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“Have the power” They have power, but it’s not actually legal. Congress has mandated funds for this array, the administration wants to cripple it beyond repair before any legal act…

This seems to be a case of administration impounding funds authorized by Congress for this purpose. As in they’re just spending what Congress told them to. And unfortunately SCOTUS…

If you get a FAANG job you need to think like a professional athlete. Save most of what you make. Assume it’s not going to last. Do NOT have an expectation that this is “normal” in…

Yes those are stable businesses, but we’re probably at peak social media. They need something new to be interesting in long term investment. Zuck IMO doesn’t have the halo Musk has…

Facebook is for preying on the elderly. Instagram for the rest of us.

I think it says more about Metas inability to create new products or make investments. Look at their big growth areas. They acquired instagram and WhatsApp. Threads seems successfu…

Also their AI efforts and metaverse efforts flopped So there’s really not a lot of growth areas for them? Their biggest growth seems to have been acquisitions, not new features. Ma…

I am happy to pay OpenAI for a cheaper model a few generations behind. But they deprecate models aggressively. They push you to bigger and smarter models, when 95% of my work doesn…

Ok if I’m bored I’ll be talking about fun things to do with colleagues. If only for bragging rights, impressing friends, or hacker news upvotes. My time is limited so, I’d need to …

I’m in an interesting position because I’m fine, but my wife has struggled to find work. I personally have no problem finding work, she applies and applies and seems to get nowhere…

How do you feel when you learn someone has been using AI heavily to help them write? Setting aside English as a second language. My knee-jerk is to find it disappointing. But maybe…

It also depends on the laws governing your contract, not just where you live.

Yeah the warning is: you may, like me, find a litigious paranoid former employer who freaks out at everything :-/ I’d rather not carry the cost of learning it’s not enforceable.

So far it seems maybe?, but according to the article some courts and agencies are pushing back. Well the FTC was at least in 2023. California bans anything that is effectively a no…

Well it would have to recreate the entire projects, no? Then they get to maintain it. That seems like a high bar. And if it’s open source under Apache/MIT license I could care less…

Just a note of warning from personal experience. Companies don’t really need non-competes anymore. Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, wher…

Not caring is key. Like so much is out of your control you have to accept that most of the company’s decisions aren’t about you or factor you into account. Including your own perfo…

I don’t think you can have any impact on US spending without entitlement reform - almost all medicaid/medicare - or decreasing the defense budget All these other agencies are small…

I disagree with the Coup framing. It’s not clear that reorganizing US foreign aid agencies is in violation of statute. As I understand it statute allocate $X to US foreign aid. And…

You wonder if smart hiring managers knew to post their roles ASAP before a freeze on new roles :)

Isn't this just cover for cost cutting draw attention away from potentially bad earnings?

I really hope someone here makes it their goal to get hired by Salesforce in 2025

Is anyone working in AI or adjacent feeling burnout? Some things I’ve experience or heard about from colleagues lately at big companies * The Tech Bro CEO pressure to AI everything…

Ugh yeah I turned down a job offer even from seemingly ethical and nice startup in large part because I’d be exchanging actual publicly traded RSU vesting in the future with equiva…