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One suicide is not unusual for a company of Facebooks size given prevailing suicide rates.

What are you even talking about. Boeing and United?

How do the IP issues work here? I would think that Giphy is a massive copyright violation entity. Is Facebook just big enough to drop the lawyer-hammer on any rightsholders who com…

The part that is worth millions is the user base. It's like asking why a famous movie actor makes so much more money than an equally skilled nobody out of acting school -- it's bec…

This King story is apropos of... nothing.

Frankly this is an idiotic idea. In a nice cafe or lobby you’re going to have a phone on a stand with a USB cord leading to a wall wart with a readout on a 5 inch screen telling pe…

Are you talking about "successful" as "no fatalities" or "fewer fatalities than those caused by texting meatbag drivers?" The former is impossible, the latter is certainly not.

It affects the departing employees quite a bit. In an economic crisis, laid-off employees don't have a stigma associated with them. In good times, others think, "wow these guys mus…

I can imagine that there are multi-use spaces all fitted out with IKEA furniture that you can buy on the spot (but not haul out directly with you... rather, arrange same-day delive…

Ugh, I remember trying to get two-player Doom set up over a modem while my mom kept picking up the phone to make calls. Spent 2 weeks with a friend trying to get it work and achiev…

Don't even make eye contact with me in public unless you've scored 8000 points in Oregon Trail.

Unemployment isn’t available if you voluntarily leave your job. So the question is whether refusing to go to work when the factory is operating illegally is more like voluntarily q…

But Tesla is the only company choosing to illegally operate in the open.

But, the fact that Zoom was able to maintain its infrastructure during a period of hypergrowth added $20 billion to its market cap. If it was only ready for the problems it had, an…

A real testament to how many broken business models have been funded by VCs in the last decade... they can't even make money delivering food when the government has ordered everyon…

It's not just management... it's all white collar middle class workers in America. Why aren't they inhaling dust in a coal mine or dying of a preventable disease? None of us really…

Well you have to realize that most managers have no idea why they have it so good. When so many children are starving to death worldwide, why do they live in a 4 bedroom house with…

You can do this quite affordably in huge numbers of countries if you can earn your income with a decent remote job in the US. The things to think about are time zone, tropical dise…

Because developer efficiency reduces the cost of the app, or in many cases causes the app to exist where it otherwise would not.

There's some kind of work that's best done by individuals (writing a novel). There's some kind of work that's best done by teams (planning an invasion). The work that's best done b…

If you can relocate temporarily, most of Microsoft will let you go remote if you're a top performer (Top 10% roughly) after about 2 years.

If you have great skills you can do that today. If you don't have great skills and a company has made itself amenable to remote work, then why would they hire you at a Bay Area sal…

I think Apple's engineers could develop the next version of the Apple Watch remotely. But I don't think they could come up with the idea and designs for the original Apple Watch re…

Almost all US case law has held that any jurisdiction can make anything illegal unless there's a specific higher-ranking (state or federal) law protecting that act from being made …

I really don’t get this criticism of “laying off over Zoom.” What are they supposed to do, visit them in person at their home and infect them with Covid while laying them off? All …