize this was literally a sin…

He’s getting old, but not over 40 yet.

All of these things they're saying are unethical, but not illegal, right?

Facebook is PHP ironically.

> You might fear that people will start arriving at 1:07pm, but I have seen the opposite. They respect the new time. They arrive by 1:05pm, ready to work. We do the :05 thing and t…